Another working week done, another weekend looms large. But before the working week is over, stick yer feet up for a few minutes, grab a well-deserved cuppa and take a look at all the gear that’s appeared in the office this week – it’s Fresh goods Friday!
Whyte G150 S
The 150mm Whyte G150 has come in as part of our trail-bike grouptest for issue 94.
Very a la mode graphics on the de rigeur 150mm Pike RC, n’cest pas?
Custom tuned Debonair Monarch RT3 handles rear bounce.
Comes complete with a Stealth Reverb. Yum.
From: Whyte
Price: £2799
Empire MX6 – EVO
The Empire is a British designed and made slab of no-nonsense trail bike (also for out upcoming group test).
The swingarm is a very impressive piece of hollow-cast engineering. It yields 150mm travel with a Rockshox Monarch. The pivot bolts are smaller versions of the ones used in motocross bikes, fact fans.
…and there’s a 66.5 degree head angle for Maximum Enduro. Ours runs a Revelation fork with 150mm travel.
Now that’s quite a stiff-looking front end… the head tube wotsit (as well as the seatmast) is actually cast too.
From: Empire
Price: bikes start from £2499. This model costs £2950 with assorted upgrades. Bare frame is £999.
Gamut
SRAM Spider
Lets you run a standard 104 BCD 4 bolt ring (and guard) on SRAM cranks with a removable spider.
Price: £59.99
Headset Spacers and Top Cap bolts
Cillos headset spacers which are apparently lighter than a very light thing indeed. On planet helium, and a Cillos top cap bolt which fits super flush to you can run as much steerer as possible. With its bolt, it too weighs a colossal really rather teensy 4g.
Price: spacers from £4.99; top cap and bolt £7.99
Cillos Stem
Our Dan’s going to be rocking this 40mm stem. It’s hewn from 120g or pure, unadulterated gnar (aluminium).
Price: £74.99
Gamut T and Cap
Chris from Gamut also very kindly let us have this lovely T (thanks for trying to look relatively normal, Chipps), and
…this hat. James clearly needs to get out more. No, actually, less. Much, much less.
Price: less.
All from: Madison
WTB
For an upcoming wide-rimmed wheels test, we’ve got this lovely load of stuff from WTB. It’s the complete set – just add hubs, spokes and nipples! And, er, the rest of the bike…
WTB KOM I25 29er rims: £70
Vigilante tyre TCS 2.3 £44.99
Boss tyre TCS 2.25 £46.00
Rim tape: £8.99 for 11 metres
Sealant: £13.00
Tyre valves: £19.99
All from: Hotlines
Rideworks
Rideworks is a UK company which machines nice shiny things out of metal. The Narrow/Wide chainrings are HARD ANODIZED apparently, to ensure maximal lifespannage.
Price: Chainrings £38; Bash Guard £32
From: Rideworks
USE Exposure Revo Dynamo light and hub
Brightness without any of that inconvenient charging-of-the-batteries, this is USE’s light and dynamo hub. You get a more than serviceable 800 lumens from the light, and when you stop it dims a bit, but remains lit for 10 minutes. The hub is a 15mm through axle number.
Price: £339.99 (with hub)
From: USE
…and we’re done. Look out for our special XTR fresh goods extravaganzas – there’ll be one later on today, with video and everythink! We’re off to bury our heads in a computer screen before hitting the trails to ride home.. see you next week!
Comments (15)
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Is it just me or does anyone else think of Domino’s Pizza when they see that Empire headtube badge?
Now that you’ve mentioned it Pinkster.
I don’t see anything but the cat on the stem above the badge!
That Empire? Is that not a fully cast frame any more Chipps?
That Whyte is looking very nice from here…
Those WTB tyres look like they have some serious nobbles!
That empire is F U G L Y !
Has interesting design elements, but looks like a Saracen from the bad old days. Maybe it’s the decals.
Brant – no, this one is square section tubing with cast bits…
That Exposure hun looks like a QR to me, no?
YoKaiser – it also comes with an axle; it’ll run both.
Do like that empire..but not the shock position, any frame design that requires (as default) a guard isn’t correct is it?
anyone who rides motorcycles off road knows that grip is best achieved whith a horizontal upper chain line.. the empire ticks the box but the whyte is wong
“The pivot bolts are smaller versions of the ones used in motocross bikes”
Am I missing something here?
Its smaller than a motorbike so I’d expect it to?
I have a vigilante on the 29er and it is a top notch tyre.
I have the Whyte G150 S and really like it a lot.
@ totalshell The Whyte has the chain on the largest sprocket, the Empire does not. It’s easier for motorbikes to have the upper chain level as their gearing is done within a gearbox – as you know. 🙂