Part-1 of a two-part overview of current tire offerings, clincher and tubular, for all major brands. Consider this an “as-of-early-2012” summary of what’s out there. We focus primarily on tires sold as race-intended.

Andreas Böcherer will be very dangerous in Abu Dhabi and it is a bit surprising that his name has not been mentioned more often. We took a look at his Felt DA race bike.

Dirk Bockel has finished 3rd and 2nd in Abu Dhabi and maybe the 3rd time will be the charm. Today we take a look at his 2012 Team Leopard Trek Speed Concept.

Damon Rinard and Phil White of Cervelo talk about the Cervelo P5 and explain some of the features of this brand new triathlon bike.

I assembled Trek’s Speed Concept 9-Series tri bike last year. I was prepared for the integrated Bontrager aerobar to be a disappointment. I was more than pleasantly surprised.

I got the GC Aero as a bare frame, building it up with a mix of parts that I wanted to test. This bike shares something very appealing in common with certain other bikes that I particularly like.

Split nose saddles: I separate these into two categories, those that appear like standard saddles, creating a fjord out of what in other saddles is a lake; versus wide split-nosed saddles like the ISM.

Are there differences between how you sit, and what you do, aboard a saddle on a road bike versus a tri bike? Yes. Two differences, and they’re big. What makes this possible? Handlebar design.

We’re going to be writing about saddles a lot during the first part of 2012. Let’s start with why road saddles are made the way they are, and why you can throw it all out the window when mounting a tri bike.

Here is a closer look at the top 15 men at the Ironman World Championships aboard their bikes. Want to know what they were using in terms of frames and components? Look no further.

We present the top 15 female Ironman World Championship finishers on the bike and look closer at their gear. Fastest bike split this year belonged again to Karin Thuerig who cranked out a course record 4:44:20.

Here in Kona we had a chance to look a bit closer at the Cannondale Slice RS of Michael Weiss. The bike is actually still a prototype but we can expect to see a very fast split on it.