Ooh, yes it’s Friday. Not lunchtime mind. We’re messing with you by getting this up early. Mostly because there’s no video this week, because I’m not going to sit and talk to myself. Not on camera anyway.
Contrary to what the weather might suggest, summer is not over and it’s still like the Mary Celeste here at Singletrack Towers (Although surely there are plenty of actual abandoned towers that could fit in here? Which reminds me, does anyone remember ‘Dark Towers In Danger’? It was part of Look and Read – schools TV programming – and I remember it being the most thrilling and vaguely terrifying thing I’d ever seen. But then, the only thing I was allowed to watch at home was Postman Pat, so the terror bar was pretty low. Anyway…).
In the absence of other humans to talk to, amusing anecdotes, and so on, you can have another photo gallery to start things off. A collage of my week, if you like.
For no reason other than I was reminded of it this week.
GASGAS MXC 4
- Price: £6,499
- From: GasGas
From the Spanish makers of motorbikes, we have this 160mm Lyrik Select+ fork, 140mm Deluxe Select+ shocked ebike. Mullet wheels, carbon front triangle, size specific rear triangle, and SRAM Eagle Powertrain drive unit with 630Wh battery. Unusually (and a pleasant change?) for us journos, this is the bottom of the range model rather than the super bling. So it doesn’t have the electronic shifting that the other models have – which should actually be kind of interesting to test out the SRAM motor without the extra add-ons you get from the electronic shifting. Harking to its moto roots, you get removable frame protection/farings, and like everything else from GASGAS, the bike comes in red. But, they’ve got a team in conjunction with Troy Lee, so future wild aftermarket faring options seems like a safe bet.
Generic Garmin Mount
- Price: £8.95
- From: Amazon
If you have a Garmin-style device, you probably have a toolbox drawer full of those plastic bar mounts and associated rubber bands. And while you could get a deluxe K-Edge CNC jobber, you only need the unit held on so it won’t fall off. Chipps has had enough of wrestling rubber bands so has bought a couple of these, as they’re now such a commodity that they’re on Amazon for under a tenner, so that every bike now has a stem-mounted mount. They take up the room of a 5mm stem spacer and they hold the unit far away enough that you don’t smack your knees on your Garmin (like you do on the stem cap ones…)
Stan’s Box of Stan’s
- Price: £34 for 1000ml fluid, £15 sealant injector, £20 Dart tool and refill
- From: Upgrade Bikes
Once you start, you can’t stop, right? We’re talking about once you start looking inside your tyres to see how much tubeless fluid remains. ‘None’ is always the answer – and rather than try to re-use the half-cup of greyish fluid from the last time you did your tyres, it’s always good to get the fresh stuff in there. The Stan’s injectors are new to us, though, as are the Dart tools, so we’ll let you know how we get on.
Carradice Originals Tweed Bar Bag
- Price: £70
- From: Carradice
Actual Harris Tweed on an actual Carradice bar bag? Perhaps we’ve gone too deep into dangle-mug territory here, but Beate is our resident artist, so she’s allowed these whims, right? Carradice has been making cycling bags since 1932, just over the hill from Singletrack Towers, out of proper stuff like cotton duck and leather. This collaboration uses woollen tweed from the Isle of Harris (and only the Isle of Harris) and seems appropriate for some epic riding. The bag itself will work as a saddlebag (if you have those Brooks-style slots on your saddle) and everything does up satisfyingly with leather straps, big zips and poppers. If you don’t get one now, how is it going to look worn in before you’re 80, eh?
Bike Vlip
- Price: €25.00 (Code BE10 gets 10% off)
- From: Bike Evolution
A teeny weeny bike stand to lift your handlebars off the ground when you’re fixing it on the trail or removing wheels to fit your bike into your car. If you’ve got a computer or ebike display screen attached to your bike, you’ll see the benefit in being able to not mash such accoutrements into the ground. The two ‘vlips’ clip together to make a neat and light sandwich so you don’t lose the pair of them.
Readers Ride Of The Week
- From: Instagram
- Price: #stwreadersrides hashtag
Whether you’ve got a special new bike or just a bike that’s special to you, this is how you get to tell everyone about it! You can either tag the bike pic with #stwreadersrides on Instagram or you can send us your submissions via this form.
Featured Member Reward Of The Week
- Reward: 15% off SportsShoes.Com
- From: Singletrack Members Rewards
The 15% discount only applied to new/full price shoes. But if you buy one of the many other shoes you’ll find on sale at big discounts, STW will get a little tiny cut of the proceeds via affiliate links. So one of us wins, either way. Plus, they sell bike shoes as well as running shoes and trainers for cool kids.
Oooh… bold move… it’s not tunes to see you on your way today but instead it’s… poetry? For those that go ‘argh’, it’s also maths. Go on, give it a go.
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