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.

We update our big rim width database for 2014. New for this year – not only are outside rim widths listed, but also internal widths for clincher rims. Read on for all of the details.

We have spent time with the Thule RoundTrip Transition hard shell bike travel case and you can learn here how we felt about this impressive looking box.

Young Aussie Sam Douglas is spending a few months in the USA and when he raced the 70.3 Raleigh we looked closer at his Merida Time Warp race bike.

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.

Slowtwitch forum member Luis Infante recently shared pics of his very smartly built Felt AR aero race bike and we now have a detailed gallery of it.

We give you a step-by-step guide on how to properly service rear brakes on the Trek Speed Concept triathlon bike, including a few pro tips and tricks.

The name Diamondback reminds many of us about BMX and mountain bikes, but they do make some nice road bikes too and we looked closer at one of them.

TWENTY16 rider Alison Tetrick won the KOM and Sprint titles at the 2014 Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, and here is your chance to see her Felt F1 race bike.