Fresh Goods Friday 822: The Pink Rash Purchase Edition

Say hello to my lil fren’. The lil fren’ in question being this week’s FGF! Absolutely the greatest thing ever in the world of all time.

Right. That’s enough hype for the intro. Let’s just flipping get on with the shoe, hey? As Master M. McConaughey would say “alright, alright, alright…”

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Fair Drop Best UC M6

• Price: £108.70
• From: Fair Bicycle

You gotta love a product that has a name that gives no real clue as to WTF is actually is/does. This is the Drop Best replacement saddle clamp from Fair. You’ve heard of layback seatposts. This is essentially a layforward seatpost conversion kit. As you can see in the final pic, it places your saddle clamping area significantly further forward. And speaking as someone who has ridden ’nuff great-apart-from-the-seat-angle mountain bikes over the years, I’m very much here for it. Whether you’re looking to improve an older bike (such as the Santa Cruz Hightower featured in our Mountainbike Makeover project) or rectify a modern MTB with a retro seat angle (Specialized spring to mind) then this could be the (drop) best thing ever. Fair makes different variations for different brand droppers. This UC M6 one will fit the type of OneUp and PNW droppers that are our typical go-to droppers.

Bell 5Fifty Spherical Helmet

• Price: £229.99
• From: Bell Helmets

This spankingly fresh Bell 5Fifty lid features the helmet-in-helmet articulating ball-and-socket stylee Spherical technology. Yes, much like the Giro Montaro Pro we featured in last week’s FGF. If history tells us anything, it’s that people either have a Giro-shaped head or a Bell shaped head. Okay, that may be slightly oversimplifying things but needless to say, if you like the sound of Giro lid tech but don’t like the way they feel on your head, try a Bell. It’s kinda nice how Bell helmets have a very different (angular) style compared to Giro’s (Stay Puft) aesthetic too. This Bell 5Fifty is tech-laden. Sweat Guide pad design pulls moisture away from the brow pad and away from eyewear. Float Race Fit offers three-way adjustability: height, pad width, and tension. Dual Flow Ventilation claims to draw cool air into the intake ports and circulates it through a “matrix of air channels”. Love a matrix. Ionic+ Antimicrobial quick-drying interior paddings. Fidlock buckle. 3 position visor.

DEKO Power Rotary Tool Kit 170W/220V (Pink)

• Price: £27.99
• From: Amazon

Yet another slight impulse acquisition of a budget powertool that will no doubt remind me eventually that cheap tools are ultimately a very expensive (mis)purchase. But here we are. I’ve got hold of this Power Ranger Pink pseudo-Dremel to initially help with a similarly ill-advised plan to machine-down a 30T chainring so as to fit it on a SRAM OChain R (due to bit of a bulge, OChains don’t quite fit into chainrings smaller than 32T). This FGF item tells you two things: firstly, I am a rash idiot and secondly, I really love my OChain. Review coming soon!

Early Rider Hellion X24

• Price: £TBC
• From: Early Rider

Spotted at last weekend’s Malverns Classic amidst the mass of shiny retro bikes and matt carbon ebikes was the little corker of a bike. It’s the latest version of the full-suspension Hellion from kids bike brand Early Rider. What’s good about it? Well, it kinda reminds me of my favourite bike. Single pivot but chosen because it offers low progression rate, good pedal response and affords a low standover frame. There’s decent dropper insertion. And the suspension units are genuinely designed to work with lower weight riders and at low PSI (circa 50psi for sub 50kg riders). Short-as-feasible cage rear mech. Good brakes. Good tyres. Easily my favourite bike from the Malverns.

Megamo bottle

• Price: N/A
• From: Megamo

Just a nicely designed water bottle. The accent colour is more purple in the real world than this pic suggests. Although I have marked it down a point because it made me realise that 1987 is very nearly 40 years ago now.

SeekRun Wireless Dropper Posts

• Price: £TBC
• From: SeekRun

Another quick spot from the Malvern Classic. This was spotted on the Velduro stand as it’s a brand that the same distributor will be bringing into the UK. Basically it’s a more affordable wireless dropper post. Say what you will about wireless dropper posts, I think we can all agree that they’re significantly more expensive than cable actuated ones and – more importantly – they can be a very good idea on eMTBs due to the issues that cabling can run into (literally) when having to pass through all the complicated twisty guts of an eMTB internals.

Godfather’s Garage High Performance OGW Powder Bike Wash

• Price: £8.99 (40g)
• From: Marshes Parts

Initially I thought these sachets were Wade Simmons’ ashes. But then I happily remembered that not only is Wade Simmons still alive, he is actually very probably immortal. Godfather’s Garage is a brand that has Mr Simmons as a figurehead (he is easily the best freerider of all time by the way). And this is a sachet of powered cleaner for mountain bikes.

Godfather’s Garage High Signature Bottle 1L

• Price: £17.99
• From: Marshes Parts

And this is for putting the aforementioned bike cleaning product into, so you can spray it all over your pride and joy (your bike). Would a cheap spray bottle from a garden centre do the trick? Undoubtedly. But if you just want a nice aluminium foaming spray bottle instead, goferrit. Here it is.

Godfather’s Garage Tubeless Tire Plugs

• Price: £15.99
• From: Marshes Parts

Yet another item I initially misidentified at first. This is not a tin of Altoids. Or liquorice imps. It’s a cute little snap tin of tubeless tyre plugs. There are two sizes of bacon strip: 15 small, 5 medium. And most importantly of all, it bears Wade Simmons’ timeless advice: “PLUG IT. SEND IT.” As you wish, Godfather.

Godfather’s Garage Dry Lube

• Price: £14.99 (120ml)
• From: Marshes Parts

This is why the rain came back. Sorry. This dry lube features a “specifically formulated, long-lasting lubricant designed to keep your drivetrain clean by repelling airborne dust rather than attracting them. It’s less viscous than our Wet Chain Lube, but remains tenacious enough to grip your links through the dog days of summer.”

STW in a Galaxy Far, Far Away T-shirt

• Price: £22.50
• From: The Singletrack Shop

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… we had this shirt in our shop. A recently rediscovered design, slightly updated for 2026. The original trilogy was the best. Although we all know Rogue One is the true standout. Hush now.

Forum Thread Of The Week

This week’s winner is reeksy for the Bike things that could be made better thread:

The winning FTOTW in FGF gets 500 Singletrack Credits. Congratulations reeksy. Minted.

STWrava

We’re also contemplating giving out some Singletrack Credits to The Most Amusing Ride Name each week. Please keep it vaguely clean!

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Stale Goods Friday – 2014 BH Bikes Lynx 4.8 Carbon

• Price: £3,799 (or about £5,503.13 in today’s money)
• From: Fresh Goods Friday 167

At the tail end of 2013 we wrote: “Fast and light? The BH Bikes Lynx 4.8 29er Carbon is pimped to the max with an XTR 2×10 drivetrain, DT Swiss Spline One wheels and Magura MT8 stoppers. The carbon frame has a Dave Weagle designed split pivot rear triangle and the bike weighs in at a claimed 11.5kg.”

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