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Andy Jacques-Maynes’ Slice

Andy Jacques-Maynes of the Kenda / 5-hour Energy Pro Cycling team is the current race leader at the Sea Otter Classic, and here is a look at his Cannondale Slice TT bike.

The Felt F1 of Matt Cooke

Matt Cooke of Team Exergy won the road race at the Sea Otter Classic yesterday and is currently sitting in 3rd place overall. We decided to take a closer look at his Felt F1 race bike.

Ray’s Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this installment of our Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray gives his own thoughts on the new Suunto Ambit and whether it not it's a good match for triathletes, the Garmin GTU-10 personal tracker, and choosing between the CycleOps PowerBeam Pro and the Tacx Bushido trainers.

Optimizing all Road Riding Positions

Seated, hands-on-hoods is one of five. If you've been fitted only to this position, you bought one-fifth of a proper fit session. All five postures inform both bike and handlebar geometries.

A look at Magnic Light

We all like to be seen in traffic and we might be all maybe a bit more enthusiastic about lights if we only did not have to deal with batteries or dynamos. The solution might be Magnic Light.

Bottom Bracket Standards

The irony is that the newest, most relevant bottom bracket standards, such as BB90 and BB30, aren’t about bottom brackets. They’re about frame construction, and frame stiffness.

Road Bike Fit

This road bike fit protocol is designed to work with fit bikes that adjust horizontally and vertically; to take advantage of stack and reach data matching; and to consider all the positions common to road bike riding.

Armstrong on his Tri Bike

Things are changing for Lance. Like, his position. What goes around comes around, and he's laregely come back 'round to his pre-bike-race tri position, with an assist from Slowtwitch forum members.

Frame Stiffness

What follows below may be a line of reasoning I have to eventually repudiate. My intention is to deliver my thesis with maximum caution and minimum hubris, in case I need to eat crow later.

Stance Width

Published here stance width recasted, which includes (this time) the devastatingly obtuse fact omitted in this article's original publication. Stance width and q factor are discrete metrics, of course.