Christmas Gifts Every Mountain Biker Wishes For | Dirt Shed Show 508

Welcome to the Dirt Shed Show. It's an exciting day because we've got a new set, which looks amazing. It smells amazing. We've got Bingus back. I'm back from the not so dead, but don't talk. We have to treat him very gently. Still sore. Very, very sore. Bingus, it's lovely to have you back. It's so good to be back, especially in this. The GMBN set is so good, isn't it? We're very happy with it. Today, we're going to be talking about the mountain bike presents you'd like for Christmas. We have got tons, loads of ideas for the things you might like to suggest you'd like from your loved one, or if you're secretly a loved one watching this, trying to get an idea of what to buy for your mountain bike other. We're going to make Christmas happen, Bingus. I need some new tires. Do you? It's not all about you, though. Not all about you. We've got to get these guys buying the presents. We're going to be getting into that. We've got some categories. We're going to do trail and workshop hardware. We've got some super high tech. We've got on the trail and on the bike. Yes, and on the bike. We're going to go through those. Bingus, you can start us off actually with our first trail or workshop hardware. This is probably my favorite category. We're starting with the best stuff. It is because you carry it wherever you go, Martyn, because I'm going to suggest the Toad Peak Ratchet. This thing is incredible. I didn't get a brand new one. I deliberately kept this one to show you because it's always with me. The amount of times this thing saves my life. It saves my bacon as well when you're out on the trail. It is beautiful to use. Let me just demonstrate. Look at that. It's so good. It's such a good tool. Beautiful. I think this is actually a really affordable present, but its quality will last forever. Great bit of present. What have we got next, Blake? I'm going with this one now. This one is in the workshop. This is the Toad Peak Torque Stick Rope. That's a torque wrench. This is a serious gift though, isn't it? Look at this. Look at that. This is really fun because these little tools right here, these little bits, they click in there like that, and you can get into those little niddly-fiddly bits. It's like your bottle cage. This is actually a very pro bit of kit. I think this would be the sort of thing that's a main gift. Not in a stocking, no. Not in a stocking, no. That's a great example of some workshop hardware. Next up, Park Tools. I always think a little bit of blue in your workshop looks cool. It does. Nice little tape measure. What are you going to do with that, Mine? You can't fix a bike with that, can you? Measure stuff. Measure your handlebar. I just think that's a really nice individual Park Tools product. It is pretty good. Anyone's going to appreciate a bit of blue in their workshop. You know what I mean? What about super useful present, perfect little box to wrap up, bleed kit? That is a really good shout. So useful. Really good shout. So useful. I think we've done a few videos on that kind of stuff. I would say I recommend this one because getting your brakes bled at a bike shop can cost a lot of money, especially if you do some damage to your brakes a lot. Wait, is that a Blake recommendation? I would say it is a Blake brake recommendation. Wow, stamp that. Blake recommended. Also, I think this is a great idea. Individual tools, obviously you can buy them in sets, but Park Tools are just so bling and cool. I love this little two-mil detail tool. That's really nice. Imagine how nice that would be to use. Aluminum machine, yes. Lovely. Something like that's going to set you about £40, so great individual items too. Right, let's take a look at some bits on the bike. Let's start at the handlebars. Yes, definitely. I'm going to kick it off with the gloves because it is a perishable item. It is, isn't it? Well, they do get worn out, they absolutely do. I think they're just such a good gift. If you're buying them for someone else, try and get the sizing right. That's important. Sizing is definitely correct. That's a very nice gift and something like Blake said is always required. Why not pair it up with a nice pair of fresh grips as well? I do like this color. This is Lava Yellow Green by Ergon. Look at that. You're really taken by these. They're so good. I have these on my XC bike and I've got these on all my other bikes, but they are super comfy. These feel amazing. Good, aren't they? Yes, but I love a really great stocking filler. I like that a lot. Good, isn't it? Yes. What about some stuff for keeping me fueled up on the ride? You've got to carry all that fuel, so why not get yourself a bum bag or a backpack? There's other things out there that you can use. You can use bags that go on your bike, your handlebars, but this carrying on your person is perfect. It's got a built-in bladder. Yes. This has got a bladder on it as well, so this is a really neat little bum bag. The mule is perfect. I run that quite a lot. Then you've got the classic, which is obviously a lightweight riding vest. Backpack is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. These hydration packs, really great tech on the bike. Definitely. Would be a very desired present for any mountain biker out there. I'll tell you what's also desirable. Let's get rid of all this because Christmas is coming