DJI Osmo Action 6 Review: Why It Became Our Go-Anywhere Gear-Test Camera
As product reviewers, cameras are among the most important tools we carry. And the action camera may be the one we reach for most often. It is the camera we can toss into a...
Author: Mark Ranum
Heybike Saturn Review: A Fast, Long-Legged E-Moped That Makes Errands Fun
After nearly 90 miles across West Michigan roads, bike paths, gravel, dirt, two-tracks, and mellow trails, the dual-battery Saturn proved that its biggest strength is not exercise. It is making the car feel unnecessary...
Batch eCB.1 Electric Bike Review: A Peppy Comfort Cruiser That Keeps Things Simple
This is the third Batch Bicycle ebike we have tested and the second one aimed squarely at comfort-focused cruising. The first was the eCB.3, a polished commuter that impressed us with its smooth assistance,...
ZAFRO D026W Dehumidifier Review
Living in West Michigan, about ten miles from Lake Michigan, we know plenty about water and the humidity that comes with it. We typically run three dehumidifiers throughout our home to keep the relative...
Lems ZENSPEED+ and ZENSPEED Lite Review: Lems Goes Running, and One Shoe Feels Just Right
One of my favorite footwear companies is getting into one of my favorite extracurricular activities, which immediately puts Lems in a bit of a tough spot. I already like their shoes. That means they weren’t starting...
ECLIO Vetus 2 Electric Bike Review: More Mini-Moto Than Bicycle, and That’s the Point
There are e-bikes you pedal. Then there are e-bikes that happen to have pedals. The ECLIO Vetus 2 falls pretty hard into that second camp, and the sooner I stopped treating it like a traditional electric...
Arccaptain MIG200 MIG Welder Review: Is It Actually Any Good?
I’ve been using a stick welder for years, mostly because it was what I had and I knew how to make it work. “Make it work” is probably the important part of that sentence. Stick welding...
RitFit BE01 Adjustable Back Extension Machine Review
For the past couple of years, my back extension setup was a FLYBIRD Multi-Functional Roman Chair, a unit I tested a while back (you can read that review here). It carried me through plenty...
Dorm Room to Game Day: Back-to-School Gear Guide for College Students and Student-Athletes
Back-to-school season gets treated like a school supply list. Laptop, notebooks, a coffee maker if you’re lucky. But anyone who has lived the college life knows the gear that matters most rarely shows up...
SurviveX First Aid Kit Review: A Month in the Trunk, and What I’d Change
For a month, the SurviveX Large First Aid Kit rode in the back of my vehicle the way a fire extinguisher does. Present, strapped down, mostly ignored, and doing its job just by being...
ZOUPW 400W Solar Panel Review: More Power, Less Hassle
For the last couple of years my solar charging setup has been two 200 watt panels and a lot of babysitting. Move them every hour or so to chase the sun, prop them up...
Buy It For Life Camping Chairs: Seven We Trust After a Season of Abuse
There is a corner in my garage that I try to avoid looking at too closely. It is home to a collection of broken, but potentially fixable camp chairs, that if combined with the...
AIRWAAV Review: Can a Mouthpiece Really Make You Stronger, Faster, and Better Rested?
AIRWAAV creates mouthpieces that claim to make you stronger, faster, and better rested, which sounds like a similar pitch as copper-infused socks and magnetic bracelets. The brand’s premise is that by optimizing jaw alignment...
Topeak MTX Trunkbag DXP 2.0 Review: The One Bag That Follows Me From Bike to Bike
I almost never leave home without bicycle tools, because after enough miles and enough family rides, you learn fast that somebody always ends up needing something. The bigger issue for me is having a...
Batch eFT.3 Review: A Fat Tire Cruiser That Gets the Basics Right (With One Annoying Catch)
I spent a month with the Batch eFT.3 fat tire electric bike, riding it up and down the West Michigan lakeshore, through downtown streets, on paved rail trails, and out on hard packed dirt...
Saucony Triumph 24 Review: Soft, Light, and Almost Too Comfortable
I handed the Saucony Triumph 24 to our guest tester with one basic assignment: wear them for the kind of running most of us actually do. Not race day. Not a carefully staged tempo...
TALON T757 Fat Tire E-Bike Review
Every so often, a new e-bike brand lands on the scene with big promises and a product that doesn’t quite fit into the usual categories. TALON is one of those brands. Positioned as a...
Retrospec Siesta Dock 7′ Inflatable Platform and Pup Ramp Review
Our old inflatable dock finally gave up. To be fair, it had every right to. We left that thing out all summer, every summer, baking in direct Michigan sun, getting hammered by storms, and...
Stack Height Is a Tool…And Altra’s Lineup has the Whole Workshop
There’s a version of this article where I tell you to ditch your cushy shoes, go barefoot, and suffer through six months of sore calves until you emerge on the other side as a...
Zempire Monstabed Twin Camp Mattress Review: Is Premium Camp Sleep Worth It?
Before we get into sleeping on it, let’s talk about who made it. Zempire is a camping brand born at the bottom of the world. Husband and wife team Richard and Sophie Knauf built...
