Cyclocross Crusade Halloween 09

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Astoria, Ore. - You never know who (or what) you might find at the River City Bicycles Cyclocross Crusade Halloween Costume race last Sunday. Travis Bickle the famous taxi driver from New York must have found a fair to the race and we get a bit of insight from him and a word of warning. There is also a word of warning for those who did not dress up. Prepare to be heckled and even sprayed. For those with the most creative costumes Shimano Bikes was giving away some great components.

Video by Dan Kaufman for CrankMyChain.tv
Music written by Andrew Martin and performed by The Rebels
Saturday night bonfire shot by Eric T. Keeney

This video was sponsored by the Cyclocross Crusade and BikeRealtor.com.

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Two Cyclocross Crusade Videos From Alpenrose

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Head Down - USGP CX Portland Cup 2008 - Presented by Stanley

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Portland, Ore. – The US Grand Prix of Cyclocross made the last stop of the tour last weekend for the Stanley Portland Cup. Mostly dry ground was found Saturday at the Portland International Raceway but Sunday it poured, especially the hour before the Elite Women’s race.

Katerina Nash took both Sunday’s race and the 2008 USGP Championship Trophy while local heroine Sue Butler was cheered to a third place finish and the Sram “Most Aggressive Female Rider” award.

Ryan Trebon of Bend took that $250 prize home and won the day’s race. Tim Johnson claimed the series trophy.

I took home a pair of very wet and muddy boots, some videotape, and inspiration for the song “Head Down”, which is the score for this video. Eric Todd Keeney provided additional footage.


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Cyclocross Crusade Finale - There Will Be Mud

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Hillsboro, Ore. – The final race of the Season for River City Bicycle’s Cyclocross Crusade earned double points for the riders and you could tell by the way they were racing. Both the women’s and men’s category A races were very competitive with several lead changes each.

It was a fast and level course at the Washington County Fairgrounds but water from last weeks rain created a monster-slog section through the rodeo arena. I was able to cover the entire course on my bike and decided to ditch the tripod for the Men’s race and really concentrate on following the leaders as much as possible.

I pieced that footage together to create start-to-finish race video of the Men’s category A race and I’m interested to hear what you think about this type of coverage. Please make a comment on the video.

I want to thank River City Bicycles for sponsoring this video (not to mention being the title sponsor for this series and owner Dave Guettler came up with the title of the song for this video). My eternal gratitude and respect goes out to the Cyclocross Crusade promoters, sponsors, and all the officials from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association.

Video, Edit, and Music – Dan Kaufman

Here are the results for race 8:
Cat A:
1 Kevin Hulick Vanilla Bicycles
2 Sean Babcock Team S&M
3 Molly Cameron Vanilla Bicycles
Women A:
1 Rhonda Mazza Team S&M
2 Wendy Williams River City Bicycles
3 Emily VanMeter River City Bicycles

And the Cross Crusade/OBRA Cyclocross Championships:
Cat A
1 Jason Sager SagerSports.com
2 Sean Babcock Team S&M
3 Chris Sheppard HPChrio Bike n’ Hike Giant
Women A
1 Wendy Williams River City Bicycles
2 Emily VanMeter River City Bicycles
3 Rhonda Mazza Team S&M

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Cross Crusade 7 & SSCXWC - Steam Powered

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Portland, Oregon – Apparently the Halloween Races in Astoria was not enough insanity for this year’s Cross Crusaders. After some excellent traditional cyclocross racing at Portland International Raceway the bike-fun crowd went wild for single speed.

Thousands of spectators watched as Sue Butler took away honors for the women’s A racers and the prize for unofficial women’s single speed world champion. Men’s SSCXWC honors were awarded to Drew MacKenzie who hails from the Great White North. Prizes included a Vanilla SpeedVagen, a Pereira Cycles custom frame not to mention gold Speedos and required championship tatoos. Also, Raleigh Rainier frame went to the Sit-Up Champ.

