Recent content by Carbonrules

The Under Armour base layers were originally designed for play on artificial turf and therefore have very tight warp/weft patterns. They were designed to prevent turf burn. They can help reduce the effects of road rash. I think UA has now produced and offered a pattern for typical...

I've had two pairs of Rocket 7s and they were pretty good shoes. I have Shimano now and they are better. The R315 (current model is R320) are the nicest shoes I've owned. Easy to mold to your feet and the foot bed is perfect. They just strike me as more thoroughly engineered for a foot...

Almost every vendor of chain lube under the sun offers a cleaner/lube combination, not the least of which is WD-40. Dupont's "Teflon Chain Saver" is a PTFE (Teflon solids) lube in a wax carrier. It does a great job of lubing the chain while staying reasonable clean. The idea is that the...

If you're a fanatic you can just buy a prepared chain from him. But after a couple hundred miles its time to either retreat, or just put any lube on it. There is no better general lube for metal surfaces than Polytetrafluoroethylene, otherwise known as Teflon. As Jason points out, just...

Good info veganrob.

I don't like the fact that, like the Garmin 910XT, it requires daily charging. When I buy a watch, I want one that runs months or even years before needing new batteries. Having said that, for runners or hikers that will only need a watch during the particular activity (as bikers do) then I...