Posts in category pro bike profiles

Who needs a gravel bike or tubeless gravel tires at the Crusher in the Tushar? Rob Squire doesn’t. We profile his unique winning Felt F1x bike.

CXM takes a look at the 2018 Specialized CruX CX and Diverge gravel bike builds and prices, and we take a closer look at the CruX Expert and S-Works Diverge models.

Carl Decker obsesses over finding the right tool for the job. We take a look at his winning choice for the 2017 Lost and Found gravel race.

Yesterday was arguably the biggest day in gravel, with both the Dirty Kanza and Lost and Found races simultaneously testing athletes from around the world. …

Who says carbon all comes from a few factories? McGovern Cycles builds its bikes in Nevada County, California to your KOM needs and McGovern’s exacting standards.

All eyes have been on Montana lately. Today we look at a red-white-and-blue creation that should please both parties.

Cody Kaiser always puts on a show with his bike-handling skills, but at Sea Otter, it was his brand-new 2018 Specialized CruX cyclocross bike that captured much of our attention.

Gianni Vermeersch had a mechanical-ridden World Championship race (and year). We profile both broken and sparkly new Guerciotti Lembeek bikes he raced at the 2017 Worlds.

Can a generic carbon frame provide adequate race level performance, light weight and affordability? Kaya Musgrave’s winning bike says yes.

U23 crusher Joris Nieuwenhuis stormed the competition at 2017 Cyclocross World Championships in Bieles. Here we check out his Sunweb team edition Giant TCX.

Alicia Franck, recently signed with Marlux-Napoleon Games, cracked the top 20 at the 2017 Cyclocross Worlds — her first Worlds, and her first season of cyclocross. Let’s peek at her mysterious Ridley.

Sanne Cant won a dramatic 2017 Cyclocross World Championships aboard a Stevens Super Prestige cyclocross bike with some interesting bits. We profile her Worlds-winning bike today.

Just as it’s a yearly tradition for Katie Compton to win a National Title, it has become a tradition for Cyclocross Magazine to take an in-depth look at the bike that got her there. Quite a bit has changed in the last month.

Quinten Hermans has been on a tear, notching four U23 wins this season along with some impressive Elite UCI results. We take a look at Herman’s Trek Boone in our latest pro bike profile.

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.