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Giro, the company best known for its cycling and snow helmets, is entering the bike footwear market in a big way, with seven models of road and mountain, men’s and women’s. They all look pretty tasty, with Easton EC90 carbon soles and lightweight uppers, but the mountain bike Code is especially attractive. Imagine an ultralight, [...]
Next time the Perseid meteor showers come along and you think you can’t stay up until their peak at 2 a.m., you might want to consider firing up some s’mores made with Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet Marshmallows. These bad boys pack 100mg of caffeine in each little mallow–24 in a $20 pack, for a whopping [...]
So, the big trend at this summer’s Outdoor Retailer trade show was water bottles. Yawn, right? I figure, you need a water bottle review like you need a sock review. Or at least I did until this week, when I woke up and took a slug off my Klean Kanteen Wide Insulated 16-ounce bottle ($26).
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The thing about running around the world with a shaved head, it makes you perfectly attuned to the nuances of bike helmets. Trucker hats, not so much–you look like a little gomer with jug ears wearing his dad’s cap. But bike helmets, you betcha. And after a few weeks of testing, it’s pretty clear that [...]
A few months ago, The Adventure Life castigated the “Outdoor Gear Special Report” from a group in the U.K. called Ethical Consumer. Although well-intended, the execution was a dog’s breakfast of sloppy reporting, spurious conclusions, and fuzzy-heading idealistic brainsloshing–and because of that, Ethical Consumer had absolutely no business attacking the outdoor industry. In short: It [...]
Judging by the number of Facebook likes and the way it vaulted almost instantly to the top of the most emailed-charts, yesterday’s New York Times story on the brain, technology, and the role of the outdoors certainly resonated with the adventurous crowd–and far beyond. And why not? Is there anyone among us who doesn’t feel [...]
Steve Rogerson hadn’t been to the Outdoor Retailer trade show in five years, so he seemed an ideal observer of change in the gear and clothing that we use from trail to summit. Long immersed in the culture of surf, bike, ski, and all that, Steve was for many years a key part of Ralph [...]
It all starts with “what if?”. What if you could grind on that? What if you could slide over this? When you’re Shaun White, you don’t have to wonder–you just have the computer elves whip you and entire urban wave form. White’s video game comes out this fall, but the teaser just [...]
Australian Cadel Evans, riding for Team BMC Racing and Easton, grabbed the yellow jersey and the lead of the 2010 Tour de France on Sunday, which makes for a fine excuse to tell you about the contest Easton is conducting. Each day during the Tour, Easton is giving away a wheelset based on the conditions [...]
What do yo do if you’re Giro and you’re trying to make the perfect helmet for Lance Armstrong, but because of his travel schedule the 38-year-old is never available for testing? Build another Lance. The California helmet maker, working with Hollywood special effect companies, spent $15,000 to construct a true-to-life replica of the seven-time Tour [...]
Oh, my. Every so often, you come across something that leaves you speechless, baffled, and wryly amused. Thus was the acronym “WTF?”” invented and thus is the case with this $1,000 Italian… snow…shoe…boot …fetish thing. Perhaps I’ve lead a sheltered life, but I’ve never seen anything that quite so…creatively combines the worlds of outdoor, gear, [...]
At first you scratch your head. Then you squint and turn your noggin sideways, as if that will help you understand better. Then you say, “Wow!” But then you scratch your head again. I’m talking about first, second, third, and fourth impressions of Magellan’s new GPS-enabled iPhone ToughCase. Doesn’t the iPhone have GPS? Some of [...]
A few months ago, I was in the desert with a friend who’s a primitive skills expert and as we were walking along he showed me how to find water where there didn’t seem to be any, to make rope from vegetation, and to use grass to lasso a lizard for protein (surprisingly easy, once [...]
The Gear Stash, a new website for outdoor, adventure, and travel products, makes its public debut today, I’m very excited to announce. TGS is brought to you by The Adventure Life and covers the same realm and scope that you’ve come to expect here, but it’s all gear, nothing but gear, multiple times a day.
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A new report from UK-based Ethical Consumer Magazine trashing outdoor gear companies for being non-sustainable is garnering a lot of attention in Europe and starting to get noticed in the States. Unfortunately, the report is full of inaccuracies, inconsistency, spurious rationale, and nakedly questionable reasoning. It’s rife with criticism and flawed analysis, and its proposed [...]
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NY Times Opinion is Wrong on Wilderness
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Okay, you gram-shaving bike weenies. You can appreciate the new Garmin Edge 800 GPS cycling computer like a set of titanium chainring bolts: The 800 is smaller and lighter than the popular 705, but its 2.6-inch screen is larger. It also has a color touchscreen – Garmin’s first – and the ability to display 1:24,000 ... keep reading
