Fresh Goods comes with an open invite to brands and distributors to send us their latest gear. We don’t impose fees or conditions on that invite.
Then our goal is to show you everything that turns up. Which partly explains the largest item delivered this week. Read on…
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Megamo Reason CRB 05
- Price: £6,999
- From: Megamo
Yep, it has THAT motor. DJI Avinox M1 Motor 105Nm (120Nm in Boost burst) 1000W. 800Wh battery. Full carbon frame, Boost, 160mm travel. Fox 36 Performance 160mm fork. Fox Float X Performance shock. SRAM 90 Eagle drivetrain. Shimano XT 4-piston hydraulic disc brakes. 63.5° head angle. 77° seat angle. 470mm reach (Medium). 454mm chain stays. 420mm seat tube (Medium). 348mm BB. These numbers suggest to us that this bike may be a little more our cup of tea than the Amflow PL Carbon is/was.
Simba Hybrid King Size Mattress & Duvet
- Price: £899.99 mattress, £139.99 duvet
- From: Simba
Fresh Goods comes with an open invite to brands and distributors to send us their latest gear. We don’t impose fees or conditions on that invite. Our goal is to show you everything that turns up. And so it is with this large package that arrived from mattress company Simba, who are clearly in the midst of a huge promotion campaign right now.
They offered us this stuff, and well, considering there are fewer of you out there who actually ride bikes regularly than there are those of you who actually sleep, we thought, why not? We all sleep.
The mattress is a 25cm thick hybrid of foam and metal springs in 9 layers and Simba claim the special top layer of graphite infused foam conducts heat away from your body to prevent over heating. The top layer of the mattress is removable and washable. The duvet is a tog 10.5 duvet and the claim is it leads to a cooler sleep.
But there’s more
Along with the mattress and duvet, Simba sent us these slippers. Yup!
These slippers are not just ordinary slippers. Oh no! They apparently have reflexology bumps all built in to exactly the right places to massage your feet before you go to bed. Oh yes! There’s 9 pressure points and these ROK slippers are good for outside as well as inside. So you can safely do your shopping in your onesie and your slippers if that’s your thing.
To Review or not to Review?
That is the question. We are obviously going to put them to the test. Mark has already claimed them and installed them at home. Do you want to see a full review of a mattress, duvet and slippers? Logged-in users can vote below…
Not logged in? Registration is quick and free and comes with loads of benefits.Ogio Crawler Bag
- Price: £149.99
- From: Freewheel
At 98Litres, the Ogio Crawler is ideally sized for that big trip to the mountains, whether in the car or a plane. There’s a big central section, flanked by a top and bottom compartment that’d take a helmet and shoes respectively. A pull out handle and wheels makes it way more manoeuvrable than it should be and grab handles all around mean you can load it into the truck, car, bus, house when you get to where you’re going. Just make sure to add a colourful luggage tag or other rad riders will pick it up by accident, as everyone has one! (Ask us how we know…)
M-Part Small Parts Torque Wrench
- Price: £59.99
- From: Freewheel
Somewhere, right now, there’s an engineer carefully calculating the torque values for a new bike product. And somewhere, there’s a rider with a foot-long Allen key completely ignoring those carefully specced values. Don’t be that rider. This M-Part torque wrench comes with all the right hex and Torx bits for your bike and is calibrated from 3Nm up to 15Nm, which enough for all of the normal bolts on your bike. Get one!
Maxxis Crossmark II
- Price: £54.99
- From: Freewheel
In a world of more and more aggressive treads, it’s good to see that the Maxxis Crossmark is still out there. [Although not in the original Christophe Sauser ‘Swiss-flag-plus symbol’ tastic incarnation – Rubber Ed.] Given a mud-free world, it has enough tread for a rear tyre all year and can be run front and rear in the summer. It’s fast and surprisingly grippy, comes in 27.5, 29 and 2.1in and 2.25in widths.
Continental Hydrotal
- Price: £84.99
- From: Continental
Imagine a mud tyre designed in Minecraft. Here you go! This is the most aggressive tyre in Conti’s range. Tapered and supported knob elements are designed to ease the interaction between stud and soil. Benefit: High mechanical grip and superb self-cleaning properties. Supersoft BlackChili Gravity compound. DH casing: 4-ply (110TPI) sidewall, 6-ply (110 TPI) under the tread.
