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Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses the benefits of Computrainer Ergo Mode, covers the best GPS for skiing, and offers a comparison of the Timex Global Trainer and Garmin 310XT.

Steering Levers

Almost all attention in bike fit is given to the fit coordinates while in the aero position. But, pursuit contact points relative to saddles, armrests, and the steering axis is probably the next area deserving investigation.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses how to use your Garmin 310XT for all three legs of a triathlon, working with CompuTrainer's occasionally erratic HR sensor, and selecting a book for HR-based training.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers a handful of questions on Garmin and their nearly ubiquitous training devices as well as how to do an FTP test using a Computrainer.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on the limits of Garmin's headunits, CompuTrainer software, and the new Nike watch designed and built in partnership with TomTom.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on waterproof (or not-so-waterproof) devices and their role in training. And a satellite question on fitting the Garmin 800 on aerobars.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers five questions on the favorite accessory of every gear geek stuck inside during the winter - the speed and distance footpod.

Evil stems and spacers

The defining fit characteristics of bikes are no longer solely contained in the frame. Or even the aerobars. Today's superbikes focus on the sins of the stem and anything round sitting above the frame.

Bikes as fit constructs

Bicycles are constructs of assemblies. Of course you know this already! But I'm talking strictly about how bikes fit. The notion that a frame alone determines fit is entirely wrong.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on color options for Garmin's Forerunner 210, high-end scales from Withings and Tanita, and the difficulties with getting raw heart rate data for analysis.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on Garmin footpod orientation, and suggestions for waterproof watches and HR monitors for women.

Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

In this week's installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on the best computer software for Mac users, the new Garmin 210, and whether or not the Garmin 305 is going the way of the dodo.