Stories by Steve Frothingham

• Posted: Fri, Oct 31st
  Northampton, Massachusetts, prepares for Cycle-Smart International cyclocross weekend.
  New England cyclocrossers are headed to Northampton, Massachusetts, this weekend for the Cycle-Smart International, the oldest UCI cyclocross race in the U.S. This year's event is a two-day affair for the first time since 1996 and race director (and pro racer) Adam Myerson ...
• Posted: Tue, Oct 28th
  Kozo Shimano has left Shimano American Corp.
  Kozo Shimano is no longer working for the family business, where he had been employed for more than 20 years. Last Thursday was his last day with Shimano American Corp., the Irvine, California, division of the Japanese component giant. Shimano, 46, was president of the ...
• Posted: Sun, Oct 12th
  Trebon and Dombroski repeat at the Erdinger Gran Prix of Gloucester
  It shook out a bit differently, but the second day of the Erdinger Gran Prix of Gloucester ended up with the same men and women atop the podium: Kona's Ryan Trebon and Velo Bella-Kona's Amy Dombroski. Trebon and national champ Tim Johnson (Cyclocrossworld.com-Cannondale) ...
• Posted: Sat, Oct 11th
  Ryan Trebon wins his fifth Gloucester 'cross race; Dombroski overcomes trouble to win the women's race.
  Kona powerhouse Ryan Trebon withstood attacks from a trio of New England homeboys — and overcame a case of bad legs blamed on jet lag — on Saturday to win his fifth cyclocross race in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In the elite women's race of the 2008 Erdinger Gran Prix of ...
• Posted: Fri, Oct 10th
  Big 'cross weekend in Gloucester, Cincinnati
  They like to call the Gran Prix of Gloucester the "New England 'Cross Championships," although with a winners' list peppered with names like Knapp, Bessette, Johnson, Trebon, Gould, Dunlap, Gullickson and even Vervecken, that might not be ...
• Posted: Fri, Sep 26th
  Jen McRae and Hilton Clarke hit the jackpot under the Vegas lights at the Mandalay Bay resort.
  Las Vegas is a good place to put on a show. Jen McRae and Hilton Clarke — each of whom are looking for new teams next year — produced brilliant late season performances with wins at the USA CRITS Finals, held during the ...
• Posted: Wed, Sep 24th
  Armstrong to Astana
  Cycling legend Lance Armstrong confirmed Wednesday that he would join Kazakhstan's Astana team for his competitive comeback. "I will race in 2009 with Astana," he told a press conference in New York. Armstrong said he would start with the Tour Down Under in Australia; would ...
• Posted: Sun, Sep 14th
  Vande Velde wins 2008 Tour of Missouri
  In a blustery, weather-shortened final stage of the Tour of Missouri, Italian Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) surprised Columbia's Mark Cavendish and Garmin-Chipotle's Tyler Farrar to win in St. Louis, as Garmin's Christian Vande Velde secured the overall win in a hotly contested ...
• Posted: Sat, Sep 13th
  Tour of Missouri: Cav tops again, Vande Velde holds lead
  Team Columbia and Garmin-Chipotle continued to pound one another — and the rest of the field — at the Tour of Missouri, with Mark Cavendish taking stage 6 in a sprint and Christian Vande Velde retaining the jersey after his Garmin teammates patrolled the front on an ...
• Posted: Fri, Sep 12th
  Boy Van Poppel, 20, outsprints the field in Missouri's capital city
  Call it situational amnesia, call it intense athletic focus, call it an innate (perhaps genetic) animal instinct for winning bicycle races. Just don't expect a lot of details when you ask Rabobank's 20-year-old Boy Van Poppel how he won Friday's fifth stage of the Tour of ...
• Posted: Sun, Aug 31st
  Hamilton edges Caldwell to claim pro road crown
  Tyler Hamilton (Rock Racing) scored one of the biggest wins of his long career — and the biggest since returning from a two-year doping suspension — on Sunday at the U.S. professional road race championships in Greenville, South Carolina. The 37-year-old Hamilton ...
• Posted: Sat, Aug 30th
  Zabriskie repeats as U.S. pro time trial champ
  On the eve of the USPRO Road Race Championships, Garmin-Chipotle showed it intended to dominate the championship weekend in Greenville, South Carolina, taking four of the top five spots in the time trial, led by David Zabriskie. Only Bissell’s Tom Zirbel kept Garmin from ...