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Ray’s Weekly Sports Electronics Mailbag

 The second installment of our new weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics with Ray Maker of DCRainmaker.com covers a question about the Vector from Metrigear and various other items.
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Extensions overhaul

 We need to overhaul extension shapes. After much experimentation, what have we learned? The spatial relationship between armrests and extensions is important, and, no more horizontal grips.
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Memo to bike maker: change spec

 How often are bikes spec'd from the manufacturer in ways destined to give the customer a fighting chance of riding the bike successfully without swapping parts?
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The final Slice

 As many Slowtwitchers know, I and the Slice I rode in the Tour of California time trial did not deliver each other safely to the finish line. Nevertheless, I did promise readers a recap of that Slice.
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The Slice is built (sort of)

 As the late senator Moynihan put it, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own math." Okay, he said facts, not math, but the idea is the same. But now on to that Cannondale Slice.
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52cm sizing comparison

 At about 51cm or 52cm you enter a size range where just about everybody's bikes are built with 700c wheels. Here, there's a convergence of geometry, but a divergence in handling.
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58cm sizing comparison

 When you get to the 58cm size, tri bikes diverge geometrically. Why? Because they can. The height of these bikes is similar, one to the next. But in reach, there's more of a divergence.
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Inputs and outputs: Volume 2

 What is important? What ought to matter? The answers depend on who you are and what are you're trying to achieve. You are a tri bike's designer, for the purpose here; good steering geometry the goal.
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Small bike sizing comparison

 Are you 5'6" or shorter, or have an interest in one who is? Here is an assortment of small tri bikes, and where they fall along the geometric gradient of long, short, tall and narrow.
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Inputs and Outputs: Volume 1

 In about a month, I'll have two bikes in my garage: a P3 and a Slice. The P3 was an output, that is, it was the result of a process. The Slice was an input: It commenced a process. Confused? Let me explain.