Fresh Goods Friday 697 - The Sprunnng! Edition

Hello, welcome to Fresh Goods Friday. What number are we on Benji

697. I'm Hannah, that's Benji. Pretty sure it is. Hello there. We're clinging on in there in Mark's absence

Editor in chief. He's probably, I've no idea what time it is in Canada at the moment, no

idea. He'll be eating. Or drinking. Yeah, it's a holiday isn't it

And then looking at Snow Report. And then Amanda is also not here, so over

there is Ross. Behind the scenes, BTS Ross. Operating the camera. Right, what do we have this week

Stuff! Actual stuff. Shall we start with the nearly invisible stuff? Just to make Ross's job even harder

That's just a bag. Yeah well that's a bag to put it in. So there's three of these. Yes, so these are the shadow stand and they

these little ones. It's an invisible bike stand, so there it is. It's for when you're doing your, it's when

you're doing your influencing on Instagram or whatever. So you prop that, like your pedal would go on there, or the axle

Are they all pedal are they? No, well so, this, these little ones are

for on your, on your pedal. On your pedal axle. Yeah, yeah, okay. I can see that with the diagram

This one is for on your like BB. Oh right, good. I could leave that there. And that means that you can then have your

pedals at whatever angle, your cranks whatever angle you want. And this one's called. Oh yeah, you can't be pedal level with these can you

Exactly, so this is the photographer's one. Right. That's, that's your influencer's one. That's not what it's officially called

100% recycled acrylics. How many acrylics died for that? 100. Do we not call it Perspex anymore? That's probably a brand name. It is, it's

from Blackburn. Is it? I think it is. Oh, so. That's controversial, it's actually from Manchester

Vimto is from Manchester? Yeah, there's a statue of the Vimto man I think somewhere in there. Ross will know, he's big into it

Thumbs up. I don't know. There you go. Four litres a week. Four litres a week

That's probably cordial as well, not even like dilute, that'll just be in

Anyway, those, uh. Are they from Budapest or something? I'm not sure. Don't make claims you can't substantiate. They, they are from Europe

because the price is 25 euros for the photographer's one and then those little

ones are a bit less. And then you can pay a little bit to have a bag to keep them in as well

So that you can go out influencing. Yep, that's good if you're taking pictures

on the moors and you can't find a stick. Yeah. Otherwise just use a stick. Right, well, okay, fine, yeah. Niche

but you know, people like niches don't they? Amanda's excited. I've also got something to show and tell this week. Okay

Physique, physique. This is not a saddle. No. I don't think. It'd be a big saddle

Have that. It's a Vento Proxy shoe. She's got some grr on the bottom, so that'll be for Gravel or MTB

Quite stiff. Mega, yeah. And. It'll be the high-falutin version. They're 230 quid, I think. So they're top end bobbers

But these are the boring black jobbers. They come in exciting colours

Like orange and purple. And there's one that's sort of like grey and turquoisey as well, I think. And it's got, you can see the boa things

inside. Oh, yeah. I quite like that. Inside. Reminded me of a swatch I used to own. They probably still do

Clear one. They're worth a fortune. And they're not 25 quid anymore. Cripes. I'll get one of those

No, I won't. And there we go. Good. Yeah. These like almost see-through

Aren't they? They're like a mesh. Oh, yeah. You can see my finger skin through there

Your finger skin. Yeah. Even though I'm really tanned at the moment, I can still see my pale white

jobs. Right. I'm going to put those there. We'll weigh them and stuff and write some more blurb about them below this

embed. Fresh goods. Hats. Helmets. I'm exhausted. I need a drink now

OK, so these are from Julbo. Better known for their lenses, really. Yeah

Glasses. Yes. Some of my favourite sunglasses. Are they? Have you used any? I don't think

Really nice. Clear lenses. Are these both the same or different? No, they're not. No. So this one is the Forest Evo and that's just the forest

OK. And so this one comes with a Fidlock closure. Yep. And it also has

Oh, strap management system. Chin organisers. Yeah. Different chin organisers. And this is like one of your. Oh, poverty spec

Imagine living with that. Like a manual finger and just your usual jibber jabbers

And they both have mips. Yeah. Both the same head shape. And these little rubberised things, you put your shades in like that

Oh, I could put my glasses in. Boom. Like that. Yeah. And then I can't see

Yeah. Does the visor go up? What do you think? Yes. Oh, that's not bad. Indexing that

