Fresh Goods Friday 709 - The Quiet Roads Edition

Hello, welcome to Fresh Goods Friday 709. 709. 709. 709

I'm Hannah. I'm Benji. Hello. Here we are again. What's that? We're going to come to that

I know I'm excited about it too but we'll come to that. Saran wrapped. Let's do..

You were talking about baker foil as well this week. You've gone all Murican

That's the next issue. And this is kind of Murican flashbacks because I first saw these at Sea Otter

They look the same. I know they don't. They're not the same. They're gibberish

No, they're nothing like. So these are Petey's grips. They're all called Monarch

So Steve Peters always had signature grips but these are his own actual grips designed

on his own actual... He used to have a leather skin didn't he? So now he's got his own. But these are like his mould and all of that

And his packaging. So this they've made specially so it's plastic free. Right

Quite often that's like a plastic plug. And the insides are a recycled plastic core

And then they have lefts and rights. I mean you can do that in the shop innit and go yeah fine

So you have to get it right. Left and right. Left and right. There's some notes

There's a thin, there's a thick. These are thin. There's one of two different styles. That's right

These are both the thin ones. Yeah I don't want fat ones. Those ones you've got are like the slightly more race ones knurled

Oh yeah like the tiny diamond grid. Yeah and I've got the trail comfort mushroom ones. Sick

And they have like a tapered core inside. They have, this is a not your usual millimetres of clamp. Right

I think it's eight. So you get more, more grippy space. And the underneath is like finger grippy stuff

Finger ridges. So that you don't slide your hands off. Okay. And a little thumb area, that's what that is isn't it? Yeah

Very good. And encapsulates at the end. Yep. So you have to put them on the right way round

The right side as well. They look to me like they'd be around about 25 quid

You just look them up. I thought that was quite cheap for a pair of grips actually. Not bad these days, yeah. Yeah

So I am going to put these on that Saracen that I've been riding

Which ones? Are you going for the race or the trail? The trail. The trail

Trail comfort. With the mushroomy bit. Different colours. I'm going to go for the grey ones because I didn't want the coloured ones

But they come in all sorts of nice colours. Yes they do, yeah. It's grey. Grey. Okay

So, yep, I'm going to give those a go. And put them on that Saracen that I am enjoying very much, by the way

I can't really show what's in here. Just some of it. So we can kind of conjecture or allude to what might be in there perhaps

Because again, at Sea Otter, I saw some prototype WTB tyres on Fergus Ryan's bike

Going out the screen probably. From Privateer. Yeah. He had some Enduro tyres that he was running without any inserts

And he said that the support was so good he didn't need them. And then there were also rumoured to be some XC tyres

You've got to believe him. Just because he's a sponsored athlete doesn't mean he's not telling things how they are

Well you still want to win though, don't you? You do, yeah. So you would put inserts in if they weren't up to the job

But there was also rumoured to be some XC tyres at Sea Otter from WTB which I did not locate

They've been all gravel-centric, haven't they? So we might surmise that such similar things might be in that box. Maybe

What's that? That looks like something a pensioner has to keep track of their pills

So it's called the Rocket Plug Kit. Have you opened this before? No

Okay, so I haven't either. So I don't know what it's going to be. Alright, stabbers and things

You should probably fake unbox stuff beforehand. I'm scared I'm going to ping things everywhere

There's four anchors. Oh, there's a ponky thing. A reamer. 15 plugs

That is a lot of plugs in there. Good. They're like the bacon-y strip version

Do they have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? They don't, but look how many arrows I've got

Oh, look. Little stabber, big stabber. And then this is big, big stabbery needle things

It's like sewing. Well, yeah, that's what we're supposed to do now, isn't it

You load them into those little arrowheads, push them in, and then you've got an arrowhead inside the tyre

that you're supposed to get out at some point. Oh, do you? Oh, you actually leave the arrowhead in there

Or you could not do that. You'd usually just push them in and fold over and stick out

Oh, I didn't realise that. OK. Got some more kits there, more plugs and more bacon strips

