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Hello and welcome to this week's rundown of shiny bikes and shinier bike stuff. Having said that, most of the stuff detailed below has more off a matt finish. Possibly eggshell.
Without any further ado, tuck into Fresh Goods Friday seven hundred and eight!
Merida eOne-Sixty 875
SendHit Nock V2 MTB Handguards
SendHit Lever Grip
Fjällräven x Specialized Cave Pack
Specialized Wordmark DriRelease T-Shirt
Specialized Prime SWAT Liner Bib Shorts
Dynaplug Racer Pro
Singletrack World Magazine issue 155
Featured Member Reward of the Week: Up to 40% off Garmin
Full fat FGF: https://www.singletrackworld.com/2024/06/fresh-goods-friday-708-the-bendy-bus-edition/
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Hello, welcome to Fresh Goods Friday 708. I'm Amanda and I'm here with... Hannah. Hannah
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That's Amanda's enthusiasm voice. I am enthusiastic today. So we will... This is my not enthusiastic voice
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Why are you not enthusiastic? When am I ever? True. So we will start with Fresh Goods. What have you brought
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I've got this beast behind me, the Merida E160, which is not in my size, it is in Benji
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extra large size. Are you sad about that? Well it's a vast beast, so I think Benji can go and play on this one. It's an E160 875
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which is like the top of the E160 range. It's a mullet, although it doesn't have to be
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you can set it up for your 29er. 170 travel zeb up the front, 174 deluxe select plus all
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bling back. It's a offset piggyback shot thing, which is slightly messy with my head
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So hopefully... Or your calf. Well, hopefully not your calf. So Mark is going to have to do some clever editing at
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this point because obviously you have to be sat on the saddle and the saddle has to be
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in the middle of the bike, in line with the stem. And it kind of looks like you're all
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off to the left on this because the bike's all off to the right. But obviously it's not
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it's an illusion. Like a lefty fork. That doesn't mess with your head like that because I thought it would and it didn't
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So this shop sticks out to the right. Further than anything sticks out
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to the left. And then this down tube also sticks out to the right more, but then it's
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cut away there so that obviously the pedals are in the middle, but it still is messing
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with my head. I would argue that you are supposed to be looking at the trail. This doesn't matter
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When I got out of the box, I was just like, oh my God, what is going on
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Keep your eyes up and you will be fine. So in there, there is a seven, we get this right, 750 watt battery, which is removable
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but you can add a 360 watt extra battery, like a piggyback battery as well for all the miles
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That's quite a lot, yeah. So for fresh goods, I have brought issue 155 of Singletrack, which did this arrive yesterday
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So if you haven't subscribed in time to receive this through your door, you can still buy
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one on singletrackworld.com. And if you subscribe today, you can then go and buy that at the subscriber discount price
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which is what? Less than £10 because that's £10 and you get free postage at the door
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Look at that. That's van life. That is van life. It wasn't meant to be van life. They weren't supposed to be sleeping in the van, but they were
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That's the beauty of having a van, you can sleep in I guess. Are we segwaying beautifully into the thing we're going to cover next
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We were, but you brought it up. No, that's where we're at
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Is it? Oh good. News this week. So you did a quiz called, what type of van lifer are you? Yes
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And you haven't filled it in yourself? No, I don't think so
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What were the options of answers or results? I can't remember. You'll have to go and do it
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So there was like the Instagram influencer person that always has nice photographs
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They were all kind of cynical, the answers to be honest. All of the answers were somewhat tongue in cheek, as they say, but if you have to point
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out the tongue in cheek, then the joke has fallen flat. There was that one
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There was the person that kind of needs to stop living in a van, probably because they
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smell and their van's falling apart. I think that's the one I got
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And there's the person where you're not actually sure whether they've been living in the van
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too long or they're just sleeping in the back of their work van. No
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Yeah, there's the person that desperately wants to leave the kids at home and escape
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the rat race. That might be the one that I got. Right. Possibly
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You should fill it in. You should fill it in. You out there. Yeah, there's that
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Other news. Women at Rampage. Yay! Finally. Yeah. Who do you want to see there? Ooh
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
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I hadn't thought about this, so I just asked it off the top of my head. Well, I want to see Chelsea Kimball there because she's the local and, yeah, her progression
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has been amazing and she's at home in that habitat. But she's been kind of, she had a series of injuries, so she's missed a few of the big
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headline events by being injured. So I'd like to see her. Have they said how they're doing the qualifying for it
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Or is it just in the van? They have not said anything about it beyond there will be women there and it's going to
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be a two-day event this year as well. So I hope that it's not going to be a two-day event that sort of excludes all women in the
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first day and then ends up with the second day being all works
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That would be a bit sad. But... Oh, I just read it as there would be a men's day and a women's day, but that's really optimistic. Maybe
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I don't know. Maybe. Or it could be some kind of qualifying because at the moment you do your first run and then
