I can’t believe it’s that time again. After a long summer of slim pickings in the world of cyclocross videos, Cross Vegas clips are the signal that ‘cross season, and the new videos that go along with, are about to get back into full swing.

I’ve looked at several video from this year’s race in Vegas, and DH Productions has come through again with what is clearly the best produced and most comprehensive overview of the event. If you have seen others, let me know, but for now this one is my pick.

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Another local plug. Austin’s Pirate Race Productions is getting geared up for the 2009 seasons, and as part of that effort they released a new compilation video featuring  action from all five races in the 2008 Lone Star Cyclocross Series Presented by Capo Forma. They haven’t announced dates for all of their 2009 races yet, but they are already making plans for the Lonestar Cyclocross Festival on January 17-18, 2010.

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As a follow up to my earlier post about the fight at the USA Cycling 2008 Cyclocross National Championships in Kansas City, here is the (much anticipated) video just posted by Cyclofile’s Sam Smith of the brawl between Jonathan Page’s brother-in-law and Cale “I’m not a Jonathan Page Hater” McAninch.

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Update: The KCCX cyclocross fight video is now online.

It’s been almost a week since the USA Cycling 2008 Cyclocross National Championships in Kansas City, and the video pickings are still slimmer than Paris Hilton after a week-long Ex-Lax binge. I have managed to cull out a few interesting clips, which are posted below, but I’m still waiting for the good stuff. DH Productions produced a great video last year, the Eight-Ball Diaries, but I’m afraid they only do that if Tim Johnson wins, and he finished 5th this year. Surely someone is going to put together a good overview of the elite race, with high production value and a decent soundtrack. Let me know if you see one before I do.

The video everyone is really waiting for however, isn’t of the race at all. It’s of the dust-up/scuffle/brawl/donnybrook between Jonathan Page’s brother-in-law and Cale “I am not a Page Hater” McAninch, who was apparently, in fact, loudly hating on Page during a post race interview. A shoving match ensued, Page’s sister also got in on the action, and the Richard Sachs Team’s bikes were trampled, leading to threats of legal action from Sachs himself.

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Via Cyclocross Magazine, here is a helmet cam video of one lap around the course in Kansas City’s Tiffany Springs Park that will be used for the USA Cycling 2008 Cyclocross National Championships on December 11-14.

This video was shot at the beginning of November, though, and the 10-day weather.com forecast for Kansas City current shows a high of 36F and and low of 22F on December 12. So while the course may look the same (assuming there’s no snow), expect to see warmer kits than those being rocked in this video.

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Our friends over at DH Productions just released videos of races 3 and 4 in the U.S. Grand Prix of Cyclocross series, which were last weekend in Mercer, New Jersey. Race three was won by Tim Johnson of Cannondale-Cyclocross World, but he was sidelined Sunday with a knee injury picked up in that race, which opened the door for GT’s Todd Wells.

It was a cold, muddy weekend, and the videos are pretty well produced, so check them out.

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I feel like I’ve been posting an awful lot of videos from Portland’s Cross Crusade series lately, but hey, they’re doing a lot of fun, interesting stuff.

Dan Kaufman from CrankMyChain.tv sent an email earlier today alerting me to this video that he just posted of last weekend’s Halloween-themed race at the Clastop County Fairgrounds. It’s got a lot of costumed racing action (I would say check out the lass in the stockings at 1:07, but I’m afraid that may actually be a lad), a few crashes, and jumping of fire, people, and a toilet. There’s even a guy on a unicycle riding off of some big drops, shortly before making an emergency visit to the urologist, I suspect.

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Someone just brought this Cross Crusade race video to my attention, and while it’s actually from last season, I thought it was worth sharing anyway. This is taking wet, muddy courses to the extreme, so depending on you attitude, this is either the ideal conditions for a cross race, or it has veered way too far into the realm of human-powered swamp buggy racing. Or maybe both at the same time.

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It seems like the online cyclocross world (in the U.S. anyway) is all abuzz about the success of the first race of this year’s Portland-based Cross Crusade series, thanks to a huge turnout (more than 1,200 racers) and wet weather.

I’ve already seen some great still photos of the event, and now there’s this video, produced by Dan Kaufman at CrankMyChain.

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It’s a little bit early for any substantive video coverage of last night’s Cross Vegas race, which did not feature a big showdown between Ryan Trebon and Lance Armstrong (who started in the fifth row), but I did find this short clip of Lance riding through a blizzard of camera flashes.

It looks like it was a great crowd and an exciting win by Trebon, so I’m looking forward to posting a lengthier video or two in the next several days. Now if I could just find a good clip of Greg LeMond hijacking Lance’s press conference.

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