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Your Ideal Tri Bike

What you're reading today is the intro to a series of installments matching you to your optimal tri bike. I'll identify you, and then "prescribe" the bike(s) that work best.

It’s the Fitter AND the Tool

"I cannot understand why all bike fits aren't more like this." - Comment from a subject after a Complete Bike Solution exercise at a Slowtwitch Road Show.

Finding your Felt

Felt sits second among tri bike brands when Slowtwitchers are asked what they intend to buy next. How do you decide, precisely, what size and config for your IA?

Soup Nazi Solution: TriRig

Rider needs a long and low geometry. It was the Soup Nazi answer for this guy: No bike for you! Then I remembered the TriRig Alpha series bars, and its online calculator.

No System No Sale

A superbike complete bike solver can be built in half a day. Here's the first one I built, and how I built it. Why don't all superbike makers have one?

$72,124

Wrapping up the 7th annual Rappstar Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief. In 2015, we raised $72,124, enough to put 491 bicycles into the field. Thank you to everyone who supported another incredible year. In seven years, we've raised over $450,000.

What Size? Part 2

If Trek, Felt, Cervelo, BMC say you can ride multiple sizes of their superbikes, which of these sizes is the right one for you?

What Size Bike?

You've decided on the bike you want. Now you need to know what size to buy? Are you a 51cm, a 54cm, or a 56cm? Let's go through the process.