I left bike manufacturing in 1999, not a moment too soon. When I started it was hobby-plus. When I exited, it was an industry.
by Slowman, August 5, 2018
Radka Kahlefeldt tops women; Mauricio Mendez edges Tyler Butterfield by 54 seconds at Asia-Pacific 70.3.
Daniela Ryf set an Ironman 70.3 world-best time with a 3:57:55 clocking at Gdynia 70.3 in Poland.
Cassidy Hickey topped a three-girl finish line sprint and Andrew Flynn ran away with the boys’ crown at USAT Youth Nationals.
Callum Millward win by 2 seconds over Ben Hoffman; Ellie Salthouse dominated women at Boulder 70.3.
Fielding Fischer combined race-best swim and run splits, Gillian Cridge outran her pursuers to win the USAT Junior Nationals.
We detail the ins and outs of building your very own gravel or “Road Plus” bike. Is it all gravy, or are there still some kinks to be worked out?
I bought my ticket this morning for the first-ever so-described gravel bike triathlon, the Ugly Dog, outside of Ann Arbor.
Sarah Crowley of Australia, Bart Aernouts of Belgium prevail at swim-canceled Ironman Hamburg.
McMahon posts fastest run for 8:54 margin over fellow Canadian Jeff Symonds at IM Canada.
Javier Gomez dominated the men and Katrien Verstuyft edged Kirsty Jahn for the women’s title at Challenge Prague.
Jan van Berkel of Switzerland and Kaisa Sali of Finland win elite titles at Ironman Switzerland.
Holland wins her second WTS race of 2018, advances to second in WTS season standings.
Sam Appleton broke ahead with a sizzling bike split, Mirinda Carfrae got back on winning track.
Mario Mola outruns Kristian Blummenfelt to win by 2 seconds at the WTS Edmonton sprint
Here’s a limited edition production of Slowtwitch race apparel, from De Soto.
What to call it? The Zanzibar? the Abdul-Jabbar? The Threeguyswalkintoabar? It’s my new aerobar standard.
Every now and then we feature cool age grouper bikes and the Dimond Marquise of Eric Lambi is certainly well worth a closer look.
Shimano improves the electronic 1x it’s not making. Sort of a double negative.
Chelsea Burns, Ben Kanute, Lindsey Jerdonek and Tommy Zaferes team up for $7,000 winners take.
See this bike? That was the state of the art if you were racing more than a quarter-century ago. We’ve come a long way since.
Ben Kanute of the U.S. and Angela Naeth of Canada win swim-canceled Boston Triathlon.
Heather Jackson won wire-to-wire by 14:59 over Jen Annett of Canada and 24:35 over Sarah Piampiano of the U.S.
Derek Murphy is the man behind the marathoninvestigation.com site and his stories are often shared in our forum. He had a chat with us about cheaters in marathons and triathlons.
