Quick Comparison ▷ Garmin Forerunner 945 Specs to 935 + MARQ Athlete
Garmin 945 Specs, 945 vs 935, 945 vs MARQ Athlete
Garmin Forerunner 945 Specs Comparison to 935 + MARQ Athlete Preview Opinion
The Garmin Forerunner 945 triathlon watch has arrived and you’re in for a treat, I’ll save a full review for a few more months so let’s go now with a preview, or whatever you want to call it. Availability throughout May will be limited. Act now if you want one this month: PRE-ORDER EXPLAINED *HERE*…
Garmin Edge 530 Specifications, Comparison to 830, 820, 1030 and Opinion
The new Garmin Edge 530 bike computer is now available for pre-order for a likely delivery in Mid May. The Garmin Edge 530 is a refinement of the non-touchscreen, Edge 520 Plus and is an unexpected addition to Garmin’s 2019 range of Edge bike computers. The Edge 530 could be described as Garmin’s “entry-level” bike…
Rant 1 – 2019 – The Problem with sports watch reviews, freebies and tech bloggers
Do you fancy starting a sports tech blog and getting loads of freebies? This post highlights lots of reasons why that won’t happen. Well, you can start the blog but the freebies will probably not follow. This post is quite long and hopefully either entertaining or enlightening into the ‘evils’ of sports company freebie giveaways…
Hammerhead Karoo – First Rides, First Thoughts
One way to figure out if you might like the Hammerhead Karoo is to ask yourself “Do I like good looking bike tech with an awesome touchscreen”. The other way would be to consider, “Do you often load a route at the start of your next bike journey?”. If you answered YES to either, then keep reading.
New PowerPod Lite – Now Available
A new, cheaper PowerPod model is available – the PowerPod LITE model at$199 in the USA. PowerPods are often discounted in sale periods AND you get 10% off with the code the5krunner10 at PowerMeterCity, below. It will not have escaped your notice that you can now get a functional power meter for both cycling and…
New Oura Ring
The new Oura Ring marks a big step forwards for the Finnish activity-tech firm. The takeaway: Oura already make a ‘wearable tech ring’ that actually works! Indeed its sleep tracking is one of the best solutions available to consumers/athletes. This one should be good too….#BETTER I will follow up with a more detailed Oura Ring…
Samsung Gear Sport Specifications & Opinion
$299.99 seems to be the price point that many sporty smartwatch makers believe the market can bear and still deliver them large sales volume. Only time, and Father Christmas, will tell if that’s true. Opinion I’ve included the Samsung Gear Sport Specifications below for reference but there are no surprises. You can have a click…
Rant 2 – The Sequel: Is your favourite sports gadget blog really independent?
After a recent post “Rant 2016: The Problem with sports watch reviews; freebies and bloggers”, I started to think a bit more about the issues of the INDEPENDENCE of bloggers in the sports gadget market. We all have our favourite blogs, I’m no exception. Some of my favourite blogs claim to be independent; others, to me, don’t…
OPINION: Polar M600
Polar today announced the M600 sports watch. It’s positioned as a 247, top-end sports watch for generalist sporty people who perhaps; run, do gym and do classes. It’s priced initially at: UK£265, US$330. It’s an innovative move for the company by building Polar hardware around Google’s Android Wear platform – rather than developing their own on-board sports…
Opinion: Garmin Edge 820
Garmin generally make great cycling computers. The Edge 820 looks to follow in that tradition. The 820 is a clichéd EVOLUTION not revolution. Having said that it brings together much of what is good about the Edge 810, the Edge 520 and the Edge 1000. It’s a consolidation. Having said that, I’m still not quite…
