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Magura unveils road converter

Magura finally unveiled the long anticipated hydraulic road lever conversion option at Sea Otter Classic called simply MC1. Magura also finally showed off their RT6 TT brake.

Rough and tumble beauty

Lesley Paterson played rugby with the boys and danced ballet as a kid, wrote, produced and acted in films and videos, won 70.3s, fought Lyme disease, modeled swimsuits and is the 2011 XTERRA World Champion.

Hewitt leads NZ Olympic squad

New Zealand names its Olympic triathlon team – Andrea Hewitt, Kris Gemmell, Bevan Docherty, Nicky Samuels, Ryan Sissons, and Kate McIlroy – Debbie Tanner and Clark Ellice are reserves.

What We Have Noticed: Rotor, 3T and more

This week we took a look at the Rotor 3D + cranks, the 3T Zefiro bars, a Tour de France periodic table poster, Coco Cafe coconut water, Converse Chuck Taylor shoes and the 2012 Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic.

Olympic Dreams In Peril

Breakdowns in communication and planning have imperiled the Olympic dreams of several of USAT's elite athletes. As USAT prepares to host a WTS race doubling as an Olympic Trials, few American athletes are set to compete.

A day with Industry Nine

We recently had the opportunity to visit Industry Nine Components in Asheville, NC and here is a gallery of images of the day in the life of that cool brand.

Stoltz, Bucher take XTERRA West

Conrad Stoltz of South Africa outraced Josiah Middaugh of Vail, Colorado and Renata Bucher of Switzerland held off Lesley Paterson of Scotland in a photo finish to win the XTERRA West Championship at Las Vegas.

Justus is served at Sydney

Steffen Justus of Germany won his first ITU World Triathlon Series event with a victory at Sydney; Richard Murray of South Africa took a breakthrough 2nd and Laurent Vidal of France was 3rd.

Densham tops Sydney WTS

Erin Densham follows Mooloolaba win with spectacular victory at Sydney WTS, makes significant bid to make Australian Olympic team; Helen Jenkins 2nd, Andrea Hewitt 3rd.

The Moki Martin story

How a skinny kid from Maui became a Navy SEAL, a Vietnam hero, one of triathlon’s first wave and the founder of the SUPERFROG Triathlon – now approaching its 34th year.

A day in the life of Cane Creek

Cane Creek is best known for their headsets, but this Fletcher, NC based company does much more than that. We visited Cane Creek for a day to see what they are about.