Fresh Goods Friday 167

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Bikes, beer, kitten. What more could you ask for on a Friday?

Pivot Firebird

Gate 18 strikes again.

This is a lovely custom build Upgrade have put together for us based on Pivot’s freeride/aggressive trail machine, the Firebird.

Comes complete with Angleset. Bodgers rejoice!
Many bends make light work.

All 6.6in of its DW-link travel are destined for Matt’s tender grasp (ahem). This build rolls in at a cool £5,300 and complete builds start at £3,900. Upgrade also supply the Firebird as a frame/shock only ready for you to hang your favourite stop and go gear on, so we’ll be looking at the X-Fusion Vengeance 170mm HLR DLA fork and the Reynolds Carbon AM wheelset they’ve fitted here seperately, too.

Price: £1799.00 Firebird (frame only),  £674.99 X-Fusion Vengeance 170mm HLR DLA fork, £1299.99 Reynolds Carbon AM wheelset
From: Upgrade, upgradebikes.co.uk

Intrepid Apparel Ultimate MTB Softshell

Not his best side. We don't mind.

Here is our man in black Jamie modelling an acquisition from his new favourite clothing brand, Intrepid Apparel. Their Ultimate MTB Softshell is a softshell designed for mountain biking in, though it wouldn’t  look out of place down the pub. It’s nicely cut, it’s got a hood, has ‘just enough’ pockets, and looks cosy. Not that anyone else is allowed to wear it…

Comes with free Magic Tree!

Price: £135
From: Intrepid Apparel, intrepidapparel.co.uk

Extremities Windy Lite Dry Glove

Has anyone got any clippers?

Clover the Poodle models some super light, super useful gloves from Extremities. They’re windproof, unpadded, weigh about the same as an envelope of feathers (scientific testing here) and are nicely warm, too. They’ll be going straight into someone’s dry bag of emergency/overnight kit and if it keeps snowing/hailing/raining like it has been will sadly probably see weekly use all the way through ‘summer’. Grumble, grumble, British Summer, grumble…

Price: £20.00
From: Terra Nova, terra-nova.co.uk

ODI Longneck Pro grips

Beer in not-just-a-paperweight shocker.

Very long, very green, very squidgy grips from ODI. Not much else to say apart from: LIKE.

Price: £9.99 the pair
From: Ison Distribution, ison-distribution.com

Dark Star Brewery goodies

Beer!
T-shirts! (hic)

Dom from Kinesis came up to do a feature with us this week and very kindly brought up a big box of goodies from Dark Star Brewery, who share a postcode with Kinesis/DMR/Upgrade HQ down south and who have sponsored Drink Beer At Your Desk Friday this week. Here we have Chipps and a nice Dark Star t-shirt: …and a healthy supply of Sunburst, Six Hop and Espresso Stout ales. If you want to talk to us on the phone today, we suggest you do it soon…

Price: Beer, from £2.65 a bottle. T-shirts, hoodies etc £9.50 upwards
From: Dark Star Brewing Co., darkstarbrewing.co.uk

DMR T-shirts

More t-shirts, this time from DMR. At this rate we’re not going to need to do any laundry until September. Which is just fine by us.

More t-shirts! We're happy.

Price: £14.99 or thereabouts
From: Upgrade, upgradebikes.co.uk

Summer kit from Gore Bike Wear

The lovely Ben from Gore Bike Wear popped in last week to show off some new summer clothing, including the following item which is sure to provoke debate (please play nicely in the comments):

Xenon GT AS Jacket short

We're sorry, he can't help it.

Gore say: Wear this lightweight, highly breathable jacket for ultimate weather protection and temperature control for all-day rides in uncertain conditions. We say: we’re looking forward to sending Chipps out to test this!

Price: £199.99

Xenon S jersey & Fusion Shorts

Dude, I Strava'd that motherf@*ker!

A very racy jersey with acres of mesh that’s crying out for summer. Some proper gnar baggies for off-roadin’ in. We made Chipps wear them both at once to see if the universe imploded. (Jury still out on that one.)

Price: £109.99 jersey £119.99 shorts

Xenon 2 bib short

Why? WHY?!

Very posh bib short for boys. (What is it about bib shorts that compels you to peer inside them?)

Price: £149.99

Power Lady bib short

Bless.

Slightly less posh (and very good value) bib short for girls. Sim is wondering how the zip-off bum works but we’ll let him work it out…

Price: £79.99

Base Layer WS Shirt

Get your tickles here!

Now this is a good idea: it’s an underlayer with Windstopper front, sides and shoulders, to cut down chill without getting sweaty under a pack. It also means that you can keep your swanky logoed-up jersey on display without freezing when the weather is sub par. Brand whores and sponsored riders rejoice!

Price: £49.99

Power Thermo arms, legs and knees

Rarrrr!

Cosy warmers to turn your summer gear into winter gear. Not that any of us can tell the difference at the moment.

Price: £34.99 arms, £39.99 knees, £44.99 legs
All from:
Gore Bike Wear, gorebikewear.co.uk

Peter Kitten

We told you there’d be a kitten!

Awwwwwwww.

Despatch Fairy Claire’s cat Poppy had kittens a few weeks back and Peter is off to a new home with Sarah (our Director of Chaos) and her young family. The jury (said young family) are still out on what name to settle on but have come up with a shortlist of Sooty, Smokey or Herbert. Place votes now! Winner wins unending cuteness and an extra fab weekend 🙂

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