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Bike fit systems: marketing or advocacy?

 Specialized and Trek each have a bike school for retailers, joining Serotta and perhaps soon other bike makers. How do you know when the point of a school is education or whether it's just marketing?
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A new angle on seatposts

 Three new seatposts are on the market in 2009, adding flexibility to the positional options available to those riding certain Orbea, Quintana Roo and Kuota bikes.
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Mid-priced tri bikes

 For those who're looking toward a bike they'll keep for a long stretch, but won't have to make payments over a long stretch, here's our first round look at your price category: $2500 to $3000
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Tri bike distribution

 Certainly the tri/tt bikes ridden by Chris McCormack and Lance Armstrong are on showroom floors near you. Or are they? Why aren't you seeing more Transitions, Equinoxes, Trinity Alliances, on retail display?
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Open Up and Say “Ah(mazing)”: Oakley JAWBONE

 Oakley’s new Jawbone sunglasses set a new benchmark for sport sunglasses. With the customarily outstanding optics and fit that Oakley is known for, it is the ease of changing lenses that really puts these new shades a cut above.
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Stability shoes: Part 2

 In running shoes the Stability category (perhaps more appropriately termed "Structured Cushioning") contains many popular models triathletes favor. Here are the Spring 09 offerings from Nike and New Balance.
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Tri bike reader opinions

 It's been almost 2 years since we polled Slowtwitchers on what bikes they admire, and to which they aspire. Here are the results of a recent set of polls, compared to what you all said in July of 2007
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2nd step tri from Fuji and Giant

 Not very many tri bikes exist in that $1900 to $2400 price range, even though many dealers will tell you this is the "new" entry level tri bike price category. Here's a pair of such bikes, from Fuji and Giant.
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World’s first fit-certified dog

 A female lab mix named Charlee has attended each of 40 F.I.S.T. tri bike fit workshops held at the Slowtwitch compound. Somewhere along the way, she acquired the ability to distinguish good bike positions from bad
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Crank arm lengths for tri

 The question is more common among road riders than triathletes, but is probably more impactful on the latter group: what crank length should you ride? The answer is counterintuitive; probably the opposite of what you think.
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2nd step from Felt, Orbea

 Here are Felt's B16 and Orbea's Aletta, each bikes inside of that $2000 to $2350 price range, a category that's a step up from entry-level, but still affordable.