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Tools of the trade

This is an article in a series describing our F.I.S.T. process for tri bike fitting, and in here we lay out the state of the art in tools for best practices.

by Slowman, September 13, 2007

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Translating fit specs to bike specs

This is the final installment of our series on our F.I.S.T. tri bike fit process, and takes the metrics we've generated and outputs your "best" bike.

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Aerobic points system

There's an aerobic value to your training, a conversion to a common currency allowing you to determine the relative worth of our workout.

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2008 USE Tula aero bars

At Eurobike 2007 British company USE unveiled a different version of their Tula aerobars.

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Proprietary rubber in today’s tri wetsuits

There are several companies that say they have rubber nobody else has. Let's take a look at those claims, and the rubber they're using, and see what we can glean about the state of materials in the wetsuits we use today.

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Tires and wheels for timed cycling events

If the frame of a bicycle represents the “heart” of a bicycle, it can be argued that wheels and tires represent the “soul”.

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Yet more wheel size debates

After two decades of heated declarations and ill-informed pronouncements, there remains not one shred of evidence suggesting one of these wheel sizes is inherently superior to the other. And yet...

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Bikes for the torso-impaired

It is not that often that a person needs a custom bike, but this is the most typical of circumstances when a custom is indicated.

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Characteristics of good triathlon wetsuits

The truth is, almost every wetsuit feature has a corresponding detriment, and certain features have only the detriment, and no corresponding asset. You must decide what features matter to you.

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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.

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Stack & Reach Primer: Chapter Three

In the final chapter of our stack and reach primer, we compare stack and reach with other ways of remaking sizing nomenclature.

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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.

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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.