Fit Werx - Vermont

12/21/2023

Happy Holidays from the crew at Fit Werx crew! We appreciate your business over the last year and look forward to helping you in 2024. Thank you for your consideration and have a great end to the year.

Adam, Chris, Doug, Jeff, and Ian.

05/25/2023

Fit Werx in Vermont is an authorized OPEN Cycles dealer.

Fit Werx in Waitsfield, Vermont is excited to announce that we are now a fully authorized dealer of OPEN Cycles. All Fit Werx’s locations are authorized OPEN Cycles dealers. OPEN offers a variety of complete bikes and framesets serving both the pavement and gravel rider. OPEN’s approach of selli...

02/21/2023

https://fitwerx.com/top-road-bicycle-innovations-of-the-past-twenty-years-endurance-road-frame-geometry/

Old Frame Geometry Meets New Bike Technology Custom bikes enjoyed a boom in the early ‘00’s. “The Lance Effect” was in full swing. Thousands, if not millions, of people bought their first real road bike. Meanwhile, stock road bike geometry of the day was a disaster for most riders. Most road...

02/21/2023

The most recent innovation to make our list of the top road bicycle technology of the past twenty years is profiled in today's post.

Possibly the most recent innovation on the list, Classified’s Powershift electronically actuated rear hub eliminates the most mechanically finicky and one of the least sophisticated components on a bike – the front derailleur. Introduced in 2022, Classified Powershift technology has the potentia...

01/24/2023

Tubeless road tires are the topic of today's Top Road Bike Innovations of the Past Twenty Years.

Tubeless tires for cars were popularized in the ‘50’s. For motorcycles, in the ‘70’s. So, the road bike world felt a bit behind the times when 50 years had passed and we were all still riding on tubes. Heck, even lawnmowers and wheelbarrows seemed ahead of road bike tire technology in this r...

01/17/2023

Carbon Wheels - from "race day only" to "daily riders". Another top technology advance of the past twenty years in road bike technology.

There were carbon bicycle wheels over twenty years ago, don’t get me wrong. However, very few of them were considered durable enough to be everyday riding equipment. That has all changed today. Many carbon wheel offerings in the ’90’s and early ’00’s were deep and aero, but could also be t...

01/03/2023

Happy 2023!
Continuing our discussions of the top road bicycle technology of the past twenty years, we talk about e-bikes...

Continuing our exploration of the list of road bicycle technologies that have been the biggest innovations since our inception, today we talk about e-bikes. Amongst cyclists, a discussion about e-bikes was more likely in 1899 than 1999. Seriously. However, things can change quickly. In 2023, e-bikes...

12/20/2022

Our exploration of the best road bicycle innovations of the past twenty years continues with a look at rider matched components - particularly crank length.

From handlebars to saddles, we have been happy to see a variety of ergonomic improvements and broader options in a host of fit based components. It is great that all riders are not being treated alike and that there is more understanding that there are many people who need handlebars wider and narro...

12/13/2022

We continue our exploration of the top road cycling innovations of the past twenty years with a look at some big changes to On-bike Electronics and features.

Top Road Bicycle Technologies of the Past 20 Years – On-Bike Electronics While electronic shifting, ebikes and the second generation of Smart Trainers are deserving of their own separate categories on our list of most innovative road and triathlon cycling products of the past twenty years, other e...

12/06/2022

The Biggest Road Bicycle Innovations of the Past 20 Years - Compact Gearing & Wide Range Cassettes.

Compact Cranks & Wide Range Cassettes We are biased by our hilly area, but the enhancement that having adequate gearing on your bike offers is hard to overstate. A 53/39 crankset with a 12-25 was considered “low” gearing around twenty years ago. Today, 1:1 is a common starting point for paved ro...

11/29/2022

Our List of the Top Road & Triathlon Bike Innovations of the past 20+ Years is now on fitwerx.com. https://fitwerx.com/the-biggest-road-bicycle-innovations-of-the-past-20-years/

As Fit Werx heads into its 22nd year of providing rider first bike fittings and rider matched bike sales, it seems like an apt time to take a trip down the memory lane of cycling technology. Since our inception, a lot has changed in terms of the products and services we offer. In a number […]

03/11/2022

Has Classified Cycling Created the Beginning of the End to the Front Derailleur?

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 ...