Suunto Race Hands-on: Everything You Need to Know!

Suunto has just announced their newest watch, the Suunto Race. This watch essentially takes the existing Suunto Vertical endurance-sports focused watch that was released this past spring, and gives it an AMOLED display. Alongside that, it gets an updated user … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Zwift Hub One In-Depth Review (with Zwift Cog & Clicks!)

Zwift has just announced two new products today, and arguably changed the way trainers might be sold in the future. The first is the new Zwift Hub One smart trainer, which takes the existing Zwift Hub smart trainer from last … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Polar Vantage V3 Hands-On: Everything You Need to Know

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Polar has just announced their newest watch - the Polar Vantage V3. With this 3rd generation watch, Polar is focusing heavily … | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Elite Aria Smart Trainer Fan In-Depth Review

 The Elite Aria fan is seemingly the smartest of smart trainer fans out there today, linking to a wide assortment of indoor cycling tech - be it power meters, smart trainers, heart rate sensors, and even body temperature sensors. … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Pixel Watch 2 Hands-On: Here’s everything that’s new!

Google has just announced the Pixel Watch 2, and as expected by the rumors, it’s largely incremental upgrades this year. However, some of these updates could be quite notable for athletes, given the focus on higher accuracy sensors and new … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Wahoo Fitness to Shut Down RGT Virtual Cycling App

Wahoo Fitness has announced to members that in less than 30 days – on October 31, 2023, the company will shut down the virtually cycling app RGT in an effort to focus “exclusively [on their] structured training content”. Wahoo had … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

DJI Mini 4 Pro: The Complete Beginners Guide

Just a quick heads up that I’ve posted a full DJI Mini 4 Pro Beginners Guide, that takes you from start to finish with the drone, including virtually all the features and how they work in real-life. The previous edition … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Fitbit Announces New Charge 6: What’s New and Different?

Fitbit has just announced an update to their most popular fitness tracker series, with the new Fitbit Charge 6 (obviously, replacing the existing Fitbit Charge 5, from September 2001). The Fitbit Charge 6 has much the same form factor as … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Hammerhead Announces New Hardware: Quick Hands-On with HMS

After years of hardware draught, for the first time since the Karoo 2 back in April 2020, cycling GPS maker Hammerhead has announced some new hardware (actually in April 2020, that’s when they announced plans for the announcement, different from … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

DJI Mini 4 Pro Active Track Review (Sports Focus)

It's not that I set out to cause misery for drones, rather, I view it more as a service that you'll be able to use to determine which environments you can take your drone while doing whatever sports activity that … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Suunto Releases 14 New SuuntoPlus Watch Apps

September is a busy month for many watchmakers, and that includes Suunto. Over the past few days, the company has released some 14 new SuuntoPlus apps. SuuntoPlus apps are essentially really advanced data pages to add to your sport profile … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

GoPro Hero 12 Black vs Apple iPhone 15: Action Test!

 For those not subscribed on YouTube, just a quick heads up that I dropped the above video today, which is a comparison between two totally different cameras, yet ones that also have significant overlap. And in this case, focusing … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple Watch Series 9 In-Depth Review: A Sports Focus

 Apple’s latest mainstream watch, the Apple Watch Series 9, has arrived. And with it bring minor incremental hardware updates, but a slate of software updates focused on sports and fitness. The hardware upgrades are entirely internal, focused on faster … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple Watch Ultra 2 In-Depth Review: Focused Sports Progress

With the launch of the 2nd edition of the Apple Watch Ultra series, Apple has set the tone for an annual release cycle. As they’ve done with the existing/regular Apple Watch lineup, that cadence has focused on incremental updates from … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Garmin Vivoactive 5 In-Depth Review: Now With An AMOLED Display!

