The front derailleur has long been the bane of the mechanical components of a bicycle.  While some perfectly set-up front derailleurs, like Shimano’s Di2, are immense improvements over what front derailleurs used to be, there is no escaping that the front derailleur is a rather primitive component by necessity.  There remains room for improvement in […]Read More

Happy Thanksgiving!  Fit Werx 2 in Peabody, MA will be closed from 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 24th until Tuesday, November 30th at 9:00 a.m. We will also be closed on Saturday, December 4th.  Have a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving.   We are so grateful for the opportunity to work with clients/friends like you. Best Wishes, […]Read More

Ride Throughout the World from Home With the time change and colder temperatures, trainer time is here for many of us.   While the CompuTrainer arguably started the smart trainer revolution decades ago, the current crop of options is like comparing a video game on the original Atari to a X Box Series X.   The courses […]Read More

Background and Old Position: Up until 2017, I spent many years testing and fine tuning my aero position.  I was pursuing record; records where set-up details matter a lot.  I documented a lot of this in prior posts.  However, I stopped riding the position I had put so much time into refining a few years […]Read More

I am admittedly late to the virtual riding/training experience.  This being said, I’ve used CompuTrainer products (the original “smart” trainer) at work for decades and I’ve worked with different smart trainers from TACX, Wahoo and Saris/Cycleops through the years.   However, until last winter, I did not ride a smart trainer consistently and had not experienced […]Read More