America’s three glossy monthlies became two some months ago, when American Tri folded itself into Inside Triathlon and absorbed its editor/publisher Kyle DuFord.

Venerated Bicycle Sports, owned and run by John Cobb out of Shreveport, Louisiana and more recently Tyler, Texas, is no longer in business.

It’s one thing to comprehend concepts like trail and steering axis and gyroscopic forces, another thing altogether to know with precision how a bicycle is going to handle once a design is executed in the form of a road-ready machine.

I believe just about every reasonably fit male the age of 45 has the theoretical physiological capacity to run his age for a 10k, that is, a 10k in 45 minutes.

This is not an obituary. John Cobb’s Bicycle Sports is still in business.

Triathletes both allow and suffer some fairly egregious behavior in their races, especially that part of the race taking place in the water.

Yes, your favorite companies’ product managers were all over in Taipei working on next year’s bikes. They’re working hard, no-doubt, but are they designing and spec’ing good bikes?

Ipso facto, if you want to become a champion swimmer (or sinner, for that matter), practice, practice, practice.

Earlier in the decade I wrote an article on how bikes are sized, and the gist was that we ought to be looking at bikes from the point of view of head tubes and top tubes, and that’s it. — no more seat tube sizing.

Our primer on stack & reach continues with the second chapter in the series. We examine how stack and reach enable you to understand how a given bike will, or will not, fit you.

In the final chapter of our stack and reach primer, we compare stack and reach with other ways of remaking sizing nomenclature.

The science of swimming will make you fast in the pool. It’s the art of swimming that makes you fast in the open water.

It’s considered the aerodynamic benchmark for double-diamond (front and rear triangle) bikes.

With Interbike right around the corner I thought I’d write a bit about how the bike business works—not everything about it, but the nuts and bolts of how a bike gets from the “paper napkin sketch” to your local bike shop’s showroom floor.

Practitioners of motorized sports recognized the traction benefits of slick tires a long time ago.

I ride a 59cm bike or, if it’s a road race bike (as opposed to a tri bike) I’ll ride a 60cm bike. If it’s a Litespeed tri bike, I’ll ride 57cm, and so it goes. How are these bikes measured, and why do I ride different sizes depending on the manufacturer?

There have been real studies performed by real scientists on the subject of seat angles.

In running you cannot think about the muscles like you can in swimming—in fact it is just the opposite.

You’ve probably heard the phrases “feel for the water” or “catch,” and if you’ve watched the top swimmers you’ve probably noticed that their bodies seem to glide over the water. Well, they are doing just that.

Of the three, swimming is the most dangerous to lose focus in another sense—technique is everything!

After a base of solid distance running has been established, a runner can add interval training to complete the elements needed for optimal racing fitness.

It is true that runners well below their maximum training load can increase any aspect of their training––including doing more slow and steady running––and see improved racing results.

Take care of yourself, and don’t get pushed around by anybody who sells you anything that goes on your feet.

Perhaps (I thought as I ran) it would be good to write about the technical side of running.