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Graphing geometric themes

 The exercise here is in the understanding of a tri bike's frame geometry. There are several things worth noting, and this ought to impact, or at least inform, your buying decisions.
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Year of the Contact Point

 There should be a practicality to things that trumps even what the designer or seller intended for his product. Filling the gap between products-as-intended and products-as-needed is the tinkerer's raison d'être.
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Adjust your Exit bike

 It's a bit of inside baseball, only for hard core bike fitters and those who follow the process as a hobby. The Exit fit bike - the standard for tri bike fitting pros - undergoes a protocol change.
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In between bike sizes?

 Looking for a new bike, and find you're in between sizes? Your LBS owner will tell you to choose the smaller size, and he's been saying that since, well, forever. But it's the wrong answer, at least nowadays, at least in tri.
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Devising a static tri-fit system

 You've waited, you've wanted, so without further ado, here it is: a static fit system for generating rider coordinates. We'll describe it to you, and then tell you why you shouldn't use it.
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Bike fit systems: marketing or advocacy?

 Specialized and Trek each have a bike school for retailers, joining Serotta and perhaps soon other bike makers. How do you know when the point of a school is education or whether it's just marketing?
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World’s first fit-certified dog

 A female lab mix named Charlee has attended each of 40 F.I.S.T. tri bike fit workshops held at the Slowtwitch compound. Somewhere along the way, she acquired the ability to distinguish good bike positions from bad
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Systems, tools and apple pie

 Judging by recent posts on the Slowtwitch Reader Forum, confusion reigns over bike fit systems, the difference between a system and a tool, and how it all relates to apple pie.
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Tour de Bike Fit

 Read this first, if "tri bike fit" is new to you. It's a guide to the dozens of articles in the bike fit section. The articles are grouped, and we offer our advice about the order in which they should be read.
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Tri, road, or tweener?

 There are three ways to ride a bike: road race (the way pros do it); triathlon (the way pros do it); and that strange morphing of the two which we call the "tweener."
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Remote bike fit for retailers

 In the second and final part of this series, we look at how remote bike fitting aids the retailer who'll invest the time, and thought, and energy to the display of the tri bikes he inventories.