Specialized 3.1 Over the Air Motor Update
- Price: £0.00
- From: Specialized
No doubt inspired by The Avinox Effect, this update to the latest Levo 4 eMTBs does not require a trip to the nearest Specialized dealer. You can do this yourself on your phone via the Specialized app. What does the update give you? S-Works models gain 18% peak power (up to 850W at the motor) while holding 111Nm torque. All other models gain 22% peak power (up to 810W at the motor) with torque boosted to 105Nm. Plus: updated Microtune, “smoother max speed transition”, “sharper overrun behaviour” and a “personalised walk mode”.
Forum Thread Of The Week
This week’s winner is the-muffin-man (again?) for the What’s been your worst ‘look’ over the years!? thread:
The winning TOTW in FGF gets a prize. So, the-muffin-man please email editorial@singletrackworld.com for a random prize. Don’t forget to include your postal address. Again.
Bad Decisions Heavyweight Long Sleeve Tee
- Price: £40.00
- From: The Singletrack Shop
Thicker than your average tee but not quite a sweatshirt. Business in the front and party in the back.
Stale Goods Friday – 2013 Turner Burner
- Price: £1,895.00 (or £2,681.68 in today’s money)
- From: Fresh Goods Friday 141
Back int day we writ: “Dave’s only just unpacked from Garda and now he’s off to Finale, for another gelato fuelled bike trip. This time he’ll be riding this stealthed up 140mm and 27.5 Turner Burner. The 44mm headtube and gusseting makes for a stiff front end with the option to run a zero stack headset to keep everything nice and low. Traction and anti bob courtesy of the dw link back end. Refined using maths by Dave Weagle for optimum pivot placement.”
YJ Team Profile: Hugh
- Favourite Bike: MTB: Transition Patrol carbon. I also LOVE my Cannondale System Six for when I do road rides (which is alot less than I use too)
- Favourite trail: I mostly ride locally, so I’ll go with ‘Bridge Track’ in the Smilog Woods, Llantrisant, South Wales.
- What do you do at YJ?: I work as a Marketing Executive. This mainly involves creating blog and social media content and working with our partners and influencers.
Fresh Goods Friday is sponsored by Yellow Jersey
The important detail is who won the fight to test the mattress and duvet? Takes sleeping on the job to a whole new level
I do like the look of that Megamo bike ? Shame about the brand name!
If Maxxis read this, please can we have a Crossmark 2 and/or a Minion SS in 2.5″ EXO versions? Thanks.
So Benji is willing to to a video review of how the mattress, er, performs?
I like it too, the angles and the way it lookjs lioned up pleases me on a deep level. Butt… It’s an e-bike and that’s not something I am looking for right now.
The megamo looks like it has a Really short dropper post insertion. What length dropped does it fit?
The conti tires must have the rolling resistance of a tractor tire. If it was conditions to use that I’d be staying inside. I wouldn’t fancy pedaling them about 😱.
Maybe it’s because I don’t race. Maybe it’s because i don’t have an e bike.
They would like good on the front of a Motocross bike at propper muddy Motocross track.
I think that’s why they haven’t bothered to make the hydrotal in anything other than the DH casing!
The Megamo looks good, would like to see a review of the base model AL version at some point, full spec motor and battery for a quid under five grand
review the slippers but as riding shoes
review the mattress, but as a crash mat gir practicing backflips
I’d absolutely love a rainy day on the Pleney steeps with a pair of those Hydrotals.
Probably wouldn’t bother with them anywhere else.
I used to really like the Crossmark II as a rear tyre on my first 29er (Whyte T-129) back in t’day – the thing is the new(ish) Forekaster V2 rolls so well, I don’t know if it would really be worth swapping one on for the “summer" on my current XC steed?
In DH casing!
-Sound of velcro slowly peeling echos though the forest-
I’m not sure I’ve even got the legs for that on the plenty steeps with a ski lift.
We spend a third of our lives in bed. Anything that helps that third be better is a good thing – review away.
That Megamo is one good looking bike. £7k is a stack of cash, but it looks thoughtfully specc’ed. The kind of components most of us actually suit, rather than aspire to (36s over 38s, FloatX over X2, Performance Elite over Factory, etc).
Ogio Crawler Bag – how do you know?
So they’re not even pretending it’s a 250W ebike compliant motor now?
@tthew the 250w thing is not about peak power. Never has been. Most eebs give out over 600w peak power. The 250w rating is a bizarro overheating test thing.
That Megamo looks nice in that blue, my mate is waiting to check them out at Team Cycles. Looking forward to his thoughts he’s become quite the eeb aficionado. Agreed on the name though, seems a bit naff.