Fresh Goods Friday 649 – Sparkling Finger Magic Edition

Hello, good evening and welcome to this week’s Eff Gee Eff. It must be evening somewhere, right?

We’ve been struggling for instrospiration this week, possibly due to motivation being carried off by the 75km/h wind. But fear not! The rain has arrived, and brought with it some sopping wet words of encouragement for the readers heading off to the Dirty Reiver tomorrow. Taking a look back at this STW Forum Thread from 11 years ago (thanks @DazH) we suggest taking spare brake pads with you. Don’t forget to fuel, smile and dress for the worst to ensure it never happens. Good luck to you all!

Finisterre Nautilus 23L Backpack

• Price: £145.00
• From: Finisterre

Finisterre Nautilus 23L Backpack Price: £145.00 From: finisterre.com Made from recycled fabrics with a water based wax treatment, this roll top bag has almost all the required features for a commuter. There’s a laptop sleeve at the back with padding, secret storage inside, a phone pocket you can reach without removing the bag and a large pocket on the front to save you unrolling the top for more frequently used items.

Nukeproof Blackline Women’s Long Sleeve Jersey (Race ’23)

• Price: £45.00
• From: Nukeproof

Polartec Powderdry and Delta fabric. Flatlock stitched seams. Anti-bacterial finish for odour battling. Silicone print on the shoulder for bag grip. Bluesign Approved and OEKO-TEX Certified apparently. Nice pink.

Nukeproof Blackline Womens Short Sleeve Jersey

• Price: £45.00
• From: Nukeproof

Made in Europe. Anti-bacterial finish. Crewneck. Set-in sleeves. Dropped rear hem. UV protection (well, apart from your arms). Also Bluesign Approved and Eco-Tech Certified.

DMR Odub Bars

• Price: £80.00
• From: Upgrade Bikes

Odub is essentially Olly Wilkins. Mr Wilkins had a hand (possibly two) in designing these bars. 7075 heat treated spiral butted aluminium. 31.8mm or 35mm clamp options. 20mm, 35mm or 50mm rise options. We’ve got these 35mm clamp 50mm rise jobbers. Always useful for raising the front ends of (L and XL) test bikes that still often come with too-low front ends.

Canyon CLLCTV Socks

• Price: £13.95
• From: Canyon

Or should that be SCKS? Ths r blck scks. Tht’s prbbly ll y nd t knw.

Scott Sports Supertrac Amphib Shoes

• Price: £150
• From: Scott Sports

These are running shoes designed for wet and muddy conditions. Which sounds perfect for our neck of the woods. Lugged soles for grip – including a lug right on the end of the toe, for bog ballet perhaps – and a construction designed to drain easily. The rubbery exterior lines should help fend off the snaggy bushes. We’re finding that our local peaty bog water has a tendency to eat through shoes, so we’re looking forward to seeing if these prove more durable.

Ryder Innovations Cage Mount

• Price: £12.99
• From: Freewheel

See? Sometimes triathletes can be useful to have around. Actually, I’m just guessing as to the inspiration behind this excellently handy product. Whether it was originally created for sticking bottles on to triathlon bike seatposts or not (a job it no doubt does admirably), we’re going to be using this to attach bottles and other things to any naughty bikes that we come across that don’t have bottle bosses on them.

Canyon Undershots With D30 Protector

• Price: £63.95
• From: Canyon

More fancy pants. Hip pockets have (removeable) D30 pads in them. There’s a chamois in the usual chamois zone. Flat seams abound. Jacquard knit for the waistband and leg openings. Very nicely made all told.

Assos Trail LS Jersey T3

• Price: £100.00
• From: Assos

Assos: “Incorporating feedback from our World Cup athletes—and from our own experience—we updated our TRAIL fit. The T3 evolution features a slightly roomier chest to better accommodate pads and allow movement in the saddle. We also shifted the sleeves from a raglan cut to a set-in design to better map the body, and we equipped the forearms with additional abrasion resistance to fend off tree limbs and other trailside hazards.”

Assos Trail Jersey T3

• Price: £80.00
• From: Assos

Imagine the jersey above but with the most of the sleeves chopped off. That.

XLC x Fidlock Twist Bottles for HaiBIke Modular Rail System

• Price: £53.99
• From: Raleigh

Remember that HaiBike Nduja7 – sorry Nduro7 – ebike from a couple of weeks ago? You know the one. It weighed quite a lot. Well, as it happens I [Benji] have kinda fallen in love with it. It is the most ebike ebike ever. It doesn everything amazingly. Apart from get lifted over anything. No one else likes it. People make rude comments about it. None of these horrible people have ridden it though. partly because they say they don’t want to, but partly because IT’S MINE ALL MINE. MINE!

Anyhoo, it doesn’t use normal bottle bosses. HaiBike use something called the Modular Rail System (MRS for short) to attach things to the top of the down tube. Essential a mini metal trench that you insert quarter-turn brackets into and cinch into position. You can theoretically attach a piggyback battery AND a battery to the MRS.

USE FLOW Wide Carbon 40mm Rise 800mm

• Price: £135.00
• From: Exposure USE

USE have added 10mm to each end of their previous FLOW carbon handlebars. They now stand (lie?) at the Industry Fullness Standard of 800mm.

USE 30.9mm to 34.9mm shim

• Price: £10.00
• From: Exposure USE

Sometimes a test bike comes with a dropper post that either, A) goes pop or, B) is frustratingly short of travel. Sometimes there is even an option C) a frustratingly short dropper that goes pop. Enter USE to save the day. This new shim goes alongside all our other USE seatpost shims to enable us to fit our 30.9 Standby Dropper Post* into bikes that come with the modern vogue 34.9mm seat tube diameter.

* OneUp Dropper V.2 30.9mm 210mm

Digital Subscription to Singletrack

• Price: £25/year, or £4.99/month
• From: Singletrack Shop

Singletrack magazine has been in print and and online since 2001 and every issue we’ve ever published is made available to our members as part of their membership. But there’s so much more on offer. From unlimited access to content to discounts and offers on gear and services. All full membership comes with unlimited digital access & ad free website.

Thread Of The Week

A hearty well done to TrailriderJim for being duly awarded this week’s winning forum posting…

The winning TOTW in FGF gets a prize. And it’s the fabulous majestic Singletrack Forum Bottle Opener! So, YOWZA! to TrailriderJim! Please email editorial@singletrackworld.com. Please include your postal address, as it really speeds up delivery logistics init.

What is Fresh Goods Friday?

It’s Singletrack’s long running, weekly roundup of all of the new products that have been sent in to the magazine.

Where do all of the goods come from?

They’re sent in by bike companies and marketing agencies

What happens to all of the products?

They’re featured and then some are reviewed down the line in either Singletrack Magazine or in online reviews and photoshoots.

What happens to them when you’ve finished with them?

They’re usually sent back after review, or kept on long-term test bikes. But no one ever asks for shorts and shoes back. Trust us on that. Once we were asked to return some brake pads.

I’m a company making the next big thing. How much does it cost to feature in FGF?

Nothing. Nil. Zero. Diddlysquat. Sod all. Just send all ‘next big things’ to us at – Fresh Goods Friday, Singletrack Magazine, Lockside Mill, Dale Street, Todmorden. OL14 5PX. Please note that if you require the products back after they have featured then you are responsible for arranging collection at your cost. While it is our policy to feature everything we receive in FGF if we decide your product is not suitable for publication we won’t do it. Publication is at our discretion. Whether a product goes on for publication as a review is at editorial discretion. Beer, coffee & spirits will ALWAYS be tested.

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