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• Sea Otter 2011: New Cyclocross Products and News from Vittoria, Kore, Xpedo, Enduro and More…

  16 April 11 • 0 comment

  Coverage of all the new cyclocross gear from the Sea Otter Festival continues as we take a look at new tires, pedals, a handlebar and more. While the cyclocross season is still a few months off, there are already some things to put on this year’s wish list. See all our Sea Otter 2011 coverage [...]

• Interbike Product Spotlight on ’Cross Wheels: Hed, Velocity, American Classic

  2 October 10 • 0 comment

  More and more wheel manufacturers are going with the “wider is better” philosophy for their cyclocross – and, for some, road – offerings. Hed has two new cyclocross-specific aluminum wheels in its lineup as well as a carbon tubular designed for cobbles that carries over well to the ’cross world. Velocity has two brand new [...]

• New Product Spotlight: EU Cycle Imports SCX Cyclocross Wheelset

  30 May 09 • 1 comment

  EU Cycle Imports has just launched their own line of wheels, and their first offering, lucky for us, is a cyclocross wheel. For cyclocrossers, whether you ride tubulars or clinchers, wider rims are often better, and the folks at EU Cycle Imports adhere to this philosophy, basing their SCX ‘cross wheel on a 23 mm [...]

• New Cyclocross Gear from Sea Otter, Part I

  17 April 09 • 3 comments

  Day 1 of the Sea Otter Classic Expo came and went, and for the second year in a row, the crew at Cyclocross Magazine found there was plenty of new cyclocross products to see. You just needed to know where to look. We found some new ‘cross brakes, a first-ever 20″ wheel ‘cross bike for [...]

• Notubes.com to Offer Raven Tubeless Cyclocross Tire

  21 May 08 • 7 comments

  Not many folks are running tubeless for ‘cross yet. Our recent poll indicated only 4% of our readers are racing with tubeless setups, with the majority (55%) of folks running clinchers. Stan over at NoTubes.com is hoping to convert more ‘cross racers to tubeless, and offers a 29er rim, conversion rim strips, rim tape, and [...]

• UCI Bans Tubeless Tires and Zertz Inserts, Considers Banning Barriers

  1 April 08 • 9 comments

  Note: This was one of three April Fools stories, posted on April 1, 2008. Although we would not be surprised by a ban on barriers, tubeless tire systems, Zertz, and Buzzkill are not banned. In a surprising move by the UCI, the international governing body of cyclocross has banned all tubeless tire systems, Specialized’s Zertz [...]