30 Century Man

Saw the photos in The Rig Out issue III, didn't know there was a video also. Around-the-world cyclist James Bowthorpe, filmed by Antony Crook in Norway, dressed for Oi Polloi/The Rig Out by Glenn Kitson, music by Mogwai. Perfect.

Happy Christmas, see you in the new year!

Leopard

The website for your new favourite pro cycling team is up. There's not much there, but what is there looks great. Check it out here. Poor Bjarne...

9W Magazine

Our friend j.dot from Dispatch101 sent us over a link to W9 cycling magazine, which has some great photos. Thanks, j.dot!

Check out 9W Magazine here.

TPCX

Team Pegasus issue cyclocross sweatshirts. Love 'em!

Thanks to Sage and Andrew for the sweatshirts, and Amy for the photo.

Richard Sachs Tweed Musettes

Richard Sachs just got these nice tweed musettes made. Check 'em out on his flickr here.

New Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. Cross Bike

Sage just got this ridiculously nice cross frame from Aaron at Six-Eleven Bicycle Co., and I am jealous. Aaron won Rookie Builder of the Year at NAHBS last year, so definitely check out his booth in Austin in February, it's going to be great!

More photos of Sage's bike here and check out Six-Eleven Bicycle Co. here.

Zurich 6 Day

Check out the great Zurich 6 Day footage over at TwoToneATL.

Thanks for the email, Philipp!

The Afterglow Afterparty

Tomorrow is the Afterglow cross race in Chicago, and after the Afterglow is the Afterparty. BE THERE!

First to the Line!

I recently got a copy of First to the Line, a brilliant bike racing card game, from its developer Rich, and I love it.

It's easily the best approximation of racing that I've played in a board or card game, and there are plenty of racing games out there. Initially, the rules took a little getting used to, but with great cards like Sticky Bottle and Surf the Team Cars, and lots of variety of road types, the game is both simple and complex.




If you're a cyclist who likes board or card games, check it out here.

Red Bull Tiny Single Person Track

The Red Bull Mini Drome that will be coming to London soon has already made a couple of appearances around the world, notably in Auckland. Here are a couple of pics:


From here.


From here.

I suppose I don't really understand why, in a city where there's already a functioning, normal sized velodrome (you know, a velodrome capable of handling more than one rider at a time, so that people can, wait for it, race against each other), Red Bull would feel the need to build this tiny "let's put two weird quarter pipes facing each other and call it a velodrome" velodrome. It's probably that real velodromes aren't that much fun unless they have some Red Bull branding on them... This does look kind of fun, though.

[edit] Just realised that Tracko had video footage of this up months ago!

The Nutcracker

Nutcracker alleycat - St. Petersburg, FL - December 18th

The Afterglow

Chicago Cuttin' Crew and the Half-Acre Cycling think that you could do with more cross in your life. One last race before the season ends. Saturday, December 18th, Humboldt Park, Chicago. Pre-registration is up at BikeReg. See you there!

Cadence Fleece

Liking this new fleece from Cadence.

Illinois State Cyclocross Championships

Yesterday was the last race in the ChiCrossCup calendar, and it was also the Illinois State Championships. The temperature was well below freezing, the course was covered in snow and ice, there were more racers than at any other race this year, and it was a blast! Even though I fell on the ice so much that I can barely feel my legs this morning, it was definitely worth it. If you haven't raced cross then you're missing out.


The 4As set off.


Running the treacherous corner/hill that took out a lot of racers, including me.


Powering towards the bridge in one of the few straight sections.


The Chicago Cuttin' Crew Professional Heckling Squad.


Andrew and Sage of Team Pegasus with the team flag. Noticed attached dollar bills.


Professional ping-pong player and part-time cyclocross badass James LaLonde. Came second in the 1/2/3s on a single-speed. A lot of hyphens in this caption.


The crowd at the bridge.


Riding the ice.


Fishing for cyclists.


I have a lot of photos of this hill. Deal with it.


Almost caught one!

The good news is this wasn't the last race in Chicago this year. Details on the Afterglow to follow.

Cyclocross Bingo

This is great. I've definitely seen all of these things at the ChiCrossCup races this season.

Thanks to Sage for the heads-up. He saw it over at Tati Cycles.

Danny MacAskill - Way Back Home

Here's the full version of Danny MacAskill's mindblowing new video, Way Back Home. Insane.

