Lucero’s cotillion

One of triathlon's most exciting new bikes will have its formal coming out party today or tomorrow, depending on the time zone of the reader. On Thursday, January 13th, at Mission Bay's downtown store.

Magazine reshuffle

America's three glossy monthlies became two some months ago, when American Tri folded itself into Inside Triathlon and absorbed its editor/publisher Kyle DuFord.

The Art of Product Management

Yes, your favorite companies' product managers were all over in Taipei working on next year's bikes. They're working hard, no-doubt, but are they designing and spec'ing good bikes?

The bike biz

With Interbike right around the corner I thought I'd write a bit about how the bike business works—not everything about it, but the nuts and bolts of how a bike gets from the "paper napkin sketch" to your local bike shop's showroom floor.

The trademark

One would be hard-pressed to come up with an industry, activity or economy in which one single trademark is more powerful or over-arching than in triathlon, and the trade name is Ironman.

Rise and fall of a triathlon series

Races are hard to produce. The bigger the race, the bigger the headache; the greater the expense; the more hand-wringing the stress; the more sleep-depriving the risk.