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Patents’ Effect on Tri Products

We examine several patents held by cycling and triathlon companies, and the competitive boxing match that ensues. Are the original products still the best, or is newer always better? Read on.

Ray’s Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this installment of our Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray gives his own thoughts on the new Suunto Ambit and whether it not it’s a good match for triathletes, the Garmin GTU-10 personal tracker, and choosing between the CycleOps PowerBeam Pro and the Tacx Bushido trainers.

Bottom Bracket Standards

The irony is that the newest, most relevant bottom bracket standards, such as BB90 and BB30, aren’t about bottom brackets. They’re about frame construction, and frame stiffness.

Armstrong on his Tri Bike

Things are changing for Lance. Like, his position. What goes around comes around, and he’s laregely come back ’round to his pre-bike-race tri position, with an assist from Slowtwitch forum members.

Frame Stiffness

What follows below may be a line of reasoning I have to eventually repudiate. My intention is to deliver my thesis with maximum caution and minimum hubris, in case I need to eat crow later.

Stance Width

Published here stance width recasted, which includes (this time) the devastatingly obtuse fact omitted in this article’s original publication. Stance width and q factor are discrete metrics, of course.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray gives options for a GPS watch for inline skating and XC skiing, the Garmin history function, and how to use ANT+ sensors with multiple watches.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers whether to buy now or wait for the new PowerTap models, whether or not to invest in a dedicated cadence sensor for a PowerTap setup, and the best non-GPS watch for trail running.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses the Bontrager Node 1 as a basic ANT+ computer, how to downgrade Garmin firmware, and the value of vibrating alerts on a watch.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray answers several questions posed by our publisher, Dan Empfield, as he struggles to make the leap to the 21st century.