This article exists as part of a series of eleven on tri bike fit, and describes the proper armrest drop for a triathlete; how to measure it; how to determine it.
by Slowman, September 13, 2007
This is article number five out of eleven describing our F.I.S.T. Tri bike fit process.
This third article in our series on tri bike fit lays out the fitting protocol.
In this continuation of our series on tri bike fit, we tell you what we mean by terms like “seat angle” and “hip angle,” that is, what landmarks we measure to, and why we choose them.
This second in a series of articles describing our tri bike fit system lays out the axioms on which our F.I.S.T. system relies.
Slowtwitch means different things to different athletes, but tri bike fit is the thing we’re probably best known for. Herein is a description of our process for tri bike fit.
Lighten up your triathlon or road bike with the newest brakes from the folks at Zero Gravity
There’s an aerobic value to your training, a conversion to a common currency allowing you to determine the relative worth of our workout.
Franky Batelier (FRA) finally climbed to the very top of the podium after two 2nd place finishes at previous XTERRA races. In the women’s race Carina Wasle (AUT) proved to be too strong for her competition.
At Eurobike 2007 British company USE unveiled a different version of their Tula aerobars.
Results from the 2007 Triathlon at Pacific Grove
Results from the 2007 Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon
Maik Twelsiek of Germany won the 2007 Ironman Wisconsin and with it grabbed his first Ironman title. New Zealand’s Gina Ferguson won the women’s race in a course record-breaking 9:37:03 and with it her first Ironman crown.
You can race fast, and you can live long, but are achieving both goals a reasonable expectation?
Daniel Unger of the host nation Germany stunned most triathlon experts and most likely himself as he won the BG 2007 ITU Triathlon World Championships in front of roughly 300,000 rabid fans.
Portuguese phenom Vanessa Fernandes won the 2007 Hamburg BG Triathlon World Championships and thus earned the first world title in triathlon for Portugal
[FROM THE PUBLISHER: At some point the questions migrate from the theoretical to what is achievable. The ideal gives way to that which you can execute. After you've asked the…
There are several companies that say they have rubber nobody else has. Let’s take a look at those claims, and the rubber they’re using, and see what we can glean about the state of materials in the wetsuits we use today.
If the frame of a bicycle represents the “heart” of a bicycle, it can be argued that wheels and tires represent the “soul”.
After two decades of heated declarations and ill-informed pronouncements, there remains not one shred of evidence suggesting one of these wheel sizes is inherently superior to the other. And yet…
It is not that often that a person needs a custom bike, but this is the most typical of circumstances when a custom is indicated.
