Three months ago, I acquired the Garmin Varia RTL510 bike radar and rear light - second-hand, for only $134 from AliExpress.

The reason why I am sitting down and writing this article on my blog today is that after almost daily active use for three months, the bike radar stopped working...

You can read about why it stopped working and how I was fortunate enough to fix it in the brief review below.

This review will be very short, as I only have superlatives to share about the wheels after about 3 months and 2000+ km of testing on both good and bad roads - including several brevets, one of which was the legendary Ruzhevo 400 with strong headwinds and crosswinds and heavy rain, as well as a few shorter 200 km brevets on relatively poor roads.

For TPU inner bicycle tires, I found out a little over few months ago.

It happened entirely by chance - I read about TPU tires from a comment by Ivan - a fellow cyclist, under a post in one of the cycling groups on Facebook.

I had just received my new set of Continental GP 5000 tires, and the post on Facebook was precisely about a topic that is extremely important for every cyclist - tires. :)

The colleague had posted a picture of two tiny, thin, green inner tubes and explained that he had recently gotten them and hadn't even tested them yet.

Later, another fellow cyclist, Dimitar, strongly recommended these new TPU tires to me in the Facebook chat. He said he had been using them for a year and a half:

Now is the perfect time to talk about MERINO!

The main topic of this podcast and Blog post is  the equipment made of MERINO

Autumn has arrived, and soon winter will come... the astronomical and quite cold winter!

Personally, I'm a fan of riding outdoors 365 days a year, and I really enjoy it.

But to make cycling in a few degrees below zero enjoyable, good equipment is of utmost importance!

And now is the perfect time to talk about MERINO!

As I prepared for this podcast today, I took out most of my cycling gear.