IMAZ update
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 11:07AM Jordan Rapp is in the lead!!!! Follow him at http://ironman.com/events/ironman/arizona/?show=coverage. Go to the 2010 Race coverage link and it will bring you to the live coverage updates. You can also track him and David Yockelson- Rapp's race number is #1, Yockelson is #1599. Best of luck to them both!



Up until the eighties, no adequate method had been found to measure performance on a bike in training or racing, you still had to rely on lab testing instead. This meant that athletes were forced to go back and forth between their real performance - cycling on the road or cross country - and the ergometer in the lab. With lab testing, they still couldn't tell how their performance had changed over a period of a few hours, either in a race or in training. Lab testing was an intermittent check-up, at best, but couldn't tell athletes anything about how they were performing day-to-day. And the most important performance - during competition - couldn't be tested. Today the SRM Training System has become standard equipment for the world's leading professionals in cycling and triathlon such as Lance Armstrong, Greg Lemond, Mario Cippolini, Paolo Bettini, Erik Zabel, Nicole Cooke, Kristin Armstrong, Amber Neben, Sabine Spitz, Mark Cavendish, Bert Grabsch, Normann Stadler and many others, for national teams, sport universities, coaches and all recreational athletes who take training seriously. For years now they have being using the SRM Training System as a reliable and indispensable training instrument in cycling, and now professional athletes from other sports, such as NHL hockey players, cross-country skiers and Formula One drivers have started using them as well.
acrylic fiber at high temperature. These fibers are then woven into cloth, which is relatively easy to work with and allows tremendous design freedom. Trying to duplicate our wheel shapes in aluminum and maintain light weights would be impossible. We don't even try. Carbon can be molded into whatever shape or structure best suits the design, and each layer's strength and weight can be specified to tune in perfect ride and strength characteristics. Try doing that with any other material. Carbon fiber's strength to weight ratio and large variety of fabric strengths and weaves allow us to make wheels that are not only light and rigid, but also strong and durable. Steve began what was to become his vocation in humble fashion, working on an aero wheel in his garage at home. This quickly led to an interest in all things aerodynamic. Detailed study of the subject followed, eventually focusing on aerodynamic principles in relation to bicycle wheels. By this time, the initial interest had developed into an obsession. Many more home grown wheels followed, and then Steve paid the first of dozens of visits to a wind tunnel. His ideas began to take shape. Over the next few years, the business grew, and more expertise was introduced in the form of carbon fiber and resin specialists. Now, 20 years later, HED cycling products designs and manufactures 16 different models of composite wheels, exported worldwide and used in events from the Tour de France to the Hawaii Ironman to the pretigious North Oaks triathlon championship. Every single wheel is still handmade. Minnesota sure is a long way from Mesopotamia, but some things never change.



