About Robin Dean

Before writing for this website, I’ll sometimes race off to a remote location in an effort to become more inspired. Ten miles of twisties might become twenty, then forty, eighty, maybe a full ton of warm-up curve carving to get my head goin’. The result is always the same: fatigued in some indie cafe, an espresso drink in my hand, surfing social media while paying bills.

Why did I come here again? Eh, whatever.

A laptop can prove pretty handy while on any motorcycle trip but good tech doesn’t come cheap … or does it? There are various deal promotions on the web listing the “best laptops under 500” among others. I say that’s still too much money for something I’ll regularly overhand into my hard luggage before shaking it rigorously for as many as three hundred miles per day, occasionally punctuated with an assault on Deals Gap.

In the action camera realm, almighty king GoPro sees little if any competition outside of lower priced, lesser quality “meh, whatever” almost disposables. A while back, the VSN Mobile caught our attention for its best-in-class 360° capabilities. New top shelf cameras on the market rarely make the cut for review because they either don’t offer anything innovative, “introduce” already standardized features or whisper larger dimensions … all with a less established reputation.

It’s hard to get new tech onto the battlefield and even harder to find a fair fight worth picking.

Of all the cams that may (or may not have) flown by in our social media feed, the Rylo stood out in a big way. Its shape and overall technological concept immediately made sense even through a five-second internet ad. That alone speaks to why we’ve decided to give it the focus it deserves.