The U.S. Cyclocross Nationals are an annual occasion for the country's cyclocross community to come together, race bikes and swap stories about the sport. For cyclocross tech fans, it is also a great opportunity to check out the myriad types of bikes and builds amateur athletes from across the country are riding.
So far this season, we have gotten the opportunity to gawk at a number of Elite riders' builds, including Wout van Aert's Felt FRDx, Tobin Ortenblad's Santa Cruz Stigmata and Caroline Mani's Van Dessel Full Tilt Boogie, among others. However, these athletes have access to the latest and greatest, while the majority of us are forced to take a more "run what ya brung" approach.
With Nationals racing less than a week away, we wanted to take this Throwback Thursday to look at some of the unique builds from the past nine years of Cyclocross Magazine's coverage of U.S. Cyclocross Nationals. When placed against the backdrop of our profile of Jeremy Powers' SRAM eTap-equipped Focus Mares, the profiles also provide a great opportunity to see how cyclocross bikes have and have not changed over the years.
We hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane.
For living in the now, check out our already-growing compilation of coverage of the 2018 U.S. Cyclocross Nationals in Reno.
Zachary Schuster and Andrew Yee contributed to this throwback.
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Mo Bruno Roy’s Titanium/Carbon Seven Singlespeed – 2015 (Austin)
Mo Bruno Roy’s 2015 Singlespeed Cyclocross National Championship-winning Seven carbon/titanium Mudhoney Pro cyclocross bike. © Cyclocross Magazine
Singlespeed is a category that sees plenty of unique bikes. In a discipline that encourages riders to deliberately choose bikes or gearing that may not be suited to the course, it is not uncommon to see homebrew rigs and relatively low-cost bikes at a high level of racing. In 2015 in Austin, Mo Bruno Roy took the opposite approach. She rode a rather high-end Seven Mudhoney Pro to a win at the 2015 Singlespeed National Championships. The frame featured carbon tubes and titanium lugs and was hand-built by the Boston frame company. Completing the high-end build is a set of SRAM Red brake levers (shift internals removed), chain and crankset and Mavic Cosmic Carbone wheels.
See the full profile of Mo Bruno Roy’s 2015 Nationals-winning bike here.
