Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ lunch again. Here’s the stuff we didn’t get to talk about this week. — I’m fully expecting Tango & C[...] Read More »

relatively compact (but will still comfortably take an SLR or camcorder and two lenses) with a great waist belt to keep the bag close on those active days. A great traveling bag Review of Lowepro Photo Runner camera bagRated as 5/5 on Nov 19 2007 by Neal McQuaid Continuing on from last week̵[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Picked this up on my trawl through YouTube.com this evening. It’s the world record attempt to abseil 100m on a single line in the shortest time. Check this out - he totally misses the safety boxes at the bottom but all credit to Petzl, their device stop him sharp[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The new look Connemara Website has been launched. Alan has been on to let us know that it’s one of the first steps towards the biggest Connemarathon yet! There’s plenty of news, information, photos, and even a few videos. Information on the old site was [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Great Outdoors Canoeing Awards were held on November 24th At Green Isle Hotel, Dublin. Read the post “Kelleher is Crowned King at Great Outdoors Canoeing Awards”. TGU love IrishFreeStyle.com and love featuring their photos (see above!). The awards went [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - An interesting post appeared on climbing.ie during the week, and a suitable debate has followed. The author is ‘Arther Aggs’, specifically not ‘Arthur’, any idea who this is? Is it an anagram? maybe, so from now on I’m going to call him &#[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Short & sweet post to say Google Maps have turned on Terrain View. Wow. Click the little [Terrain] button beside Satview on the map to access it. Google, you’re the gift that just keeps giving! View Larger Map -Robin [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - So, you may get the hint here, I’m a little giddy :-) As of today I’m all booked up - flights Dublin>Chicago>Denver, greyhound bus Denver>Vail, hotel, ski rental & ski-pass. I’m ready to hit Vail in the Rockies, North America, for 8 days in 2 wee[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Power Breathe was something I never paid much attention to until last week when i got to try one for myself to see what its like. All you do is set the level of resistance first(1-10) and then simply take 30 breaths, twice a day. The idea is that it trains the mus[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Water-Buoy, a flotation device for your keys has appeared on Springwise, one of my favourite sites for ideas. As featured on BBC’s Dragons’ Den last night, young entrepreneur James Halliburton is bringing an innovative solution to market for boater[...] Read More »

Decent (enough) wide angle, sturdy and most importantly…….image stabilized for getting those sport shots :) Review of Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 Image Stabilized USM SLR LensRated as 4/5 on Nov 18 2007 by Neal McQuaid continuing on from last week’s review of the Canon EOS Rebel[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ Lunch again! — Howth Coastguard & RNLI were up at 4am yesterday to rescue 4 men from rocks in Howth. Their fishing boat was holed and sunk within minutes. I understood that the All-weather sent in its tender and the inshore brought them back to harbo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Rick! Thanks for the email to let us know about your new features on Northern Irish TrailBadger.com which now allows the biking public to put up Mountain Biking reviews and ratings. where 1=rubbish thumbs down and 5=badger-tastic We reviewed TrailBadger’s launch[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Wonder if there’s any tickets left for the Dublin event tonight? From Outsider: Outsider & The North Face would like to invite you to the launch of the TGR Ski and Snowboard movie in 4 Dame Lane, in Dublin city center. Tickets are FREE and there will be s[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well if you managed to drag yourself out of bed and down to Manor Kilbride yesterday morning then you deserve tonnes of credit because it was absolutley freezing! And wet. And did I mention it was freezing? When you’re running at least you know you’ll wa[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Eh, how’d we miss this one!? In 2008 Simon Evans and Fearghal O’Nuallain will leave their homes in Wicklow (Ireland) and begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world by bike and by boat. So I spotted a trackback to TGU posted by Fearghal on the Revolution bl[...] Read More »