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Zipp Firecrest 404s are the new 808s

During the development of the Firecrest 404 wheels, Zipp engineers decided to take a slightly different approach than has typically been used in thinking about and designing the rim shape. So, what's the bottom line? How well did the engineers do?

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses using a Garmin Edge 500 with a PowerTap, using the Garmin FR310XT during the swim, and some heart-rate training resources.

What We Have Noticed: Giro, Wouter, GU…

This week we noticed the Giro Selector TT helmet, a very cool Wouter Weylandt memorial t-shirt, the GU Roctane Chocolate Raspberry, the 2012 Norseman race(s) and an interesting way to protect your bike from rain.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray compares the Garmin GTU to the Spot Tracker, discusses how to create CompuTrainer files from GPS files, and laments the lack of do-it-all HRM strap.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers using multiple ANT+ devices at the same time, how to connect a magnet to a HED3 wheel and Forerunner screen protectors.

A closer look at Rafael

We recently visited Rafael Hoffleit in Germany to look closer at his bikes and understand a bit more about this designer whose bikes are hand crafted in Germany.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray goes into detail on the sport by sport differences between the newly announced Garmin FR610 and the older FR310XT.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray looks at Bluetooth heart rate strap monitors, ANT+ cell phone clients and app options, and a review of smartphone clients.