Stu Thorne is the Team Director of the most successful professional cyclocross program in the U.S., Cannondale/Cyclocrossworld.com has 16 wins as the season reaches its halfway point.

Stu Thorne has run the Cannondale/cyclocrossworld.com cross team for the past three years. The team is well supported with beautiful Cannondale CAAD9 CX bikes, and Cannondale also provides incredible technical support at the major events. Stu’s cyclocrossworld.com website is also a title sponsor, a site Stu has run for 10 years and focuses on everything cross. He started the site ten years ago with 50 products and now has over 400 sku’s, including SRAM RED, Force and Rival.

The team features the three horsemen in Tim Johnson, Jeremy Powers, and the rising Jamey Driscoll. All three have scored big wins in 2009 and have the potential to sweep the Cross Nationals Men’s Elite podium. Tim, Jeremy and Jamey share a mutual respect for their director and recognize Stu’s efforts and know he is absolutely one of the hardest working guys on the cross scene.

The team has been critical to SRAM’s product development and marketing efforts, delivering a National Cross Championship in 2007 with Johnson’s great win, and providing critical feedback for SRAM’s product development engineers.

Stu took some time out for a quick interview and spoke of the team, his history with SRAM, Zipp wheels, and even lobbed a few bad jokes into the interview…scroll to the bottom.

You’d be happy too if your riders won most of the big American Cross races so far this year

Stu keeps his team’s bikes looking new all year

Stu’s always there to help his athletes, win or lose, here he hands Tim Johnson a clean towel (I’m assuming it was clean)