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Many know Saris from their wonderful Bones trunk rack. This year, rather than go bigger and pricier, Saris decided to go smaller, while still providing an innovative product that will address the needs of the growing number of people purchasing their first bike.

The series that stoked the exponential growth of cyclocross in the United States – the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross – returns to Mercer County Park for itʼs third consecutive season on November 14th and 15th

The organizers of the US Gran Prix of Cyclocross have announced that EuroCross Camp will sponsor the USGP UCI 17/18 races at the upcoming Mercer Cup and Stanley Portland Cup.

Organizers of the US Gran Prix of Cyclocross (USGP) and SRAM are proud to announce that SRAM is returning for their fourth consecutive year of sponsorship of the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross.

The U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross and Advanced Sports Inc. are pleased to announce that FUJI will be the Official Bike Sponsor of the 2009 series.

Organizers of the US Gran Prix of Cyclocross (USGP) have announced today that Stanley food and beverage gear has expanded its support of the country’s premiere cyclocross series by becoming the Title Sponsor of the Stanley Portland Cup in Portland, OR December 5th and 6th and extending its support to the other series events as well.

Trek Travel, the cyclotourist arm of the company, is offering cyclists a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet cycling legend Gary Fisher and to ride his all new bikes in and around Madison, WI and Trek Headquarters.

Here are the answers to last week’s April Fools contest. Unfortunately, we did not receive any completely correct guesses. Lest some of you complain, you had to correctly guess the true news items and not be fooled by the false ones.
Here are the answers

With the growing popularity of bicycle commuting, bike thefts are on the upswing. Bike friendly communities such as Austin, Portland and Madison have a dramatic increase in thefts in their downtown areas. Police advise bicycle users to lock their bikes on to a bike rack, use a …

Okay, here’s the deal. Some of this news is true and some is not. Anyone who can correctly separate the wheat from the chaff and send me the numbers of the true news items to aprilfools@bikeworldnews.com will be entered into a drawing for some cool cycling prizes.
The contest will run through April 7th. I’ll do a drawing from all of the correct entries on the 8th and contact the winner about getting their prizes to them.
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Here are a few cyclocross-related bits for the day:

US Grand Prix Cyclocross series expands to four weekends this year:

Sept. 26-27: Planet Bike Cup in Madison, Wisconsin.
Oct. 24-25: Louisville, Kentucky.
Nov. 14-15: Mercer Cup in Mercer County, New Jersey.
Dec. 5-6: Portland, Oregon.

CrossVegas 2008 will be on Universial Sports cable at 6pm on Sunday, January 25th. Click here for additional information, including encore presentation times.
And speaking of bike racing and television, UCI reports that the 2008 cyclocross world championships were the top-ranked sporting event broadcast by the Flemmish-language public TV station in Belgium. In …