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The Lucy of modern fit bikes

 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.
Industry

Guru – Nothing like it

 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.
Industry

Fit Bikes: Shimano and Retul

 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.
Industry

Who Makes the Best Fit Bike?

 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.
Industry

Stealth pic of new Guru Fit Unit

 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.
Industry

Trek Fit System

 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.
Industry

Shimano Elbows into Bike Fit

 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!
Industry

Fit System Explosion

 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.
News

Triathlete charged with hit and run

 According to a Bay Area-based ABC affiliate, Ironman champion Meredith Kessler was charged with felony hit and run after police in San Francisco trace the accident to a vehicle she was driving.
Triathlon

Felt’s Newest: the IA

 For a relatively small brand, Felt stays busy. Three new major bike molds this year, and that's almost an annual ritual with these folks. Among them, a new, sexy, high-end tri bike: the IA.
News

Slowtwitch Saddle Tour

 Announcing our frontal - and rearward - assault on derrière abuse. Our Saddle Tour will take place over 2 months at 39 locations in 22 metro areas around the U.S., commencing this upcoming week.
News

The Definition of Hard

 You are not as hard a man as Mark Covert. Whether this defeats or revitalizes you is up to you. You can't do what he has done. But if you aspire to greatness, his example can be your guide.