U.S Gran Prix of Cyclocross Derby City Cup presented by Papa John’s Races Back into Louisville. National Series returns for third consecutive season....

[Read the rest of this article...]

STORMIN’ IN KENTUCKY - Kentucky State Championships
by Ken Getchell
November 26, 2008
Championship cyclocross racing returns to Louisville on Sunday, November 30 for the Zipp OVCX Tour's "Storm the Greens". Held at Champion's Park, the same venue as the Papa Johns Derby City Cup USGP series opener earlier this year, this year's Storm the Greens races also serve as the Kentucky State Championships. And though the event serves as Kentucky's championship event, riders from throughout the Midwest will be competing.

[Read the rest of this article...]

OVCX #11 - Cap City Cross Ohio State Championship
Upper Arlington, OH
November 23, 2008

The Ohio State Championships were held in Columbus this past weekend on a course that featured equal parts power and equal parts skill. However, the presence of strong winds on race day made the power sections more significant, as three sections of lengthy straightaway went straight into a headwind. The park was extremely spectator-friendly, with most watchers perched up on the finish line hill looking down on the entire course.

In what would be a convergence of three Midwestern series (Zipp OVCX, Cap City, and Lake Effect), a group of 40 elite men tore off the line in pursuit of Ohio State titles, Zipp OVCX points and

[Read the rest of this article...]

The Zipp OVCX Tour is now down to its final three races heading into Columbus, OH this week for the Ohio State Championships. For a quick recap of last week's action and the series outlook in each category we turn once again to the Masked Prognosticator.

Elite Men
Ryan Knapp of BikeReg.com turned in yet another dominating performance in Lexington this week. After trailing Mike Sherer of Pony Shop for a couple laps, Knapp took the lead and then laid the hammer down, dispatching of Sherer and anyone else that thought they had a shot -- primarily the Barbasol boys. Speaking of which, Mike Purvis and Mitchell Kersting pretty much rode circles together for an hour...

[Read the rest of this article...]

The OVCX Series is headed down the stretch run into the final four races as we move to Lexington, KY this week. Now is the time when racers look to get their 7 races in for the series totals (5 in the Mens 3/4 Masters 35+ / 45+ due to the USGP) and improve upon any inferior performances from earlier in the year. Let's have our OVCX prognosticator take a quick look at each category.

Elite Men

Ryan Knapp of BikeReg.com strengthened his hold on the top spot this week in Dayton, holding off Isaac Neff, Mike Purvis and Mitchell Kersting for the win. Knapp now holds

[Read the rest of this article...]

Organizers of the Cincinnati International Cyclocross Festival have announced that Olympian and multi-time mountain bike and cyclocross champion Georgia Gould will be competing at all three races of the Festival from October 10 through 12. She will join Katie Compton in a renewal of their years-long duel for supremacy of the Elite Women’s division.

[Read the rest of this article...]

September 18, 2008

A massive windstorm hit the Cincinnati Ohio area on Sunday, including the town of Loveland Ohio, site of the opening race of the 2008 Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour. News outlets reported that the storm, which was the remnant of Hurricane Ike, left nearly two million people without electricity and forecast that many would be without power for over a week. In Loveland itself, people in the only open store in town reported that they had seen several houses that had been destroyed by falling trees.

[Read the rest of this article...]

August 15, 2008
Registration has opened for the Zipp OVCX Tour's season opener on September 14. The Cyclosport Cyclo-Cross at Riverview Park in Loveland Ohio, near Cincinnati, will be the first cyclocross for any of the U.S.A.'s major cyclocross series in 2008. The course will be a fitting challenge to start the year according to promoter Ryan Lindsay, "This course has a bit of everything to throw at you, pavement, grass sections, lots of off camber, and a classic lung-bursting run-up."

The event will be a celebration of the fifth year of cyclocross racing at Riverview Park...

[Read the rest of this article...]

Details are starting to emerge on the Cincinnati International Cyclocross Festival scheduled for October 10-12. Part of the Zipp OVCX Tour, the Festival consists of three UCI-sanctioned races in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area: the Darkhorse Cyclo-Stampede, the Java Johnny’s Lionhearts International and the newly-upgraded UCI-C1 Bio Wheels - United Dairy Farmers Harbin Park International. According to organizers, it is one of only two 3-day cyclocross festivals of its kind in the world, with the other being Belgium’s legendary Christmas Week.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Highlighting the Ohio River Valley’s new-found reputation as one of America’s best cycling destinations, the Zipp OVCX Cyclocross Tour has announced its most ambitious schedule ever, highlighted by a USGP weekend and the only three-day UCI sanctioned cyclocross festival in the world apart from Belgium’s “Christmas Week”.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Mitch Graham, Director of the Ohio Valley Cyclocross Series, announced today that the organization has signed a six-year contract with business development company SpectaSport.

[Read the rest of this article...]

The folks at ProCyclocross.com have generously offered to sponsor a unique contest for the OVCX community. After each race, the rider with the best race report will win a Euro Cross DVD! What better incentive could there be to break out the old pencils, dust off the dictionary, and sharpen those writing skills! All the submitted race reports will be posted on the OVCX website in a new section containing race reports, and the winner will be announced every week.

The Fine Print: DVDs will be available after EACH race, not just each weekend! Each rider can only win once.

[Read the rest of this article...]