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Phinney flies to another elite national title.

The Vibraser will be ridden by Time’s pro teams in the classics and in training for its added comfort.

Giant’s TCX is ready to roll from the showroom floor to the cyclocross race course. It is easily one of the best-priced workhorse cyclocross racer’s for 2009. The Aluxx alloy bike borrows technology including a tapered steerer tube and big ‘MegaDrive’ down tube from the new TCR line.

The devil is in the details and Giant didn’t miss one on its new cross-country race rig, Anthem X, it equipped the rig with blue anodized alloy water bottle cage bolts.

Giant incorporates a co-pivot to provide more Maestro suspension travel at a reduced weight for its Anthem platform. The new 4-inch travel bike is called Anthem X.

The old 96er, yep, Moots’ Gristle is named after a steak in the movie the Great Outdoors. Jon Cariveau, Moots Brand Manager, says that he likes how the smaller rear wheel handles versus a straight 29er. It’s got more snap, but you have the roll-through of the front wheel.

The Vision drink system allows you to drink without breaking your aero position. FSA claims it makes the bike faster than without. Hydra Pak makes the internals that hold one liter and it can be refilled on the fly.

FSA’s XC-150 wheelset is 15QR compatible and weighs 200 grams.

FSA’s RD-488 carbon tubular wheel is improved with uni-directional carbon rim walls, a 3k weave in the spoke bed and basalt brake track. External Spline drive nipples and a respectable 1390 gram weight make a perfect carbon wheel for ’cross.

FSA was the first major manufacturer to start the Ceramic Revolution, and it continues with headsets in 2009.

Time will cash in on the color white for 2009 with its new RXS Racer pedal. It features a hollow steel axle, a composite body and Time’s Angular float, lateral float and Sensor technology, which regulates the feel of the float. The pedals weight 260 grams per pair.

The Vibraser will be ridden by Time’s pro teams in the classics and in training for its added comfort.

Time has a new traditionally tubed frame called the VRS Vibraser. The new bike has double the Vectran fiber when compared to the VXRS ULTeam frame. The added vectran makes the frame almost 200 grams heavier but offers superior road shock absorption.

The RXR uses Time’s patented RTM molding process. RTM allows the frame to be easily repaired by removing and replacing damaged tubes. This gives some piece of mind considering the RXR module costs $6000.

The seat tube sports an aero shape with a wheel cutout up through the entirety of the Translink seat mast. The RXR made its debut at the Tour de France and participated in the Olympic road race and the 2008 world championships.

Time’s new aero road bike, the RXR, has a frame that comes in under a kilo. The module, which includes a fork, Translink seatmast, headset and stem weighs 1.7 kilos.

Stinky, Kona’s 7-inch platform, comes with shorter chainstays, a 1.5-inch headtube and a new array of rocker links and oversized fasteners. Stinky comes with ISCG mounts and cable bosses that make it Hammerschmidt ready.

The Major Jake is the team issued Kona factory ’cross frame. It’s scandium and built for production with a Shimano Ultegra transmission. Kona equips it with Alpha Q’s CX20 fork, the same model the team uses.

The Kapu is built with Dedacciai SAT steel, bronze welded with chrome lugs. It has rack and fender mounts along with clearance for larger 25mm tires as a standard feature. Ultegra and FSA parts round-out the package.

Kona reports that in this day and age of carbon, its steel bikes are selling better than ever, so for 2009 it updates its lugged Kapu with a 1.125 head tube and fork steerer.

Kona only makes women’s specific triathlon bikes, because according to Kona’s Pat White, “who wants to see men in spandex?” The Lisa TR builds off an aero shaped 7005-aluminum tubeset.

Kona’s utility hauling bike the Ute is back and refined for its second season. The 2009 bike has a new U-style kickstand and improved rack and waterproof bag system.

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The New England duo of Maureen Bruno Roy and Matt Roy will announce their new team, MM Racing, with a launch party at Wheelworks in Belmont, MA Friday October 3rd from 7-10pm.

Linda Willsey distinctly remembers the moment: She was on her bike, riding home from work, when the car door was flung open directly into her path. There was barely time to yell “No!” before she was sailing through the air, landing on her back, fracturing a vertebra and sustaining multiple contusions.

Source Endurance Announces Research Division and Appoints Steve Zinkgraft as Research Director

REISTAD, FRISCHKORN ELECTED TO USPRO BOARD OF TRUSTEES Reistad Also Receives Seat on USA Cycling Board of Directors Following a special election to determine the two athlete representatives on the USPRO Board of Trustees, USA Cycling announced today that Nicholas Reistad (Athens, Ga.) and Will Frischkorn (Boulder, Colo.) have won the two open seats. Reistad was also elected to the USA Cycling Board of Directors as the Athlete Director representing USPRO. Forty-four athletes voted in the election, which represents more than 50% of the athletes eligible to vote.

Switzerland’s BMC Bicycles and Cadence Performance and Multi-Sport Centers of Philadelphia and New York have joined the MAC Cyclocross Series as Official Partner of the 2008 MAC season, starting with opening weekend on September 20 and 21. 

The San Francisco peninsula-based team Third Pillar is looking for Cat 3 riders for next season. On top of a free Louis Garneau clothing kit, riders receive incentives like subsidized winter training camps and free race entries for all participants in a race if any team member reaches the podium. The team practices almost weekly in the off-season to apply professional level tactics to amateur racing. Third Pillar is limited to about 15 members, almost exclusively Cat 4 elites and masters. Despite its small size, it had 11 wins and 30 podium finishes last year.

C-3 Sollay.com, one of the Mid Atlanic’s strongest cyclocross teams, looks excitedly forward to the 2008 ‘cross season. The team is lead by returning elite riders Wes Schempf, 2006 Pennsylvania State Champion Andy Wulfkuhle, Beth Mason, Heidi VonTeitenberg, Diane Grim and Elizabeth Harlow. Junior sensation Sam O’Keefe, who took 4th at Nationals last year, will be working for a strong fall season. The team will also feature Elite Master’s riders Chris Nystrom, Jeff Cordisco, Michael Kolb and Kris Auer. Auer also serves as the team director.

Raisin Hope, the charity foundation established by former professional rider Saul Raisin, is holding its second annual charity ride in Dalton, Georgia, on Saturday, October 4. Raisin, a Dalton native then racing for Credit Agricole, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash while racing the Circuit de la Sarthe in April 2006.