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• Lars van der Haar Sprints into Rainbow Jersey, Dutch Go 1-2 – UPDATED: More Photos, Rider Interviews

  29 January 11 • 0 comment

  As the sun warmed up the slick, icy conditions from the Junior World Championship race, the 50 U23 riders shot off the line and into their one-hour pursuit of the rainbow jersey. Around the running track and through the first set of barriers, Italy’s Elia Silvestri led the rest of the world’s fastest Espoirs. As [...]

• MAC Announces 2010 Champions and Banquet Celebration

  22 December 10 • 0 comment

  January in Philadelphia means the Mummers and their world-famous New Year’s parade.  It also means the Champion System MAC Series’ traditional “MACquet” Party is at hand.  In both cases, alcohol may be a contributing factor. The source of MAC’s alcohol is the venue itself, the famed Manayunk Brewery restaurant and pub in Philadelphia’s funky and [...]

• End of Season Celebration with an A.P. Cake – A Column by Psychlo Mom

  4 December 10 • 0 comment

  

  As the domestic season starts to wind down, Psychlo Mom bids adieu (auf wiedersehen?) to her Swiss charge and commemorates the occasion with – of course – food. Aunt Phyllis’ cake, to be more precise. In case you missed her last post about Getting Your Ducks in a Row (and Brisket on a Roll), go [...]

• Scherz and Van Gilder Win Whitmore’s Day 2, Repeat As MAC Champs

  22 November 10 • 0 comment

  Newly-crowned repeat champions Valentin Scherz of Switzerland and Laura Van Gilder of Pennsylvania wrapped up the 2010 Champion System MAC Series with Elite wins at Day 2 of the Whitmore’s Super Cross Cup in Nassau County on New York’s Long Island. Wisconsin’s Chris Hurst finished a close second in the Elite Men’s race for the second consecutive [...]

• Keough and Van Gilder Mow the Competition at Whitmore’s Super Cross Day 1

  21 November 10 • 3 comments

  Nick Keough upset Valentin Scherz at the first day of the Whitmore’s Super Cross Cup in Long Island today. Scherz’s third place finish behind Keough and Chris Hurst of Lake Geneva Wisconsin was good enough to clinch the Champion System MAC Series Championship overall for the second consecutive year as U23 riders swept the top [...]

• ChampSys MAC Season Championships: Points Race Down to the Wire

  3 November 10 • 0 comment

  

  This Saturday’s non-UCI First State Velo Sport Xross at Fair Hill, Maryland, looms large in the Champion System MAC Series as the Elite Men’s and Women’s points leaders both have the opportunity to mathematically clinch season championships.  But any points drama missing from the pro classes is more than made up for in MAC’s amateur [...]

• Scherz and Van Gilder Still Atop the MAC at HPCX

  1 November 10 • 0 comment

  by Dr. Craig Callan and Champion System MAC staff The Champion System MAC Series moved up the New Jersey Turnpike to the town of Jamesburg for HPCX and the second round of MAC’s UCI New Jersey double-header weekend. 451 riders took the start this year, a 28% increase over last year’s entry. The mens race [...]

• Storm Troopers Invade Beacon Cross – Reports, Full Results and Video

  31 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  The Champion System MAC invaded southern New Jersey this weekend, and it brought out the Storm Troopers. After bouncing around the schedule for the first half of its long life, the Beacon Cyclocross has, in recent years, developed a tradition of pairing with HPCX in central New Jersey for a UCI-sanctioned double-header on Halloween weekend. [...]

• Van Gilder Inserts Exclamation Point, Anthony Nips Scherz in a Sprint in Granogue Day 2

  18 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  by Jamie Mack Earlier this season, Charm City Cycling set a new standard for events in the mid-Atlantic region. C3 Director Kris Auer commented that he saw race promotion as a good-natured competition, and by stepping up his event he hoped to challenge other promoters to do the same. This weekend in Wilmington, Delaware, the [...]

• Johnson and Miller Win Providence Cyclo-cross Festival Day Two – UPDATED: Report, Full Results

  11 October 10 • 0 comment

  

  While Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com teammate Jeremy Powers was busy battling Ryan Trebon at the UCI3 races, Tim Johnson flew the team colors to back to back wins at the Providence Cyclo-cross festival (read about Day One here). After winning ahead of teammate Jamey Driscoll in a sprint by the slimmest of margins on Saturday, the reigning national [...]