Fresh Goods Friday 720: The Chambréing Edition

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Hello to each and every one you out there in Singletrackworldland! Well done for making it though yet another week on this planet we call Earth.

To ease you into the weekend like a particularly graceful shoe horn, may we present unto you this week’s edition of Fresh Goods Friday.

Summer is pretty much officially over. Did it even begin eh people, amirite? The end of the school holidays is nigh. Cue a collective moan from all the young folks and those who attempt to drive to work in a morning. Also cue a collective sigh of TFFT relief from all parents.

Granite Duet Compact Ratchet Tool Kit

  • Price: £59.99
  • From: Windwave
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Kicking things off with a shiny trinket, here we have a mini toolbox. Whilst we haven’t provided a banana for scale, we have included Benji’s manky thumb for scale. Contained within is double ended ratchet thingy: one is male, one is female. As it were. Whichever gender you go for for, either end is pleasingly clicky. The male end can sport the supplied sockets (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13mm). The female end gets the colour-coded bits (2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7mm Allen, T15, T25, PH2 and extension rod). It’s all very nice. Bonus points for the logo etching too. Just… nice.

Fresh Goods Friday 720: D’Movie

There will be no intermission during this performance.

Funn Upturn High Rider Handlebars

  • Price: £59.99
  • From: Windwave
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How high is too high? We don’t know. Ask B-Real from Cypress Hill maybe. As for riser bars, we’ve never met a high rise bar we don’t like. Or rather, can find a suitable bike for. Mainly XL size bikes that haven’t got the memo that head tubes could do with being longer than 120mm for lanky folk. The number of 50mm rise handlebar options ain’t so bad. There’s a few out there now. But what if – like Sly Stone – you want to take it higher? Funn have got your (aging, aching) back. As well as this here 55mm rise Upturn riser, they also do a Dakota-tastic 75mm rise bar. The Upturn riser has been out for awhile now (we have been using a black one as a stock ‘swap out’ bar for a few months and really like it). This, as you can see with your eyes, is the new silver/grey colour option.

Funn Equalizer Zero Stem

  • Price: £64.99
  • From: Windwave
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Another item which we’ve featured before… HOLD UP! Wait a minute. This is not the usual Equalizer stem from Funn. The usual Equalizer stem (which still exists by the way) features an offset bar clamp which affords the option of raising or lowering your bars 10mm. This is the new Equalizer Zero stem. Which still features the same shiny and crisp design and etching marks etc but now offers, you guessed it, zero mm of offset. Again, we’ve had the usual Equaliser stem on various bikes for a while and found it a reliable choice. A particularly helpful aspect of these stems is that they come supplied with a 5mm headset spacer. Why? Because the stem has an impressively modest stack height (34mm) which is very likely to be shorter than the stem it may be replacing, thus requiring an additional headset spacer. Thanks Funn!

Funn Taipan Flat Pedals

  • Price: £39.99
  • From: Windwave
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A pair of placky peggles from Funn. Sorry, they’re made from ‘glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic’. The shape of the Taipan is a bit reminiscent of the Funn Python metal flatties except these aren’t quite so waffer theen. They ain’t exactly chonky. Well, they’re 14mm thick to be exact. This affords them a bit more concavity, for those who like that sort of thing. Platform size is 105 x 100mm. In terms of pins, there’s a mixture of six screw-and-nut and four in-molded pegs. The metal pins are apparently rounded for ‘shin safety’. One feature that we appreciate straight away is the heavily slanted leading edge. This slant, combined with the general slidyness of thermoplastic pedal bodies, should make them a sensible choice for those riders who have issues with pedal strikes. Oh, loads of colour options too.

