Heads up! Here’s your massive list of sports tech deals! This includes the Garmin Forerunner 965 for just $499, Garmin Epix for $449, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black Titanium for $735, the GoPro Hero 12 Black for $299, and plenty more! Go check out the full list here!
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Here’s how to save!
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You can also pick-up tons of gear at REI via these links, which is a long-time supporter as well:
Alternatively, for everything else on the planet, simply buy your goods from Amazon via the link below and I get a tiny bit back as an Amazon Associate. No cost to you, easy as pie!
You can use the above link for any Amazon country and it (should) automatically redirect to your local Amazon site.
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5 Easy Steps To The Site
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In Depth Product Reviews
You probably stumbled upon here looking for a review of a sports gadget. If you’re trying to decide which unit to buy – check out my in-depth reviews section. Some reviews are over 60 pages long when printed out, with hundreds of photos! I aim to leave no stone unturned.
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Read My Sports Gadget Recommendations.
Here’s my most recent GPS watch guide here, and cycling GPS computers here. Plus there are smart trainers here, all in these guides cover almost every category of sports gadgets out there. Looking for the equipment I use day-to-day? I also just put together my complete ‘Gear I Use’ equipment list, from swim to bike to run and everything in between (plus a few extra things). And to compliment that, here’s The Girl’s (my wife’s) list. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!
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Have some fun in the travel section.
I travel a fair bit, both for work and for fun. Here’s a bunch of random trip reports and daily trip-logs that I’ve put together and posted. I’ve sorted it all by world geography, in an attempt to make it easy to figure out where I’ve been.
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My Photography Gear: The Cameras/Drones/Action Cams I Use Daily
The most common question I receive outside of the “what’s the best GPS watch for me” variant, are photography-esq based. So in efforts to combat the amount of emails I need to sort through on a daily basis, I’ve complied this “My Photography Gear” post for your curious minds (including drones & action cams!)! It’s a nice break from the day-to-day sports-tech talk, and I hope you get something out of it!
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. But at the end of the day, you might just be wondering “What does Ray use when not testing new products?”. So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker 2023 swim, bike, run, and general gear list. But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? If that’s the case (but certainly not saying my choices aren’t good for women), and you just want to see a different gear junkies “picks”, check out The Girl’s Gear Guide too.
It was à kind of strange the first seconds. But It It look great! Nice job.
Great work Ray – new site looks excellent… love to read it now but I’d be seriously late for work!
Congratulations on your new design. It looks great!
It seem that you came to the WP darkside… Great work, a lot of information available at a glance.
I really like the product comparison tool…
Congrats for the new design. Really cool !!
The product comparison tool groups Courses & Waypoints together (NAVIGATE: FOLLOW GPS TRACK (COURSES/WAYPOINTS) ) and therefore says Yes for the Forerunner 610. Isn’t that incorrect? I mean Waypoints Yes, but Courses No
Good idea, I like that. I’ll break it out tomorrow or Friday once my internet connectivity improves. Thanks!
the new design is very functional, good job!
I second the fact about splitting up the ability to run courses and navigate to waypoints
Also in your product comparison tool you seem to be missing the pool mate pro (or is it obsolete now?)
Congrats with the upgrade. One small feature request: in the product comparison, it would improve readability a lot if you’d put the “no’s” in red and the “yes’s” in green. Also, “good, great, …” would be a lot clearer if you’d replace them by some star-system IMHO.
I’ll convert to a rating system for the Good/Great ones (backlight and GPS acquisition I believe). I can see how that might be difficult to pin down. Thanks!
Just love the new design!
I take it you are not in India any more…
And when you were there who looked after The Girl’s Cupcakes?
No mobile version?
Mobile version is coming shortly. I expect you’ll see it go live later today or at the latest, tomorrow morning. Thanks!
through me for a loop at first, but it looks great!
Looks good, but I can’t see all the India pics. Bottom line, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Strange, are all of them missing, or just some? I’m not seeing anything gone – but I’d love to know if something is up!
Love the look and feel. Great job!! BTW, I see you combed your hair for that press photo :)
Nah, I didn’t. But a professional on-site stylist did. :)
See: link to dcrainmaker.com
The new site looks great.
My only feedback is that on the front page the 5 recent article bit isn’t very clear – at least on my monitor. With so many images on the site it isn’t immediately clear those 5 images select the article above. Some site use 5 dots. You might consider an arrow above the currently selected icon, or maybe make the border a bit darker and have it slide over during the transition.
Nice! First it’s like BAM – everything is new and unknown, but after a little while the new design rocks! congratulations!
New site looks great!! though it’s now harder to pretend that i’m reading something serious while at work…
Love the improved navigation!
Awesome redesign!
I think that in the “product comparison tool” you could let the user choose more than one sport.
For example, I want to compare products to “Bike AND Run”, but I don’t care about Swim, Tri or Hike.
This would be good because this way the tool will give better choices…
Congrats on the new design!! It sorta looked funny at first, but it’s really great!!
Looks great Ray!
As usual, awesome! The product comparo is unreal. Great job!
Two comments and a question?
1. The new site isn’t as good as the old on my iPhone. Otherwise I think it’s great.
2. On my PC the scrolling photo that is a link to various blog items needs to have some kind of left/right arrow so I can navigate. If I miss the photo/link I want to click on I have to wait or click the blog button in the tool bar at the top.
As long as I click to Amazon from your website, I can support the site no matter what I buy, right?
Thanks Tim-
The new mobile variant should be up sometime on Thursday, which should help there.
I’m looking at what we can so on the main page center portion. In the meantime, the posts are also found by clicking the BLOG button up top.
And yup, on Amazon, simply click on that link first and then shop as normal. Easy as pie!
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Great new update to the website – fantastic!!
What a beautiful surprise!
Congratulations for the new site and: it’s very nice and it’s a big improvement!
C’mon! ;)
Very nice, great work Rey. Enjoying your new site
Sweet! Looks awesome! I especially like the font. The one with white elements :)
The new site looks great! Very clean and functional.
Nice – very professional!
Really cool design. Was the comparison calculator custom written or a premium plugin? I have a similar site with portable generators for my emergency power backup installation business and this is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Hi Steve-
Thanks!
It’s all custom written for DCR by the web development team noted above in the post.
But I’m pretty happy with it, very slick, and I continue to be able to expand into additional product areas very easily.