In the penultimate race in the Toyota Cup Series, Sunday’s Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon will be covered live on Slowtwitch.com, and will feature stout fields in both the men’s and women’s races.
by Dan Empfield, September 22, 2011
Earlier this summer we published on Slowtwitch an article called, “Where is the Money,” about the recent pay practices of certain race organizations. The B-side to that story is here.
I write an Interbike preview every year for members of the bike industry, and this is it. It’s geared to retailers, and it’s read by many exhibitors as well. But everybody gets to read it, because, well, this is Slowtwitch.
In case you weren’t in Penticton over the weekend, a race took place, two winners prevailed, and one of them provided us the text of the speech he gave at the award ceremony
When does the digital airbrushing of a pro athlete image go too far? Is it okay to delete the logo off an athlete’s race uniform, and to remove down tube decals, and the stickers from helmets and wheels with a few keystrokes?
Saucony came to the market with the now very successful Kinvara, and yet again with the Mirage. The Hattori is about as far as Saucony is willing to go toward Vibram’s Five Finger, and that’s pretty darned far.
Local boy Matt Chrabot outlegged Greg Bennett and Paul Matthews in a 3-up sprint. Sarah Haskins made it 3 wins in 3 years in ChiTown. The Toyota Cup points race tightens.
Slowtwitch analyzes the acquisition of one of cycling’s premier online sites by one of the world’s premier online retailers, and explains why this purchase might foretell a megatrend in the world of cycling.
Garmin announced today the fruition of a project ardently anticipated by Slowtwitchers: the pedal-based power measuring system it bought when it acquired MetriGear last year.
Loreen Barnett, Secretary General of the ITU, sat with Slowtwitch to answer questions about the suspension of Harry Wiltshire, the place of team tactics in triathlon, and the ITU’s posture toward race comportment.
This year’s Felt superbike was superpriced. Next year’s is super duper priced, if you want electronic shifting. But there’s a Dura Acey version of it that’s nicely priced, the DA4, showing up in September.
There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s riding a hunter-jumper. We interview Tom Struzzieri, the man behind America’s most popular nationwide series of equestrian events, and the new, ambitious 13-city triathlon series.
I was the lone industry observer invited to the wind tunnel testing of the finished S5 product. I took copious notes, in order to describe the mechanics of the wind tunnel process.