Your Ideal Tri Bike
What you’re reading today is the intro to a series of installments matching you to your optimal tri bike. I’ll identify you, and then “prescribe” the bike(s) that work best.
by Dan Empfield, June 6, 2016What you’re reading today is the intro to a series of installments matching you to your optimal tri bike. I’ll identify you, and then “prescribe” the bike(s) that work best.
by Dan Empfield, June 6, 2016“I cannot understand why all bike fits aren’t more like this.” – Comment from a subject after a Complete Bike Solution exercise at a Slowtwitch Road Show.
Felt sits second among tri bike brands when Slowtwitchers are asked what they intend to buy next. How do you decide, precisely, what size and config for your IA?
Rider needs a long and low geometry. It was the Soup Nazi answer for this guy: No bike for you! Then I remembered the TriRig Alpha series bars, and its online calculator.
A superbike complete bike solver can be built in half a day. Here’s the first one I built, and how I built it. Why don’t all superbike makers have one?
Our first workshop of the 2018 F.I.S.T. Bike Fit Workshop season will be held in November, 2018.
If Trek, Felt, Cervelo, BMC say you can ride multiple sizes of their superbikes, which of these sizes is the right one for you?
You’ve decided on the bike you want. Now you need to know what size to buy? Are you a 51cm, a 54cm, or a 56cm? Let’s go through the process.
Do you covet a Felt IA? You tell me how you fit aboard any tri bike, I’ll tell you exactly which IA or DA you need to buy, with the precise stem and front-end you need.
We’re going to determine what my best P5 Six would be via a simple 5-minute process you can use to discover which P5 size and front-end config is ideal for you.
How do you choose a bike? Herein is a list of imperatives, 18 of them. How could any bike run that gauntlet? Turns out, selecting your perfect bike isn’t that hard.
If you knew what I know, you could find the bikes, all bikes, road or tri, that fit you, in 20 or 30 minutes tops. So let’s make sure you know what I know.
First were bike fit systems. Then were bike fit tools, like motion capture and fit bikes. Finally it’s software, including a powerful program launched today that Slowtwitchers can demo.