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Hi everybody, welcome to Fresh Goods Friday 72. I'm Mark and I'm here with Benji. Say
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hello Benji. Hello there, how are you? Good. What have we got this week? We have Boardman. New as of yesterday. This is the MTR9. We've
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done an MTR series before. Quite a lot of rework for people who know the old one. So
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it's come down a bit in travel. 130, 130. Re-jiggy-jig piped work and all that. Quite
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a lot of straight seat tube, look at that. And look how much potion you get in that
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And the abundance. 65 degrees, 76.5 degrees. Those are static numbers. And this one is
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check my notes, £2,400. This is the top one. Not sure what they start from. Probably well
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under £2,600 I think from memory. Not bad. This is 12 speed SLX. Pike. What's that called
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Deluxe. Super Deluxe or just a Deluxe. Can't remember. Deluxe. Nice cockpit on that. 780
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bars, 45 stem. 150mm droppers on the large and extra large. Only available in medium
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large and extra large. What about small? Because it's a 29er. Tough, tough. They'll probably
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do another one that's Muller or 27.5, I don't know. Maybe that's in the pipeline
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Is there a lot of these value bikes coming out at the moment? Yes, it's one of those funny cycles
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of a few years. There'll be new Boss Nuts, this one. The Voodoo, which is kind of the same people
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who bring this one in. That was last week. That was last week, yeah. Yeah, alright. Not weighed
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it. Don't want to know it. I've ridden it. I'll be riding this later today and tomorrow. First
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ride review on tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow. Tomorrow being Saturday. Sunday. Sunday. Oh my god
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two days. There you go. First ride review this Sunday. That one. Excellent. Oh yeah, WTB Solano
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saddle. That's arguably what I'm most interested in. I like the WTB perch. It's funny, WTB is my
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saddles of choice as well. It's nothing special about the brand, it's just that they happen to
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fit our backsides. Yeah. It's hard to review saddles. You can open that. Oh right, proper
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opening. Happy September the 11th. Love it when they open, they're easy like that. What have we got
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in here? Well, it's got Alpkit written on the box. It does have Alpkit written on it. Bag. Oh
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those feel like trousers. These are soft shell riding trousers. Hello. Flow. F-L-O-E. Oh
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as in ice flow. Ice flow, nowhere to go. Something, I can't remember the bush lyric
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I used to. Yeah. They are £79.99. Pockets and stuff like that. Probably available in black as
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well, but this is the jazzy blue one because we like jazzy blue. When's the last time you rode
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in shorts? I only ride back home from the office in shorts occasionally, still don't really like
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that either. Yeah. I seem to have evolved to just riding trousers these days. Yeah. I've got a big
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not a big cut, but I would have had a bigger cut on my shin right now if I wasn't wearing longs
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one reason, regardless of weather. Don't want to do it anymore. Look at this. It's Sunday best
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It is a Kanza, Alpkit Kanza. Isn't that an event? Dirty Kanza or something. It's a gravel shirt
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they call it. It's a cycling specific. You can park up outside the church on a Sunday when you've
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gone for your morning ride and then go to church. That's what I do. Yeah. Nylon polyester mix. It's
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got something called polygene in it, which means you can wear it for days without stinking. It's
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a vague cycling cut, I think. A bit drop tail. Yeah. There's two different settings for the
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press studs on the cuffs or something like that. And that's £64.99 sterling. Very nice. Probably
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available in another colour. Don't know, but that's a nice blue one. And then the last thing
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yeah, there's a blue thing going on here. We have, that looks like a three layer ultra light jacket
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Oh, it is. Look at that. It's called the, ooh, don't get it wrong. Gravitas. The Gravitas. Yes
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men's. Three layers. £200 and you get a penny back. Yeah. Stuff sack. Yep. And it's, you know
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those numbers that are called hydrostatic heads and moisture and vapour transfer rate. Yeah
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That's 20,000 of those. It's got 20,000. Okay. Got a nice, all of these bendy peaks like you get on
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proper walking jackets. Yep. Yeah. And the helmet, I guess it's big enough for a helmet
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Yeah. That looks pretty cool. How much is that? £199.99. Wow. Not bad that. That's a good
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pretty trad, pretty par for the course. Anybody going to be modelling these for Freshman's Friday
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Me, probably. I would imagine in about 15 minutes or so, depending on when we can waffle on for
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That's it for product this week. Right. Shall we get onto, there's actually a really important job
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to do. It's, it's, it's raffle draw day. I've not bought a ticket. I'm not allowed to buy a ticket
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am I? You can buy a ticket, but you won't be allowed to win. Let's not do that. Right. For
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the 502 Club. Yes. The, the 502 Club. This current raffle is for a set of Magura MT7 Pro brakes
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including rotors. It's worth about 550 quid. Yeah. Pretty damn, pretty damn good brakes as
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well. Cause you've reviewed them. Yeah. I've still got them on my, one of my steeds. Still got them
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still running. Yeah. Fine. Yeah. Brilliant. Good pads. Good rotors. Not gone wobbly bibbly. Well
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in order to stretch this event out a little bit further, before we get to the actual winner of the
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of the grand prize of the Magura brakes, we've got a couple of minor prizes to hand out. So as normal