Right. I'm going to restore vision now. I'd say there's three positions there

Yeah. Cool. Quite like that colourway. I think that one's like 150 and that's 180

Groove on. An extra 30 quid for magnets. And SMS. Strap management system

Strap management system. Yeah. Yeah. So lots of funky colours. Right. What's in the box

Small foam triangle. Well, it's not really a surprise, is it? Because it's got that written on it

But if it is what it says on the outside, it's an RRP Pro Guard. It's a mud guard

I think it'll be their Bolt-On. Not from Bolt-On. It's halfway low in that knife

Does Slot have Nearly Live on YouTube? We'll get demonetised. Yeah. I have to keep my top on and all

I'm nervous at this point. Right. So I think it's a Bolt-On V2. Um, just one of those

Oh, hang on. There's a few here. Oh, Lordy. Get in. Right. Good

Such excitement. I think there's probably a top, middle and bottom. Or small, medium and large

Whatever you want to call mud guards. And they are, as the name suggests, Bolt-On

For the back of forks that come with holes on the back of the fork

Oh, yeah. So no cable ties. Nope. So Fox 36. Standard. Yeah

So it says there's M3 bolts and M4 bolts and M6 bolts

depending on which fork it is. Right. So we've got three different guards and one mounting bracket

It's for a Fox 36 or 38. Well, so you can fit them to..

Stability bracket. A Fox or a Mazzocchi. An Olanz. Mazzocchi. Or a Suntor

They're also available in RockShox, Zeb and Lyric and stuff. I think they do all the main bobbers

Who knew? See, there's a classic. Standard. Why are there three different size bolts to attach a mud guard to a fork

according to which brand it is? Why can't we just have bolts that are all the same size

Imagine how many fewer bolts we could make in this world. As the resident bike industry shill, though I speak for the industry

nothing hasn't. Have you ever tried... Why can't you buy a Renault car for a Ford

Because it's different. Why should there be any standards better in cycling than anything else in the flipping world

Because they're not a big team in room having drinks. They're all working separately

But it's just like it's just annoying. We wouldn't need multi-tools. We just need one pokey stick

Yep. That's the way forward. That's very zip-tied, though, isn't it? It's still better than zip-tied, you're right. Yeah

Oh, they're in here, aren't they? Look. Should we pull that out? Is that bad? Oh, God

Oh, that was a good noise. So all the kind of spacers and fine tuning

I like these things. Pads, put stops, stop it rubbing and stuff like that

I feel like... Well, stopping it damaging the inside of your fork. It'll just stop it moving as well, won't it? Yeah

I feel like you should be able to put stripes on. Even though today... I'm giving away the secrets behind the scenes now

Even though today is the first day of spring, everyone. Shh, not

This will be going... The biggest one will be going straight on a bike. Because it's not really very spring-like out there today

This bike here, you ask? Oh, yeah, we did. Boardman. Abver... Oh, God. 8.9

E. Gravel e-bike. It's got a Fazua system, hasn't it? Fazua. I think it's a 50, is it

How gold it will be. And it's, say, touchscreen. That's a bit glamorous

It's like a touch pad on the top. Turn it on and go through the different modes, which are called..

I don't know. Breeze, river and rocket. Are they? Yeah, I remembered, yeah

Or if you're normal, blue, green and pink. If you see white, it's not doing out, so press the button again

That's £2,799. £2,800. I presume it's got quite a lot of rack mounts and stuff like that

Is it? Let's have a look. So we'll see what we can do on that. It's got some of our... Not for me, not my size, not my..

It's not my size either. It's a man's size. Not my size. Not my cup of chai. So yeah, see what she gets up on that

Gets up to on that. You can get up everything on it. It's got a motor

Not necessarily. What else to bring? We haven't got any questions this week, have we? No

No, people have, you know, obviously, we've got... Everything's been answered already, so that's good

So hopefully things will happen in the world. Well, either everything's been answered or your answers last week were so bad

that nobody wants to seek your advice. They were amazing last week, I remember

You should go back and watch that. Rewind. I've got a question

Yeah, fine. How old are you? Now 47 and a day. 47 and a day

And you still had to think about it. No, I'm not 50 yet

I don't care anyway. What did I work out while I was going uphill on a bicycle the other day

I tried to work out why does 47 sound a bit old

and it's because there's a lot more syllables in it. And I tried to work out what was the first age you get to

where you've got four syllables in your age and it's 27. Okay

That's why 27 feels really bad when you get to it. Well, it did for me

It's like, oh my God, I'm old. These are the things that go through your mind as you're trying to go uphill

