Articles by Dan Empfield

The nice thing about the Internet — or the maddening thing, if you like finality — is that there rarely is any finality. Articles that we publish are not the last word on a subject, they’re typically the first word.

This is the first of monthly installments on the physics of bike riding, with an emphasis on training and racing using power meters. We’ll present our first two intro-to-power articles back-to-back.

In barely a month USA Cycling joins the UCI in legislating the Randy Newman ethic: “Don’t want no short people round here.” Fortunately, there is a deceptively easy alternative for both of cycling’s governing bodies.

Floyd Landis, Fabian Cancellara, Dave Zabriskie, Levi Leipheimer have all raced with the “hands in face” position. John Cobb pulls out of his wind tunnel archives an analysis of hand heights.

Tri bike fitters using the F.I.S.T. system often find they need a size bigger bike for their customers versus what the fit session indicates. Here’s why.

Our “Eight days of Florida” are behind us. Lessons are there to be learned.

Drafting in Florida. Say it isn’t so! Florida gets a bad rap for the drafting at events in this, America’s flattest state. And it’s got a thing or two to say in its own defense.

Jordan Rapp, Slowtwitch tech whiz on weekdays, long distance tri whiz on weekends, conquered the five specialties (swim, bike, run, nutrition, navigation) to win the Soma Triathlon in 4:01:46.

Stoltz outduels Marceau, it’s Dibens wire to wire, at the 2007 XTERRA World Championships in Maui, Hawaii

Was anything in Kona hotter in Kona than the P3C? Yes, in fact — the PZ3. It’s got the dubious distinction of being the most viable product in a potentially unviable category.

Trek’s engineers went public with their latest Equinox TTX wind tunnel test to counteract what it called spotty and erroneous assumptions about its recent data.

Cervelo’s owners have gotten used to seeing their athletes win unexpectedly. But this may have been the least likely victory.