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Hello, hello, is this thing on? It’s been a while since I (Hannah) have done one of these. I’m usually quite busy on a Friday writing the Weekly Word and all my waffle engines are expended there. Will this end up like doing Further Maths at A-Level, where you end up getting Bs in four subjects instead of As in three? Decreased quality all round because you tried to be cleverer than you are? I shall make no pretence of clever. I will channel only stupidity. It’s a deep channel. Possibly canalised, so that no otters can climb in or out.
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Are you gonna do the intro or am I
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I'll do it. 693. Never get the intro right. You watch. You watch
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Hello, welcome to Singletrack's Fresh Goods Friday 693. I'm Amanda and I'm here with... Hannah
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And we've... Round of applause. You got the intro right. And then we ruined it
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So you go first. What have you brought to show and tell? Show and tell
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Well, actually, I've got Benji's show and tell here. This is the new Canyon Spectral
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Benji has been out test riding already. It was launched tomorrow, which is yesterday by the time you're watching this, just to
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mess with our heads. He's already been riding it. He's already swapped the tires
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He's got it muddy. But this is a 150 140 carbon fiber bike, which I believe is about 4,799 and is unfreshly
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in Fresh Goods. Has he given any feedback? He has not told me anything else beyond that
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It will all be there to read on the website. I did hear him say it's got good brakes. OK
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I haven't looked to see what they are though. OK. I don't know whether the swapping of the tires is down to the tires or because he just loves
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playing with tires. Both, I think. So there we go. It's quite wet here
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Oh, God, it's so wet. I've actually got a wet leg as we speak after my commuting
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Just one wet leg. Is it your forward leg or your... No, it's my backwards leg, but it's the leg that's on the side of the gutter on the road
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as I pedaled in where all the big puddles are. What have you got over there
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I've brought a... Is it repent? I prefer repente. Repente. Oh, me
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A carbon saddle that Benji's quite excited about for the stubby wide shape of it, which
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you're not excited about the thought of. No, I feel like that just screams inner thigh chafe
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But Benji probably has less inner thigh than I do. Yeah. It does say extreme comfort
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Extreme comfort. So it's actually... I think the selling point is that it's lightweight and I don't know if the stumpiness is part
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of the weight reduction. I've never weighed a saddle or been concerned about the weight of it, but that is very light
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It's got carbon rails, isn't it? Yeah. And it is floating it. There's really not much to it
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It's just taking off. And it's supposed to be for people that like extra wide saddles. Yeah
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So I'm of the understanding that you're supposed to have four contact points with your saddle
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It's not supposed to be two sit bones. It's supposed to be a four point. Oh. Okay
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I learned that at the Hope Women's Enduro. There was a machine where you could measure your sit bones
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Yeah, I sat on that. I don't remember finding four bits of bum. I think you spoke to the people as well
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Yeah, I did, but I'm wiggling because I'm trying to find these four bits of bum
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There are apparently. There's quite a lot of bum. I'll work it out. I can't find any of mine right now because it's winter
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But yeah, we'll find out which bits of Benji touched the saddle and why he likes a stumpy one
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Let's not find out. We'll ask him to write it down and not show us. Okay
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Oh, right. Now I feel a bit uncomfortable going from bits of Benji to this because I was going
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to say that these are like pure sex in my opinion. Look, there's going to be a certain crowd of appreciative viewers at this point
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I don't feel like Ross is part of that crowd yet. He is the one that's testing me
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Yeah, he's quite excited about this. He accepts that they are shiny and therefore nice. Yeah
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The middle burn cranks, obviously middle burn, bit of a vibe, I think they might say, among
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the retro crew. But I mean, they're just, look at them. Look
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You don't have to have them in shiny. You can have them in black. Do they do different lengths
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These are 165. Yeah. Now they only go up from 165, which is perhaps a little traditional, but they are 166 quid
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which is a bargain for some shiny cranks. Is that with the chain ring
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With the weave, so yes. That is a bargain. I do wonder how the shine will hold up to..
