An old school company that’s lived with glue & blindstitch construction over a 40-year history of making just these kinds of suits. Aquaman was around at the beginning of tri wetsuits; it’s still here today.
by Dan Empfield, July 3, 2014
This is a wetsuit brand founded by British racer James Lock. This brand may be the most successful yet of UK-based wetsuit makers, does this brand deserve a larger place in the U.S. market?
No triathlon wetsuit company has stormed onto the scene in recent memory with a bigger bang than Roka. It’s ROKA’s second year, we’ve had a year to noodle them, is the fanfare justified?
We’ve been a tale of two sports: Draft legal, and the sport the rest of us do. Are you still anti-draft, like that Japanese soldier who still thinks WWII is going on? Time to take another look.
America’s men are good, but not overwhelming, in Olympic-style triathlon. Its women are overwhelming. Consistently. Here’s why, along with good news for triathlon in general.
Muscle cramps are the bane, and the mystery, of the endurance sports world. Why do we cramp? Fitness, physiology, or diet? What can you do beyond training more and pacing well?
Polar’s got a lot riding on its new intro, the V800. There are pluses and minuses versus Garmin’s 910xt, but overall Polar establishes a mighty platform for now and the future.
John Summerson’s new edition of Climbing by Bike in California adds color and depth to the lifestyle of a training cyclist and multisporter. It’s both a field guide and a devotional.
Most of the time we’re spending $20 or less on TYR, Speedo, Aqua Sphere and blueseventy goggles because they work. But here’s 2 goggles you should know about, from Barracuda and Zoggs.
What length valve stem are you using? Removable cores? What kind of sealant? What kind of extender is on your wheels? And your spares? This and more in this installment of Things That Roll.
Extender: one of the few words rhyming with “ender” that is not in Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender”. This winds Kopecky’s how-to into a race-prep chapter in “Things that Roll”.
In a week-long series we’ll talk about wheels, tubes, tires, how to choose them, prepare them, acclimate yourself to them, and get the most out of them during the race. We begin with a discussion of wheel depth.
In our final installment on the “state of tri” we see that youth us up in the U.S., the adult market is flat, as many in industry can attest, but triathlon around the world is booming like never before.
