There are no junk miles. Only junk theories. And one junk theory is the notion of junk miles. If you have unwanted miles you’re preparing for the junk heap, just haul them over to my house, I’ll take them off your hands.
by Dan Empfield, July 19, 2010
An incident last week occasioned an opportunity to rethink my historic relationship with food. The adjoining thumbnail says it all. Mine is the Great American eating disorder: overfull plates, overfull stomachs.
Innovation is the fun part of producing triathlon. In the beginning, a race director learns the basics: what equipment is needed, how to recruit volunteers, how early to stop publishing your phone number before race weekend.
The Professional Triathlon Association (PROTA), conceived to represent the interests of American pros, expands to non-U.S. pros, confronts its first challenge in responding to WTC’s proposals.
Bont’s moldable, monocoque cycling shoes bring something new to the tri shoe category: a shoe so form fitting the single-strap closure method isn’t the liability it once was.
The Tribute is an update on the Tribal: a tri-specific cycling shoe with an extremely soft Lorica upper. Don’t expect the same fit, feel and features: the shoe is an improvement, or not, depending on you.
Reigning Kona three-peater Chrissie Wellington weighs in with a thoughtful, thorough response on Ironman’s proposal to overhaul its prize money and World Championship qualification system.
Ironman has clearly been frustrated by the lack of quality athletes toeing the starting lines of many of its events. The new proposed framework attempts to address this.
Felt’s Devox aerobar is an ambitious effort, especially for a company that specialized in making bikes, not parts. How does it stand up as an aftermarket bar?
Specialized really went after the tri-specific crowd with its TriVent BG shoe. Notwithstanding a couple of minor peeves, this shoe is the cash register leader and deserves to be.
We need to overhaul extension shapes. After much experimentation, what have we learned? The spatial relationship between armrests and extensions is important, and, no more horizontal grips.
How often are bikes spec’d from the manufacturer in ways destined to give the customer a fighting chance of riding the bike successfully without swapping parts?
Never in 20 years of bike businessing have I ever seen a tri model so anticipated, and so artfully debuted by its maker. But how do you know if and when a Speed Concept is the right bike for you?
