Race Thread

[lemon cheese cake]

Transfer news; Zoe Backstedt joins Canyon-Sram from today, 1st September. I did notice her instagram post mentioning haven ridden her last road race for EF-Tibco-SVB; but expected her to carry on riding CX for them until New Year, and move to the new EF-Cannondale team like a lot of the others.

Will be interesting to see what Clara Honsinger does now

Also from the pictures on the Canyon SRAM social media, Backstedt appears to be holding the new updated Inflite that van der Poel was on last season. Maghalie Rochette also appeared to be on that in a couple of videos on here Instragrma

 

[lemon cheese cake]

First UCI CX in the northern hemisphere today. The Hope Supercross in north east England today. Field sizes aren't massive but Anna Kay, Thomas Mein and Cam Mason are all listed on the start sheet.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Fem van Empel is racing the Dutch gravel champs this weekend in Limburg.

 

[JR1012]

Fem van Empel is racing the Dutch gravel champs this weekend in Limburg.

And she won it.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

According to the commentary on today's MTB race, Puck will go straight into the CX season, and ride the Waterloo World Cup, before having a break. Monte Saint-Anne, and Waterloo are on consecutive weekends.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

I wondered if someone would do that, Dubau, Pidcock, PFP other cx riders in north america for mtb. I doubt any of them will though.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Jens Dekker back racing in Germany this weekend as well, 3rd and 6th.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

USCX 2023 – 1 – Roanoke C2 this evening

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Good to see Maghalie back to decent form; according to her husband, she's hitting numbers from when she won a World Cup.

 

[jono]

Good to see Maghalie back to decent form; according to her husband, she's hitting numbers from when she won a World Cup.

Definitely pleased for Rochette. Between her and the Holmgren twins I'm hoping for big things from the Canadians on the women's side.

Rochette may have her way in the American races as Mani says she is not in her usual cross form due to competing in (and not enjoying) the Lifetime Grand Prix races. Raylyn Nuss may be suffering the same effects while Rebecca Fahringer didn't even race this weekend due to the Lifetime race.

There's a similar issue on the men's side with a bunch of guys missing to do the gravel thing (Werner, Brunner, Haidet, etc.)

 

[Axel Hangleck]

The march of Lifetime GP/ Gravel; they're offering big prize money - so you can't blame riders for having a go. US Cyclocross can't really compete in terms of $$$$$$
I've said before, the best US riders aren't being seen in CX; they're doing Gravel, MTB, Road.......

 

[jono]

The march of Lifetime GP/ Gravel; they're offering big prize money - so you can't blame riders for having a go. US Cyclocross can't really compete in terms of $$$$$$
I've said before, the best US riders aren't being seen in CX; they're doing Gravel, MTB, Road.......

The prize money for the Lifetime GP and gravel generally isn't even that large, but that's where the sponsorship money is. Which is unfornate for the riders that would prefer to race CX.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

We saw already that the Holmgrens have been signed by Lidl Trek next year, but the other top junior from last season Lauren Molengraaf also appears to be going to the world tour next year. A slightly weird combination of Intermarche's development/cx team and FDJ Suez seems to be happening to allow her to combine road and cx. A slightly less strange combination due to the common ground of Lapierre is then Lapierre Mavic also joining the combination for xc.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Are Intermarche switching to Lapierre? As that would be the connection - riding for the same Manufacturer.

In other news, Albert Phillipsen has won the Euro ITT title; one wonders how much CX he will do this season.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Are Intermarche switching to Lapierre? As that would be the connection - riding for the same Manufacturer.

In other news, Albert Phillipsen has won the Euro ITT title; one wonders how much CX he will do this season.

Possibly they are. The Groupama FDJ aren't riding Lpaierre next season I don't think. However it would be strange considering the cx team wouldn't have a sponsor correct bike to ride as I can't currently see any suitable Lapierre gravel bike let alone a proper cx bike.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Possibly they are. The Groupama FDJ aren't riding Lpaierre next season I don't think. However it would be strange considering the cx team wouldn't have a sponsor correct bike to ride as I can't currently see any suitable Lapierre gravel bike let alone a proper cx bike.

I assume both FDJ - SUEZ and Mavic-Lapierre Unity will continue to ride on Lapierre, and that IGW will still be riding on CUBE. This doesn't seem to be more than a partnership that secures Molengraaf support for all 3 disciplines during the next 2 years.

Otherwise it would have made sense to reveal a deal between the teams and bike brands while they were at it, but we'll to wait and see.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Considering they've been quite a small and less well known setup in the past couple of seasons Heizomat Kloster Kitchen have made some big signings this season. First of all Judith Krahl came back after some issues with her belgian team and she was having some good results last year. When the roster was announced this month they had Loris Roullier down and he's looking to be getting back towards where he was back when he was in one of the Roodhooft brothers teams. The other signing they've just made has also come from the collapse of the Legendre CX team in the form of Taimen Reuugg who got Switzerland's first world cup podium in quite a while last year.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Taimen Reuugg

I see you've graduated from the Ilmaestro Spelling Academy

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Another rider who rides for a completely different team/ bike when racing XCO in the summer.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

I see you've graduated from the Ilmaestro Spelling Academy

What's that? All I see is I copied his Instagram name not his name, and also messed up the position of the e and umlauted u.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

FWIW: Timon Rüegg

 

[lemon cheese cake]

My brain wasn't working as it was Kevin Kuhn who got the podium at Val di Sole not Timon Rüegg. Still, they both went well last year

 

[Wyndbrook]

My brain wasn't working as it was Kevin Kuhn who got the podium at Val di Sole not Timon Rüegg. Still, they both went well last year

I did wonder, but my memory is not as good as it used to be.

 

[Sciatic]

Do folks know which team (if any) Honsinger will ride with this cross season? It appears that the new EF-Cannondale women’s team is focused on the road—although their website is awful for getting information from, and Google isn’t helping me much either. I know Backsted signed with a new team, have been waiting to hear something about Honsinger.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Some of the young Canadians will race at Rochester this weekend, including Ian Ackert, and double World champion Isabella Holmgren. And her team has announced she will do the full CX season with them - so no mid season transfer to Trek.