The UCI’s decision earlier this week to eliminate four cross racing from its Mountain Bike World Cup series has surprised and upset many four cross racers in the sport. In response the Four Cross Alliance has promised to put together a new, alternative world-level series so elite-level racers can continue to compete on the world stage in the run-up to the 2012 UCI Four Cross World Championships next September in Austria.
“The Four Cross Alliance is as stunned and surprised as are the majority of people out there…,” read a statement from Scott Beaumont and Chris Roberts of the Four Cross Alliance  … More
After winning the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado in August, Levi Leipheimer returned home to Santa Rosa to warm up for a couple of season-ending races in Canada. Training on the local roads he knows so well, Leipheimer recently found himself returning from St. Helena on Spring Mountain Road.
Leipheimer is a fiend for data, and he knows … More
The 2011 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Gravity National Championships continued Saturday in Beech Mountain, N.C. with the dual slalom competition. The day started overcast and foggy, but slowly cleared, leaving the racers to compete in cool temperatures under partly cloudy skies.
When the professional riders assumed center stage Saturday, Mitch Ropelato (Ogden, Utah/SPS North America) and Jill Kintner (Seattle, Wash./RedBull-Transition Racing) topped the men’s and women’s podiums.
Kintner, who won the  … More
Enjoy the gravity-fueled Crankworx Colorado 2011 slopestyle course where top riders like Brandon Semenuk, Eric Lawrenuk, Jeff Herbertson compete for top spots.