Though competition is not always healthy in the short term, the market works itself out in the fullness of time.
by Dan Empfield, September 8, 2005One of triathlon’s most exciting new bikes will have its formal coming out party today or tomorrow, depending on the time zone of the reader. On Thursday, January 13th, at Mission Bay’s downtown store.
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.
This is not an obituary. John Cobb’s Bicycle Sports is still in business.
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?
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.
One would be hard-pressed to come up with an industry, activity or economy in which one single trademark is more powerful or over-arching than in triathlon, and the trade name is Ironman.
Races are hard to produce. The bigger the race, the bigger the headache; the greater the expense; the more hand-wringing the stress; the more sleep-depriving the risk.
Yet again (as happens about every 18-months) someone asks about the beginnings of the bike technology that has make our sport unique. I thought I’d answer the question here, and with some photo representation.
On the same day the men’s Olympic triathlon was contested a group of fifteen or so cyclists started up San Diego’s Palomar Mountain.
Over 16 years ago, Dan Empfield interviewed then-Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico. With Johnson once again in the political spotlight, we decided to reprint that interview.
Give Scott Tinley the task of beating up on a gaggle of pro triathletes on the race course and he’s more than capable. Ask him to organize those same professionals into a union that will represent their best interests and you might as well ask him to raise the dead.