Articles by Dan Empfield

I’m not a bike mechanic by trade or training, but I assemble and work on all my own bikes. Here are the tools I (and you) need for the job.

What is the ambitious element to Diamondback’s prescriber? It prescribes your position with granular precision.

Out of hundreds of products worthy of mention here are some I thought notable.

The lovable, maddening force of nature that was Les McDonald, the father of Olympic triathlon, has died at 84.

We recruit users, like you, who’ll agree to try a product. Here’s what 9 of you thought of UCAN.

Here is the latest tool in the bike fitter’s toolbox: an affordable, real time, 2D, unbuggy motion capture system.

Shoes are contact points, like your saddle and aerobar pads. The expectation is higher for contact points. Does the S-Phyre deliver?

This Scott Plasma Premium: How it got chosen; how it was to build; how it is to ride.

What I heard: “I often think that all tri bikes other than the P2/P3 and PR3/5 should be done away with.”

There is geometric orthodoxy among tri bikes frames. But not among their aerobars.

Known as a collaborative rather than combative executive, a partnership and relationship builder. Arrives from Arizona State Athletics.

No race is quite like the Norseman Xtreme Tri. Here are images of the race just concluded from taken by Kyle Meyr, courtesy NXTRI