Sedona MTB Fest had lots of mountain bikes to experience, but additionally a ton of contemporary gear, elements, tires, baggage, and extra from manufacturers huge and small, together with Kenda and Continental. Plus a pair choices for refreshments, some a little bit extra production-ready than others.
Pit Viper was displaying off their new Brapstrap mountain bike goggles, which get moto goggle tech and all of the anticipated type…
Massive vents on prime ought to maintain airflow excessive, and swappable lenses with tear-off tabs allow you to modify to gentle circumstances and maintain them clear within the mud. Search for clear lenses to come back inventory, with a couple of darker ones obtainable individually.
A dual-density foam ought to maintain them form-fitted to your face, and a foam-like ring on the within retains the lens solidly in place with no slipping or rattle. A hinged strap mount helps them match higher on full-face helmets. Goggles are $139.95 and substitute lenses are $20-$40 every.
Their sun shades now include “extra”, which suggests extra choices. Like photochromic lenses that robotically darken and lighten relying on circumstances, and polarized choices. As a result of when you’re sporting Pit Vipers, extra is barely higher. Examine all of them out at PitViper.com.
Rogue Panda Body Baggage
Designed and made in Arizona, Rogue Panda does each customized and inventory body baggage for a wide range of mountain bike frames. This Revel reveals simply how a lot of the wasted house inside and out of doors of that entrance triangle can be utilized to haul stuff.
Their newest invention is that this padded, sliding handlebar roll mount, which additionally will get a help beam to stabilize the load.
A padded cushion sits in opposition to the headtube, strapped into place so it gained’t slide and transfer and rub the paint off your body. A strap runs throughout the entrance of it, then a strap that wraps round your roll loops below it, permitting the bag’s strap to slip between the pad and the body strap.
The result’s a system that stabilizes the bag significantly better than one thing that’s solely connected to the handlebar, but gained’t scratch your paint. A help bar is offset out of your handlebar to create a bit extra space between your bag and cockpit, too, which may permit you to run a wider bag.
Nuclear Dawn body baggage
One other US-made bikepacking and body bag model was displaying off colourful choices for carrying gear, however Nuclear Dawn took a unique strategy to supporting an oversize handlebar roll bag…
The Superfortress harness makes use of a wrap-around burrito roll to seize no matter it’s you’re rolling up, with straps to cinch it tight. However, to maintain it from bouncing round, it runs the straps by means of a tube that’s lower to relaxation completely in your fork crown and the straps wrap round it to carry every part tight.
As you cinch down your roll, it cinches the fork helps tight, too. Small pads house issues off your bar, too. The design retains every part off your body. Retail is $75 for now.
Athletic Brewing Lite Beer
Drink break! If non-alcoholic beers are your factor, however you’re making an attempt to maintain energy in examine, however you additionally actually need to benefit from the candy, candy style of beer, then Athletic Brewing has simply the factor. Their new NA Lite Beer is brewed with natural grains and has simply 25 energy per 12oz can and 5 grams of carbs.
Outbound Lighting’s 3D printed flask
This one might not make it to “manufacturing”, but it surely’s seemingly he’ll print extra for himself. Outbound Lighting’s rep (whose nickname is “Hazard”) 3D printed this flask to suit right into a steerer tube and relaxation on the One-Up EDC instrument insert’s prime cap. Sadly, he wants to make use of a unique materials as this one swells a bit because it absorbs a few of the whiskey and will get caught in there.
Twisted Spoke CBD chamois cream & tinctures
Twisted Spoke is leveling up the CBD recreation for cyclists with a broad assortment of lotions, potions, and tinctures for every part from pre-, throughout and post-ride…and even pre-sleep.
Above are the sports activities gel for earlier than driving, chamois cream for throughout, and a restoration cream for after. Each is made in Colorado from 100% Colorado hemp bought straight from the farmer, which they are saying lets them supply a better high quality product at extra inexpensive costs.
Their tinctures supply each full-spectrum and isolate choices, together with one for pets. There’s additionally a nighttime one with CBN, which some analysis has proven that can assist you go to sleep or keep asleep…and so they advocate taking it an hour earlier than mattress, then adjusting that timing based mostly on how simple it’s so that you can get up within the morning (take it earlier when you’re nonetheless feeling sleepy).
The isolates are advisable for individuals who don’t need any hint of THC in there, like when you’re drug examined at work. Bottles vary from $49 to $89 and supply as much as 120 servings.
Thomson Ti Setback & Gravel Dropper Seatposts
Thomson was displaying off some gravel-ready choices. Their new 16mm setback titanium seatpost will are available a 27.2,m diameter solely and retail for $295. Not proven, a new-ish Masterpiece C (carbon, straight) seatpost will run you $275.
For rowdier riders, there’s a brand new brief 60mm journey gravel Covert Dropper seatpost. It’s solely obtainable in 27.2mm diameters, solely with stealth routing, and retails for $479.
That worth features a new distant that makes use of a 31.8mm clamp to connect to your handlebar simply subsequent to your stem. They gained’t assure that it’ll work with third-party distant levers that mount on the drops or supply different positioning, however the dropper releases by pulling cable, so…perhaps?
Continental provides extra tan wall choices
Continental wasn’t giving up a lot aside from to say there are a pair extra tan-wall tread and dimension choices coming quickly, significantly for Race King. And that we must always count on extra new stuff in late Spring/early Summer season.
Kenda Karma & Booster Professional MTB tires
The Kenda Booster Professional (left), which is considered one of our favourite XC tires, is getting a 29×2.4 dimension, and we’re fairly enthusiastic about that added traction and buoyancy on such a quick tire. The Karma2 Professional (proper) inches nearer to being obtainable, giving them a contemporary tackle considered one of their hottest XC/gentle path tires.
Take a look at extra protection on these and different new treads from their Eurobike sales space.
Cardinal Espresso
For those who ever see a tiny blue camper trailer with a protracted line off to the facet, it’s seemingly Cardinal Espresso. Former (occasional, nonetheless) biking journalist Mark Gouge and his spouse bought the trailer as an homage to his late mom (and, as a result of espresso), and ports it round to pick out occasions in and close to their Colorado residence. Price grabbing a cuppa when you see them on the market!
