Hello, Good Evening (lunchtime), And Welcome to this, the latest, the two hundred and seventh Fresh Goods Friday! We’ve got another bumper edition for you. Here’s the newshiny that’s hit our office this week:
Orange Segment RS
We’ve got a GREEN Orange Segment in as part of an upcoming short-travel gnarrrrrbike(tm) test. 29er, short travel, and built for tech.
120mm Pikes upfront for maximum stiffness per bounce (SPB)…
..a 1×11 SRAM X1 groupset, and..
..110mm of single-pivot rear travel courtesy of a RockShox Monarch RL.
Price: £3,900
From: Orange
Panasonic HX-A500 Wearable Camera
Mark does his best Universal Soldier with this piece of Panasonic retro-futuretech. It can shoot in a spectacular 4K resolution at 25 frames per second, it shoots slo-mo up to 200 fps, and it’s WiFi enabled. It’s also orange.
Here’s Mark’s attempt to look like the chap on the box – only more baffled.
Price: £379.99
From: Panasonic
The BarFly Hopper Saddle Bag
Some minimalist velcro straps to secure your spare tube (or coffee, the packaging bizarrely says) to your seat rails.
Price: £16.99
From: 2Pure
661 Wrist braces
Our Dave has had an op on his wrist – now the cast is off he’s looking for some protection while his withered appendage gains strength. And his wrist.
Top: 661 Wristwrap Pro. Price: £13.99
Left and Right: 661 Wristwrap; L and M respectively. Price: £9.99
From: ONE Industries Europe
Haglofs L.I.M. III Jacket
Packable waterproofness from Haglofs.
Price: £220
From: Haglofs
Spot Trace Tracker
To help prevent our nice new van from getting half-inched, we’ve got this GPS tracker in to test.
Price: from €125 or £99 plus service plan
From: Spot
XT Rear Mech
Jenn’s holiday spare.
Price: £69.99
From: Madison
Gore clothing
We’ve got loads of clothing from Gore in of a distinctly dodgy-weather bent: it’s all destined for Grinder, as well as a couple of waterproof jackets for an upcoming grouptest.
From left to right:
Men’s Element Thermal bibtights+ £89.99
Men’s Element Windstopper Softshell Bibtights+ XL and L £129.99
Oxygen Partial Thermal Bib 3/4s £149.99.
Element Windstopper Softshell Ladies’ Jacket Black and Lumi Orange (looks more like pink to me)
Price £119.99
Element Thermal Ladies’ jersey £79.99
Element Thermal ladies’ 3/4 shorts £139.99
Element Ladies’ thermal bibtights, £89.99
Element Goretex ActiveShell Ladies’ Jacket £159.99
Power Goretex ActiveShell Jacket £179.99
Oxygen 2.0 GoreTex ActiveShell Jacket £209.99
Fusion Cosmo Softshell Jacket £179.99
Element WindStopper SoftShell Jacket £119.99
All from: Gore
TMR Imprint Grips
The product of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Dunk’em in hot water, apply a mesh mould if you so wish, grasp, and voila! Your own, customised grip.
Price: £24.99 – 39.99
From: TMR Designs
And finally…..
Smith Helmets
Lots of nifty design, carbon-fibre and special Koroyd straw-alike shock-absorbtion material:
Rich models the Smith Overtake:
Price: £250
And Dave’s hand is wafting the Smith Forefront about:
http://vimeo.com/105983664
Price: £190
Both from Saddleback.
That’s it for this week – while the tenuous weather holds, we’re turning rubber-side down and doing some trail-railing. See you on Monday!
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I like that Scott are thinking laterally about shock absorption in helmet design, but surely at some point in the design or prototyping process someone pointed out that 250 quid is stupid money?
Love the photos this week 🙂
Best FGF for a very long time, cheers guys!
Have to agree. When I saw the price of £250 for a helmet I thought to myself “Jesus Christ”. For something that you’re very likely to break that’s a lot of cash.
Well, are the 661s from One Industries or not..? 🙂
kcal – the 661s are indeed from One Industries. Oops 🙂
“an upcoming short-travel gnarrrrrbike(tm) test. 29er, short travel, and built for tech.” Sounds interesting…what other bikes are going in the test?
Nuke – Pyga 110, Orange Segment and Kona Process 111 hopefully..
If youre doing a GPS tracker review can I suggest you look at the cheap chinese GPS units on eBay. I have one in my landrover for £30 together with a giffgaff SIM it costs a fraction to run compared to the posh boxes.
Wow that is a lot of stuff (maybe give some away)
but hang on – 29’ers don’t do gnarr this year, do they?
Only good for fireroads ‘pparently………
(I’ve got one of the 3 above – it’s gnarr’er than wot I am)
Would love a shot on that Segment. Be interesting to compare to my Gyro (to see if its worth inverting in a slackest).
GPS tracker review sounds like a great fresh idea – comon Chipps you know you want to 😉
Why not add in a banshee phantom to complete the set? I’ve never really understood why banshee bikes never seem to get reviewed in singletrack.
Two Hundred & Fifty Quid for a bloody skid lid????
I think the phrase rhymes with ‘ Clucking Bell’…..
Can you add an on-one codine and Canyon Spectral AL 29 to the review? Please? Really fancy a blast on all these