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Granite Juicy Nipple

  • Price: TBA (Presta version is £7.99)
  • From: Windwave
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For all of you fat valve fans out there. Schrader users are a bit like vegan Betamax owners. Yes, technically the Schrader valve standard is really what we should be using instead of presta. But the world has just not gone that way. Sorry. But don’t be so downcast, there are still brands out there designing stuff for you. Such as Granite Design who has come out with a Schrader flavoured version of their Juicy Nipple valve-cap-cum-core-removers. Does this mean it’s time for the rest of us to finally break out the drill bits and set to work widening our rim holes and fully embracing the fat valve way? No. Sorry.

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The Secret Public by Jon Savage

Jon Savage writes good books about pop music. We can particualrly recommend his ‘England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock’ from 1991. And his ‘1966: The Year the Decade Exploded’ from 2015. What’s this new tome about? “An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed the face of pop forever – from the ambiguous sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through to David Bowie, glam rock and Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’.” As usual with Savage’s books, it is not a slim affair.

Visiodry

  • Price: £13.99 (15ml), £21.99 (35ml)
  • From: Feridax
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This product is a bit like those frame protector sprays for you bike, but instead of preventing muck from adhering to your bicycle, Visiodry claims to reduce wet stuff adhering to your glasses or goggles. You may have used products like Rain-X before on your vehicle windscreen or motorbike helmet visor. Visiodry: “Every rider wants to protect their eyes from mud, dust and water. But how do you protect your goggles or glasses and maintain a clear view? Unlike other hydrophobic products, Visiodry does not require a specific speed to work, in fact it does not require movement at all, even displacing water when stationary with droplets rolling of the surface and removing dust particles with them.”

Lemon Squeezer

  • Price: €8.00
  • From: A woman called Suzie, Sahorre, France

A Fresh Goods Friday submission from one ‘Amanda Wishart’: “I went for a mountain bike ride with Chipps and we went to a local farmers market. There was a lot of cheese and meat that I couldn’t get excited about but the pottery stand was all so lovely, and I actually needed a lemon squeezer.”

“GOREWEAR innovates, designs, and crafts products specifically tailored for endurance athletes, elevating their experiences across diverse weather conditions. Employing a scientific approach, we deeply comprehend the challenges you encounter and strive to formulate effective solutions.” – GOREWEAR

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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.

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.

Orange Switch 6er. Stif Squatcher. Schwalbe Magic Mary Purple Addix front. Maxxis DHR II 3C MaxxTerra rear. Coil fan. Ebikes are not evil. I have been a writer for nigh on 20 years, a photographer for 25 years and a mountain biker for 30 years. I have written countless magazine and website features and route guides for the UK mountain bike press, most notably for the esteemed and highly regarded Singletrackworld. Although I am a Lancastrian, I freely admit that West Yorkshire is my favourite place to ride. Rarely a week goes by without me riding and exploring the South Pennines.

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  • bearGrease
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    Eh?

    glp1
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    visodry amazon link doesn’t work – takes you to a generic amazon page.

    reading a review on it from Bennetts they say it is incredibly fragile but does work amazingly well (https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/motorcycle-accessories/visio-dry-rain-repellent-review )

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    Northwind
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    Grouptest of visodry vs nikwax visorproof please! (not much reason to test anything else, all the other traditional options are miles less good than visorproof)

    Also a proper study of how deadly visodry is if you get overspray on your kitchen lino, visorproof is a hazard

    oldnick
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    As deadly as Nikwax waterproofing stuff on tiles? Bloomin’ lethal!

    jimmy
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    Yeah what’s the squirrel text?

    jimmy
    Full Member

    Oh, it disappeared in page reload ?

    Mark
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    The Squirrel thing is code that turns into live links to where you can buy the ‘thing’. It changes as new deals appear and disappears if it’s out of stock everywhere. We earn affiliate commission on any sales. Sometimes the third party company that creates the codes glitches and when it does you see the code and not the links.

    why squirrel?

    no idea. This is the service https://getsquirrel.co/

    footflaps
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    If you run plugins like NoScript, which by default block third party scrits from running, then you’ll see the squirell text links in their raw format…..

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