Lucinda Brand took two big shots from the World Champ at Superprestige Merksplas and still came out on top in her most complete race to-date. Continue reading Superprestige Merksplas was Lucinda Brand’s Most Complete Race Yet
Things got beefy between Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel after the 2020 Gent-Wevelgem. We look at the beef that has been a long time coming. Continue reading Wout, MvdP Serve Up the Beef We Have Been Waiting for at Gent-Wevelgem
Wout van Aert’s odds-defying comeback to race cyclocross in 2019/20 showed he is a competitive and interesting athlete with a superstar persona. Continue reading Competitive? Interesting? Superstar? Wout is All of the Above
Domestic cyclocross largely elicits reactions of “That’s nice.” To get more interest and money, it needs to find a way to make fans say, “That’s Interesting!” Continue reading Domestic Cyclocross Needs to Go From “That’s Nice” to “That’s Interesting!”
[ed. note.: Frequent masters category podium finisher Jay Morali was kind enough to pen the following column for ‘In The Crosshairs.’ Think you could do the same? Drop me a note at cxhairs@gmail.com.]
Am I crazy? Has racing cyclocross in all this mud messed up my brain? I am only in my second season of racing cross and I have already upgraded most of my equipment. I am riding the new all-carbon Blue Norcross frame with some sweet carbon Easton EC90 Aero tubular wheels. My cyclocross bike is more expensive and lighter than my road bike! Does that make any sense? Cross is a short season and we live in an area where you never really have to get off your road bike during the winter months. Yet, I still can’t get over the fact that I am only running Shimano Ultegra shifters on the cross bike. I wonder if I can convince the wife to let me upgrade to DA?
Am I crazy? My daily schedule is based on the date and time registration opens for local MABRA and MAC races. My desk calendar has the season laid out and my iPhone provides the morning reminder. For an upcoming race, I actually cancelled an important business meeting just so I could be in front of my computer, ready to pull the trigger, as soon as the registration window opened. And tell me I am not the only person who has screamed at their monitor because a slow computer is costing you valuable starting positions! Continue reading “Just Because You’re Crazy Doesn’t Mean You’re Wrong”
Cyclocross promoters and racers for the most part get along fine. But every so often issues arise that have the two parties not seeing eye to eye. If you read the recent SpectaCross coverage posted on In The Crosshairs you are aware of one of those instances. It is far from my intent to have this site be a venue for the airing of grievances, so my gut reaction was to let the controversy quietly fade away. But I believe this can be what the president calls “a teaching moment.”
I have talked to both parties involved and I do not believe either is wrong or misguided. They simply interpreted the situation differently and acted accordingly. I believe this is a good opportunity for you, dear reader, to see what occurred from the perspective of the promoter and the racer. So without further commentary here is what happened. Continue reading “A Teaching Moment”
