When the ’crossing gets cold, Katie Compton turns up the heat with soft, warm and versatile clothing.

Rubén Plaza – one of the numerous “refugees” from the Operación Puerto doping scandal -- has landed a contract with Caisse d’Epargne for 2010.

2009 U.S. Cyclocross Nationals Day 3 results

Summerhill wins U23 title as nearly 500 riders compete across six divisions on penultimate day of USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships

There was plenty of history leading up to Saturday’s re-match of an old race between Don Myrah and Pete Webber.

Defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is expressing confidence that the re-rigged Astana will be able to support him as he searches a third maillot jaune in four years.

When I gave up racing mountain bikes I vowed to never ride a trainer again. I didn’t quite stick to that sacred oath, but I have tried my best.

On Sunday, December 13th, Ryan Trebon (Kona-FSA) will defend his cyclocross national championship on his home turf in Bend, Oregon. Defending women’s champ and leader of the world cyclocross UCI points, Katie Compton, will having a go at her sixth national championship in a row.

Juniors and masters lined up to compete at cyclocross national championships in Bend, Oregon, on Friday.

Garmin-Transitions team captain David Millar pulled no punches on his friend and former teammate Bradley Wiggins, who announced on Thursday that he was leaving the American squad for Britain’s Team Sky.

Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) won the fifth round of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup on Sunday in Igorre, Spain. Belgians Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) and Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) finished second and third. American Jonathan Page (Planet Bike) cracked the top 10 with an eighth-place finish. Albert, the world cyclocross champion, retained his lead in the World Cup series with 370 points, just five points ahead of Stybar. Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-ProJob), fourth on the day, sits ...

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Mary McConneloug (Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) and Dan Timmerman (Richard Sachs-RGM-Radix) won the first round of the NBX Grand Prix of Cross on Saturday in Warwick, Rhode Island. The weekend is the final stop of the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series. A steady rain on top of a soft, rooty and sinuous course gave a definite advantage to riders with finesse and bike-handling ability. McConneloug dominated the women's race, with Laura Van Gilder (C3 Athletes Serving Athletes) ...

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Fresh off of victory at the Carousel Volkswagen Jingle Cross Rock, Todd Wells (Specialized) and Katerina Nash (Luna) rode to wins at the first day of the Portland Stanley Cup in Oregon. The mighty but mini Amy Dombroski, riding for the Primus Mootry, Schlaam and SRAM conglomerate team, continued her steady rise to the top by finishing second, less than 15 seconds off of the winning pace. Unlike past Portland rounds of the USGP, where mud has been the name of the game, the skies were ...

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Óscar Pereiro admits that he probably won’t be racing next year. After a possible deal with Astana fell through, it appears as the 2006 Tour de France champion will be without a squad in 2010. Facing the unlikely option that a team will pick him up, Pereiro says it’s probably the end of the road for his sporting career. “I am a realist and when I won the Tour in 2006, I knew that I wasn’t going to win another one because I don’t have the quality that Alberto (Contador) has ...

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Carlos Sastre has tapped a veteran compatriot to help him during next year’s Tour de France with the addition of Xavier Tondo to the Cervélo TestTeam squad. Tondo, 31, was linked to a deal to Astana, but the Canadian-backed, Swiss-based Cervélo team confirmed that it has penned Tondo to join five other Spanish riders at the team. “It’s a dream come true. My principal goal for 2010 is to help Carlos Sastre in the mountains,” Tondo said. Tondo won the 2008 Tour of Portugal and ...

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Alberto Contador will get to know his “new” team next week in the season’s first get-together for the refitted Astana squad. The two-time Tour de France champion will meet with new Astana staff and riders in Italy on December 9-16 in Pisa, Italy in the first formal face-to-face meeting since Contador decided to stay with Astana in 2010. Contador was hoping to break out of the final year of this three-year contract with the troubled Astana team, but the Kazakhs held him to his ...

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Editor's Note: Brandon submitted the following journal entry on Friday, Dec. 4. On the following day Brandon finished second — by about a foot — to teammate Pete Webber at the Colorado cyclocross championships. A video of the sprint is at the bottom of this page. There I was with four laps to go and I could feel the rear tire getting slightly softer as I hammered … well, rather meagerly pushed on the pedals. There was enough pressure in my rear tire to motor along the flats, but ...

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Editor's Note: Brandon submitted the following journal entry on Friday, Dec. 4. On the following day Brandon finished second — by about a foot — to teammate Pete Webber at the Colorado cyclocross championships. A video of the sprint is at the bottom of this page. There I was with four laps to go and I could feel the rear tire getting slightly softer as I hammered … well, rather meagerly pushed on the pedals. There was enough pressure in my rear tire to motor along the flats, but ...

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Noel Dejonckheere, the long-time director of USA Cycling’s U23 development program in Belgium, is leaving the organization to join the BMC professional team as European Operations Manager and Assistant Director Sportif. Dejonckheere has directed the U23 programs and run the National Team House in Izegem, Belgium, for the last decade, and mentored many developing riders who are now in the ProTour. USA Cycling officials emphasized that the Izegem program will ...

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If you subscribe to VeloNews magazine, you may have seen Matt Pacocha’s holiday gift guide in the current issue. (If you don’t subscribe, go buy a copy from your local bike shop, or sign up! You’re missing out on our annual awards issue). Matt covered a wide range of suggestions for your cycling-obsessed friends and family, but we ran out of space for a few of our “stocking stuffer” ideas. There are all kinds of small goodies that will always be well received, including that most ...

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