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• Chris Jones Talks Rapha-Focus, Powers, and the 2011 Cyclocross Season

  16 May 11 • 0 comment

  

  Rapha-Focus recently announced that this Fall, Jeremy Powers would be joining their team for cyclocross, adding to the powerful duo of Chris Jones and U23 Zach McDonald.  Jones sat down to chat with Cyclocross Magazine at the Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco about his feelings on Powers leaving the Cyclocrossworld.com-Cannondale team and joining Rapha-Focus, [...]

• A Ride and a Chat with Jeremy Powers at the Rapha Gentlemen’s Ride in San Francisco

  15 May 11 • 3 comments

  

  This past Thursday, Rapha Focus cyclocross teammates and Tour of California racers Jeremy Powers and Chris Jones led a “Gentlemen’s Ride” to celebrate the new Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco and the 2011 edition of the Amgen tour. Cyclocross Magazine’s Andrew Yee, on a muddy cyclocross bike, attempted to keep up with the two [...]

• Pro Cyclocross Rumors and Rumblings Week of May 13th, 2011

  13 May 11 • 1 comment

  by Kat Statman As the weather slowly turns warmer, putting on more miles becomes less of a chore. Preparing for the hard months of cold and wet racing ahead in the fall becomes easier, and many of us are falling back in love with bikes and bike racing. It also means that now is the [...]

• Rider Interview: JPow Discusses His Tour of California, Upcoming ’Cross Goals

  26 May 10 • 0 comment

  by Josh Liberles Jeremy Powers, who races for Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com during the “real” season, just finished up an impressive eight days of racing with his Jelly Belly road squad. As we at Cyclocross Magazine documented in our Tour of California CX GC very unofficial rankings, Powers was joined by a slew of prominent cyclocrossers in the [...]

• Tour of California – Crossers’ Wrap Up

  24 May 10 • 5 comments

  

  by Josh Liberles Although the battle for the top step went down to the bitter end, with Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) narrowly holding off Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) and Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack), it was Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo), a 20 year-old Slovak with a cyclocross background, who distanced all challengers in the very unofficial “ToC CX GC” and [...]

• Cyclocross GC at Tour of California

  21 May 10 • 1 comment

  

  by Josh Liberles Nowhere was the prevalence of cyclocrossers at the top end of pro road cycling more apparent than during stage 4 of the Tour of California. The day’s decisive four-man breakaway contained three ‘crossers – Jeremy Powers (Jelly Belly on the road, Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com for the real racing), Rob Britton (Bissell roadie, frequent ‘cross [...]