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Jan. 8, 2009Mavic announces R-SYS recall
Mavic has issued a voluntary recall of its R-SYS front wheels, the company announced this week.
Mavic is advising consumers not to use the front wheels from any of its R-SYS wheelsets (R-SYS, R-SYS Test and R-SYS Premium) because of the possible ...
Jan. 6, 2009Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - The tall man's dilemma
A tall man’s dilemmaDear Lennard,As a tall rider (6-foot-5 and a 36-inch inseam), what recommendations do you have for selecting a road bike: ● Are there some manufacturers whose frames are better suited to the tall rider? ...
Jan. 5, 2009Cycling training logs for the Macintosh
Editor's Note: Drew Geer is an endurance mountain bike racer who has been using a computer training log since 1998 and has hand-written training logs going back to 1972. He's been an Apple Mac user since 1984. Geer paid retail for each of ...
Dec. 30, 2008Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn: Torque wrenches and temps; shifting and shimmy
Torque wrenches and temperature ranges
Dear Lennard,
I own both deflecting beam and click-type (Giustaforza) torque wrenches. They are stored in my garage where the temperature can get below freezing in the winter and over 100 degrees ...
Dec. 23, 2008Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Rim remnants and the great mix-and-match debate
Ridding the rim of remnants Dear Lennard, I have some carbon tubular rims that I glued Vredestein Fortezzas into, and when I removed them there were parts of the casing stuck to the rim (I think it might have been latex that ...
Dec. 16, 2008Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn: Electric shifting and eclectic componentry
Electric D-A: Why not a little step instead of a big leap?
Dear Lennard,
Great review of the new electronic Dura-Ace in this month’s VeloNews. I have to say there have been a lot of comments about the “why?” of electric and it ...
Dec. 13, 2008Jeremy Powers' Cannondale
At first glance, Jeremy Powers' Cannondale looks like a fairly standard pro mount: a Cannondale aluminum frame with Mavic wheels and SRAM Red parts. Closer examination reveals a few interesting aspects because of Powers' preferences and those of his ...
Dec. 13, 2008Andy Jacques-Maynes' Specialized
A former road bike product manager at Specialized, Andy Jacques-Maynes has an eye for detail when it comes to bikes, and has the advantage of riding a frame he helped design.
Jacques-Maynes won the 30-34 national cyclocross championships for the ...
Dec. 13, 2008Ryan Trebon's Kona Major Jake
Ryan Trebon's Kona Major Jake is very similar to the mount that he's been racing on for the last few years, except for the change to Challenge tubular this season.
Trebon also switched from 175 to 177.5 mm cranks this fall just before the ...
Dec. 13, 2008Georgia Gould's Orbea
Georgia Gould's Orbea is a simple, solid race machine. Gould runs virtually all Shimano parts, and is one of the few top pros to use clinchers (although sharp eyes might have noticed her on some blackwall tubulars at nationals).
She also prefers ...
Dec. 12, 2008Compton switches to Shimano
Just days before she attempts to win her fifth national cyclocross title, Katie Compton and her husband/mechanic Mark Legg have decided to switch from a hodge podge of Shimano and Campagnolo drivetrain components to a new set of Dura-Ace 7900 ...
Dec. 9, 2008Testing tubular cyclocross tires from Challenge, Dugast and Tufo
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