Let’s start Fresh Goods Friday with some breaking news! Carly, the Scottish half of everyone’s favourite Van Gals, has had her first major crash. Naturally, Emma responded as any good girlfriend should:
Fear not. Carly is OK, she’s had stitches in her elbow and a can of Irn Bru as a reward for her bravery.
Other news this week, Hannah has been to Dyfi Bike Park, Amanda has built ANOTHER hardtail and more people are getting on board with indoor exercise.
With that, we wish you a wonderful weekend and hope everyone makes good choices. Let’s see what’s been arriving to our home offices this week…
Merida Big.Trail 600 Hardtail
- Price: £1,500.00
- From: Merida Bikes
Out on the hill, the Big.Trail 600 lives up to it promise. Everything works as it should, and the geometry is progressive enough not to feel like it’s holding the bike back. The Marzocchi fork copes with hard hits extremely well, and actually feels more composed than the affordable version of the Fox 34.
Antony de Heveningham
Check out Antony’s First Ride Review here.
Identiti AKA
- Price: £499.99 Frame only
- From: Identiti Bikes
This versatile hardtail frame has been built up as a ‘test rig’ for the weird and wonderful components we receive for review. It can be run as 27.5″, 29″ or mullet. Designed to accommodate 140mm fork in 27.5’’ or 120mm with 29’’ wheels. The current build is a questionable mix of components… Silver RockShox Pikes, a gold cassette and a rainbow chain are not what you’d expect from an Art Director, but Amanda has begged borrowed and bought in order to get this bike built.
Alpkit Dirtbag
- Price: £64.99
- From: Alpkit
Lightweight self-inflating camping mat that rolls out to 180cm, meaning you’d have to be really tall to have a bad nights sleep on this. It comes with a stuff sack and packs down to 16cm x 27cm.
Itchen Valley Brewery
- Price: Irrelevant, beer is essential.
- From: Who?! Please get in touch, kind stranger.
Boxes of beer turning up is becoming a regular occurrence, but this one is a bit of a mystery. We aren’t sure who sent it, but we thank them and invite them to get in touch! Charlie has already sampled the goods and had great things to slur say.
Fox Speedframe Pro
- Price: £139.99
- From: uk.foxracing.com
The Speed Frame is the newest open face helmet from Fox Racing. Available in standard or Pro, this Pro version features a MIPS liner on top of a dual-density ‘Varizorb’ impact-absorbing EPS liner for ultimate protection. The Speedframe Pro also features a Fidlock SNAP buckle for ease of use while wearing riding gloves, an XT2 microbial liner and plenty of vents for keeping things nice and cool. There’s also a goggle compatible 3 position visor. And why did Ross choose this helmet? Check out Amandas review of her Speedframe in the current issue of the magazine to find out.
Brand-X Bolt Thru Axle
- Price: £12.99
- From: Wiggle
Holiday essential: A spare axle for a bike that has a threaded bolt hole in the current axle. The leverless design is tidy and secure, and it’s hollow for weight saving… if you’re into that.
Stone Wash Wild Roots T-shirts
- Price: £22.00 each
- From: Banana Industries
Super soft ethically sourced cotton in stone washed colours that go with anything, these Wild Roots tees from Banana Industries are great for someone like Amanda who eventually turns every top into ridewear. The Banana Boys deliver in eco-friendly packaging too.
We’ve got several staff on holiday this week, which in a team of 9 means we’ve really not got many of us around to open parcels, however, next week is going to be jam-packed with goods! So see you then, and for now, let’s all comment our favourite covers below. Here’s one of mine:
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Alabama 3 – Hotel California.
https://youtu.be/po-qnMghThc
Ha! Love Emma’s selfie of Carly…. You’re in good company – eldest also sliced hand open in Morzine last week, 5 stitches….
Isnt’t the Itchen Valley Brewery in the ‘tell us & sell us your services’ sticky forum thread? Forum user singletrackmind put the original post up there, so maybe the beers came from him?
is this where I’m supposed to say, “End of thread”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4b2rnZc2Mo
Has Fox stopped selling the Speedframe? I wanted one but theres nothing on the UK site anymore.
The speed frame helmet has been so successful that fox sold out of every size and colour on the UK , new colours will be coming with the autum fox rage in September
Is that Speedframe helmet blue and red or blue and a bright orange that just didn’t photograph well?
And is that one of the colours that is no longer available?
Gillian Welch – Hickory Wind.
https://youtu.be/kk6V7S7Skcc
Rammsteins version of The Model is a tad funky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v3z_U0aLuc
Linkin Park – Rolling in the deep
https://youtu.be/dHtwZ07N1ic
Sisters of Mercy covering Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) has to be hard to top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dlgFauThMU