Saturday 26 December 2015

11spd: This week's best new bike gear

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Ho, ho, ho – and Merry Christmas! We hope you and your family have had a great year. It's our holiday hope to bring you continued tidings of great riding… and shiny new riding gear. To that end, here are 11 pieces of hot riding kit that have landed in our snowbound Colorado offices.

Happy holidays!

New road bike gear

SRM PowerControl 8

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SRM is the grandaddy of power meters, but the company’s head units had fallen behind the times with Garmin taking a commanding lead. The PC8 incorporates some modern features – such as GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, ANT+, as well as TrainingPeaks metrics like TSS< NP and IF – but retains the company’s serious take on training with power.

Battery life on the alloy-shelled unit is good – especially if you turn off the GPS and extend it up to a claimed 45 hours. Memory capacity is also great, with a claimed 4,000 hours of training logged.

However, the appeal of the product is highly limited, as the GPS serves primarily as a retrospective tracking feature by recording your trail. There are no maps, much less turn-by-turn options like you can find on many Garmin units.

BSX Insight

Specialized Air Tool Pro

Tacx Neo Pro

Today’s Plan

Alé PRR Thermal Winter Jacket

New mountain bike gear

Bontrager fat bike tyres

Pearl Izumi X-ALP Launch II

Leatt Airflex Pro knee guards

Paul Klampers

Surly Wednesday

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