
A rare sighting in the wild
While in Chattanooga for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships we stumbled upon this distinctive black and gold Pinarello Bolide and took a closer look.
by Herbert Krabel, September 20, 2017While in Chattanooga for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships we stumbled upon this distinctive black and gold Pinarello Bolide and took a closer look.
by Herbert Krabel, September 20, 2017In this video, Jeff Yingling, part of CeramicSpeed’s Technical/R&D Support group, goes over the difference between brake pads designed for aluminum rims and those designed for carbon rims. He discusses why you need to change pads when you change braking surfaces, typically when you are changing from training wheels to race wheels, and how to do so.
After his silver medal at the Ironman 70.3 Worlds in Chattanooga, Ben Kanute takes stock of his future.
21-year old German Patrick Reger was the top age grouper at the 2017 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships in Chattanooga in 4:07:21 and we had a chat with him.
Beau Smith of Great Britain and Jacqueline Godbe of the U.S. win the ITU World Championship overall AG titles.
Stable and sturdy. Great price at $1199. Power accuracy not on par with some direct-drive smart trainers. Smooth road feel compensates.
It’s not over ’til it’s over. And even then it’s not really over.
Flora Duffy topped Katie Zaferes by 55 seconds to win the Grand Final at Rotterdam and repeat as World Champion.
On a rainy day in Rotterdam, Tamara Gorman topped Under 23 Women and Matthew Hauser won Junior Men.
A professional photographer, Gary Geiger, who is a Madison native took his camera out to his local Ironman race. Here is the fruit of that exercise.
Vincent Luis of France won the Grand Final as Mario Mola of Spain took 3rd and repeated as WTS World Champion.
Taylor Knibb finishes Junior Women World Championship career 2-1-1; Montoya leads 1-2 French sweep of U23 Men.
Grand Finals are up for grabs, but Flora Duffy and Mario Mola have big leads in WTS World Championship.
Ricky Flynn won his age group at the 2017 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships and his 1:11:19 run was only bested by Javier Gomez.
I’m not a bike mechanic by trade or training, but I assemble and work on all my own bikes. Here are the tools I (and you) need for the job.
Bryan Dunn had high aspirations for the 2017 IM 70.3 Worlds but his race did not go well. He however is passionately talking about the race and a couple volunteers who helped him out in a big pickle.
In this video, Jeff Yingling, part of CeramicSpeed’s Technical/R&D Support group, goes over proper care and lubrication of bicycle cables and cable housing. This video is designed to explain cable and housing maintenance, not replacement/recabling. This is the fourth in an 8-part video series covering the fundamentals of bike maintenance developed by CeramicSpeed exclusively for Slowtwitch.
Fear not, Wildflower fans, Davis will still run the iconic event, taking a fee and a shareholder stake in Motiv.
Despite the tough undulating run course in Chattanooga we saw some very fast running times and very captivating battles for the podium. Here now are pics from the men on the run.
What is the ambitious element to Diamondback’s prescriber? It prescribes your position with granular precision.
Ben Kanute put down the hammer on the difficult Chattanooga bike course with a 2:08:10 split, but the fastest split went to Sebastian Kienle who rode 2:07:45. Kanute however finished second to Spain’s Javier Gomez who rode 2:12:27 on the way to a 3:49:44 overall time. Kienle struggled during the run and ended up 5th.
Triathlons of note from Australia to Netherlands, Wisconsin to Washington D.C., Germany to Korea.
Javier Gomez passed long time race leader Ben Kanute at Mile 8 of the run to win Ironman 70.3 Worlds by 1:22.
Braden Currie of New Zealand edged Ben Hoffman of the U.S. by 1 second at Santa Cruz 70.3.
The course in Chattanooga was challenging and World Championship worthy and here now are images from the day where only women competed.