September 7, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA: Mitch Graham, director of the OVCX cyclocross series announced today that long-time title sponsor Zipp Speed Weaponry has renewed its title sponsorship of the Midwestern series and has been joined by Papa Joh...

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  August 30, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA: The Champion System MAC Cyclocross Series has announced a radical increase of the Women’s prizes at every event of this year’s 11-race series. Effective immediately and starting with the UCI Nittany Lion Cross in Trexlertown Pennsylvania on September 11, every race in the Champion System MAC Series will pay equal prize money to the top three Elite Women as to the top three Elite Men. Series Director Mike Hebe also announced cash incentives for amateur women racing in the Category 3/4 division. "As a series, I feel that we definitely respect the effort that the Elite Women put forth," said Hebe. “Any way that we can help to offset a disparity in prize money is a good thing. We're thrilled to be able to make this work not just for one or two days at any given venue, but throughout the season for all 11 races of our series," he added. "This is an experiment for 2010 that we hope can springboard equal pay and bigger women's fields into the future."

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August 27, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA:  Last year, the UCI3 ‘cross festival in Cincinnati offered a jaw-dropping $10,000 in prize money just for the women alone.  This year, they’re doing it again as  October’s Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocr...

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LOUISVILLE, KY July 30, 2010 - The Greater Louisville Sports Commission, USA Cycling, the Louisville Bicycle Club and Jewish Hospital are proud to announce the 2010 USA Cycling Master Road National Championships scheduled for Tuesday, August 3, 2010 ...

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July 23, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA: The New Jersey State Fair SpectaCross races scheduled for August 6-7 have been cancelled due to lack of entries. The Fair’s management intends to replace the bike races, which were to have been a keystone of the ...

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The next time you login to the site you may be prompted to update your profile to include your location information.  This is a one time update that will fix a glitch that Webdude discovered at 3 am and also help us with some new features that can present members with local news, rides, trails and information that helps them get more out of their local cycling scene. If you've already filled this information out on your profile you won't have to do a thing. Remember, all of your profile info will still be kept private (based on your profile privacy settings) but the site just needs to know your city & zip so it works for you!

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US Gran Prix of Cyclocross Announces 2010 Dates and Venue Change

Series Moving to Fort Collins, CO in November 2010

July  06, 2010 (Louisville, KY) -- Organizers of the US Gran Prix of Cyclocross, (USGP) have released their schedule for the 2010 season and announced a change of venue for their November 2010 events. 

The 2010 USGP kicks off on the weekend of September 25th and 26th as the Series returns for its second year to Sun Prairie, WI for The Planet Bike Cup. The Series continues on to Louisville, KY October 23rd and 24th for the Derby City Cup - to be run at the future home of the 2012 Masters and 2013 Masters and Elite World Cyclocross Championships.

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Your local Red Cross sincerely needs your help.  Community-level disaster response services (such as food, clothing and shelter for families who lose their homes to fire) and emergency services for our military families are delivered by your local Red Cross chapter via charitable contributions from our community.  Large national and international disasters inspire the compassion and generosity of the American public.  But donations for large disasters (Haiti Earthquake, Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, etc.) are restricted to those direct relief efforts.  In their aftermath, donations to local chapters typically decline.  Your local Red Cross always depends upon charitable donations to serve our residents, but we need help now more than ever.   

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May 6, 2010 (Rogers, KY) The The Tour of the Red River Gorge returns to Stanton, KY on June 4th -6th, 2010 kicking off an exciting Summer of Cycling in Kentucky events with a three day omnium that features a time trial and two challenging days of road racing through the spectacular Red River Gorge. 

Adding to the prestige of the 2010 Classic is the announcement that the race has been name the 2010 Elite Road Championships. 

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April 28, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA: The city of Covington Kentucky, just outside of Cincinnati, became the state’s second city to commit to year ‘round cyclocross bicycle racing when the city commissioners, in a meeting shown on live television, a...

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Make plans now to join us for Louisville's Bike to Work Month in May and Bike to Work Day 2010, Friday, May 21st! Register Now! Last year almost 600 people registered, 200 of which were first time riders. This year we're adding even more ...

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April 26, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA:  Gravity East embarks on the fourth season of its rock ‘n roll downhill race series at Virginia’s Massanutten Resort during this weekend, April 30-May 1.  For Gravity East, “rock ‘n roll” isn’t just a metaphor or a shameless marketing ploy to attract aging (or aged) masters riders.  Racers in the eight-race series must roll everything from monstrous rock and boulder gardens to speed sections that have riders topping out at nearly 50 mph on some of the fastest downhill schusses anywhere in the world.

