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Match the mower’s maximum cutting height to your cultivar’s target height, then require all-wheel drive and real ground clearance before you buy anything. St. Augustine grass is a wide-bladed, stolon-spreading warm-season turf that must be cut tall, and that single fact disqualifies more robot mowers than any other. A machine that tops out at 2.4…

The best robotic mowers for steep slopes are the all-wheel-drive models rated to roughly 80% grade, which is about 38.6 degrees. Our top pick, the Mammotion LUBA mini 2 AWD 1500H, climbs 80% from two independent 88 W motors with adaptive suspension, and it is the machine we would put on a bank first. Entry-level…

Most people who search for the best robotic lawn mowers under 1000 dollars are not trying to buy the cheapest thing on the market. They are trying to buy the last robot mower before the price jump becomes painful. That threshold is where a lot of the interesting engineering stops and where a lot of…

The best bike locks for city parking are Sold Secure Gold rated U-locks that pass through the frame and rear wheel in one pass, paired with a second lock from a different brand for the front wheel. Step up to a Diamond rated model in high-theft downtown areas, and add a third lock only if…

Nothing ruins a commute faster than a phone that comes loose mid-turn. I have run a dozen different bike phone mounts over the same wet, potholed three-mile route into the city across , and the failures repeat: loose clamp joints, grips too narrow for a phone in a case, and one mount that sent a…

Yes, you can seat a tubeless tire with a floor pump, but only if that pump moves air fast enough to push the bead onto the rim in one rush. That is the single distinction separating the best bike floor pumps for tubeless tires from every other floor pump on the shelf, and it is…

The best vertical bike racks for garages are the swivel wall mounts that hold a bike by the front wheel and pivot it flat against the wall. After six weeks of load-unload cycles with road, mountain and e-bike frames in a one-car garage, the Steadyrack Swivel Rack came out on top, with the StoreYourBoard 5-Bike…

Finding the best bike racks for fat tire bikes is harder than it looks, because almost every rack on the market is built for tires under 2.5 inches and bikes under 45 pounds. I have loaded fat bikes, fat-tire e-bikes and fenders onto more racks than I care to count, and the fit problems show…