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Garmin bike computer review – I really paid $300 for this?

Ian Slack / September 26, 2019 / Cycling, Rants

In this Garmin bike computer review, I explain how I think they’re overpriced and buggy if you consider them in relation to what a smartphone does.

Silca’s epic marketing fail

Ian Slack / May 17, 2019 / Cycling, Rants

I suggest any manufacturers who want to send me free product to test (and I’m sure you’re lining up after this sarcastic screed) do so with the postage-paid

2019 Subaru Outback review – sometimes older is better

Ian Slack / January 26, 2019 / Rants

When someone hit my 2013 Subaru Outback from behind last year – totaling it – my first reaction was to be pissed that I’d soon be back to making a car payment. Still – as I looked for the silver lining – I rationalized the car had over 130K miles on it and would soon […]

The Charleston church shooting, a personal perspective

Ian Slack / June 20, 2015 / Rants

Clementa Pinckney was one of those eloquent activists that stands like a small pillar of granite in a rushing river – refusing to yield and shaming the power brokers into doing the right thing every once in a long while.