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USA
& Regional CX Links
The NVV Cyclocross Circuit
is a great place to start-- from your (ex-) host, Dave Carr.
The Surf City CX site has general
interest info -- and a schedule for NorCal's best race series.
Cyclocrossworld.com has
race coverage, tips, plus a online store chock full of specialty 'cross
items.
Bike.com has changed hands, but
still has great 'cross content in winter.
Velonews has 'cross
reports from around the globe.
The CrossNet, produced
by VeloNews artist Patrick O'Grady, includes a listings of regional series
nationwide.
New England's Adam Myerson offers CX coaching at cycle-smart.com.
From the home of the 2000 natz, Kansas
City Cross (aka Slimen und Grossen) has Midwest info.
Nearby, the Kentucky Cyclocross
site includes the evocatively titled race "Battle of Wendell Moore".
From Missouri: St. Louis Cyclocross
site.
BikeReg.com collects events around the country into a points calendar
and individual rankings.
Brent Soderberg's Bike Ride Online
site is great, with links, photos, and calendar for the Pacific Northwest.
Also from the drippy NW, the Marymoor
Velodrome hosts the Seattle
Metro series.
New site in the making: Seattle's Radsport
is "Your 'Seattle Blend' Cyclocross Source."
Still more NW: the Cross Crusade Series
in lovely Portland, Oregon. Note this site has a NorCal cover model...
Big Shark Cycles offers this intro
to 'cross.
The Utah Cyclocross Series
has a good site including an excellent list of links.
From 'cross-rich New England we have the NEBC
site with info, pix, and schedule.
New England's Ride Magazine
offers "East Coast Bike Culture"--and 'cross content in winter.
New England Championship Cyclocross
is the premier series in the Northeast.
And, from nearby Bawstin, the ECV
'cross site with a cool slide show of the 2000 world's (in the /2000/
page).
The Boston Cross crew makes
some of the sport's best trophies.
From NooYawk, the New
York State CX Series.
The USCF 'cross page has
a new look this year--but is still the last place to find current news!
Past years' NCNCA CX pages: 1995,
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
and
2001.
Links pages of other sites: cyclo-cross.com,
Bike
Ride Online,
CrossNet,
and NEBC.
Here's a cool resource: Search "cyclocross"
at DejaNews.com in the rec.bike.racing archives.
Looking for equipment? Search classifieds at rec.bike.marketplace,
NCNCA,
NCNCA
CX, Bicycle
Trader, and
Bikeride.com
Articles
The 12/3/01 Sports Illustrated Adventure has a CX
article on juniors Jesse and Josh Anthony.
A new article from Windy
City Sports, featuring your editor.
Of academic interest: Professor Mick
Peterson of U. Maine has a project for testing
CX tires (no results yet)
National CX coach Clark Natwick brings you Cyclocross
for the Athlete and Cyclocross
for the Promoter.
Lots 'o' CX articles: New
York Times (free subscription required), Thomas
Cooke, E. Wencel-Stone,
Bayinsider.com,
Bicycle
Paper, GORP,
and Outside
Online.
Race reports: ECV
in Europe, Tim Johnson's worldwide diaries,
Dale
Knapp at world's
A new article from Windy
City Sports, featuring your editor.
People
'Cross with a female attitude: the Velo
Bella team.
The Sally Spicer
cyclocross team is comprised of pro, semi-pro and amateur racers.
The Tim Johnson fansite has
Tim's dispatches from his Euro' cross season.
Pro MTB and cross rider Rachel
Lloyd has her own site.
Adam Myerson is
a top Northeast 'crosser with lots of attitude and a zine-like site.
Adam also offers CX coaching at cycle-smart.com.
Mark Weaver's Blackmarket
Racing CX E-zine has largely merged into his new motorcycling gig,
but the old site is there too.
The Jonathan
Page Page -- fan-news, even a fantasy league--check it.
'Euro chic: The Sven Nijs
Fan Club -- says Adam Myerson, "If you have to ask, you'll never know."
And still more: a Sven
Nijs interview by Bill Mitchell of cyclingnews.com
Yet more, for two-time world champ Bart
Wellens: "Officiele site Supportersclub Bart & Geert Wellens"
The famous Thomas
Frischkneckt has his own site including an poignant message on doping.
Not seen every day: a fan page for a female racer--Julie
Taylor.
Of academic interest: Professor Mick
Peterson of U. Maine has a project for testing
CX tires (no results yet)
Europe
& Beyond
Cyclocross in Europe is a tres cool
site. Check it out.
