Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd
USGP of Cyclocross kicks off Saturday in KentuckyThe Crank Brothers U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross celebrates its fifth anniversary this Saturday as the six-race series kicks off in Louisville, Kentucky. The October 24-25 Papa John’s Derby City Cup presented by Toyota will once again be held at Champions Park, a former private ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 22nd
New Colorado MTB Endurance Stage Race for 2009Colorado’s Summit County has granted provisional approval for a six-day endurance mountain bike stage race in Breckenridge for 2009. The “Breck Epic,” is tentatively scheduled to run from July 5 to the 10th.
Mike McCormack, former director of the Mountain States Cup, ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 18th
A conversation with Adam CraigThis coming weekend, October 24-25, Adam Craig is strapping on the full-face helmet and body armor, climbing on his big-hit bike and competing in the Jeep 48Straight, formerly Jeep King of the Mountains competition. The competition features dual slalom racing against Greg ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17th
Talking with Toast: A Conversation with Josh TostadoKnown to many as “Toast,” Josh Tostado (no, not Tostada) smoked an all-star field at last weekend’s Suzuki 24 Hours of Moab in the solo competition. Tostado completed 17 laps of the 15.5-mile course for a grand total of 263.5 miles of riding. He opened his gap on ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 16th
Marie-Héléne Prémont won’t retireQuebecer Marie-Héléne Prémont has changed her mind about retiring at the end of the 2008 season. The 31-year-old Premont — who in 2007 announced she would hang it up after 2008 — will race the UCI World Cup and world championships.
The news comes after Prémont ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15th
Baja Epic route details; Dahle Flesjå re-upsWith three weeks to go until its November 5 kickoff date, the Baja Epic — a four-day cross-country race in northern Mexico — has finalized its route. The race will cover approximately 250 miles and include 24,000 feet of climbing. The race runs November 5-8.
The opening ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13th
Roberto Heras, Svein Tuft to race La RutaThree-time Vuelta a España winner Roberto Heras will toe the line at next month’s La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race in Costa Rica. The four-day race covers 250 miles from Jaco Beach on the Pacific coast to the finishing city of Limon, on Costa Rica’s ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 10th
Endurance riders head to Moab this weekendRoughly 2000 mountain bikers will head into Southeastern Utah this weekend for the Suzuki 24-Hours of Moab, the largest 24-Hour race on North American soil. In its 13th year the race — organized by the West Virginia-based Granny Gear Productions — has come to own the title ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 6th
Paez, Henzi win last Marathon MTB World CupColombian Leonardo Paez and Swiss Petra Henzi won the second and final round of the UCI Marathon Mountain bike World Cup, held in Ornans, France on October 5. Paez (Gewiss-Bianchi), took a two-minute victory ahead of Swiss rider Lukas Buchli, with newly crowned German marathon ...
Posted: Mon, Sep 29th
Todd Wells heading to Specialized for ’09Two-time Olympian Todd Wells is heading back to his roots for 2009, leaving GT Bicycles to join the Specialized factory mountain bike team. Wells, 32, raced for Specialized as a semi pro and neo pro from 1996-1998, riding alongside Ned Overend, Steve Tilford, Shaun Palmer and ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 25th
MTB News and NotesNorCal League Heading SouthThe organizers of the NorCal High School Mountain Bike League, America’s largest interscholastic bike racing league at the high school level, have taken their successful model south. On August 4, the NorCal league helped launch the ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 24th
Forget Le Tour, Lance - how about tackling La Ruta?It’s no secret that every bike nerd in America was holding his (or her) breath in anticipation of Lance Armstrong’s press conference today in New York City, at which he fleshed out ...
