Ibis Cycles‘ USA-made EXIE frameset received a Mercury Silver finish paint color, Team 31 gold accents, and a balleur Fox build kit, all for $4,499.99. Let’s check it out below…
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Radar Roundup: Hayduke Lives, Work for Old Man Mountain, Chirp Chirp Cycles, Winter Bikepacking, and A Ride for Kids
Our Radar Roundup compiles products and videos from the ‘net in an easy-to-digest format. Read on below for today’s findings…
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All-In: Beyond the Comfort Zone
Kaitie Keough ventures to the spiritual home of cyclocross for a whole season in Europe to test her limits and pursue her best.
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A Cervelo Áspero Review (2023 Update)
When I say Cervelo, chances are your mind doesn’t jump right to off-road bike like the Áspero and that’s why we wanted to review it…
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Wahoo Disciplines Episode 1: Cross is Boss
Can you beat the excitement of a muddy and fast ‘cross race? In this episode of Wahoo Disciplines, we follow Tom Pidcock and the Trinity Racing Team at the British National Cyclocross Championships. This will be a three-episode series with a final long-form film at the end…
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Flowers for Rita: The Positive Power of Persistence
Dearest Readers,
If you’ve followed the reporting for the last three years on this Cyclocross Pilgrimage to the Motherland, you will have read plenty of tales of struggling, suffering, and the general beat downs of European race life. I’m not here to make excuses or polish turds. I’m here to tell it to you like it is. To keep it real. Thus I’ve written more than 30 articles bringing you along for my weekly whoopings in all their self-deprecating glory because that’s the truth. That’s the reality. That’s the story.
And now, dearest readers, I finally have a happy tale to tell. Though it feels an odd one to write, and I cringe at potentially walking the fine line of self-aggrandizing douche. But I try to consider the context. This is the first time in over 30 deadlines that I’ve managed a meaningful achievement. This too is just part of the ride. The reality. The story. And it’s the kind I might not get to write again for another three years, or for that matter, ever again…
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Rhys’ Pioneer Valley Cowgirl Spaceship ‘Cross Bike
As it goes in the pleasant winter months in Los Angeles, we get a lot of cycling tourists, rolling through town like a tumblin’ tumbleweed. Last week, my friends Brad and Rhys were in town, soaking up the sun and riding all the dirt roads LA county has to offer. Rhys was riding on this Pioneer Valley ‘cross bike and I had to document this noble steed.
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Flemish Hospitality: CX Style
I was hardly surprised when he turned us away. After three seasons battling these neon-vested, parking fascists at Belgian cyclocross races, I’d come to expect rejection.
Max and I were racing today, and we’d just tried to enter the Renner’s Parking, the exact place for people like us. Yet the gatekeeper grunted in Flemish that there was no room for our little Peugeot Partner in the lot stuffed with hundreds of camper vans and buses from the larger Belgian teams.
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Squid World Tour: China V2.0, Way Outside of Beijing – Angel Perez and Emily Kachorek
Squid World Tour: China V2.0, Way Outside of Beijing
Photos by Angel Perez and words by Emily Kachorek
We kicked off the cyclocross portion of Squid World Tour early again this year in August. After a successful weekend of UCI racing Down Under in Melbourne’s winter cyclocross conditions, we made our way up (way up) to Beijing, China for the 6th Edition of the always hot and muggy Qiansen Trophy Cup. In the past the majority of the races have been held in the outer rings of the capital city. This edition, however, the events would be held at all new venues outside (way outside) Beijing. The Squad was excited for all new courses, new roads, and a whole new Chinese adventure.
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Behind the Scenes at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Los Angeles – Eugene Kim
Behind the Scenes at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Los Angeles
Photos by Eugene Kim, words by John Watson
Track cycling’s draw is massive in Europe, so you never know what you’re going to get when a UCI event rolls into the US, much less, Los Angeles. This year’s UCI Track Cycling World Cup took place at the on the campus of California State University Dominguez Hills in their VELO Sports Center at the StubHub Center, drawing crowds that surprised. Eugene was there, in the pits so to speak, covering the events of the two-day World Cup. The most notable conquests that weekend were the United States’ own Chloe Dygert Individual Pursuit, the New Zealand team took home the event trophy, and French took home the 2016-2017 Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup title.
While track cycling in the United States has yet to reach “Six Days” status, seeing an event like this land in Los Angeles is a win / win.
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Chasing the Rainbow Stripes
Santini is the Official Partner of the UCI and supporter of the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland. The WCC is a coaching and training facility that offers development for around 100 athletes each year, in three Olympic disciplines: road, track and racing BMX. Check out more at the Santini UCI collection.
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Claudio Caluori is the Best
The two-wheel downhill comedian is back with a 2015 UCI MTB World Championships preview in Vallnord, Andorra.
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Cyclocross World Championships in Tábor 2015 – Hollis Duncan
Cyclocross World Championships – Tábor 2015
Photos and words by Hollis Duncan
The first hint I was approaching Eastern Europe, was receiving a bath-size wet nap prior to takeoff on Air Dolomiti flight 1692 from Munich to Prague. Anyone who has ever whiffed a Bulgarian armpit or endured 34 rows of heavy built men who disavow deodorant can deduce how these would come in handy on a small airplane. As the pilot squeezed the throttle, our Embraer 195 headed east through light snow…
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Scott’s Disruptive Pattern Disc Cross for the UCI Cross Worlds
Did you guys catch this concept paint job over at the Scott Facebook? While the pattern is not that original, it’s interesting to see a bike like this being raced at the UCI ‘Cross Worlds. Even if it did get covered in mud after the first lap.
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Bokanev at Gloucester
Photos by Andy Bokanev
Is it the weekend yet? You’ve got a ways to go, but these photos from Bokanev’s visit to Gloucester should keep you pumped for this weekend’s cross race.
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Watch Jens Voigt’s Hour Record Attempt
Right now, you can watch the one and only Jens Voigt take on the Hour Record in the embedded video above. Also, don’t miss this in-depth look at Jens’ bike at Cycling News!
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Neko Mulally’s Bad Luck 13
Neko snapped his chain, right out of the gate and still pulled off one of the best times of the day at the UCI Downhill WC, landing him in 4th place overall. All this kinda makes that bad luck 13 number suddenly seem quite lucky. I can’t stop watching this.
Thanks for sharing this video, Neil!
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The 2014 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup – Chris Lee
The 2014 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
Words and photos by Chris Lee
I’m not gonna lie, I’m not very well versed or informed about the mountain bike racing circuit. But I do know about the MTB World Cup and when the announcement that it was going to be making a stop in Windham again, I knew I had to make the trip up…