I have no doubt that the new Giant TCR is an amazing bike. After all, Giant is one of the few OEMs that are actually Original Equipment Manufactures; most other bike “makers” contract to Giant, or someone else, and they have the design expertise and financial clout to design and build great bikes. Now, I didn’t see an explicit size mentioned, but these weights are almost always of the Size Medium variety.…
Letsfit ID215G – GPS Smartwatch/Fitness Tracker with Heart Rate and SpO2 Monitor
The Letsfit ID215G smartwatch promises a long list of features, ticking all the “must haves” for a modern activity tracker. While this is all true, there are trade-offs involved which differentiates this watch from its much more expensive competition.…
DT Swiss ER1400 Spline Disc Wheel set
DT Swiss markets the ER 1400 Spline wheel set as an endurance “everything” wheel set, and it totally makes sense. The ER 1400 is a multi-purpose adventure wheel capable of pretty much anything. Whether that’s road, gravel, or somewhere in between. It has a lot going for it, but not without some flaws.…
Sometimes experiments work, sometimes they don’t, but a sure fire way to make sure they fail catastrophically is to forget you’re running it. I had this happen when the I mounted a road tubeless tire on a rim to try something out.…
Abnormal high heart rate detected?
In general, I’m loving the Garmin Fenix 6, but there’s definitely some occasional weirdness going on with the optical heart rate sensor. Many new Garmin watches have a feature which can detect when the wearer has something funky going on with their heart rate when they’re sedentary. I turned it on, because why not? The default threshold is 100BPM, which seems reasonable for me personally, but it’s good that it’s configurable because…
The length of your crank doesn’t matter
I must admit that I’ve never spent much time thinking about the length of my crank. But, it’s easy not to question when it’s on the longer end of normal, and it just works. My first road bike came with a 175mm, and while I have had the opportunity to try out 172.5mm and 177.5mm, I’ve just stuck with it because I can’t feel a difference. Dylan, as he does, digs into…
Maybe in a velodrome…
Maybe I’m just being pedantic (likelihood is high), but I’m reasonably confident while it is true that when you’re moving faster, you move faster into the space someone else used to be. I have to question whether the space they used to be is in the same state as it was when they were there. Taking an easy factor into consideration, say an angled crosswind, where does the exhalate go from the…
Ah yes, that day each year where people do stupid things and we pretend it’s funny
It’s April somewhere, so Zwift has decided to go retro. Take it as a PSA, it’s not just you… This is our 6th April Fools’ Day on Zwift, and each year the HQ has come up with something fun for the community. Last year we were burning rubber, and the year before that it was Paperboy. 2017 we had big heads, 2016 gave us the old-timey effect, and 2015 we rode big…
Why is better controversial?
I think we could pretty much bucket every one of the “controversies” outlined in this video into those who don’t want to change, and those who embrace new tech (warts and all). I must fall into that second bucket, because on every single one, I’m solidly in the in-with-the-new crowd: ✅ disc brakes, ✅ road tubeless, ✅e-bikes are OK, ✅gravel bikes,✅indoor training. The video is kind of lame, with BikeRadar being very,…
Fitbit announces Charge 3 with GPS, er… the Charge 4
There certainly are people who loved the Charge 3, but really, really, really wanted to leave their phone at home when stepping out for a run, hike, cycle. I wasn’t one of these, and frankly I don’t why you would leave the phone at home – it’s your lifeline should anything bad happen while you’re out. Of course, built-in GPS doesn’t solve the real problem with Fitbit. But hey, if GPS and…