Used to call them, still do. I think I'm bacon. Yeah. Poo sticks

Bottle opener. Down to our last 5,000 of those. And just tubeless valves

Aren't they just useful? They are. They're one of those things I've always needed

That exhaust goes out the top as well. So it would be compatible with an insert

Yeah, and a cone-shaped plug, so it will play nicely with all rim beds. OK

You need to know price on these things? Yeah, why not? Why not

32 quid, that's 16 quid each. Nice. 20 quid for each of those

Those will be mine. Keep sending sealant in, whoever makes sealant. Keep it coming in

Keep it flowing in like the rivers of Babylon. Oh no, you're not allowed to do that

Now I'm going to have Boney M stuck in my head. What's wrong with that? I might die listening to Boney M in my head

What's wrong with that? Everything. In your opinion? So when I used to have an allotment and I would be gardening

there's something about the rhythm of hoeing that gives you Boney M in your head

There'll be at the Euro 24 opening ceremony, won't there be? There will be

You know, that Touching the Void? Yes. Where he nearly dies on the mountain

He gets Boney M stuck in his head and one of the reasons he lives is like

I'm not going to die with that stuck in my head. And I'm totally with him. Brilliant

Change the channel, quick. Find something, distract my brain. You ready? Yes, quick, now

Before I start. Have a guess what's in there. Okay, I think it's a moustache

Now, I don't know if this is, I can't remember anything about the loam carbon bar

which is in here. It's just a carbon bar, which is a bit kind of dismissive

but that's a 35mm clamp, 38mm rise. Tell you what's interesting in a, you know, it's pushing that word quite far

is the back sweep is 10 degrees. Okay. It's quite a large back sweep

Which I think it's worth experimenting with. But they haven't sent you the CNC'd stem to go with it, which is their new thing

No, because I don't want a stem, because stems don't do anything apart from hold your bars in, so I've got nothing to say about them

But they do exist. You nearly died this week though, and I saved you because your stem bolts were loose

It's a bygone back. 150 squids, PNW, Pacific Northwest. So I think it's quite good

Hat, 24 quid, it's called Base Camp Hat, you have to wear it at the bottom

I can't, I can't, I've got the wrong amount of hair for this now, I think. Pebbles

I think we've probably just proved I've got the wrong amount of hair for that, and we'll take it off

I'm not going to wear it either. It's a boring colour. It's grey, you just said you like grey

It's grey, honestly. Your rules are really hard to keep up with

You look like you're working on Red Dwarf. It is the mark, that's all I do this for

Right, these are pebbles, you open yours, I'll open mine. Alright. These are, I think they're tools

Right, ooh, purple. Nice little dinky, shove it in your pocket, won't hurt you too much if you fall on it

Slightly rounded off tools in different colours. I've got black. I've got black

I've got black, you've got purple. Purple. Ooh, I'm going to need these again

Careful with it, careful with it. You know what that is? It's a tyrannosaur, isn't it

It's a dynaplug though. Is it actually an official one? I believe so

Anyway, whatever, right, excellent. What's that bike behind you? That is, we've had it in fresh goods before, but I thought we needed a bit of set dressing and it's not got dirty yet

So we thought we'd get Sonder Evol GX Eagle. GX Eagle, yeah. £3399.61

Which is a spectacular, not amount of money, for a bike with electronic gears on it, I think

For all you fans who buy bikes via the build kit. Well, yeah, I think it's important

I know about most people, don't you? Right, now then, we need to get all of this out of the way

64.5 degrees, 76.3 degrees, 480mm reach, chainstays are 435. Get all that out of the way

More stuff from these. What, more? Yeah. Oh, I've got this. Cable clip, that's quite interesting

Okay, I like PNW levers. I've got another pedal. You've done it again, haven't you

Ordered it in the boringest colour. We have a black PNW lever

They come in nice colours. Like green. This is a loam dropper

I've done this for a while, but it's nice to get a good, reliable dropper in

Now that's a... 0.9200mm, which is travel adjustable. That's travel adjustable, isn't it

