At last! It’s come around again, after a week of alarmingly torrential rains, depressingly sporadic sunshine and frankly rude temperature drops. Friday, we’re ridiculously glad you’ve arrived. And with it comes the latest in a long line of weekly updates – here’s what’s new and fresh this week:
Vulpine
Packable Disc Jacket – EXCLUSIVE
A last-minute addition to the Packable Jackets grouptest in the next issue, the Vulpine Packable Disc packs into – er – a disc. It is supposed to be very breathable, water resistant for puddles, light rain and sleet. Its made with Schoeller fabric, which is dead posh. And we’ve got the first one in to test! As well as this Navy Blue with a Green contrast ripstop it’ll also be available in Racing Red with an Orange contrast stripe. Oooooh.
RRP: TBC
Men’s Softshell Jacket
Rich is doing his best Star-Trek Engineer (with a personal problem) in this very Sci-Fi looking Vulpine Softshell. Loads of nice touches, reflective bits, a drop tail, magnets holding everything down and a susprisingly robust set of shoulders.
Price: £175
Both from: Vulpine
Osocyclo phone mount
If you’re cavalier enough to use your phone as a bike computer, this little holder might just fit the bill. It’ll fit any phone up to 95mm wide using a cunning system of rubber webbing.
Here’s a view of the underside to give you an idea of how it all works.
Price: £19.99
From: Oso
Showers Pass
Rogue Hoodie Softshell
Sarah waits expectantly for caffeine in the Rogue Hoodie: breatheable, windproof, wrist gaiters and thumb loops, reflective bits, holes for ipod etc and apparently the hood fits over most helmets.
Price: £120
Crosspoint Waterproof Socks
Seamless waterproof socks, 3 layer construction, to keep Jamie’s delicate tootsies toasty and dry.
Price: £25.00
Both from: Showers Pass
DMR Stage1 Saddle
An arse-friendly version of the V12 pedal, apparently. So it needs to “be good value, good weight and to appeal to any mountain biker”.
It’s available in a selection of colourways, and also comes with a RideSaver velcro strap for cunning and discrete tube/tool storage.
Price: £49.99
From: Upgrade
Manfrotto
Vivace 10
The Italian veryveryposhtripod company has luggage too! The Vivace 10 is a small SLR and lens thing with Italian styling, and the…
Advance Tri-BackPack
…has loads and loads of little compartments to store all your precious SLR kit when you’re out on a gnarly MTB photoshoot.
Price: £124.99
Both from Manfrotto
100% Celium Gloves
Rich is getting all surgical with these very, very lightweight Celium gloves from 100%. Not sure how white they’ll look after a season of enduro racing, but the price is right…
Price: £19.99
From: Decade
Asgard Access Plus 29er Shed
For maximal bike security and lack of stealing-ness (I do this for a living – can you tell?) here’s the Asgard shed. This one is big enough for up to 4 29ers! Hurrah! For your amusement, here’s a video of our illustrious benefactor (well, Mark) erecting the aforementioned with an unfortunate minion:
http://vimeo.com/108222599
Price: £475
From: Asgard
That’s all for now – we’re off scuba-diving out local trails while we can still see them. Have a good weekend one and all!
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All the right colours are the in colours it seems. This is a very good thing. Especially as the grey months approach the UK.
Nice channeling of John Noakes Mark! ;]
And a MASSIVE ERECTION.
So the ladies get that Rogue hoodie in awesome red/orange, but us guys are stuck with black or brown? 🙁
How easy/hard/noisy is it getting bikes in/out of that Asgard? I’m looking for a new shed, but the potential faff of two padlocks (vs. say a lock in the door the smaller asgards have) and a lifty-clangy-lid put me off the bigger ones a bit.
For every day use, stashing a commuter.
It’s got two padlocks and they are easy enough to unlock so long as you carefully level the shed so that everything aligns perfectly. As for the clangy lid.. it isn’t at all. It uses two pneumatic rods so it works and feels like opening and closing the boot of your car.
Good choice of drill, that Bosch Power 4-All is excellent. Shed looks pretty decent too…
That wee shed looks a good’un.
Asgard? Sounds like it should be protecting something else
What a handsome chap the one in the hedge is.
Echo the ‘I want that
onecolour on the showerpass jacket…