Our Favorite Mountain Bikes and Gear of 2020
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The Singletracks staff has tested a ton of gear this year, and this week we’re looking back at some of our favorites. Listen in to hear what impressed us about each of these items, from clothing and accessories to complete bikes.
Some of the products covered in this episode:
MTB components
* TRP G-Spec brakes* Teravail Honcho tires * Schwalbe Magic Mary tires* Formula Selva R fork * Hope Fortus 30 wheels * Versus tires* MRP Raven fork * Ohlins TTXAir shock * And four more favorite tires tested in 2020
MTB accessories
* Topeak Burrito seat pack * Thule Roundtrip duffel bag * Garmin Forerunner 235 watch * Polar Grit X watch * Topeak Tubi 18 mini tool * Topeak DA mountain pump * Fidlock bottles * Camelbak Chase hydration vest * Topeak Prepstand Pro work stand
Clothing and wearables
* Pactimo Ridgeline hoodie * Gore C5 All-mountain shorts * Tasco gloves * Giro Ventana shoes * Endura MT500 jacket * Fox Speedframe helmet
--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends |
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| 0:11.7 | some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one |
| 0:18.4 | pre-selected book or toy whilst that's last. Regular listeners know that I'm a big fan of mountain biking at night, and having a reliable |
| 0:25.0 | bright light is crucial. |
| 0:27.2 | Glowworm is a mountain bike light brand founded almost a decade ago by two mountain bikers in |
| 0:32.8 | New Zealand. |
| 0:33.8 | Today, the company offers some of the most customizable, highest quality bike lights on the market. |
| 0:39.1 | Glowworm's complete line of lights start at 1,200 lumens and range up to a blinding 3,400 |
| 0:44.8 | lumens, all at reasonable prices. |
| 0:48.1 | There are a few things glowworm does differently that makes their lights unique and highly |
| 0:52.7 | customizable. |
| 0:53.9 | The optics can be swapped at home, |
| 0:55.5 | depending on the types of trails you ride, and their lights use standard GoPro-style and quarter-turn mounts. |
| 1:01.5 | Many of the glowworm lights work with a bar-mounted remote, which can be used to control one or more of their lights at once. |
| 1:10.0 | Right now, Glowworm is offering 15% off all |
| 1:13.2 | light systems on their website with the coupon code SingleTracks 2020. Go to glowwormlights.co.n.z. |
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| 1:33.7 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today Matt and |
| 1:39.6 | Jero and I are going to be talking about some of our favorite products that we've tested this year |
| 1:46.3 | 2020. So we're going to go through a number of categories, including components, accessories, |
| 1:53.1 | wearables, and of course, mountain bikes. And a lot of this content you're actually not going to |
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