So again, I saw at Sea Otter a cheaper version which isn't travel adjustable

I think it's called the Range. That's called the Range lever. What's different about that lever, do you notice

It's black, not a fun colour. It's only the pad that's cool, isn't it? Yeah

Turn it around the panel so we can see it. That, to me, looks like it's slightly shorter

So if you've got a cockpit where you can't quite get your flipping paddle where you want it to

it's either over there or it's in your way, you can solutionise it, aka solve it, with that, which is a slightly shorter dropper lever

Okay, if that's what you say. Am I allowed to go on to this now

Yes, I think so. I do have one thing else, but... Keep it

Aren't we going to end in that, though? Yeah, we've been at this for a while

So, you're not supposed to be here. It's supposed to be Amanda

I'm always here. Yeah, good, stay. Stay, we need you. So, I'm going to put that down because I'm feeling emotional

Amanda was supposed to be here because this cake is supposed to be Amanda's leaving cake

Right, yes. Let that sink in for a moment. Next week. She finishes next week, but obviously people want time to send cards and flowers, that sort of thing

Money, I imagine she needs money. No, because she's got a new job

Book tokens. So, yeah, Amanda has got a new job, she is leaving us

and in her place, kind of, we have James Vincent coming in to do the magazine design

So, he's the person who you'll have seen on the front cover

Well, no, you'll have seen his work on the front cover. Sometimes he's done some words inside

And usually it's actually Amanda that goes riding with him because he likes to do horrible rides that involve carrying your bike up hills

and then, like, rocky death on the way down. So, but Amanda has been here for nearly seven years. Right

Quite a long while. Right. So, she's done her time, and then these people approached us and said

could we send you a cake? So, this cake is from a company called My Baker

And I was like, cake? Yes! Let's have cake. And now Amanda's not here to eat it, but we'll make sure she gets a slice

Because this is a vegan cake. I don't know anything about it other than the fact that it's a vegan cake

Because I just said, you choose. Well, so, My Baker is like, a bit like Interflora, except not huge

So, it's three people in London that have a bakery. And you can order cake online for them, but then they have other bakers

I think there's 180 of them all around the country. So, this arrived

It's supposed to be for Amanda. And we haven't opened it. Should we have a look

Oh, wow. It's got gold on it. That looks like... I'm going to lift it out. Refreshers

Oh, I'd better not drop it. I'm feeling the pressure here. Feeling the pressure

There we go. That's quite a grown-up cake. It's got gold on it

Please remove the wooden skewers inside the cake before serving. Right, okay

I'm guessing that there's skewers in there holding it together. But maybe we'll find them when I've cut it

And gold. Cake Bay. So, all I said to them was, a vegan cake

Because then Amanda would be able to eat it. But if you go on their website, they have lots of different cake

That presents a plating up challenge, doesn't it? Like all these modern tall cakes

What kind of plate are we supposed to put that on? Why are we going broad

A slate. A handlebar? Right, I've got it. Let's see what it's like inside

What do we bet? Yellow. Oh, it could be rainbow, yeah. I want to do it properly

It's too nice. Oh, but then I forgot. Amanda's not here and Amanda's leaving

And it's sort of Amanda's leaving cake. But it's also my birthday cake

I forgot to make a wish. That was ages ago. Oh, look at that

It's sonder brown. That's quite a big chunk of cake, isn't it

Maybe I should have cut it. Look, Mark wants some. I need to be with a fork because I'm dangerous

I'm not eating you with a fork. Mark, you're going to get gold. Excellent

That's genuinely good. Oh, wow. Okay, I'm totally over Amanda leaving now

Because I've got cake. Hopefully Amanda might be well next week and make an appearance

and say goodbye for a second time. I would imagine so. But she's in bed now

And ironically, we blame James Vincent for that because he was ill last week

So, yeah. Anyway, bye-bye, Amanda. Bye-bye, you lot. See you all next week. Bye-bye

Does it taste of green? It just tastes of cake. Vanilla. Oh, my God

That's so good. Bye-bye