Articles by Herbert Krabel

News

Hoffman, Lyles take Wisconsin

Ben Hoffman dominated the field at the 2012 Ironman Wisconsin in a course record time of 8:32:51. Elizabeth Lyles grabbed the women's title, but her margin over runner-up Beth Walsh was much tighter.

by Herbert Krabel, September 9, 2012

News

Zyemtsev, Lester take Cedar Point

Victor Zyemtsev added another title to his resume with a win at the 2012 Rev3 Cedar Point triathlon. Carrie Lester pulled away from Malaika Homo and then had to hold off Jessica Meyers to take the women's title.

News

Superb racing in Las Vegas

Sebastian Kienle took charge of the 2012 Ironman 70.3 World Championships on the bike and stormed to the win in course record time of 3:54:35. Leanda Cave took the women's title with a similar plan of action in 4:28:05.

News

Lebrun, Erbenova in Switzerland

Nico Lebrun and Helena Erbenova grabbed the wins at the 2012 XTERRA Switzerland Championships. Lebrun took charge of the race during the run and Erbenova moved to the front of the race with a race best bike split.

News

A chat with Julia Nikolopoulos

This year there were two female Norseman champions and Julia Nikolopoulos won the Saturday edition of this stunning event. She even broke the course record in 13:00:40, but that only lasted about 24 hours.

Industry

Cervelo R3 – 105

With the Cervelo R3 105 edition you can indeed have your cake and eat it, or maybe better said, the MSRP of $2,600 brings it within reach of quite a few folks.

Triathlon

Giant Trinity Composite 2

The 2013 Trinity Composite 2 helps Giant to establish itself in the sub $2,500 market with a very legitimate entry, and here are a few details.

Cycling

Nicola Spirig’s BH G5

Swiss Pro Nicola Spirig captured the Olympic Gold medal in a photo finish over Lisa Norden, and today we look closer at her BH G5 race bike.

Industry

Cube Aerium SHPC SLT

Cube is quite a popular brand in Germany and they just launched the 2013 Aerium SHPC triathlon bike. The SLT featured here is the creme of the crop.

News

2012 Eurobike – Day 3

Today was the last industry day of the 2012 Eurobike show and we had to get done with our work, because tomorrow the halls will be filled with thousands of consumers.

Industry

BMC timemachine TMR01

A few days ago we noticed the BMC timemachine TMR01 at Eurobike's Demo Day and today we looked closer at this stunning aero road bike.

News

2012 Eurobike – Day 2

We spent another day cruising through the Eurobike halls to see what is new, exciting, different or just happened to catch our attention.

Industry

Kestrel Legend SL

Kestrel launched their lightest road bike to date at the 2012 Eurobike show. A Legend SL in a size 55 weighs a mere 780 grams and is promised to be quite stiff.