We wrote about the GURU fit bike last year, in a series on fit tools. Here we’re talking about the entire GURU system, what it is, what it means for the future of retail and of how you and your bike interface.
by Dan Empfield, January 18, 2014
Which among the 5 fit bikes reviewed is the best? Which is the best for the money? And why should consumers care at all?
Exit Cycling is to fit bikes what Lucy is to anthropologists: the missing link. All the fit bikes aforementioned owe something to this bike, and Exit is still going strong.
Our series on fit bikes continues with the incomparable Guru. The 2104 edition is without peer. If the original DFU was way ahead of its time, this new version is just as revolutionary.
Our look at the industry’s most important fit bikes (according to us) expands today. We’re looking at the Retul Muve and the bike by Shimano. Shimano’s isn’t out yet, it’s due out the middle of 2014.
Shimano, Cannondale (Guru), Trek (Purely Custom), and Specialized (Retul), join Exit Cycling as makers of first-rate fit bikes. If you’re a fitter, a coach, or a retail store, which among these bikes is for you? Here’s your guide.
What’s the most technologically advanced bike to be on the market in 2014, that you can ride up, down or on the flats, but that won’t actually deliver you to any destination? Might be this one.
Trek joins Cannondale, Specialized and Shimano in unveiling its own, dynamic, sexy (tools included) bike fit protocol. Yes, Trek has had a fit school for years. But nothing like this.
Make way for Shimano, arguably the largest revenue seller worldwide of bicycle specific stuff. It’s entering the world of bike fit in a big way. It’s protcol? Well see. But that crank on its fit bike!
It’s official: the top-5 bike companies in the world each have a fit system. Not since the advent of the mountain bike have so many bike brands delved into something so not in their wheelhouses.
Last week I invited expert bike fitters to solve a theoretical conundrum facing many fitters and certain of their customers. I thought Slowtwitchers might like to see how some of the cleverer fitters operate.
Why are bike companies trying to sell you bikes marketed for cobblestones and potholes? They’re still testing out all but the obvious narratives for new road geometries that better fit many customers.
In our celebration of the Stacktennial, let us not ignore the ladies. The problem is, of course, the constraints placed on bike design if you mandate that the bike be built with 700c wheels.
