Lance on his Adamo-equipped Speed Concept blasting down the Queen K in Kona. Yarn pieces show areas of laminar vs turbulent flow. This position is far improved over his position at this time last year… Lance Armstrong Rides Here is his TT position in The Tour of CA last year – not pretty: The above […]
Check out this vid of Lance’s new Trek Speed Concept TT bike – complete with an Adamo road saddle… There is no sponsorship in place here, so this is totally his own choice. I have heard rumors of many of the Pro Tour Teams at least training with Adamos on their TT bikes, and I […]
This past Saturday Felipe Bastos visited us (he flew in from Alabama!) to work with me on his bike fit, and with Coach Al Lyman and myself on his run form. (Check out Felipe’s blog post here) I had worked with Felipe before on his bike fit via video, but he now has a brand […]
We’ve all seen it. A lot. Maybe YOU are even guilty of spacer abuse. Yes that’s right, spacer abuse: the egregious stacking of several centimeters of spacers on the carbon steerer tubes of our multi-$K carbon aero tri rockets. “So what” you say – A: The bike came with a fat stack of spacers, and […]
The previous stack and reach measurements published for the forthcoming Kestrel 4000 were off in several spots. Steve Harad forwarded me the updated values a few days ago, and it is clear that Kestrel is positioning the 4000 more towards the short-and-high (reach-stack) end of the spectrum in the middle (and most popular) portion of […]
This video was graciously forwarded to me by Craig Harris. Simon Whitfield et al. running sub-5 on grass. 1 mile and 2mile repeats. This is RUNNING. What I do is some other “sport” (slogging?). If you watch this and actually SEE what is going on with these athletes, how they use mobility and functional strength […]
Our friend and pro triathlete Alex McDonald stopped by the TriFitLab today to do a little position optimization on the TTFitBike. We have worked with Alex on his position before, but he is set to get a new bike this year, and he was very interested to try out the FitBike prototype. After checking out […]
The 3rd and final part…
More Kona Run-Form:
There is lots to be learned from motion analysis of the top runners in Kona. So much so that I had to break it up into 3 videos. Below is part 1 of 3.
