We encountered Chris Legh on the Queen K highway during the 2013 Ironman Kona week and he kindly stopped and let us look closer at his Trek Speed Concept.
by Herbert Krabel, October 7, 2013
Continental quietly unveiled a new version of their popular GP4000 S tire at Eurobike this year. We got in touch with them for more tech information to satisfy our tire geeks.
The weekend before Kona brought world class runs and finish times at Challenge Barcelona, World Cup sprint wins by Olympic medalists, and great bike splits at Life Time Fitness Dallas.
No dominant force, a few key players missing, some usual favorites battling physical woes and many talented contenders make the Ironman World Championship women’s elite race maddeningly difficult to pick
We look at a very cool Kickstarter campaign called Rideye. This device is a small video camera and ‘blackbox’ recorder for your bicycle that can detect a crash.
Attention Slowtwitchers! For one week only, Specialized will match your donation to the WBR Charity Challenge! Read on to find out more.
Jessie Donavan is in Kona to race the Ironman World Championships for the first time. The 2013 Ironman South Africa champion though appears to be calm and collected and has her family with her for support.
Haley Chura is likely going to be the first female out of the water, but unlike in previous years she is now a Pro and many more eyes and cameras will be on that fast Team Dynamo Atlanta super fish.
Czech Pro Radka Vodičková has spent most of the summer in North America and has now quite a few titles to her name. Slowtwitch.com checked in with this nomadic traveling Pro to see what she is up to.
Taking on the impossible task of Ironman World Championship predictions once again, this humble prognosticator thinks that Eneko Llanos, Pete Jacobs and Andreas Raelert will go 1-2-3 atop the talented men’s pro field.
Guy Crawford is about to head to Kona where he will be busy with various promotional activities, including but not limited to the Coffees of Hawaii boat blueseventy representation. We checked in with the man who is known as Captain Awesome.
We finally have another edition of the popular Pros with their dogs feature. So meet now the very diverse collection of Pro pooches from around the world.
We dissect the pros and cons of both electronic and mechanical shift systems. Which should you choose and why? Is one inherently faster than the other?
In early September of this year TriDubai founder Roy Nasr was killed by an admitted drunk driver and that 24-year old male has now been sentenced to a month in jail. This is unbelievably sad and makes this editor’s blood boil.
In the final week of September, we bring reports from around the globe including a World Cup in Spain, a French Grand Prix sprint final, an Ironman 70.3 from Georgia and the Los Angeles Triathlon.
This is our video recap of Rev3 Branson 2013 from the athlete’s point of view. Our Tech Editor attended with his bike and a few cameras.
Meredith Novack was looking for a personal challenge and found it with a quest to break a record for a round trip Lanai-Maui swim.
In addition to the big race in Kona there are also several must-do other events going on. New this year is a 2.4 mile open water swim on October 5th, but there is plenty more.
We share our key observations and commentary about Interbike 2013. Other than a venue change to Mandalay Bay, what were the key differences from years past?
Tony Martin won the men’s individual TT World Championship today and we have a nice selection of images from the start to allow us closer inspect the setups.
2013 Ironman Europe champion Camilla Pedersen of Denmark has been taken out of a medically induced coma 19 days after a bike crash during training in her home town of Esbjerg and is now breathing on her own.
We take a look at the new Felt DA of Minnesota-based David Thompson. It features SRAM Red, a Quarq power meter, Zipp wheels, and a custom computer mount.
It had been discussed in our forum about 2 weeks ago and today it became official that a second Ironman event will take place in Brazil, this one in Fortaleza, a beach community in Northeastern Brazil.
We take a look at a few new headlights and taillights at Interbike 2013. There is a mix of expensive, inexpensive, bright, fun, and even strange.
About a month ago Felt launched the new IA bike and they quickly made sure that Mirinda Carfrae had one in her hands. We now look at the bike fit of this new bike.