The legendary Superprestige
series has an English-language site.
From Belgium, www.cyclingnews.be offers
"all the latest cycling news."
Totally cool link: a movie
of a 1944 'cross race in France. Updated with QuickTime...
In the category of "best URL", cyclo-cross.com
(UK) is home to those cool races profiled in Simon Burney's CX book.
From Australia, cyclingnews.com includes
great Euro' race reports.
Britain's Three Peaks Race is an epic CX: 60K over hill and dale. See
these reports
and pictures.
Yet another Brit site: The British
Cyclo-cross Association, who publish a cyclocross guide.
Coverage of the 1999 CX Worlds -- with 2 US medalists -- is available from
World
Cycling Productions
Swiss Cycling News covers 'cross in season.
The UCI (international
cycling union) 'cross page has good info including this intro
to cross.
CycleBase lists cycling in Holland.
Click on "Cyclocross" on the pull down menu.
Velo Pages has Euro cross results.
Cyclocross
in Japan is self-explanatory....but I hope you have a Kanji-enabled browser.
Marcel Van Hoeck's Site has
some great photos and links from European races.
Cyclocross
Videos
ProCyclocross.com - excellent European
Cyclocross action on DVD - ooh those 2002 Worlds were a nailbiter!!!
Paul Weiss has some domestic
CX action on DVD.
World Cycling Productions - some
World Championships from 2000 and earlier on VHS.
Cyclocross
Images (previously found
on the NCNCA "Images" page)
Note: Please do not duplicate copyrighted images!
AbbiOrca.com (Nancy and Russ Wright)
have hi-quality images from Central Coast, East Bay, Vineyard CX, and Surf
City
Sabine Dukes of Vello
Bella has been taking some awesome CX photographs of NorCal events, check
em out.
The Surf City photo page
has a catalog of 'cross images from '99 and earlier taken by Markham
Johnson
Jonathan McElvery brings
a pro's touch to CX photography
Central Coast
has pics from their races too, courtesy of Dave Gill.
NCNCA cyclocross image banks: 1999
(many) and 2000
(not so many), featuring staff contributor Dennis
McGovern.
Don't miss Mark Abramson's ForwardThought
site, chock full of cool images from New England and worldwide.
Assured Photos have
literally a zillion images from Surf City and CCCX.
Some photos from Colorado: http://www.joemillerracing.com/cross
Lots 'o' pics from the Santa
Cruz Cycling Club, including Surf City and DFL
Jim E's photos from Bay Area races and
'02 and '99 CX Nats.
NVV's photo gallery
has images from the Vineyard CX, Surf City, and more!
The nearby Central Coast series has a ton
of photos on their site.
Leo Pieters' CX in Europe site has
a picture page.
The Steelman Cycles
site has a few 'cross images.
Australia's cyclingnews.com usually includes
'cross images in the winter months (look for "Cyclocross" link)
Bike Ride Online has a ton of
dark muddy images from the sodden Northwest.
Also, we have images from the '99 Chicago
Supercup, courtesy of Bob VonMoss.
Some more image pages: Mark Dawson's Fat
Tire Fotos, NEBC,
and the Mud Zone.
Andrew Gregg has
a number of images from the SuperCup (beware: large downloads...)
Cyclocross
Manufacturer Links
Is NorCal cool or what? Check out all the local builders:
Steelman Cycles builds
not one but two cross frames: the CC
and the Eurocross.
Santa Rosa builders Jay and Jeremy Sycip
(See-Sip) make some spicy bikes...like the Cross Dresser, now in Aluminum
(a.k.a. Diet) versions.
Hunter Cycles of Soquel
makes bikes for several of NorCal's top 'crossers.
Rock Lobster, based
in Santa Cruz, makes custom 'crossers--and I finally found their new URL.
Get with the digital age, Paul!
From the ashes of Salsa, Petaluma's Soulcraft
has a nice custom frame.
Kelly also has a cross bikehere,
and they sponsor a number of local riders.
Sacramento's Steve Rex of Rex Cycles
will build you a custom steel cross
bike.
Off road pioneer Tom Ritchey
has the Swiss Cross, fave ride of Frischy, plus the Seattle-inspired Mountain
Cross.
The visionaries at Ibis bring
us the evocatively named Hakkalugi.
San Francisco based Red Hot
makes a one piece design cross
frame.
Salsa, formerly of sunny
Petaluma, has the sweet La
Cruz cross frame...but they moved to Minnesota??
Bontrager moved from Santa
Cruz to Trek, Wisconsin--and apparently no longer makes 'cross bikes, alas.