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as, as, as normal as we did last time, certainly I've got a list here. I've got the spreadsheet
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with all of the correct entries. Cause remember you had to actually answer a question. I think it
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was what hydraulic brakes contain what? I think the answers were coffee, water, oil, or string
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So thankfully I didn't spot a single wrong answer. Right. Which is good. People wonder why we have
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water brakes, water break. Yeah. Hydraulic could be. Yeah. But anyway, everybody got the right
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answer, which was oil. And the reason why we have to ask this question is because that makes it a
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raffle and not a lottery. It's a game of skill. Game of skill. Turns into a game of skill. Right
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Okay. So. Did we get any wrong answers? Do we know? We did on the first raffle, which was how many
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times a year do we publish single track? Fair enough. Despite the fact in the story on the website, I put it in the opening paragraph in bold. Still a few people got it wrong. Anyhow
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I'll tell you what we've got. We've got some minor prizes here. We've got some. Prison shivs. Yes
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Single track bar blades. Okay. Come for the rides. Come for the, come for the bikes. Stayed for the
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bollocks. You can say bollocks. It's actually an old English word. Fine. Yeah. Right. So I'm
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going to choose a nice finish on these actually. You have a look at those. I'm just going to
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choose a winner. Hang it up, I suppose. Right. Number 18. Who is number 18? So Patrick Maguin
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Right. So winner of a bar blade, Alex Redwood. Right. Let me just write that down. See who else
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has won one. Number 154. Who's 154th on my list here? 154 is Jonathan Lee. So congratulations
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Jonathan Lee. You've won a bar blade. Jay Lee. Jay Lee. Bar blade. We're going to actually
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because we've got your addresses, because you put your address in when you bought a ticket. So we're just going to post these out to you. So if you don't watch this, you might be like some of the
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previous winners who were very surprised. What's this? It's just coming through my box. Yeah
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indeed. And the final bar blade is going to entry number 283. And that is Week C. Oh yeah. Week C
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you've got a bar blade. I think you might already have one. I think you might have won like thread of the week or something at some point. But anyway, there's a new bar blade coming for you
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Week C. And then we've got one of these super rare. I think there's only two left in the building
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The lockdown. Everybody wants one of these. Our lockdown tea towel. Can you think of any other
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sighting magazine that's ever done, made a tea towel? Good housekeeping? I've no idea
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Right. It will be, won't it? Yeah. Good to ask. Who's getting a tea towel? Right. For a tea towel
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going to Ron Adams. Ron Adams, you're getting a tea towel. Please wash it first, because it just
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won't be absorbent until you wash it. Come on. Come on now. No, that's the most common
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owl is the teat. I'm not getting involved with that. I'll let you finish that joke
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Right. Now we've actually got a cool, those are cool prizes, but we've actually got
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an Endura single track helmet to give away. Mips. Mips. Yeah. And choroid. Choroid. Yep. Yeah. It's
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pretty good. This is, it's this size, unfortunately, which is medium and large, which will fit most of
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people's heads. I'm not going to put it on. That will just sully it. So I apologize. Well
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we apologize if you have a small pin head and you win this prize, you might have to give it away to
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somebody else or wear a beanie. Okay. So the winner of this single track Endura helmet is
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ticket number 94. And that is, that is Deborah Ormston. You're going to win this helmet
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Deborah. So we're going to send you that helmet. And that just leaves now the final color
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It's a lovely color, isn't it? So now who's going to win the Magura MT7 brakes? We don't actually
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have them here because they, Magura in Europe are going to send them direct to the winner
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Yeah. They'll probably get a choice of rotors. They go massive. Yeah. Bigger, bigger, bigger
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two or three in front of me. Bigger the better. Oh, look at that. Right. So winner is on my list
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is entry number 69. So let's, that means nothing to anybody until I actually go through here. But
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entry number 69 winner of the Magura MT brakes, MT7 brakes and rotors is Daniel Chapman. Daniel
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Chapman, you've won the Magura brakes. And we'll be in touch with you. And congratulations. And
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we'll arrange for Magura to send you out your prize. That sounds like a really good chance to
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start building a whole new bike. Yes. Start from the brakes and move and work your way through
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Look at the money you've saved. What's happening this week? What's going on? Why am I sat here anyway? Everyone's ill
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Well, there is that. Yeah. It's like an illness town. Yeah. Poor old Ross. He's at home driving
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around. A lot of funny press launches, distributor shows and all that. So everyone's everywhere
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Hannah's just come back from one. So I'm pretty sure she'll have some news and things to report on the website from that. I was just having a look at the website before we got started. And
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there's Hannah's just posted a review of the Works Hydroshot 56, which is going down very
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very well. I think she's given it a recommended. Yep. So which is, there's not many reviews getting
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recommended. No. And she absolutely loves it. And there's plenty of comments going on
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It's a jet wash, but it's actually a cordless. So it uses, everything's going cordless these
