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Slowtwitch debuts Geometry Calculator

The F.I.S.T. tri bike geometry calculator is open for beta testing. Your fitter plunks numbers into our online engine and, poof, your custom bike geometry!

by Slowman, June 23, 2008

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A bike fitting first: Angular head pin on an X/Y fit bike

Exit Cycling finished work on an angular head pin for its X/Y adjustable fit bike. This makes Exit Cycling, the fit bike maker owned by popular custom bike builder Ves Mandaric, a one-of-a-kind machine.

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The Bike from the bars back—finale

Road testing the 3T Ventus aero bar properly required a bit of trigonometry, a dash of ingenuity, and smidge of creativity, some nerve, and a credit card with room on it.

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Finding the right bike from the bars back

There are some very sexy integrated aero bars on the market right now. Profile Design's Carbon X. 3T's Ventus. Visiontech's Trimax. All these feature integrated stems. How does one divine what frame fits these bars?

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Frame sizing problems, Part II: Let’s look at the numbers

Are numerical sizing schemes more accurate than T-shirt sizes? Yes, but only marginally.

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Frame sizing problems, Part I: Beware of T-shirt nomenclature

Thinking about getting a Scott Plasma? How about a Specialized Transition S Works? What size bike is your best fit? Would it surprise you to know that one in size M fits precisely the same size as the other in size L?

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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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Xantusia

F.I.S.T. Workshops, and various other tri and bike related camps, take place on "The Compound," also known as Xantusia.

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Your bike’s waistline

This is the second to last installment in our explanation of our F.I.S.T. tri bike fit process.

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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.

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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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The F.I.S.T. Method for fitting triathletes to their bikes

Slowtwitch means different things to different athletes, but tri bike fit is the thing we're probably best known for. Herein is a description of our process for tri bike fit.

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F.I.S.T. Axioms

This second in a series of articles describing our tri bike fit system lays out the axioms on which our F.I.S.T. system relies.