Using Lipschitz distance on Outer space we give another proof of the train
track theorem.
For any finite collection $f_i$ of fully irreducible automorphisms of the
free group $F_n$ we construct a connected $\delta$-hyperbolic
$Out(F_n)$-complex in which each $f_i$ has positive translation length.
We study the asymmetry of the Lipschitz metric d on Outer space. We introduce
an (asymmetric) Finsler norm that induces d. There is an Out(F_n)-invariant
potential \Psi on Outer space such that when the Lipschitz norm is corrected by
the derivative of \Psi, the resulting norm is quasisymmetric.