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Dieter of Happy Days and Sawyer Bridge says these are not shiny enough
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He has got some original middle burns that he has polished even more
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Oh, so instead of scuff, it becomes polish? Well, under Dieter's hands, yes
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It depends what the material of the inside of your shoe is, because you could put a polishing
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cloth on your ankle. You could. I'll suggest that to Ross. That could be a new shoe feature
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Ross loves my suggestions. So yes, those are rather pretty. And I mean, given how much set of e-wings are, I know they're titanium and all of that
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but I'm going to have that back. Thank you. Okay. And then there is something that is not in the building, but is new this week
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There will be one in the building at some point, and that's the new Cannondale Moterra
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Neo SL, which I was out riding in Portugal a couple of weeks ago
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Scaring yourself? I did a bit, yeah, because it was my first ride, not on local trails, since I dislocated
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my shoulder. But the trails were amazing. Were they dry? No. Okay
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So the first day was dry, and then after that, it got kind of epically wet
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But the trails were amazing, like super grippy, lots of rock, lots of loam, like different
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sorts of soil. We went there because Joss Bryson was like, this is my favorite place in the world, and
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we should go there and ride bikes. And he's not wrong. Yeah. I am
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That's quite the routine. I'm Joss Bryson fan now. And the bike's good too
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So it is a full power, full size battery e-bike, that weighs just less than 20 kilos. Okay
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You're just like, e-bikes. Yeah. Yeah. Which brings me neatly onto the question, which I haven't written in the book, but I
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can remember because Weeksey asked us this week's question, which is, what do we think
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about e-bikes and, or e-mountain bikes? That's very general. And who on the staff owns one
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What do we own? So this is kind of interesting, I think, in that none of us owns an e-mountain bike
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Joss's wife has got one of those specialized SL mountain bikes. Is your cargo bike an e-bike
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I have an e-cargo bike. My husband has an e-gravel bike with a Fazula motor
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But yeah, nobody else actually owns an e-mountain bike. However, that isn't really a reflection of e-mountain bikes because hardly any of us
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own an actual mountain bike. Yeah. You've got one. Yeah. So what have you got that's a mountain bike
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I own a Kotick Flare Max. And I got that as a, it's like a sturdy, but I wouldn't buy myself a carbon bike or something
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that I think I could break easily, or something that I think would not age well
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And I do think there's like, there's constant development with e-bikes. So even if I was, if I really wanted one, I probably wouldn't buy one yet
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We've always got another bike to test, which is kind of, I think, why none of us owns a
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mountain bike of our own. I mean, I've got a Stuge Mark 4 that I bought after testing
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I bought my own mountain bike because if you're testing components and you're constantly on
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a different bike, well, I find it really hard. Like I needed a constant, I needed a, like a control bike
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So it's currently got some zip wheels on it and it's got some different tyres and some
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brakes and the bike never changes, but the components do. So I guess I get a better idea of what the component's doing
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That is the only reason I bought one. You should have bought a Mule. So Benji has a test Mule that he just puts all the parts onto
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And so he sold his last mountain bike that he owned to his brother
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So he owns none now. He doesn't own one. Ross owns a Raw Madonna, he'd think
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No, he sold that. He got a privateer. It was his favourite bike
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It's still, I think, the best bike in his opinion, but he sold it
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We haven't answered the other part of the what we think of e-bikes
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Okay, so I think they're great. There we go. Move on. I think they're great
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There's quite a lot of people in my ride group that I wouldn't ride with if they didn't have
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e-bikes for various reasons. And I've just been to Innaletham for the weekend and if I had access to an e-bike, I absolutely
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would have ridden one. Because the conditions were, it was very wet, so the extra traction would have been good
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But also pedalling to the top of the Golfie five, six times a day would be a lot better
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on an e-bike. So I think there's a bit of a myth that they can get people into trouble by taking them
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out beyond where they would go were they pedalling under their own steam
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Because I don't really see it that people are buying an e-bike cold
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Just walk into a shop, spend three, five grand or whatever on an e-bike and then disappear
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off into the hills. I think they're going to go with somebody else, which is the same way that you go with
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somebody else when you buy a mountain bike. I think if it's a new rider that's gone and got one, it's just to get them access to the
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first step of mountain biking. It's not to make them skip ahead of the trail centre and the access postal
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And they're still going to go with friends, I think. So I think that's a bit of a myth
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Yeah, none of us own them, but... We all like them. We all like them
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And we all like coffee. Okay, amazing, cool, smooth segue. Something we totally didn't forget
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He's definitely not going to edit any of that. Yeah, he just did. Yeah
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So, coffee from Barista & Co. Smell it. Smell it. Oh. That smells really nice
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That does. Yeah. That's not the point though. So there is some of this in Fresh Goods Friday
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Had we drunk it, we would have jabbered more because apparently this thing makes extra
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extra strong coffee with more caffeine in it. Yeah. You'd probably have some kind of heart problem if you..
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It would probably kill me. But there is, I think it's about an eight minute video, which I suspect is so long because
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Mark was wired from drinking the coffee from it. But it's actually all, it's all quite interesting
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We all love coffee. Yeah. So, after this, go and watch Mark make coffee with this
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Try and kill himself with many, many milligrams of coffee. Turn yourself into a caffeine-fuelled athlete. Yeah
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So that's us for this week. Oh, can you imagine the jabbering if we had had one of them
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It'd be terrible. Join us again next week. Is Mark on holiday yet, next week
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Is Mark on holiday yet? I don't know. No. No. No. I think they might still have a slick video
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It's after that they're going to get lo-fi because I think it's me and maybe a bit of
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you that's editing them. So we'll look forward to that. This is slick. This is a slick version
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Can't wait for March. All right. See you. Bye. How's that for a segue
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We were supposed to bring the device in. So there's coffee. In today's Fresh Goods Friday... Wait
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Mark's just running off. Use the force. Which God are we praying to at this point
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I was just using the force. Okay. No gods. I'm praying to the coffee gods that someone will bring the thing that we forgot for the
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video that was going so smoothly. Oh, look. Ta-da. Wow. Right there. So..
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Oh, still wet. So we have coffee and a coffee machine. What's the company called
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Is it Barista and Co? Yes. Oh. Right. Do you know what
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Let's not say anything about it because I think Mark, given all the coffee that's falling
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out of it and the fact it's wet... Let's just start again. Okay. So we'll just do a sharp cut and then we're going to do that. Like..
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What's that? So we've said something else we like. It's coffee. It's coffee. Coffee. Coffee
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We've done that bit. We've cut there. Right. Now just go with me on this, Amanda
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Put the coffee down. Sorry. It says smell me. Right. And now go..
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