quick. Get these ideas out there. Look at this. Hang on. This is a bit heavy. This is a big one. Oh, yes. The PT's wash your bike kit. Look at this. The complete bicycle cleaning kit. That is- Imagine that sat under the tree all wrapped up. What's in there? It's perfect. I don't know. Rip it open and find out. You've got absolutely everything there. You've got a bamboo cleaning cloth, your bog brush, loam foam, foaming, drivetrain degreaser. You have everything. Drivetrain brush. In there. Lint tube. That is a super kit. Think about cleaning that bike. That's a job that every mountain biker's got to do, so that'd be a great gift. I've got one. This is also another perishable item, but it can change your bike dramatically. The way it rides. Go on. Tires. Why not give your loved ones some fresh new rubber for your bike? Because winter months are here. It could be summer where you are if you're in the southern hemisphere, but hey, fresh tires for your bike. Yes, or if you're the rider watching the show, which is probably more likely, this is a way to make your bike feel brand new again. A new set of rubber on your bike is going to transform it. Ask for this for Christmas. It's hard to wrap up, but once you've unwrapped it, it's a great prize. Let's talk upgrades. Yes, so your loved one wants to upgrade their bike for Christmas. Why not surprise them with a few things? Have they just got a new mountain bike and they've got horrible plastic pedals? Oh, I hate that. That's slippy and sliding. There's something with quality pins on it, something like that. Stamp one, lovely pedal. Still plastic, but high quality. Got some metal pins there, not plastic stuff. Pins is what makes the difference. What makes the difference? £54.99, but pedals, you can spend a lot of money. Stamp 11s. That's even got your name on it. £300. Yes, this is actually my set, but they are bling. They are bling. They are absolutely bling. Look at that gold. Yes, so nice. A pedal is a great upgrade. Have you got any other good upgrades, Blake? I do. You've seen your loved one that's got a bike that hasn't got a dropper post and it really likes to go ride some aggressive trails. Why not upgrade it or give it a dropper? Oh, yes. Come on, look at that. You can get droppers, all types of droppers, lengths and sizes and whatever, and a dropper just transforms a bike if it hasn't got one on it. If that's something you're thinking about for your bike, then this would be an amazing present for yourself. If you're buying for someone else, they're going to be stoked with a dropper. This is a 170 mil dropper. 170 mil. You can get up to 200 plus. Blimey, nuts. You wouldn't be able to sit on a 200 plus because you've got little short legs. Yes, it's true, yes. Put in a BMX though. Let's talk about the presents that we all love to get at Christmas. Technology. Technology. I love bit of tech. A bit of computer. Yes. Yes. 1030, brilliant. You've got the 1050 on your bike. I've got the 1050. It's a beautiful piece of equipment. It actually came with me on the Swiss Epic. Loved it. Computer onboard bike makes a massive difference to your ride and it's just cool tech. It's cool tech. We're up at the echelons of price now, but what about a watch, Blake? Wearables. Let's just look at the one you've got on your wrist because you live with this thing. This thing doesn't come off. I take it off to get showered, but I'll go to bed with it. What do you love about that one so much? I love this one because it's solar-charged, so you can go up to 14 days. The cool thing is it just doctors everything. You're feeding this ecosystem of numbers. If you're into it, you're training, if you're getting ready for a race, wearables paired up with your bike computer or heart rate, everything like that, man alive, that is a present to die for. It's an incredible smartwatch. I love it. So durable as well. Yes. You absolutely adore it. I love it. These are great presents and something that we use day in and day out. A bit of computer tech on your bike, Christmas. Why not? Why not? What about some soft goods? Oh, yes. Why not go to the GMBN store? That's a good idea. It is. Why not get one of these? Look at that bikepacking t-shirt, favorite color. Yes. Got word logo, T's, of course. And black as well. Plenty of hats in there. Suits you. What about a winter rides mug? Yes, please. Here's a favorite, Camelbak GMBN bottle. Why not? Do you know what? How much is that? £11.99 there. Do you know what? That's a perfect stocking filler if you filled it with a trail mix. A trail mix or jelly babies. Or jelly babies. It can be of your choice. That is a good idea. You'd be like, oh, that's weighty. Great stuff. Sweets. Great stuff. Great presents. Great store. Go in there. We really appreciate your support. Right. It is time to go to the news with Tom. What's up, everyone? Look at this place. The dirt shed never looked so good. We're excited to be back. Just a stone's throw away from the original super cramped edition of the shed, actually. Anyway, let's get down to business with some mountain bike news. The Urban Duro was the first race of its kind in Europe. Pro riders descended on the streets of Malta to race multiple downhill stages through the historical city of Valletta. Our very own Rich Payne was there too, the pressure firmly on. He's one of the only presenters we've got uninjured right now. Those slippery marble surfaces