Zwift Ride Indoor Bike In-Depth Review: The Future of Smart Bikes?
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/06/zwift-ride-indoor-bike-review-future.htmlThe above two are mostly just useful when pairing to more basic smartwatches that might not support power meters/cadence, but I don’t expect it matters to too many people.
DCR Open House Winter 2022 Photo Recap!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/12/house-winter-photo-recap.htmlHis video covers both the morning run and the open house behind the scenes – give it a watch!)…
Wahoo Starts Shipping KICKR 2020 Direct Connect Cable: Hands-on Details
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/shipping-connect-details.htmlHowever, the ANT+ & Bluetooth connections are still available for you to connect to, such as with a watch or bike computer.
Tech Tidbits: Xert Adds NPE CABLE Support, TrainerRoad Adaptive Training Leaves Beta
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/11/trainerroad-adaptive-training.htmlIf that user wants to use that power meter with Zwift, while also recording their ride on a Polar or Suunto watch (to account for training load), that’ll be impossible.
Tuesday Tidbits: Starbucks Card on Garmin Edge/Watches, COROS Mojito, Zwift Hardware Survey
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/07/tuesday-starbucks-hardware.htmlBut with COROS’s new watch band announcement, I figured I’d roll them all together and call it Macaroni.
A Look at EatMyRide: Automated Nutrition Planning with Strava/Garmin Integration
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/01/eatmyride-automated-integration.htmlYou can hit up their site to sign yourself up for that or watch their quick overview video with pretty drone shots of the routes I often ride…albeit, on much warmer looking days than today here.
TrainerRoad Starts To Tackle Running Support
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/08/trainerroad-running-support.htmlIn the below one, you don’t see power, because of the four watches I was using, this one didn’t have power connected, and won the sync race to TrainerRoad.
Week in Review: January 12th, 2020
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/01/week-review-january-12th.html3) A smaller USB-C Apple Watch charger: Here’s the link straight to Amazon.
Samsung Sues Oura: A Closer Look at The Preemptive Smackdown
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/06/samsung-sues-oura-a-closer-look-at-the-preemptive-smackdown.htmlBut again, Garmin/Whoop/Fitbit aren’t in trouble here with Oura, because the data comes from a watch, and not a ring.
New US Partnership + $500 Gadget Giveaway: Backcountry.com & Competitive Cyclist!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/10/partnership-backcountry-competitive.htmlIt could be a watch, a bike computer, or heck, even just a whole lot of gels.
Wahoo KICKR CORE Zwift One: In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/02/wahoo-kickr-review.htmlThe above two are mostly just useful when pairing to more basic smartwatches that might not support power meters/cadence, but I don’t expect it matters to too many people.
Women’s Tour de France: Time Trial Behind The Scenes & Smart Trainers
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/07/womens-france-trainers.htmlNow, we’ve got full coverage on almost every component, and a race that’s drawing in fans (both hardcore and casual) to watch and enjoy.
Wahoo’s Custom Alerts, Hammerhead’s New Features, TrainerRoad Strava Images, and Xert with Bike The World
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/hammerheads-features-trainerroad.htmlYou can watch these videos here on their YouTube channel, but with the Xert integration, it pulls them into the Xert Player as well.
Wahoo Begins User Interface Revamp on ELEMNT Bike Computers
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/10/begins-interface-computers.htmlIf you have a Wahoo RIVAL watch, then you’ll also see a multisport option here.
Peloton Announces Rower Hardware, New Upcoming Features Outlined
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/announces-hardware-upcoming.htmlPeloton says this will work with any Bluetooth heart rate strap as usual, plus the Apple Watch, as well as maintaining all streaks/challenges/achievements.
DC Rainmaker State of Sports Tech 2021 Keynote
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/10/dc-rainmaker-state-of-sports-tech-2021-keynote.htmlFrom watches to indoor training sensors to action cams, and given this is an industry-focused event – also the degradation of standards in the fitness realm.
Stages adds ANT+ Bike Lights Support, Suunto 7 Firmware Update, and Zwift Large Event Update
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/01/stages-support-firmware.htmlPreviously Stages had added Varia Radar support, but nobody else aside from Garmin actually has supported the ANT+ lighting profile on bike computers or watches – that despite being numerous ANT+ bike lights such as those from Bontrager, See.Sense, Cycliq, and of course Garmin themselves.
Kinomap Rolls out Coached Workout Functionality, Revamped User Interface, Apple TV App
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/functionality-revamped-interface.htmlYou can watch another video snippet from Tailwind here on YouTube on Kinomap’s channel.
Friday Tidbits: Trainer App news, FR245/FR945 gets major update, KICKR Bike gets profiles
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/12/tidbits-trainer-profiles.htmlWhile their preview video is hilariously too short, the 13 seconds that are within that starting at the 11-second marker are worthwhile watching.
Suunto 5 Peak Review Video & User Interface Overview Is Up!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/suunto-interface-overview.htmlThough in this video I dive into the user interface a bit more and show how the watch works in video, so you can see things like responsiveness.
Favero Confirms Shimano Power Meter Pedals On The Way
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/06/favero-confirms-shimano.htmlAnyway, in a question from four days ago, someone asked specifically about SPD-SL on a different Instagram post, and sure…… And thus, we watched it a bit longer, and we got this new post:
British Cycling Strips Zwift Championship Winner for Cheating
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/british-championship-cheating.htmlBut today British Cycling has stripped Cam Jeffers of his 2019 British Cycling eRacing Championship title, which was won all the way back on March 28th, 2019 – the biggest Zwift racing event ever to be broadcast, live on British television as well as around the world via YouTube & Facebook (you can watch it here, including the exact moment he was given his medal).
Sea Otter 2018 Tech Roundup: Rylo Cam, K-Edge, Notio Konect, Velocomp AeroPod, Inflation Products and more
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/04/velocomp-inflation-products.htmlIt was a pretty darn impressive demo to watch.
25 Wahoo KICKR RUN Questions Answered
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/01/wahoo-kickr-treadmill.htmlHowever, a more data-driven answer to that is watching my video where I go from a 5:30/mile pace down to stopped in about 2.5-3 seconds, compared to other treadmills I have doing that in 18-22 seconds.
Week in Review–August 14th, 2022
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/08/week-review-august-14th.html2) Fitbit to end sideloading music onto watches: The writing on the wall for this was actually a year or two ago when they stopped allowing it on their more recent units.
