All roads continue to lead up for mountain-biker-turned-road-revelation Sepp Kuss. The 21-year-old newcomer has already established himself as one of the top climbers on the North American domestic scene this year, and he's now hoping to expand his road racing knowledge with a European trip later this summer.
USA Cycling has taken notice of the 5-foot-11-inch, 130-pound natural climber, and Kuss [rhymes with moose, ed.] is working out plans to race with USA Cycling's U23 team across the Atlantic. But his next race will be this week's U23 national championships in Kentucky, where he and Rally Cycling teammate Curtis White will take on the relatively flat 177km race against a field that includes the usual Axeons Hagens Berman juggernaut.
"I don't know if the course will necessarily suit me, but it should shape out to be a pretty tough race," Kuss told Cyclingnews in a telephone interview last week after he returned from the Tour de Beauce, where he won the queen stage at the top of Mont Megantic.
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"Just being in any race I can do at this point will be good for me," he said of Nationals. "I'm looking forward to it. It's just me and Curtis White. We're the two Rally representatives, and I think we'll be up for the challenge."
So far in his first year of full-time road racing, the three-time Collegiate MTB champion, who represented the US in U23 race at the 2014 and 2015 MTB worlds, has been rising to the challenge. Like his own climbing style, Kuss' climb to the top of the domestic scene has been explosive.
Riding for the Gateway Harley Davidson U25 development team in April, the then-unknown Kuss won the Redlands Bicycle Classic queen stage to Oak Glen, then followed it up with a solid ride among the best climbers at the Tour of the Gila. Kuss' consistency got the attention of US Continental team Rally Cycling, which quickly signed him though the 2017 season.
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