by Carl C | Product reviews
Polar has announced today a new heart rate chest strap, undercutting slightly their higher end H10 strap with a less expensive offering that ditches the onboard storage, while still maintaining the trio of connectivity choices (ANT+/Bluetooth Smart/5kHz). Essentially,...
by Carl C | Product reviews
No matter how you feel about single-sided power meters, there’s zero denying that Stages and their timing of the decade deal with then Team Sky, dramatically increased power meter consumption. In the rising tide lifts all boats department, they took with them not just...
by Carl C | Product reviews
Way back when the GoPro Hero 8 was announced, the company also announced a series of ‘Mods’, err…accessories as the rest of the world calls them? In any case, there were three announced accessories at the time: 1) The Media Mod: This was essentially a frame around the...
by Carl C | Product reviews
The DJI Mavic Mini is DJI’s first drone under 249 grams. It’s a fact you’ll see and hear a lot when anyone talks about this drone. And in some more limited than people realize situations, that means something. For example, in Canada it means you can fly the drone...
by Carl C | Product reviews
We have arrived: The pièce de résistance of my five consecutive days of indoor smart trainer reviews. We started the week at $ 3,500 with the Wahoo KICKR Smart Bike, and yet we’re going to finish the week with an $ 89 smart trainer that somehow, inexplicably, has more...
by Carl C | Product reviews
It’s been 16 months since the Kinetic R1 was first announced at Interbike 2018. That was back when Interbike still existed. Since then Interbike has dissolved, Kinetic started shipping the R1, then stopped for half a year, then resumed again this past summer. Also,...