Special mention goes to Ryan Trebon of Bend who won the men’s A race, and the regular single speed race. Trebon, a top cyclocross racer, was told he had to win all three races in order to take the SSCXWC. He may have been handicapped on the raceway, as well.

The song “Steam Powered” was written especially for this race.

Music and Video by Dan Kaufman
Video Sponsored by Bob's Red Mill



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Halloween Cyclocross Crusade 2008

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ASTORIA, Ore. – If you didn’t bring a costume to last Sunday’s Cross Crusade race you may have placed better but you also got heckled. The weather was perfect for camping, outrageous outfits and two days of racing at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.

Video, editing, and original music by Dan Kaufman. Additional Footage by Eric Todd Keeney.



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A Cyclocross Crusade Halloween Sasquatch Detour

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PORTLAND, Ore. I have three videos for you today. The first by Todd Keeney at Cross Crusade Race #2 in Wilsonville. Well be heading down to the Halloween races in Astoria this weekend and hope to see you there. Otherwise, stay tuned for another Halloween cross video later next week.

The second video is footage of Sasquatch, regarding the Quest for The Grail and the final video is a ridiculous detour request in Vancouver, Washington.

Music for the Villebois Race is by Todd Keeney and friend. The music at the end is Whistlestop by Roger Miller.


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Cyclocross Crusade - Alpenrose 2008 - "Why You Double Crossin' Me?"

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Portland, Ore. - As promised, the first race of the Cross Crusade was wet and muddy.  There were a record number (1263) participants at Alpenrose Dairy with loads of fans and plenty of wipeouts for them to watch.

I wrote the song Double Crossin Me just for this race and had blast syncing it up to the dirty footage.

Next scheduled CrankMyChain.tv cyclocross video is for the Halloween race.  Contact me if you are interested in sponsoring a race/music video dan at- pdxk com.

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Cyclocross Crusade Alpenrose Race Promo

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Portland, Ore. - River City Bicycles Cyclocross Crusade race #1 is this Sunday at Alpenrose Dairy.  Good news race fans, it looks like we may have some mud!  

Come on out and say hi if you see me.  

Also, you can watch and buy the 2006 and 2007 Race videos at CrankMyChain.com .  

So far, this year, were covering three races and were looking for sponsorship for as many more as possible.  If you are interested in sponsoring CrankMyChain.tv please contact me at dan at pdxk d0t c0m.

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Cross Crusade Videos - The 2007 Collection

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Get the videos of the 2007 Cross Crusade series!

What you get:
Race 7 at Hillsboro - Cyclocross Means Mud
Race 5 at Barton Park - Quick Edit
Race 4 at Tillimook - Halloween Crusade
- Top Ten Women
- For Brett
Race 2 at Horning's Hideout - A Breath of Fresh Pain
Race 1 at Alpenrose - Now I'm Rollin'
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Muddy Cyclocross Crusade Race 7

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Hillsboro, Ore. - THIS IS CYCLOCROSS. Cold, rain, mud, fun, and not fun. Turn up the audio for some bonus commentary.

This race video is sponsored by River City Bicycles and The Cyclocross Crusade.

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CrankMyChain! is Back and Ready for a Busy Weekend

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PORTLAND, OR - It's November. It's gonna rain. There is a press conference today and a rally tomorrow to make an appeal for all to come together and work for change to make our streets safer for ALL users including cyclists.



Sunday it's the last stop of River City Bicycle's Cyclocross Crusade. We'll also throw out another Badass Challenge to those who wish to ride out and race. It's double points for racers and it should be wet and muddy. Hooray!


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Barton Park's Baddest Badass

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ESTACADA, OR - Four contenders competed for the "Baddest Badass" purse at Cross Crusade Race #5 Sunday.

Tony Tapay had a strong showing in the single speeds and has been declared Baddest Badass. He was followed closely by Badass Tad Bamfod who rides a fixed gear bike.

Jonathan "Badass" Maus who co-hosted the live feed from Barton Park hit a rock and slid out (see the Barton Quick Edit). He fell back a few spots from his strong showing last week.

