Posts tagged Brian Matter

Despite the drop-bar hype, mountain bikes reigned supreme at the 2019 Iceman Cometh Challenge in Michigan. Full results for the pro races.

Over the weekend, the country’s best mountain bikers converged in Snowshoe, West Virginia to contest the 2018 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships in cross …

by Zachary Schuster The Trek Wisconsin Cycling Association Cyclocross series kicked off on Saturday with the Cross Shooshko race at Kosciuszko Park in Milwaukee. The …

By Paul Warloski MILWAUKEE—Heidi Beck (Twin Six- Milwaukee Bicycle Company) doubled up her wins at the Halloween Cross SuperCup, riding away from the fields in …

by Matt James Day Two of the 2014 Gateway Cross Cup brought a revamped course and a renewed aggression from both of the opening day’s …

HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — One of these things is not like the other, but everything else remained the same at Day Two of the North Carolina …

HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — Skies were cloudy but temperatures were mild at Hendersonville today for day one of the North Carolina Grand Prix. In the …

It seems like there is always a lot going on in the world of professional bike racing and bike racing in general. We are always prepping for a new season or in the midst of another season. There is almost never a break: ’cross season rolls into road season which rolls into mountain bike season which rolls right back into ’cross season. But it’s that time of year again where we are rolling back into ’cross season, which means more and more ’cross pro rumors and rumblings. Sven Nys has ended his mountain bike season early to prep for ’cross. Tim Johnson and Joshn Huseby are sticking it to the Open Duo Men in Breckenridge. Jeremy Powers heads to Colorado for a little pre-race recon. Ryan Trebon takes on the hardest one day event ever, Rapha Gentleman’s Race. Todd Wells climbs to the sky and beyond. In Memory: Marc Druyts, a Cyclocross Legend. This week’s Working Man’s Edition: Matter vs. Schouten; Lindine heads to the sky.

Wow, mid August is upon us and that can only mean one thing, pulling out the practice barriers, heading to the local park and getting our hup on! With that, Jesse Anthony has certainly been getting his HUP on at the Tour of Utah, can he take the points jersey? Johnson and Wells head high to attempt to race 100 miles above 10,000 feet. Amy Dombroski has been productive and looks to be on track with her ’cross program. Daphny Van Den Brand has announced her retirement after the 2011–2012 racing season, can she do the triple? In this week’s working man’s edition: Tristan Schouten and Brian Matter head to the first round of the Midwest Triple Crown, The Ore to Shore.

Summer heat is at it’s high point. Twitter accounts across the eastern seaboard keep referencing the 90 plus degree temperatures and more and more often the cyclocross hashtag comes up on twitter. So is anything exciting happening in the wide world of pro cyclocross?

Weeknight racing, long weekend road and mountain bike rides, maybe even a mountain bike race or a road race: these are all the little things we try and do to get our “cyclocross fix,” but it’s not the same. There is no substitute for the gasping breaths, the burning legs, the cross-eyed attempts at clearing the sand pit or the barriers. But we try to capture the feeling with our substitute races and by seeing what is happening in the world of pro cyclocross racers.

Tom Robertson continues to bring us words and images covering the Euro Cross Campers’ experience, this time from the Loenhout Azencross. Missed his previous post? …

by Paul Warloski Milwaukee, Wisc. – On a course described as “deliciously evil,” Brian Matter (Geargrinder) and Abby Strigel rode away from their respective men’s …

by Dan Seaton Kalmthout, Belgium – Since last weekend’s National Championships marked the end of the racing season in the United States, a host of …

by Dan Seaton, photos by Joe Sales Also see our blow-by-blow coverage archive. The clouds cleared and the sun was shining this afternoon on Belgium’s …