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The Slice is not your father's Cannondale. Nor even your older brother's. It's all new and (gasp!) it's all carbon.

Scott hit the ground running with tri bikes made for serious riders. Scott staked out its own territory with views on how its bikes should fit — views that differed from Cervelo, Felt, QR and the pack. Here's what it all means for you in '08.

We continue our series "the bikes of the pros" with Ain-Alar Juhanson's Scott Plasma. Find out what the big and powerful Estonian thinks about his ride.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

We have uploaded a gallery of images of the top 10 Pro women aboard their bikes.

Here is a closer look at the bikes on which the top 10 male Pros competed in Kona.

In Part 2 of our trisuit shootout, we take a look at DeSoto, the homegrown brand that is, 17 years later, still making clothes out of a factory in San Diego.

Cervelo's owners have gotten used to seeing their athletes win unexpectedly. But this may have been the least likely victory.

What components and wheels did the Hawaiian Ironman athletes prefer?

Analysis of the Kona pier tally continues with our look at aerobars and saddles

The only question was just how badly Cervelo would put the hurt on the rest of the field. Pretty badly, in fact, but it could have been worse.

In Part 1 of our trisuit shootout, we take a look at Kiwami, the best brand that you've probably never heard of.

Part 1 of a series of product reviews from Interbike 2007. We cover eSoles, the custom orthotic maker, and Oval Concepts, a components manufacturer specializing in aerobars.

The company is rare that pulls itself to the front of its competitive set. Several companies did that over the last year or so, and we'll credit them here.

Multisport certainly has the attention of the bike industry, judging by the multitude of fabulous tri bikes on display.

We were shown an early prototype of the fizik K1 Tri saddle at Interbike.

No more struggling to clean up the SRM wires on your frame as SRM is going wireless for 2008.

SRAM and Zipp announced that they have signed a Non-Binding Letter of Intent for SRAM to acquire Zipp.

The new Timex iControl™ watch communicates with your beloved iPod, allowing you to control your iPod right on your wrist.

Lighten up your triathlon or road bike with the newest brakes from the folks at Zero Gravity