I was giggling like a school-girl... I'd just received the call from Dizzy Cycles - my local wrench-meisters and shop 'o choice, advising me that it had arrived. The Trek 5900 that is. The same bike* that Trek provides to Lance and the US Postal boys! I giggled some more.

Hot off the Test Bench, a few great reasons to keep those tubs and carbon wheel set-ups alive! We check out the Campi2000 pads from Koolstop, and Tufo's high pressure tires & Adhesive Tape. A few more reasons not to fear Tubulars and Carbon wheels…

There is some excellent training diary software out there designed specifically for endurance athletes, so it’s time to retire those arcane spreadsheet programs to the recycle bin on your desktop, and embrace the new technologies as friends. PCN’s sport scientist and favorite geek Stephen Cheung introduces us to Stevens Creek Software’s “The Athlete's Diary”…

The latest bike on the test bench features multi-shaped chain and Seat stays, the latest in Carbo-Aliminum tube set, an all carbon fork that hovers around well under a pound a Carbon Seat Post and Head set. The only problem is it doesn’t cost enough…

We're not in Kansas anymore! My initial shock soon wore off after I opened the box containing the latest and greatest road shoe from Nike. Is that candy apple red? There it was, shining proudly in the box... behold the Poggio II! What snapped me out of my halucinatory trip down the yellow-brick road was that I could barely feel the weight of these shoes in my hands...

Turns out the PCN Tech Dept. has a torn quad that is keeping him of the bike and his wife looking for reasons to get out of the house... What better time than to check out one of the lightest bottle cages around...

Just in from the Techdesk - this review of the latest release of CrossTrak's Training Diary Software. Stephen Cheung, resident PCN-PhD and science geek, submits for your consideration this analysis...

After getting a few Emails about the Polar S-710, most asking about an alternative to a $700+/- training tool, the new unit from CICLOSPORT hits the test bench at just the right time!

It is with great regret that we publish the story on American Classics 38mm Carbon wheels. It means that I have run out of reasons to tell the folks at American Classic that they require “Further evaluation” and also puts me one step closer to having to give them up.