Fresh Goods Friday 208

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Yup, it’s come around again – and it seems to happen sooner and sooner every week. Grab a cuppa, and that prawn sandwich, and gather round the computer monitor, as we display all that’s packed with Freshage and brimming with Goodment that’s come in to the office this week – It’s Fresh Goods Friday!

Lupine Lights

You can tell that winter is on its way – in so, so many, rainy ways – but especially when we get lights sent into the office to test. And here are some teeny-brights from Lupine:

Lupine Neo

A total of 700 lumens, a helmet mount and a nice tidy little battery. The instructions rather magnificently refer to the battery as the ‘Wiesel’ – the corresponding ‘Wiesel Charger’ would be an AWESOME name for a band…

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Wiesel Charger not pictured.

Price: £149.99

Lupine Rotlicht

There’s also a rear light, the imaginatively named Rotlicht (that’s red light in German, folks):

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It even LOOKS German

This little puppy comes with a full 160 lumens, 4 light modes, an inertial brake light function and a brightness sensor.

Price: £74.99

Both from: Leveret Productions

Sweet Protection Air Jacket

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Relax, ladies – he’s married.

Mark models the Air in Pacific Blue. Water repellant, breathable, blue. Disarming wink, model’s own.

Price: £119.00

From: Sweet Protection

GoPole Scenelapse

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It’s entirely possible that this is called the ‘gato revèy’ in Haiti

The scenelapse is a 360 degree rotatey thing onto which you can shove your GoPro for to get nice panorama, yes? Each full rotation takes an hour. It even rings loudly when your cake is ready it’s fully revolved.

Price: £24.99

From: Madison 

VeloToze Shoe Covers

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Ah yes, the wonderful rainy rain rain is here. And so are these rubber shoe covers for the more roadie amongst us.

Water resistant, light, windproof and aerodynamic, apparently. Chipps is out of the office, so here are some embarrassing photos:

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Our beloved leader. *weeps*
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I can’t tell if Chipps is inflating the overshoe, or the other way round…

http://vimeo.com/106584290

Price: TBC

From: Rivet Sports

Giro Empire VR 90 Shoe

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Full carbon outsole, retro lace up upper, so-hot-right-now ORANGEY ORANGE ORANGE* and Vibram for “relentless grip and durability” apparently. They’re floaty-light at 315g for the 42.5 size, too.

*not available in so-hot-right-now ORANGEY ORANGE ORANGE in the UK – Chipps got them because he’s ‘special’. Folks on the outside of the asylum can enjoy them in black.

Price: €250 £TBC

From: Zyro

Turbine Nose Thingies

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It’s not what you think

Chipps brought these back from Interbike. You know those Breathe-Rite strips that help your airways and make you into the awesome athlete you’ve always thought you were? These are the same, but they work from the inside… So no sneaky borrowing of your mate’s when he’s in the shower, y’hear?

Also, they make you look like you’ve got a ring through your nose. Snort.

Price: £16.58 (plus shipping)

From: Rhinomed

Alpkit HeadTorches

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Alpkit illumination for your swede. At left, the Indigo, £10.00. On the right, the Viper, £12.50.

Both from: Alpkit

Rocks Belong Tee

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Rich looks as startled as the goat on his tee…

Grit.CX’s Marc Basiliere has started up Lindarets.com, at the moment selling this goaty tee, and imminently socks (another great band name!). He can ship to the UK, too.

Price: £13.65 plus shipping

From: Lindarets.com

And now! With Great Fanfare! IT’S THE SOCKS!

Sock Guy socks

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Socks?

A range of entertaining logos on some hugely versatile socks – they can go on left OR right feet! Or elsewhere. But we’ll leave that to your imagination/nightmares.

Price: from £8.95

From: Silverfish

DeFeet Aireator Socks

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Yes, socks.

Cool, dry, durable and Best Fit. It says so on the packaging…

Price: From £8.99

From: i-ride

Prendas Ciclismo socks

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AND MOAR SOCKS

And here are some Italian made Autumn-rated warm’n’toasty foot coverings in a range of patterns and sizes.

Price: From £6.50

From: Prendas Ciclismo

That’s all from us for now… we’re going to gird our loins, waterproof up and get moist. Tune in next week: same bat-time. same bat-channel!

 

 

 

 

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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