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Cannondale SuperSix EVO Hi-Mod Dura Ace
This quintessential race bike combines a lightweight carbon fiber frame with beefed-up tube shapes that maintain power-preserving stiffness and deliver precise point-and-shoot handling. Never has diving into tight turns during a hotly contested criterium seemed so casual. The SuperSix EVO Hi-Mod comes in a variety of builds, including the best-in-class Shimano mechanical Dura Ace, which helps keep cost and weight down compared to electronic shifting systems, but sacrifices almost nothing when it comes to reliability and precision. Key frame geometry metrics such as head tube angle, stack, and reach vary through the expansive eight size line-up, assuring a close-to-custom fit for riders small and tall.
Price: $5,330
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2016 Buyer's Guide: Best Beginner's Bikes
Whether you’re looking to start riding on the road, trail, or even snow, these 12 bikes can help get you on the right path to two-wheeled fun, adventure, and maybe even the start line of a raceBY JASON SUMNER MARCH 2, 2
The name of this bike was derived from the phrase “clean slate,” and that’s exactly how Cannondale approached one of the most interesting bikes to hit the market in recent memory. The aluminum-framed rig combines the frame geometry, drop bars, quick handling, and efficient feel of a road bike, with 30mm of bump-absorbing front suspension, 27.5” wheels, and 42mm tubeless tires that are closer to those you’d find on a mountain bike. The end result is a bike that can be ridden almost anywhere. Start out with a causal (or speedy) bike path spin, then hop on some dirt singletrack. Or do the opposite. It’s totally up to you with this stable-handling bike.
RELATED: Our First Ride on the Ultra-Capable Cannondale Slate
Price: $2,980
Info: http://www.cannondale.com
http://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/newbikemo/2016-buyers-guide-best-road-race-bikes/cannondale-supersix-evo-hi-mod-dura-ace
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Self-inflicted wounds new
Written by: Dan Empfield Added: Mon Mar 21 2016
I resolved to list self-inflicted wounds that sabotage performances of age group triathletes. These would be common habits or behaviors I've noticed over my 35 years in the sport that are easy to avoid or correct with little or no spend. I'm an avid fan of the past and throughout history famous men are honored with nicknames. Frederick the Great. William the Conqueror. Ivan the Terrible. My favorite nickname is Ethelred the Unready. How would you like to go down in history known as the Unready?
I'm an avid fan of the past and throughout history famous men are honored with nicknames. Frederick the Great. William the Conqueror. Ivan the Terrible. My favorite nickname is Ethelred the Unready. How would you like to go down in history known as the Unready?
A lot of what goes wrong in triathlon is due to a lack of readiness and it's understandable. Getting ready for a tri feels more like packing and moving to a new home than simply heading out for a morning race. Here are a few thoughts on the subject.
I'll start with my list of things to bring to a race, certainly not exhaustive. Below is not my entire list; it is beyond the specific swim, bike and run needs:
• Cash: Surprise! They charge for parking.
• Toilet paper: You just never know.
• Mini shovel: You just never know.
• Flashlight or Headlight: I like to get to the race in plenty of time.
• Transition bag: Look at my list; I need to strategize my carry.
• Largish towel on which to lay out my transition set-up.
• Smallish towel in case I need to wipe the sand off my feet.
• Tray for water to step in if it's a beach or sand run to transition.
• Allen and Torx wrench sets; pliers; screwdrivers; plastic tape.
• Floor pump: For me and for those who didn't bring one.
• Clothing layers for hands, head, feet, chest: Weather is fickle.
• Chamois cream.
• Black felt Sharpie: In case the numbering line is too long.
• Flip-flops.
I like to get to the race early. I plan to show up about 90 minutes before the start. I hate not having a convenient place to park; getting a bad transition spot; having no transition spot because my assigned space has been filled up by my neighbors'expansive ideas on their rightful transition real estate. I hate long porta-potty lines.
First thing: Visit the porta-john. Get your first one out of the way. I check out the entry and exit routes in and out of transition, for both transitions, and learn what the rules are in transition (ride or not in transition; mount and dismount; walk or run with the bike in transition). I like to take a nice long warm-up in the water, starting 20 to 30 minutes before my wave leaves. I swim out a ways, look back, see what the swim finish looks like from in the water so that I'm familiar with it when I'm swimming in. I make darned sure of the swim course; that I know the purpose of all the buoys, and which buoys need to be kept on which side. I consider what the conditions are likely to be when I'm swimming; if the sun will be rising during my swim; will I have the sun in my eyes and at what point during the swim? If it's a surf or river swim I consider side currents that might impact my ability to arrive at, and not be swept past, the buoy. I look for the shortest line from the start to the buoy, which might inform my choice of place on the start line.
The above list, and the preparation described, might be obsessive but I promise you that every single item above, every line, every bullet point or piece of advice is based on a need I did not anticipate and for which I was unprepared, or a crisis to which I fell victim. The ways in which one can fail in triathlon are legion and my history is riddled with bullets shot into me by me.
Ethelred's nickname was unfairly translated. The translation is not unprepared, rather ill-advised. He ascended to the throne of England at the age of 10, and he was the victim of bad counsel. I hope you have not been the victim of bad counsel in what you've read today.Today's installment focused on the way's I've screwed myself before the gun ever went off. In future installments I'll write about how I've sabotaged my race in each of the three disciplines.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/Features/Self-inflicted_wounds_5687.html
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