As outdoors enthusiasts, we are always on the lookout for new gear to buy, and I try to keep track of it. This is a running list of camping, photography, and motorcycle gear — along with the occasional watch that has caught my eye, or someone’s whose opinion I respect. […]
REI Half Dome Tent My 2-person REI Half-Dome backpacking tent is coming up on 17 years of service in my outdoor adventures. It has been my camping companion for every solo adventure and quite a few 2-person outings. It survives a 16-year marriage — in fact, it was one of […]
I hadn’t ridden a motorcycle in close to 20 years, but I maintained my motorcycle license for whenever that soulless phase of my life would end. While crossing an intersection on a walk with my daughters a few weeks into the COVID-19 quarantine, I froze in the middle of the […]
In the first two parts of the Twisted Bezel’s Ultimate Dive Watch Guide we talk about the features of a dive watch, significant developments in the history of dive watches, and discuss the different brands and watchmakers that contributed the most resources toward pushing the bounds of toughness to reach […]
Part 2 of our ultimate dive watch guide covers dive watch brands, types of dive watches, and the requirements for ISO 6425 certification. Besides basic differences between watches in general, like quartz or automatic, dive watches can broken into four basic categories, Skin Diving, SCUBA, Deep Sea Diving, and Digital. […]
Part 1 of the Ultimate Dive Watch Guide is an introduction to the features that define a diver’s watch and a quick dive watch history noting the major advancements in dive watch technology. My brother and I spend a lot of time discussing dive watches. We geek out over the […]
[Updated for 2019] This guide is the result of exhaustive research to replace our family tent. I gave away our family tent when we moved because I never, ever wanted to set it up again. There are tons of tents out there that won’t last a weekend of use by […]
If you missed my first impressions of Felt Bikes’ Dispatch 9/60, I’ll sum up: I love it! But I’ve had it a few weeks now, ridden it quite a bit, and spent a lot of that time researching and learning everything I could absorb about mountain bikes — mainly to […]
Few things have gotten me as excited recently as anticipating the arrival of my Felt Dispatch 9/60 mountain bike and I’m going to give you my first impressions of it. I have not owned a mountain bike in years. Life was good with just a beach cruiser, but the hills […]
The Swiss watch industry was forever known as the definitive place for world class watches. When you thought of quality you thought of Switzerland, their brands are synonymous with watches themselves; Rolex, Omega, or Breitling and their pedigree amongst divers is unrivaled. However, as Yoda once said, “there is another.” […]
