I’ve changed a lot of bike tires and replaced/repaired lots of tubes since I started biking as a kid. Probably most of those reading this blog post have. For me that included tires and tubes ranging from way back with the huge ones on the first bike I…
For this review I will be covering the Audew portable hand pump, which works great for bicycles as well as pretty much anything else that needs to be pumped up or filled the conventional way.s In the interest of transparency I was contacted directly by Audew and offered this product…
Review – Garmin Edge 520 Plus I’ve always ridden, logged rides, and trained with a multi-sport watch (except when I was a kid and had one of those gaugey sort of things), and in the last few years I have also used the top display on my Garmin…
This review will thoroughly cover the Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music and the Garmin Vivoactive 3 fitness smartwatches. For a number of years I have used my venerable Garmin Forerunner 620 for tracking my biking, running, hiking, walking and a number of other exercise- and fitness-related activities. It was a great…
I’m by no means a minimalist cyclist – the kind who jumps on his bike with nothing but the clothes on his back and rides off. I have a good-sized seat bag filled with the things that I need for minor repairs and flat fixes, my phone fits in…
For quite some time now I have wanted to try a full carbon saddle, just for fun. In case you are not familiar with them they are basically a piece of carbon fiber (like bikes are made out of) shaped into a bike saddle. The only other thing these saddles…
More and more people are riding with bike lights in the daytime, I personally don’t but it probably is a good idea, considering the statistics and how people seem to have less and less respect for others. I also don’t ride at night but occasionally I do ride during overcast…
This review is for the Scosche RHYTHM+ Armband Heart Rate Sensor and is a six month review of the one I own, and will include some longer-term information on the identical unit that my wife has owned for a couple of years now. I’ve put a lot of time on my ‘classic’…
Wikispaces Is Closing Please note – as Wikispaces shuts down some of this blog entry will be invalid. I also have went with a migration to Dokuwiki instead of WordPress so the demo links no longer work for the WordPress migration. Unfortunately the site Wikispaces.com is shutting down, leaving…
note here before I start the review – as you can see I have both the Ascent Bike Trainer and Travel Trac Fluid Bike Trainer listed. This is because they are the same unit, rebranded. There is no difference except the logo and printing on them and unfortunately at the…