are a nightmare for predicting traction, but ever the optimist, Rich did fantastically, bringing home the win in the open male category. The pro ranks saw Chloe Taylor take the win in the women's race, Veronica Wibman second, Bex Barona third, super tight margin, all within the same second. Slightly bigger gaps in the men's, Tomas Slavik took the win by eight seconds up on Martin Bruiser in second, Harry Molloy third. Now, Giro and Bell are two brands which have been around in mountain biking for a while, but news from the owner's Revelist group, which includes Fox Clothing, is that they're moving to a direct-to-consumer model in the UK alongside their business-to-business operations. This means that if you're in the UK, you have the option of purchasing from a shop as well as purchasing online coming very soon. Last but not least this week, White Bikes have released the T160S, a version of their trail bike of the year award-winning T160RS platform with a fantastic spec and entry-level price. The S model combines a RockShox Lyrik with a Deluxe Select shock, TRP Evo 4-fit piston brakes with 203 rotors, Maxxis tires, a dropper post, and a 1x12 drivetrain. The alloy frame, which features geometry adjust, mixed wheel compatibility, a lifetime warranty, and thanks to White's bearing sealing, comes with a lifetime bearing warranty too. The price on all of that, just 1,999 UK pounds. Top work from White. All right, that's all from me this week. Back to Martin and Blake. Thank you, guys. Let's keep going with the show with some things we liked this week. We've seen a few good things. It's been a mad week, some cool stuff. I'll tell you what, the first thing I saw, this is by Made Rad by Tony. Look at this paint job. Look at the flowers. That's so nice. That must have taken so long to paint. It's slightly Hawaiian feel. Yes, I like it. I like it. Very, very nice. I'd like a bike with a paint job like that. I'd like a wheelchair with a paint job like that. That would be sick. Yes, I'm going to get one of those bowhead ears. Get him to try and do it. Yes. What have you got? I've got this one. The world's skinniest skinny. I think Danny Mac would be scared. I know Danny can ride along chains and stuff. This is 2.9 millimeters thick. They've got the verniers on. It actually looks like a park tool one as well. Look at this. Trio behind bars. Oh, man. That is unbelievable. It's 21 feet and one inch long. That's how many feet he went. Very impressive. I've never done one of those slackline skinny. It's about as hard. Yes, it's hard. That looks harder. I've got to correct an error I made last week. I was talking about how well Charlie Rolls had done in the Polish World Cup Trials event indoor. I didn't realize it was actually the final round of the season, and that was him actually winning the World Cup overall. He got the overall. Yes, he won the overall in the final round in Poland. I didn't realize it was the final round. I'm a trials guy. I should know this stuff. You should, but I don't. Rich is a megastar. He actually went and did an enduro street race, so multiple stages in Malta in one of their big cities out there. Take a look at this. Beautiful. He's still got it. He's still got it. He actually got first place. He beat Sam Pilgrim. Did he? He beat Sam Pilgrim. Pilgrim's got smad. He did, yes, and I was like, good climbing. Yes. I really like that. Sam, you got beat. Here's something that beat my mind. You know what's going on about AI? You love a bit of AI. I even did a video about where will AI come into mountain biking. Well, look at this. This is just robot mountain biking. Is he bunny hopping? That bike's bunny hopping on its own. He's bunny hopping with one leg, Martyn. It's so crazy. I love that. I love AI. I love all that stuff, and that is quite exciting to me. I do like the idea of a robot bike being a ride down a mountain bike trail. Yes. I like this. A bit of winter training from PA. Not AI, PA, Phil Atwell. Take a look at this. Skate park. Look at that. He's so steezy. Look at that. He drops in. No. Phil, you're too stylish. You really are. I'll tell you what else I want to mention this week, our YouTube memberships. You can be Trail Crew, Trail Boss. We really appreciate that sort of support. I'm a Trail Boss. You get custom emojis. You get your badges. You get discount in the store. It's amazing. You even get a special bottle. If you stay for 12 months as Trail Boss, you get a special water bottle, which is yet to be released. Emojis. It's very cool. We really appreciate all that stuff. Let's keep going with the caption contest. Caption contest. Steve looking miserable. Yes. He looks young because I haven't seen him for a very long time. I haven't seen him for ages. Steve, I miss you. I miss you. If he walks through this door, I'm not going to recognize who he is. He's just been so old. He's hanging out with Donny. That's what it is. First caption for this miserable shot of Steve is when you pull into the bike park. Sorry, it's from Cameron Moore. It says, when you pull into a bike park, the second you unload your bike, your chain falls off, your tire goes flat, and you realize your AXS batteries have not even charged. Yes, the only thing you're shredding today is your hopes and dreams. Yes, there's a thing there. We've got one here from Striker Bravo. It says, when you spend your life savings on wireless derailleur, so you drive