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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.
I personally prefer your longer initial version, I think it’s written better and it provides more info and it’s the info that we love.
Congrats on getting published though!
Congrats on the article but I prefer the details! What you’ve illustrated here is precisely what I don’t like about Bicycling magazine. In the end it comes off like an advertising blurb. I’ll stick to your blog for the real nitty-gritty!
i get that magazine and just read that article and didnt put two and two together!! awesome!
This is why the print publishers are losing out to online content. Your reviews online are by far more useful than the short form necessitated by print constraints.
Congrats on being published. I read the magazine yesterday. I got one of my blog post published the other week in a smaller cycling magazine.
That’s the problem with the Bicycling, too many advertisements, few interesting articles.
Only 500 words for 6 gadgets??? Are they serious??? how can someone make up his mind from such a review? I wouldn’t trust such a review! Luckily we have your full reviews in the blog: helps taking a decision (albeit I took the wrong one)… Keep up the very detailed reviews, they are, well, awesome!
I continue to be amazed at the amount of things you manage to cram into the same 24 hours the rest of us have! I wish I was half as productive with my time.
How awesome to be published. I have a journalism background and get why they had to cut, but agree with everyone else – your longer blog content is where it’s at!
Pretty cool Ray! I actually randomly stumbled upon that copy of Bicycling lying in the Sports/PE department office here at work and briefly thumbed through to the Fondo section. I didn’t look at it closely enough to realize you had an article, but I’ll have to go back and see if it’s still there now.
Your online review format is far superior to anything in print. Better use of 500 words in a mag would be an article about DCRainmaker.com.
Congrats! Can’t argue with the mag, but agree with the others. Keep your “verbose” reviews here. They are just what I need. Love em.