Fresh Goods Friday 724: The Elastomeric Edition

Welcome one and all to this week’s Fresh Goods Friday, so much better than Old News Monday. This edition brings you full circle. All will be revealed. …

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Fresh Goods Friday 724: The Elastomeric Edition

Sod the spare elastomers, what’s in the shot glass next to the USE stem?

Perhaps the most intriguing things here are the pair of dinky Allen key windows: one marked ‘Rebound’ and one marked, er… ‘Damping’. We shall see what these pokey portals actually do.

In a USE product? at first; very little, then eventually; nothing at all.

I bought a jacket almost identical to that £300 jobber recently in the Craghoppers sale reduced from £100 odd to under £30 .A tenth of that price I doubt if it’s only a tenth as good

It’s a  GIRVIN FLEXSTEM!

ooof.. that Potts is a show-stopper. So clean. No Type 2 fork though?

Welcome Heather.

Good to see Bontrager reviving the old XR mud tread pattern. I still have some 27.5″ ones, which are pretty skinny, maybe 2″, but still the best tyres I’ve found for sticky clag.

what’s in the shot glass next to the USE stem?

Gravy?

Well that’s me down a Yeah Yeah Yeahs rabbit hole for the rest of the afternoon then!

Welcome Heather

Ive been impressed with the all conditions and dry link lube so far. If the all conditions struggles this winter I’ll try the wet.

The ‘everyday’ stuff is a bit niche; it’s designed for if/when you require some electrolytes but don’t want any sugars.

I’m not so sure about that. I used to be a user of energy drinks, but over recent years switched to squash and then just plain water. Energy requirements of riding e-Bikes really aren’t the same and jelly babies provide the sugar when needed. But on hot days I do sometimes get horribly dehydrated and plain water isn’t enough the Sis tablets are packaging heavy and expensive.

Twitter threw up this recently…

https://x.com/pigshitsonballs/status/1833566191308218381

Considering all the companies that have gone under or struggled of late isn’t it a minor miracle USE is still going.

Hi Heather

I like the bike. A true thing of beauty. Nothing extraneous and no complication.

I think exposure lights have saved USE

Those socks with soles might be great on camp sites.

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*Waves at Heather*

Is it wrong to say that the pic of collected USE elastomers reminds me of a drawer in my bedroom?

Just been to look: there’s a yellow elastomer kit, and a green one.

Minds. Gutter. Out. Please.

Those elastomers for the Flexstem 2 there look like they’ve been harvested from the dead bodies of the cast of Trapdoor. You can almost see the thumb prints.

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Good to see Bontrager reviving the old XR mud tread pattern.

Don’t look anything like the xr mud to me? They’re pretty much just the same as everyone else’s “cut spike” tyres, hillbillies etc.

Ms Bruce still has an original USE seatpost in the orange,Orange.
Unfortunately it’s days are numbered as they no longer supply spare parts.

Is that a 25.0mm original? The 27.2 ones you can use the vybe spares for as they are near as damnit identical to the shokpostt.

 

 

So is a review of the stem in the pipeline? Asking for a friend considering a Redshift but put off by the ‘boxy’ looks…

Those skinners. @stwhannah, when and where do you wear them?

They look like they could make a great bothy shoe sock.

Could they replace slippers and make a good house sock?