two hours to a bike park just to realize you forgot your batteries at home. Yes, it's a flat battery thing. This is a reminder, everybody, charge your batteries. Next one is from Will Lang, and he says, wait, what? Donoghue? Really? He's because he's joined EMBN, isn't he? He has. He has, isn't he? He's gone over there. He's gone from here to just there. Just to there. Look, there's some great captions there. We've got to give a winner. The winner gets a GMBN race top. Blake, you're picking. Who are you giving it to? Either Cameron, Striker, or Will? I'm going to go with Will because the two were the same, and Will was the one that was different. Donoghue. All right. Yes, okay. Will, you are the winner. You got yourself a race top. If you would like to win yourself a race top next year, next week, then give us a caption for this. Wow. Yes, lovely. Give us a caption for that in the comments down below, and you could be a winner. Coming up on the channel this week. Yes, we've got some bangers. We've got top 10 game changers in MTB. Yes, I did that one with Rich. It's good fun, that one. Another one with we tried cheap mountain bike parts. No, the royal we, as in Rich did it up in Spain. Take a look at that. We've also got is wider really better? Yes. Wide load coming through, baby. Some great videos coming up on the channel this week. Don't miss them. It's the bike fault. It's the bike fault. We haven't done that for ages. We haven't done that for a very long time. It's the bike fault. It's the bike fault. It's the bike fault. We need someone out there who's good with music to do us a little tune. I am definitely sure, 100% sure that there is a DJ out there. You know what? If there's someone out there who's really good at doing all that like cuts and edits and stuff like that, a bit like Josh, but he ain't got time. Let's do some slaps. Make a tune with that. Let's do the bike vault. It's an absolute dog's dinner of a chooser. First bike is from Jake. It's a Trek Fuel. I like the angle. I don't usually like a weird angle, but I like this angle, Blake. The bike looks aggro. It's in your face. Yes, but it's non-drive side mine. If it was the other way, it would be if it's drive side the angle. In theory, it's a super nice, but it isn't. It's nice. Next up, we've got James Ronner. This is his Revel Rail. That's sick. Which is my dream bike. Super nice. Wow. Super nice. Very nice. Got a lot of nice parts on there. Very much so. Next up, Night Shop from Chris Vincent. Chris Vincent with his Marin Alpine Trail Carbon 2 Enduro 29er. 160 mil travel. Just putting it out there. I say Marin. Don't care. Don't care. I'm saying Marin. You are going to get told off by a lot of people. Don't care. I'm saying Marin. What are we saying? Super nice. Next. Mate, calm down. It's a fat bike. I'll tell you what, though. It is a fat bike. In its right habitat. Look at it. Lander still. In its right habitat. I bet his water in that water bottle is frozen. Yes. Or it's full of jelly babies. He is in snow-covered jump track in the mountains in Canada. Yes. Giant Yukon. After Martyn's comment on this week's Dirt Shed, last week's probably the Giant Yukon 2, my giant feet. This is the second time he's been in. It's because I was taking fat bikes off last week. It's because I was saying people ride them in the wrong places. This is the right place. Down in a snow-covered jump track in the mountains of Canada. Yes. Landis, just chill, all right? I was just joking. He got back. Next up is Emil Razutkatz and it is his- I know what it is. That's why I've moved the bell. I don't know what that is. You better know what that is. Oh, it's a Cannondale. Give me that bell. Come on. Super nice. You know that's in Tidworth. Yes. Tidworth just down the road for us. Beautiful bike. Missed being on the bike so much. Such a history. Had some great riders once. Next up, KB and his stock Gascasse G-Trail. That's an e-bike, Martyn. Yes. I do like the way it just says Gascasse, just moto, isn't it? It's a factory racing kind of thing. I feel like Gascasse are one of the brands that are doing the crossover to bikes well. I think so too. That's super nice. Next up, Zachary Carter's- What is that? It looks like a giant. Yes, maybe it is a giant. Yes. I actually don't know what that is. It's really- Tell us in the comments. It could be a giant. I know what it is. Black Beauty. It's a Black Beauty. That's what he's calling it. That's nice. Just nice? Nice. Nice. Zachary, so close. Sorry. Next up, Marcus Rosten. This is his Gorilla Gravity Nirvana. I haven't seen a GG in a bike vault. Look at those cranks. Five devs. Yes. Five dev enduro cranks, wolf toothpicks, and custom graphics. There's only one way this is going. And what a way to finish the bike vault. That's the last bike vault bike for the week. If you've got a bike, of course you have. We wouldn't be watching if you didn't. Send it into the uploader and you could be getting a super nice next week. Send us in your hacks and bodges and your fails and your sends. They could make it onto our social. We love seeing your stuff. Bingus, it's been so fun having you back in the bike vault. So good. Bike vault in the dirt shed. In the dirt shed. But look at this, Martyn. Yes. Let us know what you think about the new set. It's something we're quite proud of. Thanks for joining us this week. We'll see you next week on the Dirt Shed Show. See ya.