Fresh Goods Friday 658 – It’s a Gas Gas Gas Edition

New Schwalbe tyres and a new Aphex Twin tune! Truly it feels like Xmas in Benji’s domain this week.

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Fresh Goods Friday 658 – It’s a Gas Gas Gas Edition

That Schwalbe tyre name is just wrong. Can’t we just call it Tacky Tim instead?

and Congrats again to the happy couple…

I’m still unclear what sort of a tyre it is, pinkbike seemed to suggest it was more of a fast rear, like a dissector, but this points to a shorty?

I idly wonder each Friday what was in FGF 1. It must’ve been years ago, I wonder if there’s product featured in it still being sold?

Whats the saddle bag on the nukeproof please? Is it a LifeLine Adventure Stash Pack from Chain Reaction Cycles? I was thinking of getting one for packless riding with a dropper but it does look like it rubs / interfers with the dropper. What’s your experience please?

Congratulations to you both. Looks like you had a great day.

I like that Nukeproof top cap. Turned up to 11. Or it could be zero.

@mpeacock Yes it’s the Lifeline Adventure Stash – not totally convinced it’ll work well on a bouncy bike but I took it off my hardtail for the commute home. It’s a really good little pack

Hats off to you both.

Congrats to the pair of you!

About the goods, that Wyrm tyre looks an awful lot like a tweaked tioga psycho 2 to me

My mate bought one of those Garmin Varias and he’s never looked back.

Now that is the style of wedding we should have had – and spent the money on a summer of travelling instead….!

Schwalbe tyre names – yes, there are plenty of alliterative ones, but off the top of my head there are/were other “name” tyres that aren’t/weren’t – “Hans Dampf” and (showing my age a little) “Fat Albert”, and that’s just tyres I’ve used off the top of my head. More recently, there’s the “Eddy Current” too, I’m sure probably others… 😛

Many congratulations to the newly married couple. It takes me back to when Marie and i got married. It was a thursday and we had only told people the sunday before. Our total outlay was around £100. Neither of us has a ring, still thinking where to go for honeymoon. 38 years on we are still here. Second time round you know what you are doing and it is better.

Congrats to Hannah and Fahzure/Kevin!

btw the PNW Rainier 27.2 Gen 3 is 125mm if he needs that extra 5mm to test on.  Very nice it is too 🙂

Congrats both.

Great choices for outfits, I remember there being dilemmas.

The Schwlabe Easy Fit works remarkably well. Got it when I was having problems, technique got me over them, but when fitting a brand new tyre I tried some and the bead just slid onto the rim, I cannot say wether it helped popping into place though, still doing the tricks I had learned. Was always a big user Of talc when running tubes, that lubricates everything too.

Congratulations to you all.

• Lovely looking rings by the way.

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