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days, aren't they? Can you just drop the little sucky pipe in a bucket or something? Yeah
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I think it does. You've got a hose on the end and it doesn't need a pressurized hose. You can just
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use a source of water for it. So yeah, Hannah absolutely loves that. Check that out. You can
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click on some of the links on there if you're interested in buying that. And good luck on that
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Because it is coming. Yes. Don't say it. Don't say it. I've got a new one. Don't say the C word
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We're too far away from that. No, I was thinking just rubbish weather. But then it's kind of
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already here. Is it going to get any better over the next week? Can we do a single track
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We'll do. Yeah, it'd be great. Yeah. Next week. Well, you've got your ride. You've got the good
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kit to put on. I'll be going graveling. Yeah, excellent. Right. I reckon soft shell trousers on
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Other than that, I don't know what else we've got. But what's in the pipeline? Well, I'll tell you what. Keep you out for another raffle, isn't there? Oh yeah, we'll have another raffle coming soon. So
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check on the website on Friday. I've just got to get all the bits together and put it on. But
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there'll be another raffle on Friday. Very interesting prizes. I'm not going to say anything
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about them. Just check on the website on Friday and you'll see what's coming. Well worth buying
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some tickets for that one. And I just want to ask you something that's come up in the staff chat
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this morning. It wasn't me. Well, I think it's James Vincent. I think it's his fault he can't
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work with it. Right. We were just having a bit of a conversation about how we've had this before
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about how car companies are starting to build mountain bikes. And we were just like... E-bikes
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usually. Yeah, usually an e-bike. And we were just wondering what would happen if a mountain bike
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brand made a car the other way around? What would they be like? Santa Cruz would make like an Audi
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They're kind of everywhere, but people don't think they are. That's true. Yeah. Or a Golf
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Possibly. Yeah. Everywhere, aren't they? Or Range Rover Evoque. I reckon Kona would do a flatbed truck. Geometry would do a limousine
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Or a Lincoln. Is that what they're called? Yes. Orange would do... I should have said Land Rover
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Yeah. There you go. That was quite good, that one. I thought, yeah, that's pretty good. I might
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finish there. Yeah. That's just... Someone will get offended, won't they? Name a brand. I can't
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think of anything anymore. What would Giant do? They'd do something really sound that's
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quite good that everyone just looks straight past. So it'd be like a... I don't know cars anymore
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apart from really old ones. Kia. Kia, possibly. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. We're starting
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to offend everybody now. I bet you've got some good ideas. You can stick them in the comments
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Yeah. Tell us what you think. If a bike brand made a car, what would it be like
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E-bike week. Not that soon. About a month, middle-ish of October, we're going to have an
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e-bike week to deal with loads of things that are coming in, both in terms of bikes, features. If you've got any questions or things you want to know or things you want to get across
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we'll be doing a survey as well, people who own e-bikes, see how they're getting on with them
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It will probably be called something imaginative like e-bike week. Might do a logo. I won't. James might do, hopefully. And yeah, keeping out for that
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Watch out for that. That's cool. We've got news. What do they do in the desert in Utah
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Bury bodies. Bury bodies. Cook meth. Rampage. Rampage. That's what I'm thinking of
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So yeah, there's a story on that. Hannah's trying to wangle a way to get there. Every year
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she dangles the wangles quite hard and she's trying to get it. In one year
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it might be this year. She might be on the ground in the desert
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Yeah, apparently it's got a new format this year. Women's event on the day before the men's event
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or something like that, is it? Yeah. Women's lineup has shifted with Hannah Bergman out with
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an injury and Jess Blewett focusing on finishing the race season at Mont-Saint-Anne. So that's made
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way for alternates Chelsea Kimball and Georgia Astle. So leaving only Michaela Gatto on the
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bench according to Hannah's story. You should go and check it out on the website. I watch Rampage
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now through gaps in my fingers. It's kind of a terrifying watch, especially when they do the
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canyon gap jumps. I used to watch it. Yeah, I probably will do for a bit. It goes on for quite
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a long time. Everyone forgets. So my advice would be to wait for Monday when the highlight reel comes
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out. I'll be doing something else while you go to a wedding or something like that or visit your
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in-laws. Yeah, that's it. So yeah, watch out for that. There's news on how to watch that on the
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website. Check out Hannah's story there. And I think that's probably where we should leave. That's
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about it. Yeah. The awards are coming, but that's too soon to mention to people who aren't in this
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building. Yeah, indeed. Right. So we'll sign off there and we'll see you next week. If you've won
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anything today, don't worry. We'll be in touch and we'll get hold of you and make sure your prize
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arrives. And congratulations to our winner. All of them. All the main one, though. Yeah
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All righty. Bye for now. Goodbye
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