Posts in category pro bike profiles

Sophie de Boer won the Women’s race at CrossVegas in a nail-biter three-up sprint aboard an unlabelled mystery bike. We got a closer look and reveal the pedigree behind the frame—with history and details that the rider and team were unaware of.

We’ve profiled Katie Compton’s bike more than most, but with her new racing program, there’s plenty of new bits on her Trek Boone that we’re taking a look at her Jingle Cross and CrossVegas World Cup bike.

Wout van Aert had a dominant second half of CrossVegas to win for the race for the second year in a row. And for the second year, a Colnago Prestige cyclocross bike was the winning bike, only this year it was completely different than his 2015 ride.

Despite an early puncture, Robin Farina won the 2016 pro women’s race at the 2016 Lost & Found gravel event this past weekend aboard her custom-painted 2016 Santa Cruz Stigmata.

Carl Decker leads the Lost Sierra Triple Crown race series after his win in the Lost & Found gravel race in the Sierra Nevada Mountains this weekend. While we’ll have a full race report coming soon, here we’re taking a quick look at Decker’s winning rig.

Tobin Ortenblad is on a new bike this year, a Santa Cruz Stigmata, which he raced to the win at the 016 Sea Otter Classic Cyclocross race.

With our recent look in print at 1999 Junior Cyclocross World Championship winner American Matt Kelly, we can’t help but look at the bike that he rode to the win on in Poprad, Slovakia.

We’re wrapping our our coverage from the 2016 Sea Otter Classic and are taking a look at Cassie Maximenko’s Van Dessel Full Tilt Boogie raced at the event’s cyclocross race last month.

Mario Vanacker was on hand for the 114th running of the Hell of the North yesterday and was able to get a few shots of both Lars van der Haar’s and Lars Boom’s bikes that they rode in the iconic race.

We’ve got another bike from the 2016 Cyclocross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. This time it’s Mical Dyck’s custom steel Naked X-15.

We’re nearly finished featuring winning and interesting bikes from the 2016 Cyclocross National Championships. Today we’re taking a look at Graciela Val’s Cannondale Super X.

We’re closing in on the final bike profiles in our 2016 Cyclocross National Championships archives. Today we’re showcasing Ben Gomez Villafañe’s Specialized Crux Pro CX1.

With all of the races that happened in Asheville, we still have a few bikes in our archives that we’ve yet to feature from Nationals. And while it may seem like this a duplicate bike, the Cannondale Super-X shown here belongs to Cooper Willsey.

With her performances at Nationals, Sofia Gomez Villafane earned a spot on the US Worlds squad. But a mix-up in UCI paperwork meant she toed the line in Zolder for Argentina. Here, we look at Gomez Villafane’s bike as it was set up in Asheville.

Hecht and his Alpha Bicycle Co-Vista Subaru squad ride titanium offerings from Moots in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. We profiled Hecht’s teammate Katie Clouse’s Moots Psychlo-X earlier and here we’re taking a look at Hecht’s Psychlo-X RSL.

After a winning run at the 2016 Cyclocross National Championships, Tobin Ortenblad headed across the pond for the 2016 U23 World Championships. The American champion Ortenblad did it aboard his Specialized S-Works Crux Disc.

Rainbow stripes come with perks. Like Wout van Aert’s new Colnago Prestige dressed in World Champion livery.

We saw Yu Takenouchi race aboard a hand-built Toyo frame back in Nobeyama in 2011, and he still races for the small Japanese outfit to this day. Today, we are looking at his World Championship bike.

Our look at bikes from the 2016 Cyclocross World Championships continues with what eagle-eyed readers will notice are photos of Stephen Hyde’s silver medal bike from the 2016 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships before it went to Zolder.

Eli Iserbyt not only upgraded to U23 this season, but has also turned his 2015 silver into gold after taking the 2016 U23 World Championship title in Heusden-Zolder. Check out his winning ride.

Last year, we saw Andrew Dillman take the Men’s D1 Collegiate National Championship aboard his Trek Crockett. This year, he returned on a much brighter bike to repeat the feat. Here, we took a closer look at the Trek Boone 9 disc that Dillman rode to victory.

While many riders will make small tweaks or maybe even some full-on changes to their bikes before a major event, the bike Noble rode to the win in Asheville is likely going to be the one she rides in Zolder this weekend for the World Championships.

While we’ve been bringing you bikes from the 2016 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, we’re also showing you some of the bikes you’ll see at the World Championships this coming weekend. Today we’re looking at British National Champion Nikki Harris’ Specialized S-Works Crux Disc.

In the same vein as Marshall Gordon’s title-winning, rule-busting bike, Haydn Hludzinski’s championship-winning ride was not exactly compliant with USA Cycling’s equipment rules. But officials mostly looked the other way when it came to those racers vying for the youngest National Championship titles.

We’re looking at another bike from the 2016 Cyclocross National Championship. This one is Tim Allen’s silver-medal winning custom steel Alchemy singlespeed.

We’re taking a look at Tricia Fleishcer’s unique Nationals bike today. On the surface it looks like a typical Trek Boone, not unlike Katie Compton’s bike, which we featured yesterday. But look closely and you’ll notice thre are a number of unique equipment choices.

In our ever-growing collection of 2016 Nationals bikes, we take a look at the bike that took Compton to her 12th title in as many years, similar to the bike she rode last year in Austin. A close inspection reveals a few changes from last year.