I'm like, still going on this climb. Still happening. Those aren't thoughts that ever occurred to me

Do we ever get to a five-syllable age? Oh. 177. That's more

177 says Ross and that's six. What's five then? Must be one hundred and one

Yeah. See, those are the things you think about when you're going uphill. What do you think about when you're going uphill

I think I'm like, oh my lungs are going to stay in my chest

Yeah, just got to take your mind off it, haven't you? I was going up a particularly slouchy hill

Any news happening this week? Or happened? There were two bikes this week

Two bikes launched that we haven't got here because we only had the briefest of tickles

Yeah, we had an afternoon's brief go on a Yeti ASR. How much of a review can you do in an afternoon, Benji

You could do a very long, pointless one if you wanted to, I suppose

But, you know, I'd just say you could do it for a bit more than just one day out because of your physical fluctuations

I'm sure we've all been on bikes that feel amazing. I know you've been on bikes when it doesn't feel so good

It turns out it was probably you. Right. Spec tweaks, all that things

Don't we had the bikes this week? What got on with the bike at all

I'm trying to plow through my mind. There was a Yeti ASR. Yep

And you rode that, didn't you? Yeah. Briefly. Yeah, disgustingly wet, like crazy wet on recon and a recon race

OK, exciting. Stayed up right. Yeah. There's your review. That's what you get in the afternoon

I'd say it's white. There you go. And then the other one was the Atherton S170. Right

Which you didn't get to ride. No. Put Reece on that because it was an Ickle bike

Yeah, they had a medium available. They're not called mediums though. A 465 Reach

So. You went down to, over to Dovey. It's kind of near there anyway, ish, kind of

I think he's still like a good two hours away from there. It's not everywhere, isn't it

It's not near anywhere. Yeah. That was all right, I believe. He took his tash for a ride

Again, you know, anything called first ride review, anything doesn't tell you how long

you've been testing it for. I'd get the salt from the cupboard and put some on that review because it might not be

everything you need to know. But it was the first look. Yeah, exactly

It needs to be flagged up and shown as such. OK. I think it should be all right

I thought it's quite hard to go on. It's not, I thought it'd be an aluminum. It's totally different

Back end, isn't it? It's a DW4 rather than a DW6. So it's two less

Two less moving things. Two less patents. I've no idea. Patents. OK

Other than that, I don't know. We had a frame snap from the Bernard Kerr. I was going to say, did you watch the Crankworx DH

Never mind the Bernard's run because that was what it was. I can't remember the name of the guy who won it

It had a really long name. But it was an amazing run, wasn't it? It was good

Lachie Stevens. Lachie Stevens. Yeah. Lachie Stevens, Ross is saying. Really good

Lachie. Oh, OK. OK. I'm thinking about Dewitt and all whose bikes stayed together

And it was second one, wasn't it? Jacob Dewitt. Uh-huh. Yeah, but his was nothing compared to Lachie Stevens' run

That might be the run with the most nearly fell off. Oh, yeah

And a buster win for one. Yeah. It's worth watching. I'm trying to think of one

But it was like, he nearly fell off sideways. He put a foot out

He nearly went over the bars. It was all happening. It was good. Yeah

And then Bernard obviously went over the bars. Getting towards proper race season, aren't we

May. So in the cross-country world, that big South African one, the Cape Epic

OK. That race is happening just now as well. Helicopters and giraffes

That's why I remember that Cape Epic footage. It's just like, yeah

Yeah, so that's happening. So the race season is happening. Excellent. Very good

Very good. Right. So let's finish that. House news? Any housekeeping to do

Where are the fire exits? Well, next week. Where are you going

I'm just doing Easter holidays. Oh, god, yeah. Right, yeah. Yeah. How about you

And so that means that I won't be here to edit the video

Mark might be here, but will be very jet lagged. Or it could be Amanda

So who knows what's going to happen next week? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for bearing with my editing anyway

Yeah, it's been amazing. Right. Bye for now. Bye. Left field choice for Fort William wins

Oh, god, I can't remember anyone's name anymore. What do you think

Well, I think... Describe. Describe. Right, good. It's like a game of guess who this

I haven't looked in a mirror. Should I have done, Ross? My mouth's wet

Should I have looked in the mirror? I'm looking at my phone

Oh, dear. Well, there's not really anything to be done about that, is there? Okay

I'm going to stop recording before you offend anyone. Yeah