To the surprise of many, Garmin has just announced the Vivoactive 5 – which is essentially a mini-Venu 3 (both in price and features). Garmin has killed off the MIP-based display of the previous Vivoactive series, instead adopting a more … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

‘Name That Watch’ Gameshow with DesFit, Chase the Summit, and Matt Legrand

(Spoiler Avoidance: If you want to first try the game yourself, hit the short unlisted video here first, which is exactly what we’re seeing. Write down your answers, then enjoy the hilarity above.) Just wanted to drop a super quick … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

GoPro Hero 12 Black: The Complete Beginners Guide

 I've just published my full GoPro Hero 12 Beginners Guide, as a follow-on to past beginners' guides - including the GoPro Hero 10 Beginners Guide, which has amassed more than 1.4 million views. In this guide I take you … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple Watch Series 9: What’s New and Hand-On

 In addition to the new Apple Watch Ultra 2, Apple has also refreshed it's regular Apple Watch lineup with the new Series 9. These units share a ton of new features, both from a hardware standpoint, but also a … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Zwift Increases Zwift Hub Price to $599

Today Zwift announced a slate of new software features for the upcoming season, including new roads in Watopia, Climb Portal updates, an entirely new methodology for racing categorization called Race Score, along with new features to take advantage of the … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple Watch Ultra 2: Hands-on and What’s New

Apple has just announced the new Apple Watch Ultra 2, alongside the also-new Apple Watch Series 9. Both of these units see largely hardware upgrades, mostly focused on performance and the display, while also adding one notable new feature that … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Wahoo KICKR Move Smart Trainer In-Depth Review

 Wahoo has just released two new indoor training products for the upcoming Northern Hemisphere indoor training season, a new top-end smart trainer that moves forward and back to add a bit of movement during your ride. In addition, they … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Wahoo KICKR BIKE SHIFT: Hands-On and Initial Thoughts

Today Wahoo announced a more affordable version of their high-end KICKR BIKE, the new KICKR BIKE SHIFT. This slices $1,500 off the price in exchange for a few trade-offs, notably removing the built-in CLIMB-like up and down incline simulation, as … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Tacx NEO Bike Plus: A Quick Update on Accuracy & Steering

As we slowly slide into fall (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), I’m working my way through updating various reviews and data sets on relevant indoor smart trainers and smart bikes. Especially in cases where previous reviews found … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

GoPro Hero 12 Black Announced: Here’s What’s New!

GoPro has just announced the new Hero 12 Black, which has a slate of new features – some hardware, some software, and some even app driven. This includes everything from doubling the battery life in certain modes, to adding Bluetooth … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Wahoo and Zwift Reach Patent Dispute Agreement: Here’s What’s Happening Next

Exactly one year ago today, Zwift announced the Zwift Hub smart trainer – which priced at $499USD, immediately lit a fire across the rest of the smart trainer industry. The product was mostly a rebrand of the existing JetBlack VOLT … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Elite & Wahoo Reduce List Prices on Trainers

Over the past 7 days, both Elite and Wahoo have reduced prices on a few models of their trainers that directly or indirectly compete with the direct drive based Zwift Hub smart trainer. That trainer was announced one year ago … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Garmin Venu 3 Complete Beginners Guide

Here’s your complete Garmin Venu 3 Beginners Guide, which covers everything you need to know about how to use the watch day to day. This is a bit different than my review videos (or the Garmin Venu 3 In-Depth Review … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

DJI Air 3 Complete Beginners Guide

Just a quick heads up for those looking to pickup the DJI Air 3 (or, recently got it), I finally completed my DJI Air 3 Beginners Guide. This one is even more detailed than my previous DJI Mini 3 Pro … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Garmin Venu 3 In-Depth Review: More Sleep Analytics, Power Meters, and More!

 Garmin has just launched the new Venu 3 series, which goes back to having two separate sizes, while adding in a slate of features – some of which are the first time we’ve seen them on a Garmin wearable. … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Strava Adds More Photo-Based Tools to Route Planning

Strava has added a new feature for Subscribers that lets you see photos while route planning on desktop now, and more specifically, lets you see the exact location of said photos. This is a major upgrade over the Strava route-photo … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple Adds Cycling Power Meter Recording to Fitness+ Workouts

Apple has quietly added power meter and cadence data to your completed workout data in Apple’s Fitness+ cycling workouts, which is their coached platform where trainers iterate through structured workouts. This addition is supported in the latest public betas of … Read More Here … | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Tech Tidbits: LIMITS Power Meter Company Liquidates, COROS Firmware Update, Skydio Leaves Consumer Drones

Here’s a few tech tidbits from today, the last few days, and the last week or so (in the case of Skydio) that are worthy of note. We’re back at the point where companies are warming up for what I … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

MyWhoosh Selected for UCI Cycling Esports World Championship for 2024-2026: A Few Thoughts

The UCI & MyWhoosh announced yesterday that the MyWhoosh virtual cycling platform has been selected for the UCI Cycling Esports World Championships in 2024/2025/2026. Up till now Zwift has been the platform utilized for the online cycling World Championship event, … Read More Her … | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch6 and Watch6 Classic In-Depth Review: Is it Finally Accurate?

