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The Lucy of modern fit bikes

Exit Cycling is to fit bikes what Lucy is to anthropologists: the missing link. All the fit bikes aforementioned owe something to this bike, and Exit is still going strong.

Guru – Nothing like it

Our series on fit bikes continues with the incomparable Guru. The 2104 edition is without peer. If the original DFU was way ahead of its time, this new version is just as revolutionary.

Fit Bikes: Shimano and Retul

Our look at the industry's most important fit bikes (according to us) expands today. We're looking at the Retul Muve and the bike by Shimano. Shimano's isn't out yet, it's due out the middle of 2014.

Who Makes the Best Fit Bike?

Shimano, Cannondale (Guru), Trek (Purely Custom), and Specialized (Retul), join Exit Cycling as makers of first-rate fit bikes. If you're a fitter, a coach, or a retail store, which among these bikes is for you? Here's your guide.

Stealth pic of new Guru Fit Unit

What's the most technologically advanced bike to be on the market in 2014, that you can ride up, down or on the flats, but that won't actually deliver you to any destination? Might be this one.

Trek Fit System

Trek joins Cannondale, Specialized and Shimano in unveiling its own, dynamic, sexy (tools included) bike fit protocol. Yes, Trek has had a fit school for years. But nothing like this.

Shimano Elbows into Bike Fit

Make way for Shimano, arguably the largest revenue seller worldwide of bicycle specific stuff. It's entering the world of bike fit in a big way. It's protcol? Well see. But that crank on its fit bike!

Fit System Explosion

It's official: the top-5 bike companies in the world each have a fit system. Not since the advent of the mountain bike have so many bike brands delved into something so not in their wheelhouses.

Triathlete charged with hit and run

According to a Bay Area-based ABC affiliate, Ironman champion Meredith Kessler was charged with felony hit and run after police in San Francisco trace the accident to a vehicle she was driving.

Felt’s Newest: the IA

For a relatively small brand, Felt stays busy. Three new major bike molds this year, and that's almost an annual ritual with these folks. Among them, a new, sexy, high-end tri bike: the IA.

Slowtwitch Saddle Tour

Announcing our frontal - and rearward - assault on derrière abuse. Our Saddle Tour will take place over 2 months at 39 locations in 22 metro areas around the U.S., commencing this upcoming week.

The Definition of Hard

You are not as hard a man as Mark Covert. Whether this defeats or revitalizes you is up to you. You can't do what he has done. But if you aspire to greatness, his example can be your guide.