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Industry

Steering geometry for tri bikes

 It's one thing to comprehend concepts like trail and steering axis and gyroscopic forces, another thing altogether to know with precision how a bicycle is going to handle once a design is executed in the form of a road-ready machine.
Running

How to Kill—Your 10k PR

 I believe just about every reasonably fit male the age of 45 has the theoretical physiological capacity to run his age for a 10k, that is, a 10k in 45 minutes.
Swimming

Open water etiquette

 Triathletes both allow and suffer some fairly egregious behavior in their races, especially that part of the race taking place in the water.
News

The Art of Product Management

 Yes, your favorite companies' product managers were all over in Taipei working on next year's bikes. They're working hard, no-doubt, but are they designing and spec'ing good bikes?
Swimming

Picklehead

 Ipso facto, if you want to become a champion swimmer (or sinner, for that matter), practice, practice, practice.
Industry

Stack & Reach Primer: Chapter Two

 Our primer on stack & reach continues with the second chapter in the series. We examine how stack and reach enable you to understand how a given bike will, or will not, fit you.
Industry

Stack & Reach Primer: Chapter One

 Earlier in the decade I wrote an article on how bikes are sized, and the gist was that we ought to be looking at bikes from the point of view of head tubes and top tubes, and that's it. -- no more seat tube sizing.
Industry

The Hooker

 It's considered the aerodynamic benchmark for double-diamond (front and rear triangle) bikes.
News

The bike biz

 With Interbike right around the corner I thought I'd write a bit about how the bike business works—not everything about it, but the nuts and bolts of how a bike gets from the "paper napkin sketch" to your local bike shop's showroom floor.