Single-speed cyclocross bikes? Yours from Spot
Brand Bikes.
And now, bikes from elsewhere:
On a budget? Try a production 'cross bike from Redline.
They also have a sweet Scandium frame, the choice of champions.
Find Cyclocross
bikes on Ebay...
Independent Fabrications makes
custom bikes and a 26" wheel CX bike for smaller riders.
Home to the famous carbon and aluminum cyclocross (and road) frames: Alan
Bicycles.
More 'Euro frames: Bianchi,
Pinarello, Peugeot,
Colnago,
etc.
Colorado based RVT has a cross
frame. And it's titanium!
Litespeed makes another
titanium cross bike, the Appalachian.
Check out the novel design of the Slingshot
CX bike.
Single-speed cyclocross bikes? Yours from Spot
Brand Bikes.
Buffalo Composite Designs (BCD)
custom builds their own carbon fiber tubes
More composite CX: Aegis from
woodsy Maine. No, they don't have an LL Bean signature model.
Beantown's own Rhygin Racing Cycles has
a Cross frame in a
variety of materials--but the link is dead (?)
Kish Custom Fabricationwill
build you a custom steel or ti frame.--another broken link!?!!
Other builders: Sanobike,
Lyonsport, Ellsworth,
Surly, etc.
From Russia to your garage: Siberian
Express titanium frames.
Production bikes: Voodoo,
Cannondale,
Kona, Waterford,
Trek, GT,
LeMond and Specialized
all have 'cross bikes, though
some don't appear on their sites yet. Can you say "bandwagon?"
More bandwagon-jumpers announced at Interbike 2000: Mongoose,
Diamondback, Vicious Cycles, LeMond,
etc.
Additional manufacturer links courtesy of the Utah
CX site: Airborne,
Fuji, Gunnar,
Jamis, Principia,
Serotta, Seven,
Strong, Surly,
Titus, Torelli,
... jeez, if you can't find a bike you like from that list, time to find another
sport!
Retail
Links
Cyclocrossworld.com has
an extensive online store with 'cross-specific gear.
In Putney, Vermont, The West
Hill Shop has more 'cross experts than most shops.
And from Colorado, Schwab Cycles
are fans of 'cross.
Excel Sports sells equipment,
frames, and build kits.
Another shop with a good 'cross section is Durance
Cycleworks -- including a variety of CX tubulars
Competitive Cyclist
has a special online order form to build
your own 'cross kit
Bulltek Sports has an extensive
list of frames for sale.
Still more retailers: Lick Bike,
Henry's
Bikes and Colorado Cyclist.
Product Links
& Reviews
Mountain Bike Daily has Mark Reidy's detailed reviews of CX bikes from
GT,
Specialized
and Bianchi.
For an extensive list of cyclocross tire selections, see the NVV CX
tire guide.
Bicycling Magazine has a section
on 'cross bikes in its 2001 buyer's
guide.
Road Bike Review also indexes user
reviews of cross bikes.
Patrick O'Grady of Mad Dog Media (the CrossNet)
has a few of his own bike reviews.
including a disc-equipped
Cannondale.
Is this the ultimate cross fork? Carbon fiber from Wound
Up.
Prefer titanium? Chek out Morati's
Ti cross fork.
Tufo
is the tire choice of lots of top racers.
For race promoters, Veneto Sport Awards has cyclocross medals. Inquire
at jats@iop.com
How cool is this? Bicycle carriers for your motorcycle, from Mark
Schuette.
For après-bike, check out Bike-Bodygear,
purveyors of bike-theme jewelry.
NorCal-Nevada 'Cross Series Info: See the complete district calendar here.
Novice Racer Info
Q: How do I get started in cross? A: Try
this introduction.
Make sure you get the book "Cyclocross: Training & Techniques",
by Simon Burney. How? Try here
and here.
Q: Do I need a license to race? A: Yes.
Read
the license notes in the calendar.
Q: Where do I find a clinic? A: Check the
calendar
again.
Q: Can I race on my mountain bike? A: Use the
Surf City guidelines:
"Vehicle: Any complete, functioning bicycle with
two wheels and knobbies.
Bar ends must be removed or turned backwards."
Also note: MTBs are not allowed in elite events
at Super Cup races.
Q: What category should I enter? A: Categories are self-selected.
Basic guidelines:
If you are new to racing, or a beginner MTB, or
cat 5 on road, enter "C."
Sport MTB, or cat 4 or 3 road, try "B". Expert MTB
or a cat 2 road or higher, you should do A's.