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you do a second run in the afternoon, hopefully, if it's not too windy and you haven't scared
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yourself too much. Yeah. Which kind of makes the strategy of it interesting
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But maybe they'll have like a first run on one day and a second run, the top scorers
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on the second day. That would make it really exciting to watch because you'd have your ideas of who's going
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to do what and then they might just surprise you and do something else. And it would change the strategy of it as well. Yeah
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And it might overcome the whole wind in the afternoon problem. Yeah. So, I don't know
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But watch this space. I'm really hoping to go, to be there
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In other news, we've got a raffle. We have. We are raffling off a Cotic Solaris Brain, which is a 29er hardtail, steel hardtail
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And the colour of your choice, the size of your choice. Yeah
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And the raffle closes on the 21st of what month are we in? June. June
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The 21st of June at 8pm, which is a Friday. You're due
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Thanks to Cotic for providing that. If you win and you're six foot or more, you'll get a voucher because, assuming you choose
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the bike yourself, because the C4 size won't be in stock until later in the year
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But if you win and you're under six foot or you kindly donated to somebody who's under
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six foot, then you can have it now. Great. Because they're in stock
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So go to singletrackworld.com and find the raffle page. We'll stick something at the top of the site so you can find it
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And then questions. We were looking for questions on the forum and we found, what water purifier for hiking
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or biking? So I know these things exist, but they play into the like, I'm not sure I'm brave enough
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to actually use them and test them. Because if they don't work, it's a really sick
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It's a risky test. I'm a bit too frightened for that. Well Benji's got one on test
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He's got the grail spelt with a Y, where the I should be
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And that's like a bottle. Is it, you fill the bottle and then you press it or you just put the top on
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That one might just have a top that you suck through. Yeah. And I think they also, possibly then, or maybe Hydropack also do one that's like a bladder
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with it. There's all sorts of them around now. So Hydropack definitely do one, which might be in the post on the way
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You've got? I've got an MSR trail shot that I bought from Go Outdoors years ago
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Have you ever used it? Yeah. I used it at Naughty Northumbrian
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I am still here, but I do have a very sensitive stomach. Maybe it started when I drank out of the water at Naughty Northumbrian
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We don't know. No. No. It's slow, but I got it because I think MSR is quite a reliable brand
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And at the time it had good reviews. And I have actually drunk through one of them from water from the Colorado, because we ran
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out of water on the Colorado. So I was scared, but I didn't have any choice
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Does anyone make a straw? Yeah, I think that's one of the adventures, guys
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It's a water bottle with a straw in the top. Like those motivational water bottles that you get to hang around
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Like, get to here at 10am, make sure you're drunk enough. Or cool kids having a go
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I haven't drunk any water today. The next magazine, we're already looking at the next magazine
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Birds have added you in this week. So if you have got an inconvenient injury, then you should email me
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I don't want to know about really horrible injury. I want to know about the time that you like split your fingernail and then it got infected
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and then you couldn't break going down a hill on a holiday or something like that
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Like that's the kind of bike injury that I want to know about. Right
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Not the spinal injury or anything like that. I was going to say all are inconvenient, but you just mean little irritations
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Little irritations or like you absolutely nail the treble black diamond and then tripped
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over a cat in your hotel afterwards. That's my trick. I survived all of the Isle of Arran and then crashed at the ferry port
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Very common. I'll email you. OK. And then I'm off to Bespoke for the weekend of 28th through to 30th of June
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So I will have lots of wacky shoes with magazines, lots of chats, scintillating, obviously, with
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my top enthusiastic voice. So if you want to be at Bespoke in Manchester, it's in a really cool venue
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It's just like an old swimming pool and they have taken the water out
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I didn't realize it was in Manchester. Yeah. Now I'm keen to go
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I thought it was London. No, it's in Manchester. And 28th through 30th
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And if you buy tickets on the door, they're 25 quid. But if you buy them in advance, they're 15
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So make a plan to be there and I will be there and we can chat
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Do selfies. It's always funny when somebody asks for a selfie. No one ever asks me
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Please come to Bespoke and stand on the stand with me. And they might
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Right. I might be there. Hannah will be there. For now, we need to go and do some work
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This is work. Do some other work. OK. Do we have a catchphrase for the week
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Stay woke and humorless. It's Hannah's. I haven't got one. I want yours
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No, that's yours. You can have that one. OK. Stay woke and humorless, please. OK
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Get yourself slightly. OK. Get yourself slightly
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