- Back again here in
Monterey at Sea Otter again.
This, of course, is 2019,
and we're here to find out the best tech
and the best new bikes.
Let's see what's here.
Come on and have a little
walk around the pits with me.
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Everyone loves a pair
of Vans shoes, right?
So I'm here at ODI,
checking out their
Vans-themed Waffle Sole grips
and they've got a brand
new colour way in this,
with the oil slick clamps
and a purple iridescent finish on there.
Pretty trick, I think.
They're also doing these really cool
little rubber valve caps,
mini mushroom long necks.
How cool are they?
And one more cool thing from
ODI, the single lock-on grip.
In the past, they have
always had lock-in collars
on either side of the grip,
but, of course, you can't
place the grip once it's worn
and keep the same colors.
Makes sense, but some people wanted
a different level of security
with a built-in end cap,
so they now offer this on their grips.
Gives you a bit more sort-of
real estate on there,
so handle bar grip,
and the clamp itself is
certified for dirt bike use,
so pretty significant stuff from ODI.
Now, you might of heard of Ride Concepts,
but if you haven't, you
certainly will do now.
New shoe company specializing
in off-road riding shoes
with, the shoes really,
by the looks of it,
are for every single type of rider.
Ranging from the top-end
clip-compatible shoe,
flat compatible shoes with different,
softer compound rubber soles on them,
female-specific shoes which actually have
a specific female-compatible
last for the shoes,
so it's not just downsized
or shrinked and pinked,
as some people would like to call it.
It's a genuine shoe that's
made from the ground up
to fit female feet much better.
They also have youth-specific shoes
with a specific youth shank,
and again, the last has
been made specifically
for junior-sized feet.
That is fantastic.
They do everything from the budget end,
all the way up to the high end.
Top end here is about $160 U.S.,
they're starting about
$100 U.S. for these shoes.
Genuinely, there is off-road
shoe for every type rider,
I think they are absolutely
fantastic-looking,
check 'em out.
Everyone knows about Evoc,
they make some of the world's best bags,
and also different variety stuff,
including the new protective bag,
which we mentioned on
the Tech Show recently.
I've got these new multi-frame bags,
which I think are absolutely fantastic.
Now, the thing that's
really cool about these
is that it can fit in
any part of the frame,
they come with different straps,
and they've got different,
like, I guess, portals
for the straps to fit into,
so it can fit in any number
of different size frames.
There's two size bags.
They've got all your usual features,
waterproof zip, the bags are waterproof,
they've got a zipper garage on there.
And then as with all Evoc stuff,
just look at the quality
of the stuff on the inside.
Really nicely lined with a little pocket,
so you can put change in there,
or whatever you want
to store on your bike.
It just goes hand-in-hand
with what people are doing
with their bikes now.
They want to run more
water bottles on a bike,
carry stuff on the bikes,
and not be running packs on their backs.
So, I think it's a very cool solution,
and because, Evoc really,
they do this stuff so well,
I think they're gonna
sell really, really well.
So you're gonna see
these later in the year,
I think they just said to me
they're coming out around
June-time in the U.S.,
a little later for the rest of the year.
Cool little product, eh?
Going along with the theme of
taking off the hydration pack
and carrying the bare minimum with you,
you can, of course, run a hip pack,
but what if you want to go even less,
just like car keys, CO2
cartridge, and a phone?
Check this out, this is the
new race belt from Evoc.
Very, very minimal, you can
wear this under a jersey.
Again, like with all the Evoc stuff,
it's got the AeroFlex,
so you can really crank these up tight
and they don't get in the
way of your breathing,
they don't restrict you.
It's got a nice cool
max to wick away sweat.
It's got a zipped pocket there,
so you can put, perhaps,
a multitool in there,
or your car keys on the
little key fob thing.
And, of course, it's got a strap,
so you can put a pump in there.
Any of the small things you want,
but the idea is the bare minimum.
It's really, really small.
You don't even know you're
gonna have this thing on.
They're doing various colors
if you want to show it off,
or do it in black if you don't.
Great little product.
Now, in the past on GMBN Tech shows,
we've shown you the Ramp
Control cartridge by MRP,
which fits in the top of your fork,
you can adjust the air pressure,
and you can adjust how much
the fork ramps up just by this.
And now for 2019,
they've got a new
version, got a pro model.
So, in addition to being able
to adjust that independently,
there's the rest of the
features on the fork.
It actually has air volume adjustment
on top of things, as well.
So, you can actually tune
the air volume of the fork,
so two separate air
adjustability motions there.
Also from MRP is the second
generation of their Wave Ring.
So, the Wave Ring is
slightly different take
on the narrow wide solution.
So, narrow wide chainrings, of course,
enable chains to stay
on the extra chainring,
it doesn't want to derail itself.
And they work great,
but these ones are very
slightly different.
It has a slight, almost
an S-shaped profile
to the chainring there.
And one of the benefits of that is
it doesn't wear out quite as fast,
nor does it wear out
your chain quite as fast.
And also, if like us in the U.K.,
you end up riding in muddy conditions,
it's gonna make a lot less noise.
So, gotta be a good thing, eh?
As you know, putting the right color stuff
in your bike is absolutely essential.
