It used to be that a brochure was enough. Not any more. A superbike without a white paper just doesn’t seem that super. Here’s the authoritative guide on the 2011 DA.
by Dan Empfield, August 4, 2010
It’s been just 3.5 years since Felt remade its tri line-up, top to bottom. But you can’t stand pat these days. Here’s Felt’s new mold, the DA for 2011. Felt’s stab at a superbike hits its mark.
This triathlon cycling shoe has the best breathability of all shoes I’ve so far tested. The large amount of mesh used in the upper of the shoe makes this like riding with the air conditioning on full volume.
We’re talking running footwear against the backdrop of an article in today’s NYT that either misunderstands, or faithfully represents a misunderstanding, of how feet are best mated to running shoes.
Bont’s moldable, monocoque cycling shoes bring something new to the tri shoe category: a shoe so form fitting the single-strap closure method isn’t the liability it once was.
The Tribute is an update on the Tribal: a tri-specific cycling shoe with an extremely soft Lorica upper. Don’t expect the same fit, feel and features: the shoe is an improvement, or not, depending on you.
Specialized really went after the tri-specific crowd with its TriVent BG shoe. Notwithstanding a couple of minor peeves, this shoe is the cash register leader and deserves to be.
Never in 20 years of bike businessing have I ever seen a tri model so anticipated, and so artfully debuted by its maker. But how do you know if and when a Speed Concept is the right bike for you?
Prior to this year, the major bike brands, in particular those selling more than $150 million a year, were asea in the tri market, because of ambivalence and indecisiveness. Now, they’re focused. But can they compete?
The Speed Concept is Trek’s new triathlon superbike. How does it measure up, literally, in terms of geometry? Is this bike long and low, narrow and tall, and is it sufficiently adjustable?
Trek released their SpeedConcept to the public on May 22nd at the Tour of California time trial. This white paper from Trek tells their story of the bike before that grand unveiling.
This Plasma is the longest in the tooth of the three Plasma framesets. It’s still got plenty of life and relevance. Even so, it would benefit from a couple of design and spec upgrades.
Is this bike the last of an era? The bike aboard which Levi, Lance and Alberto won so many grand tour TTs prepares, perhaps, to slide off into history. The Equinox TTX 9.0 is part of that lineage.