It’s a combination that requires excellent equipment, so it’s no surprise that manufacturers have lined-up to be a part of the series.  Nearly every major manufacturer sponsors a team or rider that competes in Gravity East races, and some see so much value in the series that they support it directly, sometimes in addition to their sponsored riders.  Gravity East’s sponsors include, Kenda Tires, e-thirteen Components, Hayes Bicycle Group, Sun Ringle and FTW Industries, which have donated one FB10 DH frame and one S-10 Slalom Frame which will be raffled off at the Gravity East Finals in October. Mad March Racing is again sponsoring 4th place for Category 1/2/3 racers (and running its well-respected clinics at selected Gravity East events)  In addition NEMA clothing not only continuing its big dollar contingency plan, it’s also providing Championship Jersey’s and other clothing for class winners.
Neko Mulally, who won last year’s Gravity East Championship on his way to a full-time spot on this year’s World Cup, said, “No other race series would prepare me better for 2010 in the World Cup.”  Mulally recently confirmed that he will compete at this weekend’s Gravity East Season Opener at on the former World Cup course at Massanutten, Virginia.

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April 26, 2010; Conshohocken, PA, USA: The Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour has released a 2010 race schedule that is long on tradition, but with a heightened sense of significance. “I think this schedule will establish the Ohio Valley as a bonafide, red-hotbed of ‘cross,” said Zipp OVCX Director Mitch Graham. “There are only eight UCI C1 races in the U.S. this year, and the Zipp OVCX has 25% of them. We also have three races at the 2013 World Championship (and 2012-2013 Master’s World Championship) venue at Louisville’s Eva Bandman Park and the big three-day Cincinnati UCI3 Festival in October. And it’s looking increasingly likely that another of the municipal parks that we use as one of our venues may also be constructing a permanent cyclocross facility.”

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It’s been over a year in the making but the launch of the new, updated, cooler, shinier BikeClicks.com is only days away.  The “new” BikeClicks.com builds on what we started, but finally begins to become the site we envisioned all along.  We've been listening to you - our members and friends, trying to take the best ideas, suggestions, even complaints and combined them with a few of our own inventions to incorporate everything into a site that is less about us and all about you. From the way you connect with other cyclists, your clubs, groups, teams and events to how you plan rides is all new and hopefully easier, on the “new” BikeClicks.com

Rather than become another big cycling forum we believe our true mission is simply to be the website that makes it easy for our members to organize around their existing, real world groups. More Blogger than Facebook (but with some FB style features); we want it to be about your cycling interests and groups, not ours.

So with our new BikeClique features everything for your group will be in one place. Forums, wall, photo gallery, ride calendar, member directory, links, documents & videos (phase II) all in one easy to find place.

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The Dutch cycling federation has finalised its team of nine men for the UCI road world championships in Australia. Koen de Kort (Skil-Shimano) and Rabobank duo Steven Kruijswijk and Laurens ten Dam were the last names to be added to Leo van Vliet’s selection. The Dutch manager had previously named Rabobank’s Koos Moerenhout, Jos van Emden, Lars Boom and Sebastien Langeveld on the team, along with Karsten Kroon (BMC) and national champion Niki Terpstra (Milram). Moerenhout and van ...

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USA Cycling is splitting the cross country and gravity portions of its mountain bike national championships into two separate events beginning in 2011. USA Cycling announced on Wednesday that Sun Valley, Idaho, will host the USA Cycling Cross Country Mountain Bike National Championships for the next two years on July 14-17, 2011 and July 12-15, 2012. A location for the downhill, four cross and dual slalom contests has yet to be determined. USA Cycling said splitting the nationals for the disciplines ...

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Hardshell helmets like those from Bern have taken the bike industry by storm in some cities. Where just a couple of years ago it was rare to see anything but race inspired road helmets or cheap store-brand mushroom like foam pieces, now it’s hard not to notice the number of new school hardshell helmets [...]

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As our season quickly approaches, riders are finding more and more reasons to bust out the ’cross rig. Take the residents of Fairfax, California, who opted for a 47-mile “Fun Ride” up and down the fire-roads of the eastern state. Murphy Mack brings u...

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On August 31, 2009, Toronto bike messenger Darcy Allan Sheppard was run over and killed by the unrepentant former Attorney General and former Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Michael Bryant. This is the Toronto messenger community’s tribute to their friend and comrade. Read more here.

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Ignatas Konovalovas and Branislau Samoilau have signed for Movistar for 2011 and 2012. The Spanish squad has been strengthening its roster ever since the announcement that Movistar would take over sponsorship from Caisse d’Epargne. The team has lost Luis Leon Sanchez to Rabobank but has signed Xavier Tondo (Cervélo TestTeam), Beñat Intxausti (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Sergio Pardilla (Carmiooro-NGC). They will be joined by Konovalovas and Samoilau. Lithuanian time trial champion ...

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