Good afternoon to you all! Welcome to this week’s edition on Fresh Goods Friday; perhaps the globe’s finest collection of new bike stuff to be delivered to a media house on the Lancashire-Yorkshire borderlands.
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Shimano XTC?
Carbon Wasp Compound 150
- Price: frame only £2,600, frame with Cane Creek shock £2,950
- From: Carbon Wasp
You may recall a couple of years ago we published our Carbon Wasp Truffle review, which was a shortish travel down-country bike. Yes, down-country. This is the newest long travel trail bike from the Carbon Wasp factory. Called the Compound 150 – presumably diue to the mixture of wheelsizes and the amount of mm of rear travel – it’s unmistakably a product of Adrian Smith over the way there in Leeds. Agent Smith sez: “We have four sizes of front-triangle (S, M, L, XL) and they can be matched with one of six sizes of swingarm to give a chainstay length of 435-460mm (in 5mm increments). The frame is entirely made in our workshop in Leeds and has been in development for a couple of years. They’re available now with a lead time of a couple of weeks and come with the wrap instead of paint – we can do any one-colour for the price above, with custom colours/designs/patterns for a bit extra (depending on the design work).” Some other vital stats for you (Large size): 63.9° head angle. 77.5° seat angle. 460mm seat tube length. 25.9mm BB drop. 480mm reach. Singletrackworld has a world exclusive first ride on this one.
Shimano GE9 Gravity Shoe
- Price: £219.99
- From: Freewheel
I [Benji] ain’t been nowhere, right? And when I was at nowhere I was given some Shimano GE7 shoes. These ones. Unfortunately, I don’t ride clip pedals. #flats4life. But, these may push me to finally giving gravel bikes a go. Stranger things have happened. Anyways… the GE9 is the Japanese giant’s flagship gravity SPD shoes. Feature list: enduro-optimized Shimano ULTREAD GE rubber compound and tread pattern, Torbal 2.0 torsional midsole, BOA system featuring a shielded L6 dial, carbon-reinforced midsole, updated pedal channel (expanded toe-to-heel design for imporved SPD stability when unclipped), mid-foot cleat placement, neoprene ankle collar, and reinforced toe caps.
OneUp Components EDC Inline Pump Mount
- Price: £19.99
- From: OneUp Components
Yes, this featured last week when I was nowhere secret doing nothing secret at all. And yes, while it is ‘just’ a pump mount, I feel it need a little bit more exposition. Basically, if you can’t bring yourself to use a normal pump mount because it puts the pumps off to one side of your bottle bosses (ugh! can you imagine?), then you cna go the OneUp way and have a pump mounted slap bang in the middle of your bosses. Ideally on the underside of your top tube via a pair of accessory bosses. Not really necessary. But still really pleasing. If you’re delicate aesthetes like us.
STW Team Long Sleeve T-Shirt
- Price: N/A
- From: N/A
You can’t buy these. They’re for staffers and house-trained contributors only. TBH you can get something very similar by browsing the clothing department of The Singletrack Shop. But you’ll have to Snopake the word ‘TEAM’ on the back yourself. (Do they still make Snopake? Yes. Yes they do.)
STW Top Cap
- Price: TBC
- From: Wildoo
Sorry. You can’t buy these either, yet. Sent to us by Wildoo they’re CNC machined aluminium headset top caps that have been laser etched. Available colours: black, orange, gunmetal, blue, purple, green or silver. So if you’re part of a brand/club/event/charity/etc and looking for a bit of merchandise or promo item, contact the Wildoo gang. The lead time is typically 7-10 working days.
Forum Thread Of The Week
Congratulations (despite the use of a Grocer’s Apostrophe) this week go to escrs for kicking off this retro ragging thread:
As before, the winning TOTW in FGF gets a prize. So escrs please email editorial@singletrackworld.com for your random prize (possibly a mini cowbell). Don’t forget to include your postal address, as it really speeds up delivery logistics like. L8RZ T8RZ!
STW Long Sleeve Ride Base Layer
- Price: £42.00
- From: The Singletrack Shop
Back in stock at last! This lightweight, technical jersey is ideal as a summer ride jersey or a winter baselayer. Super soft and wicking, you will likely wear it as much off the bike as on.
Featured Member Reward of the Week
- From: Singletrack Members Rewards
- Reward: 20% off VivoBareFoot
About Vivobarefoot: “Founded in 2012 by two seventh-generation cobblers, Galahad and Asher Clark, Vivobarefoot is based on one simple insight – barefoot footwear is regenerative to human health. A Vivobarefoot product or experience is one that literally brings us closer to nature. We believe: The closer people are to nature, the more they will protect it; The natural world is the only real model of sustainability; Barefoot footwear is regenerative to human health.”
Stale Goods Friday – NS Bikes Snabb E1
- Price: £3,199
- From: Fresh Goods Friday 228
Ten years, eh? Where does the time go? This bike was 160mm of flouro radness. With a colour scheme that’s got everyone in the office talking about Global Hypercolour t shirts, and reminiscing about glowsticks and Vicks VapoRub.
“As well as being long and slack the Snabb is a pretty sorted package straight outta the box with a winning combo of Rockshox Monarch RT3 Debonair and Pike taking care of suspension duties. Drivetrain is an enduro friendly and on trend 1 x 10 SRAM X9 with a 42t expander cog [remember them? – 2025CE Ed] to help winch up steep transitions.”
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How bright is the red on that frame!?
So the shock is free as its the same price with a shock as frame only
Shimano XTC? Giant, surely?
Maybe just my senses working overtime, but I reckon that could perhaps be a clue to the secret thing where Benji definitely wasn’t last week…
I can’t bring myself to spend £20 to have my, albeit lovely, OneUp EDC pump in line with my frame so use of these at £6: https://www.zefal.com/en/inflation-accessories/264-universal-mounting.html
Liking the ‘wrap as paintjob’ idea. A harlequin would be very cool.
The wrap idea is cool, especially if you could send it back to them for a fresh new colour if you get bored
Alright I’ll say it , the price of those daps is a bit spicy ! ?
I’ve got exactly the same thing for the same reason. £20 is a bit rich for a tiny bit of plastic.
If it was the standard mount I would have bought a One Up pump just for the inline mount. I’m not buying the very expensive pump then another 20 quid mount.
Those snabbs were ace
I’m pretty sure that my Lezyne mini pumps all came with a similar pump bracket included
It’s not even worth bothering to moan that two hundred and twenty quid for a pair of pumps is mental, the world’s gone mad.
The Carbon Wasp looks lovely. When are we getting a full geometry chart and is there enough room at the rear to run a proper sized brake?
I had a quick ride on the prototype of the Carbon Wasp around 18 months ago – think it was full 29er then rather than mullet? It rode really really nicely, I was pretty close to putting down a deposit but ended up with the Bird AM instead. Hope they sell a few, Adrian was lovely to deal with.
Probably going to get some wildly progressive effective shock rates with a 150mm flexstay bike like that Carbon Wasp.
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