Pick ’n’ Mix
A magnificent menagerie of bikey bits
1 ONE PRO BARS
£2.50 each, onepronutrition.com Cycling has skiing to thank for some of its best roads, women’s undergarments for its clothing, and aeroplanes for its lightweight bikes. It also now owes former England cricketer Matt Prior for founding One Pro Nutrition and delivering a new range of veganfriendly, gluten-free bars, packing 17g protein and 14g fibre each. We’ll take one hundred and eighty ! No wait, wrong sport. Six?
2 AFTERSHOKZ AEROPEX
£149.95, aftershokz.co.uk Definitely not to be confused with Aftershock, the lurid-coloured alcoholic shot that was popular in the 1990s among teenage binge-drinkers, Aftershokz’s Bluetooth headphones use the principle of bone-conduction to deliver sound without blocking the ear canal, and this latest Aeropex version weighs a mere 26g, is fully waterproof, super svelte and delivers a refined audio experience for up to eight hours.
3 OAKLEY SUTRO EYESHADE
£135, oakley.com
Name your top five coolest cyclists. Yes, despite his sins a heyday Jan Ullrich is permissible, but no, not that other guy, because there can be only one truly cool
American, and that was Greg Lemond. And while his Cheshire grin and California-hippy vibe were his main commodities, Lemond’s choice of the original Oakley Eyeshades didn’t hurt either. Now, 36 years on, you too can own a slice of 1980s cycling class with these limited-edition, Eyeshade-inspired Sutros.
4 DYNAPLUG AIR
£60, madison.co.uk Possibly the original but still very much the best, Dynaplug’s tubeless repair kit has just been given a CO2 canister makeover. Simply screw the metal-spiked head onto the end of a CO2 cartridge, push the spike through the tyre’s offending hole, open up the inflator valve to reinflate the tyre and then withdraw the spike, which will seal the hole. It comes supplied with an air hose so you can inflate separately via a Schrader or, hey Presta! You too.
5 ELITE JET BOTTLES AND ALA CAGES
£5.99/£9.99, madison.co.uk There are precisely 239 beans in an Irish stew, because any more would be too farty. And there is just 78g of biodegradable plastic in an Elite Jet bottle, making it exceptionally light and leaving plenty of grams spare to pair it up with Elite’s latest 39g composite Ala cage.