Articles by Dan Empfield

Flora Duffy and Braden Currie finished smiling if mud-caked in the Asia-Pacific XTERRA championship event.

America’s brightest triathlon star is a fish in the water and a deer on the run. But on the bike? Not so much. Is that changing? Maybe so.

It’s finally here. Pre-orders of the Recon Jet are being filled. This has been one of the most anticipated releases of a sports microelectronic in recent years. How well does it work?

How relevant is SRAM in triathlon in 2015? Shimano has made it tough, but the scrappy Chicago company still has a lot of game for multisporters.

It should be obvious to anyone that access begets prosperity. The success of the U.S. women in Olympic-style triathlon is a story about access. Let’s talk about how this impacts Ironman.

Shimano’s groupkits for use in triathlon are overviewed here. Mostly, your choice for tri is Shimano versus SRAM or Shimano versus another Shimano group. Here’s how we parse it.

Camping at Wildflower can either be a grind or a pleasure, depending on whether you planned and prepared wisely. Here are my tips.

There are 3 triathlons not to be missed to understand the sport in its historic entirety: Kona, Roth and Wildflower. Today begins our guide to this 32-year old venerated behemoth.

Pioneer’s very highly regarded power meter has a new, aggressively low, price. The crank-based power meter will now sell for $999. (And, Quarq responds.)

Over the last year our publisher (me) used an inappropriate reference to those of Islamic faith; then we hosted a video insensitive to Native Americans; and we stepped in it again yesterday. How does Slowtwitch view these mistakes, and does it value?

The UCI’s (Union Cycliste Internationale) technical committee held conversations on mandating wheelie bars on certain riders’ bikes, according to sources

A components company, like a poem, should not mean, but be. Nevertheless, here is not what SRAM is (that’s later). Here is what SRAM means.