Choosing a Tri Bike via Stack and Reach
Bikes as fit constructs
Bicycles are constructs of assemblies. Of course you know this already! But I'm talking strictly about how bikes fit. The notion that a frame alone determines fit is entirely wrong.
Evil stems and spacers
The defining fit characteristics of bikes are no longer solely contained in the frame. Or even the aerobars. Today's superbikes focus on the sins of the stem and anything round sitting above the ...
Long and low, short and narrow popular
It's late November. Don't you love the change of seasons? Depending where you are, the greens are turning to yellow, and the yellows red. But that is not the change to which I refer.
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!
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 ...
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.
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.
