New things, secret things, and lots of answers to some questions. It's Fresh Goods Friday Unscripted.
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Hello, welcome to Fresh Goods Friday 696. I'm Amanda and this is... Benji. Benji
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That's all I'm known as today. What have we got today? We have Fresh Goods. So obviously the most important thing is these socks here. They
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are a nice colour. Full stop. Where are they from? Madison. Madison's Trail Sock I believe. Just thought they were a good length and a good colour
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They're quite thick. A little bit... I don't really... It's one of the sad points of the modern era where
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we all, say all, me, just wear long riding trousers. It's a tongue twister. And you never
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see your socks anymore do you? So what's the point? Might as well wear ones from... Women
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TK Maxx. All women's trousers will show their socks off because they're not any long enough to
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cover your socks. That high? Get to the cream point? Don't know. No, you ruch it down
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I suppose, right. Yeah, fine. Other than that, what else do we have? We have a white mid-power
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e-bike. It's the E-Lite 150 I want to say. It's probably the works version. It's numerous
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thousands. I think it's ten grand. They do one at eight. Not that that's that much cheaper
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but it's there. 150 mil fork, 145 back. Bosch SX motor with... I can't remember. 55 newton
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metres and a peak of 600. But that needs to be... Good luck getting that peak assist
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You'll have to be spinning like Wile E. Coyote. Which is the reason why I put short dinky
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cranks on as well as ground clearance. Good. I think that'll probably be quite a good bike
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You would hope. 150 works. I found it. Well there you go. Look at that. It does say what it is
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That was dropped off nary 30 minutes ago. So that is very fresh. That will be going up
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against nothing head to head but I'll be interested to see how it compares against
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my true benchmark at the moment which is the best bike I've ever ridden which is a Lapierre E-Zesty
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Lots of different textures on that white. All the colours are nice for the season and
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that looks alright with Kashima but I hate Kashima generally so. It is unfortunate how the rear shock Kashima looks nothing like fork Kashima does it on
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anything weird. It's bronze. Yeah. Lolz. I think it'll be very good probably. You know what I mean
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This is 10 grand. They do a cheap one though that's 8
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I'm armed with these to turn around the golf. White. White. Oh
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White. Oh look. What fresh goods do we have on the site that we don't have in our hands
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This week was Specialised Epic and Epic Evo. They were XC and down country machines but
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they were co-launched with RockShox Flight Attendant version 2. I don't know whether
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they call it that but it's the new one which twiddles you as you go along and it learns
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how you like to be twiddled. Do you know how it learns? You have to do a sprint effort
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Oh right okay. That's for the power metre though isn't it? Yeah
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For the full full fullness you need a quark power metre. Ecosystem. That's what they call
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it innit? Yeah. So that's quite interesting for those people who like those things
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If you race because on the top of the fork the light tells you how much effort you're
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putting in so if you've done the sprint effort to show it what your peak power is then when
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you're on a race say there's some flat section of trail that you should be going full chap
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down you can glance down and if it's not red you know that you've actually got more power
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assuming you've eaten enough and you're not tired. Power wise it'll say you're sprinting now
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Okay. I thought that one of the more interesting things was it would, doesn't it kind of realise
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how knackered you are almost and if you aren't so knackered it will firm things up and you
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can grrr sprint but if you are a bit tired it realises you probably need a bit more cush
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in your life and it gives you a bit of respite from the firmness and it can do fork different
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from the back which is quite good I thought. Yeah. I liked it
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And it will also be a good, more importantly it'll be a really good placebo won't it if
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you think you've got that on your bike. Extra advantages. I don't think it's a placebo
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It's so quick. I didn't say it was just a placebo did I? I said it will also be a placebo
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Okay. Yeah. So I did have a niggle with it though that you know when you've got axis
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gears and you hear the zhup when you press them that's the sound flight attendant makes
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and because it's doing so much else and it's making the ride so efficient you hear that
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noise and you think it's shifting for you so I would then forget to change gear. I just
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got so lazy because it was doing so much else for me. I got to the point where I thought
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I have to press the gear. So the fresh goods read other things up on below us that's stuff that's arrived this week
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I've got something really exciting arriving at home that I'm just going to tell you about
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It's extendable chopsticks. Cool. Are they like the aerials you used to have on transistor radios? Yeah. Brilliant. Metal? Yeah
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Not wood. It would burn if you opened them really quick. I don't know what metal they're made out of. They are a gift
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Actually I've got an answer. Let's start with an answer. You can go to the ones written in the lovely handwriting in the book itself
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You can read that. Look how perfectly written that is. What's the cheapest bike Singletrack has tested in the last 12 months