Greg Sanders also ran into some issues during the race. He did complete it, though, and can also wear the title of Badass, but he can't wear the purse. At least not this week.

All Badasses rode out to the Cyclocross Crusade and completed their race. It's not easy.

Coverage of Barton Park and the Badass Purse is brought to you by Sellwood Cycle Repair.

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XC5-Barton Quick Edit

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ESTACADA, OR - We set up a live feed from the Cyclocross Crusade Race #5 yesterday at Barton Park. Here is just a taste of what we got from our vantage point in the gravel pit. Jonathan Maus kindly wipes out in front of the camera and we get to see Shannon Skerrit and Carl Decker Battle for 2nd. Get your official race results at CrossCrusade.com.

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Barton Park - Bad Ass Challenge and Live Broadcast

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We'll be live at this Sunday's CrossCrusade race at Barton Park in Estacada and we're throwing out another badass challenge.
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MY Top Ten Women Crusader Costumes

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One viewer rightfully called me on doing a poor job covering the women's costumes at XC4 in Astoria. Here is a fig leaf.

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Halloween Cyclocross Crusade

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ASTORIA, Ore. - If you are looking for a slick cyclocross racing video, I can't help you here. All sorts of rules have been broken and I suppose that's part of the Halloween spirit. So... Happy Halloween!

This video was sponsored by River City Bicycles and The Cyclocross Crusade.

P.S. The Disco Trike is appears to be doing fine thanks to some the fine mechanics at the Chris King Tent.


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Halloween Cross Memorial Lap for Brett Jarolimek

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ASTORIA, Ore. - It was another amazing Halloween Cross Crusade weekend. Sadly, though, we were missing avid Crusader and cyclist Brett Jarolimek who was run down and killed on a Portland street. Friends such as Kris Schamp and Brad Ross remembered Brett by speaking about him and his passions and then leading a memorial lap.

There is a memorial ride 5PM today in Forest Park starting on Thurman Ave - more details soon.

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Wearing white t-shirts emblazoned with the words “No Blind Spots”, Cross Crusade founder Rick Potestio and race director Brad Ross said losing Brett Jarolimek was like losing “a member of the Cross Crusade family.”

Yesterday in Astoria, hundreds of cyclists took part in a silent memorial lap in Brett’s honor. The lap was led out by Brett’s friends and his Team Bike Gallery teammates, many of them weary from the road after driving to Idaho for his funeral yesterday.

Some of Brett’s friends had made copies of his race number (800) and passed them out for all of us to wear in his honor. Below the number was a winged figure on a bike and the words,
“Brett Jarolimek 1976-2007. We love you. We miss you.”

The silent lap was a somber, yet powerful way to say goodbye to Brett and to remember what his life, and his death, mean to our community.

These past two weeks have taken a toll on many of us. And, while some things will never be the same again, especially for the families and friends of those we’ve lost, the undeniable spirit of the Cross Crusade will live on.

Brett, who dressed up as Captain Underpants at the Halloween Cross race last year, would surely have smiled at the abundance of spirit on display yesterday.

See Jonathan Maus' excellent slide show of the event.

More coverage of Cross Crusade IV, Halloween in Astoria coming soon!

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Baddest Badass Takes the First Purse

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PORTLAND, OR - Steven Carper is delivered the Baddest Badass purse for his participation and success in the first Badass Challenge at race two of River City Bicycles Cross Crusade at Horning's Hideout last Sunday.

Do you want to be a badass? Just ride out to the next cyclocross race. You want to win the next Purse? Contact Dan at PDXK/com then ride out and do the best in your normal or better cyclocross category.

