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The Physics of Moving a Bike

How power propels a bike: This is the second of two introductory articles preparing for a year-long series on training with power.

by Rick Ashburn, December 26, 2007

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TriSuit Shootout Part 3: 2XU

In two shorts years, 2XU has moved from newbie to triathlon goliath. We take a look at their trisuits, including the new for 2008 Super Elite Endurance suit.

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X/Y Rules for cycling: After the “peer review”

The nice thing about the Internet -- or the maddening thing, if you like finality -- is that there rarely is any finality. Articles that we publish are not the last word on a subject, they're typically the first word.

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Intro to Power

This is the first of monthly installments on the physics of bike riding, with an emphasis on training and racing using power meters. We'll present our first two intro-to-power articles back-to-back.

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Timo Bracht’s Cucuma/Walser

For the new series "the bikes of the pros" we want to know more about the Cucuma/Walser of Timo Bracht (GER). He won Ironman Europe in 2007 and he talks candidly to Slowtwitch about his ride.

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X/Y Rules in an Angular World

In barely a month USA Cycling joins the UCI in legislating the Randy Newman ethic: "Don't want no short people round here." Fortunately, there is a deceptively easy alternative for both of cycling's governing bodies.

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The Aerodynamics of hand height

Floyd Landis, Fabian Cancellara, Dave Zabriskie, Levi Leipheimer have all raced with the "hands in face" position. John Cobb pulls out of his wind tunnel archives an analysis of hand heights.

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Torbjorn Sindballe’s Argon 18 E-114

As part of a new series called "the bikes of the pros" we will be looking a bit closer at the race machines of several pro athletes. We start the series here with the bike of Torbjorn Sindballe.

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Fudging for negative reach

Tri bike fitters using the F.I.S.T. system often find they need a size bigger bike for their customers versus what the fit session indicates. Here's why.

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You asked for Quarq, we give you Quarq

We have seen quite a bit of interest in Quarq and Quarq Technology on our forum and decided to ask Jim Meyer the man behind Quarq a few questions.

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Blue Seventy’s pointzero3 swim skin gets FINA approval.

Blue Seventy announced yesterday that they got their pointzero3 swim skin approved by FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation). Will that then possibly mean that all swimming records may be rewritten in the very near future?

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Are Speedskins a viable product category?

Was anything in Kona hotter in Kona than the P3C? Yes, in fact — the PZ3. It's got the dubious distinction of being the most viable product in a potentially unviable category.

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Trek’s wind tunnel white paper

Trek's engineers went public with their latest Equinox TTX wind tunnel test to counteract what it called spotty and erroneous assumptions about its recent data.