Remember earlier on,
we has a look at those
Vans-themed Waffle Sole grips,
had the purple iridescent finish
with the oil slick colors.
Well, you can match up with
the Xpedo pedals as well.
This pedal called the Trident,
it comes in a unicorn finish,
which is basically the same
oil slick-style finish.
This one's matte, they've
also got a glossy finish.
I think that looks so trick.
Check it out,
and also, know how thin that pedal is,
imagine how good that's gonna feel
the closer your foot is
to the axle of the pedal,
kind of like being on a skateboard,
gives you more stability, nice.
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So, I just found a pretty
cool little tech product here.
So first, I'm gonna show
you it's called the slug plug.
As you might imagine, it is
for fixing tubeless punctures,
but it's in a handy little case
that slides into part with
this, with a slider system.
Now this fits under your
bottle cage on your bike,
you can house a CO2 cartridge on here.
You can use this to prevent
CO2 burns to your hands,
without having to remove it from there.
Put it back on there afterwards.
Of course, it fits together
like a modular system.
But the coolest thing,
is what I quite like.
It's called the Nutcracker.
So it carries a spare valve core on there.
You can use this to split
your brake pads apart
should you close those pistons by mistake.
And the best thing is
what I'm going to refer to
as old women jam jar technology.
You've must have seen those things
when people got weak
hands, for opening jars.
This basically a tool
especially for tightening,
basically, your valve core, valve stem.
I think it's absolutely
genius to have that
because these do come
loose sometimes on rides,
they can leak.
Sometimes you need to
remove them for maintenance,
and having that as a specific tool,
you know I like a tool, don't you?
Right, have I told you that before?
Salsa's a brand that has been
around in mountain biking
from almost from the
very beginning, actually.
Now these are very different,
new bikes for Salsa,
they make a lot of steel frames.
Now this is the Spearfish.
So it's a 100-mil travel outback,
running 120 on the front.
I actually use to have one of these
when it was a 100-mil bike, front and rear.
And it was actually a
very lightweight bike.
This is far different,
far more suitable for
the modern-style riding
we're starting to see a lot more of.
As you can see, these
are set-up for something
like the (mumbles),
Two-bottle system,
and they're anything mounts on here.
So they were thinking,
why are people strapping
on tubes and stuff
to the frame, where you're
scuffing up your paint.
Let's make a mount for that.
So retrofit a mount, you
can get this after market,
it sits under the bottle cage here,
and it has its own bag
to actually hold a tube
of CO2 cartridges inside.
Really nice, like I said, 100 on the back,
120 on the front.
And just over here is the Horsethief,
which is like the super-sized
version of the same bike.
This is running 140
upfront and 120 out back.
Again, with 29-inch wheels.
I keep saying this is
my 120-mil travel 29ner,
that is really like the bike of now,
this is what people really,
really should be trying to ride
because I reckon they've got more fun,
and they're way more capable
of (mumbles) everything.
You can have a bike like this.
And over here, they've also
got bike called Rustler.
Now this is a 27.5-inch.
It's running 130-mil travel out back,
and a 150 fork upfront, a
65 (mumbles) head angle.
Slightly more aggressive,
but again, not too emphasis on
putting too much travel on the bikes.
I think people get carried away
with having too much travel on bikes.
This has got exactly what you need.
It can take the wide trail
tires, as you can see on here.
Plenty of clearance
for that sort of stuff.
Throw it around, treat it badly,
and it's gonna still winch
you the top again, amazing.
And this one's actually got a
split pivot on the back here.
So it's a super active design,
essentially single pivot,
but by having a split pivot,
it means it's very active under braking.
So, the braking has no
effect on suspension action.
Really good system,
and I'm really pleased to see
Salsa pushing out bikes like this.
Way more progressive than the stuff
they've been doing the last few years.
I think it's exactly right.
They need to be doing
this because the fact is,
they're such a prestigious brand.
If you were to take a look
at the rest of the range,
far more traditional
steel bikes, gravel bikes,
that sort of stuff.
But for me, it's about bikes like this.
If I was gonna have one of these,
probably be the Horsethief, 120, 140.
Every now and then,
you see one of those
strange little products
that you can easily overlook,
but actually, can make riding a lot easier
in certain situations.
Now, way back when I started
riding mountain bikes,
the fashion was to have bar
ends on your handle bars.
Now bar hands, of course,
gave a welcome change of position,
which is really important
if you're doing something
like XC or endurance riding,
anything where you're
spending hours in the saddle.
Now these little fellows, Togs,
sit on handlebar grips here,
just on the inside of the bars.
And you might have done
this before yourself,
where you just relieve the
pressure of your hand grip,
basically, resting your thumb on the top.
It gives you another position to use
without the chance of your hand
really bouncing off the bars.
It's not an essential thing to use.
It's there as a good option.
I think it's a really great idea
because I definitely
won't be putting bar ends
back on a bike any point soon
'cause I don't like the way they can hook
on the brush and undergrowth.
So having an alternative
position for longterm riding,
I think it's a fantastic little option.
Nice and neat, they don't weigh much,
and they also make carbon
ones too, pretty cool.
There we go, that is day
one at Sea Otter done.
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