To use your GoPro example, when I order GoPro stuff from GoPro’s Europe site, it literally shows up every single time the next morning. Meanwhile, UPS for me sucked horribly in Paris. I’m literally their first stop every day from the airport, and I can predict within 2-5 minutes when they’ll arrive (8:50-8:52 most days, including today again). UPS for me is very strong for delivery and pickup. Largely, it depends on your exact location. They have sucky locales, and good locales. Yeah, I guess I just have lived in enough places around the world and gotten/sent more packages than the average bear, in more countries than the average bear, to know that for the most part all these services are the same. I have done zero resets before rides, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference so I typically do not bother. Garmin routinely thinks my fitness is cratering whenever I go for an outdoor ride, and I’m really regretting buying it, even though it was cheap. Is that… A normal amount of bad for this type of power meter? Wondering whether I have a faulty product or just a crappy one that works as well as any other would. I got one not too long ago, and it usually reads 25% or more lower than my Wahoo Kickr Snap. I haven’t found a recent review on Stages left-only crank arm power meters on your site (not sure if the one from 2013 is still valid), but I think I’ve seen a few comments hinting you don’t think too much of them. Random additional question I’ve had on my mind for a while and may as well throw in here since I’m already typing… Apologies for being off topic. In the meantime, I’m off to order one of these for my permanent collection.ĭo those Garmin puck chargers actually work for you? They are neat, to be sure, but I’ve ordered them twice and all four that I now own usually won’t charge my Fenix 6x Pro or my wife’s Forerunner 745. But realistically, you’re probably still back thinking about that Wrecking Ball. Thus, I’m compelled to write some text here. I don’t really have any further wrap-up text, but the way the site works, it’s handy if I have a bulleted section at the end. In any event, how is it that COROS can manage to get a box shipped 9,234km on a weekend is beyond me.) Wrap-Up: And also very much perplexed at the wide assortment of massive and tiny boxes he has to drop off each morning, as the first stop on his route. I mean, the box was shipped from China, not the UPS man. Then, on Monday morning at 8:52AM, the box arrived by my always prompt UPS man from China. They e-mailed me at 10:32PM on a Friday night European time, confirming my address in Amsterdam. (Side note: I feel this post would be incomplete if I didn’t mention some black magic that COROS did with respect to shipping this a few weeks ago. Seriously, there’s nothing left to do except stick it back in its home: The entire cable length is essentially the same length as the bottom of the band to the top of the watch body:Ĭharging is at the normal speed, no differences there.Īnd with that, this review is done. The fit was snug, but not overly crispy either. On the COROS side, this pops into any COROS watch, which all use the same three-pole attachment system. It works just like a regular USB plug, except.well…naked of a case. We’ve seen this before from various companies in the sports tech space, including Polar, Nike, and I think even TomTom. The USB cable side is a naked USB plug design, meaning that it doesn’t have a secondary shell around it. Then, there’s the charging cable guts, which pops out of the shell when you press the side button, revealing the nylon cable with a standard USB port on one side, and the three-pole COROS charging port design on the other: First, there’s the charger shell, which stays affixed to your keychain: The device is relatively simple, and has two pieces that detach from each other. Though, the $25 price tag is a bit…umm…pricey. Yup, we don’t even need to test whether or not this thing works – it’s already a winner in my book. Did I mention it’s red, titanium-looking silver, and black? But what I’m here for is the charging cable keychain. In any event, COROS’s big news today is some training load and recovery stuffs. These solutions are almost universally better than what the companies make themselves, primarily because they’re almost universally cheaper. For example, there’s the $9 twofer Garmin puck charger I wrote about, or that time I bought pretty much every type of Apple Watch charger I could find on Amazon (I haven’t quite written about that yet, but research is going well). In most cases, these creative solutions are not from the company itself. However, what is clear is I’ve got a lot of watches to charge, a lot of the time, and I am always looking for creative solutions to charge a watch. One might call it an unhealthy obsession with creative ways to charge a watch, another might call it a fetish. As longtime readers know, I’ve probably got a bit of a watch charging ‘thing’.
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