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Cross Crusade #2 - A Breath of Fresh Pain

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Race #2 of the world's most popular cyclecross race series, River City Bicycle's Cross Crusade. This week we are outside of North Plains at Hornning's Hideout. Thanks to all the racers and to Show Me The Pink for use of their song, "Me Plus My Friends". More excelent bike content at BikePortland.org

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Baddest Baddass Purse XC 2

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Cross Crusade #1 " Now I'm Rollin' "

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PORTLAND, OR - Cameras on, wheels turning, Now I'm Rollin' with 2007 Cyclocross Crusade music-video coverage. Race number one at Alpenrose Dairy was a battle to the finish line between Shannon Skarritt and Eric Tonkin. Wendy Williams carried away 1st in the women's A-division. But that's not all! We set the race to the original tune Now I'm Rollin' AND strap a 4-lb camber to a hung-over RevPhil.

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Cyclocross Crusade - Race #1 (Quick Edit)

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PORTLAND, OR - Of course it waited until after the race to start raining buckets, but once again Alpenrose Dairy proved a great course to kick off the worlds largest cyclocross race series - River City Bicycles Cross Crusade.

This video is just a teaser for the one coming later this week. Stay Tuned and watch Eric Tonkin and Shannon Skerritt battle for first. We strap a camera to RevPhil's helmet and enter him as the first member of Team CrankMyChain! And that's not all... you'll have to wait and watch.

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Cross Crusade Videos - The 2006 Collection

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I have put all the CrankMyChain XC'06 videos in one place for easy reverence. River City Bicycle's CrossCrusade is the worlds largest Cylocross series and quite a specticle. The events and music videos are posted below in reverse order of production.
I've got to a lot to learn about shooting, editing, and scoring but I feel that I really grew as I shot these videos this season. More importantly I had a blast. Cyclocross rocks and it's a sport just built for the Pacific Nortwest.

Thanks go to River City Bicycles for sponsoring the video coverage.

If you like these videos, I can tell you they're easily 10 times better on DVD. Soon
I will make them avail on web in Hi Def, as well. Enjoy all the races and support CrankMyChain! Cycle TV by purchasing the video here.

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US GRAN PRIX OF CYCLOCROSS v.2
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A HALLOWEEN DREAM OF CYCLOCROSS - FLYING M v.2 (Music Video)
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KIDDY CROSS - ESTACADA TIMBER PARK v.2
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A WEEKEND TO REMEMBER - SPROCKETTES AND USGP v.1 (Music Video)
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UNICROSS - ESTACADA TIMBER PARK v.1 (Music Video)
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BARTON PARK (Music Video)
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN - FLYING M v.1
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HORNING'S HIDEOUT (Music Video)
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HILLSBORO STADIUM
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ALPENROSE
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2006 US Cyclocross Nationals

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Providence, RI - Here is some footage of the Men's Elite Race from December 16th. Video by Colmeleon.

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First place went to Tim Johnson. Local favorite, Mike McCormack, closed out his career by out-sprinting Jonathan Baker for second. See cyclocrossnationals.com for more information.

CX US Gran Prix - Stumptown Cup

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Here is the US Gran Prix Race Redux I promised. You can see the first one, which combines some other events here. I wanted to concentrate more on cyclocross racing in this video. Thanks again to the Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers for the great sound track.

If you like the our cyclocross movies be sure to buy the DVD.

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SAUVIE ISLAND, Ore.- Not much racing on this video just a few shots that caught my eye from Kruger's Farm cyclocross race. I spent most of my time enjoying the crisp fall day with my son and watching him in the kiddy cross race. After a foot of rainfall the month before I had to get out and enjoy a day like this.

The dry weather was not enough to clear the slog, though. Many of the racers spent a lot of time on foot becuase the mud was so thik and sticky it would clog their tires and derailleurs. In the corn maze I came across one of the riders running the course with a toddler bike. Rumor had it that she even bombed down one of the pavement hills. Perhaps her next stop that evening was zoo bomb.



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A Halloween Dream of Cyclocross

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YAMHILL, Ore. - This is the Redux of the first video I did of 2006 CycloCross Crusade Race #4 at the Flying M. There were so many fun images to work with I wanted to circle back around and add my song Halloween Dream to the new version.