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Oh, that's written. That's an answer. Oh. Yeah, we're talking about muscles and arm pump
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Oh yeah. Rewind. Watch last week's. The muscles that control your fingers are in your forearms. They use tendons that run
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from your arm up to your fingers. Ligaments connect bone to bone. Tendons are muscle to bone
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And who commented that? I can't read your handwriting. Tallteacher I think is his YouTube handle
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If he's called Tallteacher, we'll take that as a fact. Yep. Come on then, more questions
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When will the sun come out? When you go on holiday, go abroad
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The sun's always out. It's just when the weather clouds will go away. Next
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That was Shark Attack. Duncan Callum asks, why do we still use Presta valves
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The next magazine will answer that for you. All revealed. Duncan Callum also asks, why is orange jam called marmalade? You swerved it last week
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It's something to do with the French I think. Isn't it something to do with being ill on the sea? Malade en mar. And they used it as
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a cure for being seasick. I imagine that's total balls. But that is an answer that's
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sometimes trotted out. Stated like a fact. Yeah. Zippy, will it stop raining this year? This is very negative. Will it stop raining this
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year? Yes. I can appreciate that because I went out the other day and thought this is great. And then
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the day after it just hoofed down as F. I'm usually pretty weather agnostic, but it was
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a bit of a letdown. Stumpy01, what are the best ways to reduce the beat up feeling of a hardtail, apart from
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buying a full suspension bike? Higher rise bars made of aluminium, 31A and push on grips. And probably get some insoles
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for your shoes. Bigger brakes. Tyres and wheel choice and basically everything else apart from the frame
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Tyres are just a give. But just be that kind of, so make your front end more comfortable
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to get more comfort out of the back. What is the cheapest bike Singletrack has tested in the last 12 months? There's the
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Voodoo, is it Bragg or Braag? The Voodoo Braag. And we did the normal bike at 5600
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550. The Mongoose Fireball. That was like a dirt jump machine. Canyon Nura AL8
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A normal full suspension. It's like you get bored of writing a letter halfway through writing the character. You
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just do a bit of it. The cheapest full suspension mountain bike is going to be £2,250. Canyon Nura AL6. And recently
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Murray, what tyre for bottomless mud? I'd say a Hillbilly. I don't know
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You've got a rubber fetish. Probably a Michelin Wild Enduro 2.25. Wild Enduro Mud, is that what they're called
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Harry the Spider, do Selfridges, Selfridges. Yes. Duncan Callum, again, how did we get here
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I don't know. Oh, I came in the van today. I'm trying to remember how I got here
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Spesh Paul, why is it always so quiet, the audio? Just turn the volume up
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Everything else you're listening to is too loud. So turn, just, everyone else is wrong
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Jamesy, should you buy an Orange Stage Evo? Probably yes. I think I'm taking it, yeah, good
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Yeah. Reeksy, is there really a magazine? There's loads of them. Loads. They're all really nice as well now. Well, they've always been nice, but they're
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extra super really nice now. Here's one we made earlier. Like and subscribe
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How can we properly thank the employees of CRC? I think they've got a bigger fish to fry, I wouldn't worry about it
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Stand on your doorstep and clap. Doncha, why is everything bike related so expensive
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Because you're buying high-end, not pointless, it's a pastime that's not an essential thing
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You don't have to buy the expensive stuff, you can just not buy anything, or you can
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buy entry-level stuff that's not too bad really. I think everything is expensive. A pack of Jammie Dodgers now is £1.20
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Used to be 50p. Everything is just expensive. Unless you've got a Singletrack subscription, because then
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you get loads of discount codes, and it makes things cheaper. There's loads of bike things in the easy discounts
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Look at that unplanned promo there. What is expensive that you can't avoid buying
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I think drivetrain bits have got expensive, but I am going to be the shill apologist for
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the bike industry. You don't buy drivetrain bits anywhere near as much as you used to, back in day
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I don't think it particularly evens out, but there is an aspect of things lasting quite a bit longer
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I tend to buy expensive drivetrains so it lasts even longer, because I'm quite a neglecter
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I won't buy a cheap chain and have to replace it. Oh yeah, cheap chains and cheap cassettes are just a really boring thing to purchase
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One of the things you should spend a bit more money on than you might like
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as opposed to all the stuff that is more exciting to spend money on, like handlebars, or saddles, or droppers
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I don't get excited about handlebars because I never know what I need. I found one bar I like, ever, and they don't sell it anymore
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Oh, Spank. They'll come back. They still exist, they just don't have a UK zone at the moment, do they
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I don't worry about that, it's all good. I do know they still exist because they were doing their foam filler filled rims and stuff on the internet the other day
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Other than that, I think I've had enough. I've got to go and ride a bicycle
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We've got another bike arriving that won't be in this Friday. Another secret bike, full of secrets
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There we go. So, yeah, send more questions in. Check out the actual Fresh Goods story for pictures of the things that we don't have here
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and look forward to the next mag to answer the Presta question
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Bye. Laters
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