Posts tagged mountain bike

Grinduro California finally made its return, with a new course that brought victory to cyclocrossers. Check out the 2022 race results.

Muddy conditions led to a clean sweep at the Tokyo Olympic’s Women’s Cross Country Mountain Bike Race. See how the cyclocrossers did. Full results.

Bell’s Iceman Cometh Challenge is a point-to-point mountain bike race 30 years in the making. If it were founded today, would it be a mountain bike race?

With no cyclocross race at the 2019 Sea Otter Classic, familiar names jumped in the short-course and long-course UCI XC mountain bikes races.

Donate to support trail building at Wilder Ranch State Park in California and get entered to win a Rock Lobster mountain bike. Learn more about how to enter.

Cyclocrossers more than held their own at the 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Find out how Mathieu van der Poel, Evie Richards and more fared in the MTB season opener.

Ellen Noble is returning to her roots with Trek Factory Racing and a full mountain bike schedule in 2018. We asked her about her new partnership and what it means for her cyclocross career.

Sunday is a big day in bike racing with U.S. Crit Nats in Louisville and the UCI Mtb World Cup in Andorra. Get all the info you need to tune in and watch.

Wout van Aert & Mathieu van der Poel are back at it again, despite the skinny tires and paved surfaces. Plus U23 Women cyclocross champs battle on singletrack.

The UCI is reviving the crowd-pleasing format of XC Eliminator with a new urban World Cup series. Katie Compton excelled in this format – will she return to the fat tire racing?

In a race as long and challenging as the NoTubes Trans-Sylvania Epic, the only constant is change. On the signature trail of the stage and …

When we last caught up with Crystal Anthony a few short months ago, she was wrapping up a long school year as a Spanish teacher. …

Fortunately it was pretty easy to make one of my mountain bikes ‘cross worthy, and that was enough to get me by for a few seasons. I think any cross-country oriented mountain bike will work for cyclocross racing, with a few caveats. A hardtail is best, but a full-suspension bike isn’t a deal breaker. It’s like bringing combat boots to a 5K run. The equipment will work, but will probably put you out of contention for a podium spot. That being said, I’ve seen some sub-20lb, super-efficient, “no-bob” full suspension bikes with traditional front triangle designs, which would be fine to take to the starting line.

Even in the “off-season,” Georgia Gould is a force to be reckoned with. When we last checked in with her in our first Women’s Wednesday column, we learned that she’s been chasing a win in the Mountain Bike World Cup series, as well as the PROxct series. Recently, she finished in the top 15 at the Dalby Forest mountain bike race, and there’s still a lot of mountain bike racing to be done before the season is over and cyclocross begins. Lucky for us, Georgia had a few minutes to spare to talk to us about this season, her upcoming cyclocross season, and what it’s like to be a pro woman in cycling.

Cyclocross rider Katie Compton (Rabobank Giant Offroad Team) goes up against World MTB Champion, Maja Wloszczowska (CCC) in the Jelenia Gora Maja Wloszczowska Trophy Sprint Eliminator in downtown Jelenia Gora. Says Mark, Compton’s husband, the sprint eliminator is “a really great racing format they need to adopt in the US.”

It was just last year when I wrote that short-track mountain bike racing was the key to preparing for the upcoming ’cross season. Not racing the road, I still wanted to keep that edge that only real racing can give you. So, I turned to the C.U. Cycling Short Track Series. The fit seemed perfect -short, intense races that mimicked the effort and style of cyclocross racing. Because they were short, they allowed for more training on race days. I’ve added something else. Something even more intense and painful in it’s own way. Endurance racing.

Champery, Switzerland, was the site of the fourth round of the MTB World Cup series this past weekend, playing host to some of our favorite …

While married couple Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Heather Irmiger (both of Subaru-Trek) were busy putting together repeat wins in the US Marathon MTB National Championships in …

Cyclocross Magazine columnist and Masters racer Lee Waldman gets the chance to relearn basic lessons, courtesy of a 50-mile MTB race in Colorado. In case …

The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup hit North America via the long-standing Mont Saint Anne location in Quebec last weekend. While France’s Julien Absalon and …