Gear & Tech Review: Suunto Spartan Trainer HR Multi-Sport Watch, A Tidy Watch at a Tidy Price I have to admit I’m an absolute Garmin addict. I think I have purchased and reviewed every watch since my Triathlon career started, so objectivity of a review aside, I went into the review slightly bias. However having used the Suunto Spartan for the last few weeks, my loyalty has begun to waver and By David Deakin • 6 min read
Gear & Tech Group Workouts Lands At Zwift to Brings Cycling To The Masses Zwift, the global online fitness platform for cyclists, has launched Zwift Group Workouts, its newest training feature, following a successful Beta trial. Much like races and group ride events, Zwifters can now register for Group Workouts online and using the Zwift Mobile Link smartphone App. In Gro By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech Review: EliteHRV, a simple yet powerful platform enabling the measurement of Heart Rate Variability EliteHRV provides a comprehensive and free app for athletes to track their heart rate variability (HRV), offering insights into their autonomic nervous system and aiding in training efficiency. By David Deakin • 6 min read
Gear & Tech Quintana Roo Unveils Its All-New PRsix Disc Triathlon Bike American Bicycle Group (ABG), the manufacturer of award-winning high-performance bicycles – Litespeed (LS) and Quintana Roo (QR) – this week unveiled its all-new PRsix Disc Series of triathlon bikes at the IRONMAN World Championships in Kona. Disc brakes enhance safety and reliability and are openin By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech Review: KuaiFit Multisport headphones, not your usual set of sports headphones The complicated and over catered for sports headphone market is certainly jam-packed with products competing for your aural dollar. Most of the headphones are simply 'sportified' copies of the standard headphone (with a price tag to match), with limited, if any benefit to a multi-sport a By David Deakin • 8 min read
Gear & Tech 3 Reasons Why You Should Look at The New Wahoo Kickr + Kickr Climb The new Wahoo Kickr Climb is the best way to get more out of your indoor training thanks to increased bike compatibility and integration with real-time gradient training. New developments make your indoor training more realistic than ever before to enhance your fitness and make the most of your indo By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech Danish Start-up Launches the World’s First Custom Fitted Swimming Goggles New Danish technology has paved the way for the world's first custom fitted swimming goggles, making the swimwear comfortable and 100 percent waterproof. The product is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter until October 31st. Have you ever experienced water leakage or discomfort with your swimming By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech CorSense HRV Monitor: Optimise Health and Fitness Without Wearables Elite HRV, creators of the popular heart rate variability (HRV) app and platform, has launched the CorSense via a global Kickstarter campaign. CorSense is an HRV sensor that slips onto any size fingertip. With CorSense, in just two minutes/day, users can optimize nutrition, training, recovery, sleep and stress without By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech Do Your TrainingPeaks workouts in Zwift Are you a TrainingPeaks user and also love using Zwift on those days that aren't great to be outdoors? Well, today marks a significant step forward for both companies as the integration just got a whole heap better for us. Many of us are using TrainingPeaks because our coach uses it and they p By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech Argon 18 Launches Cutting Edge Technology Notio Konect Argon 18, the international high-performance bicycle company, has announced the launch of Notio Konect evolving their 2016 Smart Bike Prototype, which debuted at last year’s Eurobike Show. Notio Konect, the first cutting edge innovation of the newly launched company Notio Technologies Inc, will be p By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech MIPS Debuts New Brain Safety Products MIPS, the premier brain safety technology company, is offering their patented impact protection system in two new platforms that drastically increase the compatible helmet types and models. Both new platforms are built upon the same decades of research and study that went into the flagship MIPS syst By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech TrainingPeaks Announces New Peak Performances Feature TrainingPeaks has announced the launch of Peak Performances, a new feature for TrainingPeaks web and mobile applications. As the leader in performance-based