Campagnolo also showed off prototype road disc brakes recently. The hydraulic brakes do not bear any groupset branding, and instead feature the “Campy Tech Lab” designation.

We were excited to see Gevenalle’s offerings at NAHBS as the brand’s DIY ethos and premium on reliability speak to many of us here and we thought it worth another look at what we saw in Sacramento.

We been watching decade-old race videos again. This time it’s the 2005 Elite Women’s World Championship race from Sankt Wendel, Germany that caught our attention.

Why do you race? For those that race, they know. Or they at least have an idea of what it is about racing that keeps them lining up. Adam Myerson walks us through the exercising of answering the question, why race?

Femke Van den Driessche has abandoned her defense in the case brought by the UCI involving the mechanical doping charge against her, and is leaving the sport of cyclocross effective immediately.

For this week’s Throwback Thursday we thought we’d share the the 1995 Cyclocross World Championships. The title was taken by Switzerland’s Dieter Runkel, the first to win Worlds on clipless pedals.

Some more highlights from NAHBS 2016, including new parts from Paul Components and Chis King, as well as new offerings from Enduro Bearings.

Super Tuesday got us thinking, “remember the Tour de Trump?” Enjoy this bonus Throwback Thursday at what was to be a huge race.

Ryan Trebon looks to make the switch to running, at least for a mile, and in the process perhaps silence his girlfriend, Elite runner Karlee Cofffey, that he can’t “just run a five minute mile.”

With the news that Lars Boom (Astana) is thinking of making a return to cyclocross to ride for Sven Nys’s Telenet-Fidea squad we got to thinking about Boom the cyclocross racer and quickly found ourselves watching hours of Boom taking on the most iconic courses.

We’ve already seen a number of great builds and new products from a host of builders and manufacturers at NAHBS 2016. As we continue our look through our photo files and show notes, we found a number of other interesting bikes to share with you.

Gevenalle has recently stepped up their game, now offering updated 11-speed GX (Gravel) shifters for use with Shimano MTB derailleurs and drop bar shifters, and new UX (Urban) shifters for those who ride Shimano’s Alfine 8-speed internal hub.

If you didn’t get a chance to see the full race, you can see the Elite Men’s competition at the 2016 Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle here.

Sven Nys’ final race. It seems almost incomprehensible that in a career that’s been going for so long we won’t see him line up again. And yet, today is the day that the chapter of his life as an Elite cyclocross racer ended.

Careful watchers of the video in yesterday’s Rumor’s & Rumblings would have noticed Wout van Aert on a new Colango cyclocross bike. We’ve got a few images from Worlds of the yet-to-be-released bike.

The final chapter of the Book of Cross from SRAM and Jeremy Powers is here. Take a few minutes to enjoy this short and relive some of the excitement from Asheville and Zolder.

This edition of Rumors & Rumblings shows that we’re more similar to the pros we cheer for than we may realize.

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.

For this week’s Throwback Thursday we’re going all the way back to last month and the 2016 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships. This “highlight” reel of slips and spills showcases just how tough the course in Asheville, North Carolina was.

Recently, we came across an analysis by David R. Roberts of the brake choices—disc or cantilever—made by the 2016 World Championship Elite racers. Roberts’ analysis looks at four main questions including do faster riders tend to ride discs. Check out his analysis.

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.

Enjoy this highlight video posted to Vimeo from the Pigmon Channel and see some of the highlights from the 2016 Cyclocross Tokyo held in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan.

Kei Tsuji shared 100 great images from the 2016 Cyclocross Tokyo with us. Get a picture of the event and enjoy all of the images in this slideshow.

The Hansgrohe Superprestige series wrapped up today in Middelkerke, Belgium today. With the series ending and the season wrapping up the fields were packed with those looking to take final results for the year.

We’ve not done a Friday Feature Film in some time, but this popped up on our radar recently. Sam Smith, the man behind the Transition series of cyclocross films as well as Behind THE Barriers, posted the full-length first Transition to YouTube last week.

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.

For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re going back to 1995 for a bit of cyclocross history, inspired by a photo we recently scanned of cyclocross star Dale Knapp racing the snowy ’95 Cyclocross National Championships.

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.

Belgian press is reporting that Femke Van den Driessche, who was found to have a bike with a hidden motor in her pit area at the 2016 Cyclocross World Championships may only receive as 6 month ban as well as an 180,000 euro fine.