Miss you, buddy!

Chicago Cranksgiving I

Here's the flyer for the first of two Cranksgiving races happening in Chicago this year. Cranksgiving is always a fun race, and the craziness that goes on in the grocery stores, as people race to buy food and check out faster than other racers, has to be seen to be believed. So RACE THIS! Sunday, November 21st, registration beings at 2.30pm at 500 W. Madison.

Preview of the London 2012 Velodrome

The Guardian has a 360 degree preview of the brand new velodrome for the 2012 Olympics in London. Check it out here.

London Mini Drome

Red Bull's efforts to jump on the bandwagon of get involved with every sport known to man continues, with the news that they'll be sponsoring some kind of mini-velodrome in London this coming January. There are no details other than the claim that the track will be "the world's smallest velodrome" and that riders will reach speeds of up to 80kph... which is 50mph. Suuuure...

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how short and steep "the world's smallest velodrome" will actually be. More details at Bike Radar and the official site here.

Ride Track

So, Prolly and Tracko have already mentioned this, but apparently there's a chance that Brooklyn could get its own velodrome. Like I need another reason to want to move to there. Anyway, in a post about the Brooklyn plans, Tracko posted this vid from British Cycling, which has me excited about track season... and it's only November.

Bella Biciclette in Boston

Superb Bicycle are having a vintage bike show at the shop in Boston, so if you're in the area check it out. You have to RSVP and the details are here, so get on it, and send us some photos afterward!

English vs Hoy

A brilliant photo of Irish track racer Felix English beating Chris Hoy in their Matched Sprint at the Euros recently. G'wan de b'oul Felix, wha'?!?

Thanks to BenVC for the heads-up on the photo, which he saw here and which is taken from British Cycling's flickr here.

Save Herne Hill

A while ago I posted about visiting Herne Hill velodrome when I was living in London. It's a great old track, with tons of history and is the only velodrome in London, but sadly it's a bit run down, and it looks like without some serious financial help the track will have to close. Check out the campaign to save Herne Hill velodrome here and here.

Thanks to Tracko for bringing the campaign to our attention!

James Straffon Cycling Art

Saw some of this guy's stuff on Tracko and Milano Fixed. Really like it. Check out his site here.

Cranksgiving(s)

Ann Arbor, MI - Nov 20th - Details here.


Champaign-Urbana, IL - Nov 14th - Details here.

Cave Catastrophe!

Party for Indian Lakes cross weekend, thrown by the Chicago Cuttin' Crew. Indian Lakes will never be the same again...

Chris Hoy Defeated by Irishman

Irish track racer Felix English celebrates after beating Chris Hoy (!?!?!) in the 1/16th round of the Men's Sprint at the European Championships today, knocking Hoy out of the competition! Hoy had pulled ahead of English, but then slowed down in order, he says, to conserve some energy and so as not to embarrass his opponent, when all of a sudden the Irish rider sprinted past him for the win. Oh dear!

C'mon Ireland!

Photo: Eurotrack2010.eu

Sadie Hawkins 2010

Chicago, the 2010 edition of the venerable Sadie Hakwins Style Ride is coming up on Nov 20th. Find yourself a partner and check out the details here.

The ride is brought to you by the same people behind the TyK calendars.

LA Cross Clinic

Juice Cycling Club and So Cal Cross are running a cyclocross clinic in LA tomorrow with Ryan Trebon. Meet up at Orange20 at 4.30pm, head to the course for the clinic, then back to Orange20 for pizza and beer. The pizza won't be as good as Pequod's, but I'm sure it'll still be a good time.

ChiCrossCup Billboard

Yeah, cross is kind of a big deal here in Chicago. ChiCrossCup details here.

More Landis Shenanigans.

An international arrest warrant has just been issued for Floyd Landis, charging him with "fraudulently breaking into a computer system" in search of documents from the French Anti-Doping Laboratory! This guy is a real winner. Full story.

Hugo Koblet Film

I hope this film about 1950s Swiss cycling legend, Giro winner and ladies man Hugo Koblet gets released in the US, even just on DVD, because it looks fantastic:







Check out the trailer:



Details about Hugo Koblet - Pédaleur de Charme here.

Mud

Some cool cyclocross shots up on Rapha's flickr right now. Check them out here.