Like clockwork each summer, Samsung has released their latest wearables, this time the Galaxy Watch6 and Watch6 Classic. This release offers two different form factors, including notably bringing back the physical rotating bezel on the Watch6 Classic edition. Samsung has … Read M … | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

4iiii Adds Apple Find My Feature to Power Meters: Hands-On

4iiii has become the first power meter company to add Apple’s Find My support to their devices. This capability is called ‘Find My’, but is essentially the 3rd party program Apple has that allows companies to make a variant of … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

DJI Action 4 In-Depth Review Video

For those not subscribed on YouTube, I’ve posted my complete DJI Action 4 In-Depth review video up there, including tons of comparison footage to the GoPro Hero 11 Black. The Action 4 is mostly a minor upgrade compared to the … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

DJI Air 3 Active Track: Ultimate Test & Tips Video

For those into seeing how autonomous sports tracking in drones continues to progress, I’ve just hit publish on my latest video covering the DJI Air 3. I dig into a ton of different scenarios from over the past month into … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Women’s Tour de France: Time Trial Behind The Scenes & Smart Trainers

The last stage of the 2023 Women’s Tour de France wrapped up with plenty of sports tech and other tidbits to check out. In the above video I walk through all the team bus/technical areas to see what’s floating around, … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Women’s Tour de France: Bike Computers and Power Meters

As was the case with last year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (the women’s Tour de France), I swung down to check out all the sports tech. This first post will cover all the bike computers and power meters, … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

COROS Heart Rate Monitor (Optical Band) In-Depth Review

The COROS Heart Rate Monitor is a very simple product, which should make for a very simple review. After all, it doesn’t even have an on button. Instead, it has exactly one purpose in life: Transmitting your current heart rate … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

DJI Air 3 In-Depth Review (with Sports Tracking!)

DJI has announced and released the DJI Air 3, the successor to the Air 2S, and the ‘middle-child’ of the core DJI 3-series lineup. This drone is meant to slot in below the Mavic 3 Pro price/feature-wise while being higher-end … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Tour de France 2023: Which Smart Trainers Do They Use?

In this video I dive into all the behind the scenes bits on time-trial day, including which smart trainers they use. However, realistically, it’s actually quite a bit more than that in this video. I look at an interesting new … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Garmin Fenix 7 & Epix Get 50 New Features in Beta Update

Garmin is seemingly on a roll the past 7-10 days, with having released the much anticipated firmware bringing all the new Fenix 7 Pro & Epix Pro features to the non-Pro editions, via a new public beta firmware update. This … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple Watch Power Meter Support: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

Last month at Apple’s annual developer conference the company outlined the future of Apple Watch, at least in terms of software, for the next year. One item that seemed to surprise many was the announcement that Apple would be adding … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Week in Review–July 16th, 2023

The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Garmin Adds Training Readiness & Morning Report to Instinct 2 in New Beta!

See, Garmin does listen when enough people get upset about something. Back a few months ago Garmin released the Instinct 2X, which is essentially a bigger Instinct 2 device with a flashlight and multiband GNSS. But on the software side, … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Apple WatchOS 10 Topographic Maps: Hands-on with the Public Beta

Last month Apple announced WatchOS 10, and with it a slate of new features focused on the fitness/sports realm. This included cycling power meter support, a new structured workouts API for all sport types – allowing 3rd party apps like … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago

Garmin Forerunner 255/266/955/965 Get Slate of New Features in Beta

Last night Garmin dropped a new beta firmware for the Forerunner 955 and 955 Solar adding a slate of new features coming from the recently released Fenix 7 Pro & Epix Pro series. That feature set includes Hill Score, Endurance … Read More Here → | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 1 year ago