Kiddy Cross

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What happens when Cyclocross racers have children? They teach them to love racing bicycles in the mud. Wait a second… you don’t have to teach a kid to like that!

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Bikes, Dancing, Mud, and Drums

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PORTLAND, Ore. – When I started doing this bike vlog this summer I was afraid I’d run out of things to cover during the rainy season. Well, I was wrong. This weekend the Sprockettes hosted several bike events starting with a Dance Party Friday night that had bike dance teams (The Sprockettes, The B:C:Clettes, The Brakes) and live music including one of my favorite groups, Show Me the Pink. I missed Saturday’s events because I was working in Miz Kitty’s Parlour. But Reverend Phil has some videotapes from Saturday's events.

Sunday the USGP of Cyclocross came through town with some of the top riders in the world. The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, rowdy fans, and hottubbers greeted them. Later that night the Cross Crusade held their awards party which was also very entertaining and included the LRS Drummers, along with fire dancers from Atyerre Vision, and acrobats from the A-Wol Dance Collective.

I took me a day just to recover from this rainy weekend version of Burning Man done Pacific Northwest style. “Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart. You just got to poke around.”

This is a quick montage some of the weekends bike events. I plan on doing more with the USGP race footage and the Sprocettes weekend separately.

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Cross Crusade - World Unicross Championship 2006

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ESTACADA, Ore. - Watch the first ever World Unicross Championship at the Cross Crusade. Gilbran Chong takes first place and Carl Anton is runner up in this new championship event in cyclocross for Unicycles. Original music Unicross Jams by Dan Kaufman.

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Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 5

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ESTACADA, Ore. – Cyclocrossers in strange dream wake up in a rock quarry only to find mud, mayhem, and perhaps a touch of their youth.

Watch race five of the Cross Crusade set to the eerie sounds of the Rebels ( myspace.com/rebelsrocknroll ). Mr. Sandman was composed by CrankMyChain’s international correspondent Johnny Stardust.

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Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 4

YAMHILL, Ore. - Holy crap I have tons of awesome Halloween footage from the Halloween Edition of Cross Crusade. The costumes were great and the foliage was amazing. I hope I have time to circle-back and re-edit the footage and add some music. But for now, HAPPY CYCLOCROSS HALLOWEEN!

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Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 3

NORTH PLAINS, Ore. - The name of the song is "Tough Get Goin'" and that's just what the series leaders, Carl Decker and Rhonda Mazza, did at Horning's Hideout Sunday as they put on a cyclocross clinic.

Watch Dan Kaufman's intrepretive music video of the Men's and Women's A race brought to you by Cross Crusade title sponsor River City Bicycles.

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Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 2

HILLSBORO, Ore.- Cyclocross fans finally got the mud and rain they have been craving last Sunday at the River City Bicycles Cross Crusade.
Spectators watched a great battle between Carl Decker and Erik Tonkin in the Men's A race.
Rhonda Mazza dominated the Women's A race with her high energy approach to the race.
See it all play out at Hillsboro Stadium. Here's mud in your eye!
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Pure Sweet Hell "Cyclocross Film" (Three Minute Trailer)

PURE SWEET HELL tells the story of cyclocross, a sport that has emerged as bike racing's punk rock cousin. Told from an insider's perspective, the filmmakers traveled to 'cross competitions throughout North America, dug up vintage photos and film footage, and followed 'cross luminaries Justin Robinson, Gina Hall, Barry Wicks and Rick Hunter. Shot entirely on Super 8 and supported by experimental rock music, PURE SWEET HELL surfaces both the strong community behind the solitary sport and the grace that arises amidst all of its grit.

More information about the film can be found at www.cyclocrossfilm.com . Purchasing info is available on the website.

Cross Crusade 2006 - Cyclocross Race 1

PORTLAND, Ore.- Alpenrose Dairy hosted the first race in world's largest cyclocross series known as the Cross Crusade. Learn more about the series of races and this unique cycling sport as Dan Kaufman interviews Race Director Brad Ross.

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