training and athlete management software, TrainingPeaks saw a need to make progress easier to track outside of just testing and racing. With th By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech CeramicSpeed Introduces World’s Fastest Chain Coating After more than 4,000 hours of lab and field testing, Friction Facts and CeramicSpeed now introduce the world’s fastest bottled chain product. UFO Drip Chain Coating is a breakthrough product. It began as a project with very specific goals, which at its core, shares the same DNA that defines the res By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech Shimano PRO’S Fastest Tri-Spoke Wheel Now Available as a Clincher Joining the tri-spoke tubular and rear disc clincher wheels in its line-up, PRO now releases its Tri-spoke Clincher front wheel designed for triathletes and time trialists. Whilst tubular wheels are the racing choice of the pro’s, it’s not possible to quickly repair a punctured tubular. Riders who p By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Don’t throw it, its not a boomerang Gear & Tech Review: OTTO Tuning System – App for Adjusting Your Bike Gears Correctly indexing your gears can be a lost art for some. Enter the OTTO Tuning System. The system looks to remove the complexity by leveraging an innovative combination of tool and app combo to remove the thinking and give you a bike shop like tune up in minutes. But is it worth the investment? Let By David Deakin • 3 min read
Gear & Tech Suunto Introduces Compact, Lightweight Spartan Trainer Wrist HR GPS Watch The Suunto Spartan family of sports watches grows today with the launch of Spartan Trainer Wrist HR, the slim and lightweight multisport GPS watch for active sports enthusiast. The Spartan Trainer is considerably smaller in size than its older siblings, yet delivers great, versatile training feature By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech CeramicSpeed launches double 14-tooth Eagle Pulley Wheels Pulley wheels specifically made to fit the SRAM Eagle 12-speed groupset, now go under the name CeramicSpeed Eagle 14. The number 14 refers to a 14/14-tooth design in the pulleys. Part of the developing process has been to have Specialized Racing test two different versions of the Eagle Pulley Wheels By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech Does having a lead moto provide drafting rider performance? Lead out motos may inadvertently offer athletes a significant drafting advantage, affecting race outcomes; balancing excellent coverage with fair competition requires education and strategic positioning of camera operators. By Andrew Buckrell • 4 min read
Gear & Tech Final Surge’s New iOS App Sets a New Standard for Mobile Training Log Apps Today Final Surge has released their new 2nd generation iOS App that sets a new standard for mobile training log apps (Android coming in October 2017). The Final Surge App makes it so easy to track workouts that workouts actually get tracked… and the tracking contains the detailed data needed to opt By Shawn Smith • 2 min read
Gear & Tech 5 Tips for Selecting the Right Triathlon Bike Delve into the profound relationship between a triathlete and their bicycle, and discover key tips to choose, adjust, and connect with the most critical piece of equipment in triathlon. By Tim Van Berkel • 4 min read
The Scicon AeroComfort 3.0 in all it's glory. Gear & Tech Review: Scicon AeroComfort 3.0 Travel Bag – Worth the Upgrade? Review of the upgraded Scicon AreoComfort 3.0 bike travel bag from Scicon. By David Deakin • 6 min read
Gear & Tech Strava Unveils Club Posts, the Newest Way for Groups of Athletes to Connect Today Strava introduces club posts, the newest way to share content and information on the social network for athletes. Strava club admins can now share a variety of posts with club members including announcements, questions, stories, photos, routes and segments, articles, product reviews, and other By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Gear & Tech How much does drafting really affect your bike performance? Triathlon, often considered an individual sport, can benefit from drafting on the bike, with computational fluid dynamics revealing that even at a 15m following distance, there is a 9% drag reduction. By Andrew Buckrell • 4 min read
Gear & Tech Shimano Ultegra R8000 lighter, faster and the best shifting you’ve ever tried Shimano has a new workhorse Ultegra group set – the Ultegra R8000. Here’s everything you need to know. Highlights Higher performance stopping power with hydraulic disc brakes Enhanced shifting customisability with Di2 shifting leavers and new top-hood Di2 buttons Shifting simplicity with synch By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
