WINTER IS COMING For the KICKR smart trainer, WAHOO have knocked a whopping £100 discount from retail prices if you want to buy from their online store. There is a FURTHER £250 ie a total of £350 discount (here) for reconditioned KICKR units in what seems to be a special one-off promotion. I imagine there is limited…
V1.3 – 23rd May 2017 This is my opinion of current & future devices across the GPS running/cycling market. Updates to this will be issued as and when information emerges which may include rumors, although note well that any information provided to me under NDA by manufacturers will not appear here. So there might yet be a few…
Polar’s new chest-strap heart rate monitor (HRM) is the H10. I’m going to assume, as I would do with a Garmin or Suunto chest strap HRM, that it’s accurate. Some of Polar’s marketing literature states increased accuracy over the previous H7 model. The H7 has historically been used by Sports Labs as a HRM-of-choice due…
Technically it’s new. Actually it’s not that interesting. What’s more interesting is that Pocket-Lint report a whopping £450 price tag for the non-Sapphire version. Ouch. Well here we go. A sapphire version of Casio’s AndroidWear 2.0 trekking watch with a harder SAPPHIRE glass screen. We can all sleep easy tonight. I think the black has…
Polar’s latest M200 running watch is priced as a budget model yet it has some advanced components on board that make it worthy of consideration for many levels of runner. It generally ticks the boxes with: GPS accuracy; personalised training plans for most levels of runner; and an inbuilt optical heart rate monitor for the wrist. It…
Triathlon gear to make us better, faster, stronger and prettier (well the first 3) in 2017
It looks like the Lenovo-owned MOTO brand will not be continuing with smartwatches, according to The Verge, although the existing MOTO 360 (2015) may well be updated to AW2.0 in Q1.2017. Guess which one of these will still be being sold in 2018. It also looks like Fitbit will be buying Pebble. Fitbit haven’t got…
