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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cyclocross season is here, which means its time for the CycloTube staff and our supporting team of offshore contract employees to deploy our complex plan for the constant monitoring of video sharing sites, and the cataloging and posting of all interesting cyclocross offerings uncovered by this process.
OK, actually it’s more like me sitting on the couch drinking beer and browsing haphazardly through YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Google Video after I get bored reading about Ryan Trebon’s soon-to-be feud with Lance Armstrong.
This is what I was doing tonight, and just as it was really starting to sink in that most early-season cross videos are a little on the boring side, featuring mostly flat, dry courses ridden in warm weather, I came across this mildly disturbing piece of cinematic art.
It’s a clip from the 2008 Langtown Backyard Cyclocross Extravaganza, which is apparently held on the backyard motocross course of Bobby Langin, who is the gentleman drinking from the beer bong at the beginning of the video. While the clip from the after party does raise some mustache- and dance-related questions, the only question I have about this particular video is whether the guys on the tandem are running it the whole way because they are having trouble clearing the hills, or because they’re just too drunk to ride.
Registration for the USA Cycling ‘08 Cyclocross National Championships in Kansas City opens tonight (September 14) at midnight. The event this year is December 11-14, and it will be held at Tiffany Springs Park, which is the same venue as last year.
Little Belgium, Andy Frothingham’s documentary on the 2007 New England cyclocross season, is now available for free viewing (all 40 minutes of it) on Vimeo. Check it out, and then visit his Little Belgium Movie site to make a donation or buy a copy on DVD.
I recently saw this post on what is definitely one of my favorite cycling blogs, Belgium Knee Warmers. It’s about a new documentary on Connecticut frame builder Richard Sachs called Imperfection is Perfection. The post got me to reading a little more about Sachs, which led me eventually to the blog for the Richard Sachs Cyclocross Team.
That’s where I found today’s video. It’s sort of a home-movie recap of the team’s experience at the 2007 U.S. National Championships in Kansas City. It’s got some inside jokes that are probably most enjoyable if you’re actually on the inside, but it is still fun even if you aren’t, and it’s got some great footage of the frozen ruts and snow that were the hallmark of that event, including a pileup in a ditch at the start of one of the races.
