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GU Charity Campaign Passes $50,000 – Aims for $100K – Endurance Sportswire.
So easy to help this one along. Something to keep in mind.
This is very sad news. They make such amazing wheels 🙁
Mad Fiber shuts down, may be headed for bankruptcy | Bicycle Retailer and Industry News.
Still waiting on the North American release of the Wing57, but they had a nice event at Kona announcing it’s release.
Of special note, toward the end of the video, was confirmation that Rudy Project will be the official helmet of the Ironman World Championship for the next 2 years. Way to go Rudy!
Gordon Ramsay speaks with such passion and conviction about Ironman racing. He echos so many of my thoughts and expresses them so well.
Soundbite: Gordon Ramsay Catches the Bug – IRONMAN.com
I don’t begrudge this celebrity slot at Kona. Not after hearing him speak about it.
Not at all.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the displeasure of having to deal with Ergvideo for real course training videos for my computrainer. My 1st experience with the company didn’t teach me enough and I actually went back for more when they issued the Mont Tremblant video. Why? I guess I’m just stupid!
This company is so paranoid about pinching every potential customer penny that they implement a consumer-hostile licensing scheme, limit re-installs if you need to rebuild your machine or upgrade and disallow transfers of the software license to someone buying your trainer.
Seriously, grow up! If you produce a quality product at a fair price, people will pay for it. I did, not because your licensing scheme required it, but because I wanted to support your efforts. You’ve made me regret it. So my experience can serve as a warning to others. Be careful what you buy into.
My computrainer is going and I’ll be so happy to never deal with ErgVideo again. Good riddance!
Not a big update but something in the “small thing, nice thing” category: I’ve killed all the online advertising on the site. It was ugly, I am poor at maintaining it, and it wasn’t generating any revenue anyhow.
Instead I’ve put together an amazon store of products I use in my training and racing. If you’re looking for new gear and feel so inclined, please use my product recommendation page to link into my amazon store.
Cheers
Very nice improvement over the old app with more amazing things to come.
Introducing the New TrainingPeaks iOS Mobile App – Posts – TrainingPeaks Blog.
Slightly off topic, but recently I had the opportunity to trial a set of Wicked Reverb Headphones. For those of you who haven’t known me for a long time, I used to be a DJ. I played out occasionally at clubs and spun electronic music: psytrance for the most part. I don’t DJ more, but still love music and quality sound, so I decided I’d take up the offer for the trial.
When the headphones arrived and I unboxed them, I have to admit I was pretty dubious. Understand, mind you, that headphones I’ve used in the past while DJing where designed to be very sound insulating (so you didn’t have to blow your eardrums out trying to cue, mix, etc.) and as a result were pretty heavy. The Reverbs are, in contrast, very light. No, you wouldn’t use these in a club as a DJ: they don’t have the sound insulation required for that, but they aren’t built for that task.
The Reverb is, however, a very solid contender in the consumer headphone space and at a price that’s extremely attractive (quick google searches show prices in the $20 area). For $20 you may not expect much, but the Reverb may surprise you there. In terms of sound quality and reproduction, they easily compare with $200-$300 headphones that I own, and their weight means you won’t get fatigued just holding them on your head. As a kid, the bullies always made fun of my ears.. perhaps they’re a little large, I dunno.. but the ear cups built into these headphones was certainly comfortable for me.
In Summary
So wrapping it up, I have to say I was pretty surprised by these headphones: they produce really quality sound even at high volumes with little to no distortion and are still capable of reproducing quiet and subtle nuances, they’re lightweight and comfortable and seem to be pretty well constructed. At the price point, I think these headphones would be hard to beat!
Now for the Giveaway
While these headphones are pretty sweet, I have so many headphones and earbuds and wireless, bluetooth, etc. etc.. headphones that another pair are just going to gather dust. Wicked has given me permission to raffle them off rather than return them. So here we go: I’m going to try a rafflecopter giveaway for these as a new mechanism, rather than my historic labor intensive “names in a hat” method. Good luck!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Well the uptake on my RoadID give away was certainly not what I expected, but made for great odds for the 15 entrants.
The 3 lucky winners, chosen at random using the “names in a hat” method (with one entry per comment, share, or like) are…
I’ll be in touch shortly with your coupon codes so you can get your RoadID ordered and on its way.
Congrats!
Albert McWilliams – You’re Going to Kill Someone – You’re Going to Kill Someone.
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