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1 MONOPOLY COURSE €50, monopolystore.be
Originally entitled The Landlord’s Game, Monopoly was invented by leftwing activist Elizabeth Magie to teach the ills of income inequality. Today it’s responsible for more family feuds than Brexit and has spawned more than 1,100 editions including Monopoly Course, which swaps Mayfair for the Muur and is endorsed by Philippe Gilbert. But wait, only second prize in a beauty contest? Phil, you’ve been robbed.
2 MORSA MOUNT KIT £39.99, gonebikingmad.co.uk
Once we were happy just drawing round our hands in ochre on cave walls, but then we got jobs, inboxes and team leaders called Nigel, and life just got complicated. And so it was with handlebars, until there was Morsa. With multiple changeable adapters, Morsa mounts a variety of bike computers up top and lights or cameras underneath, making it the desk tidy of our times.
3 MUC-OFF NO PUNCTURE INNER TUBE SEALANT £9.99, muc-off.com
Blindfolded archery? You don’t know what you’re missing. And it’s the same with Muc-off’s latest sealant, designed for use in inner tubes and promising that you will never, ever know that you just ran over a penetrative foreign body up to 4mm wide. Could this be the death of the tubeless tyre?
4 ADIDAS SP0016 SUNGLASSES £140, adidas.co.uk
Need a new pair of sunglasses but fed up with actual nouns? We thought as much, so here are the SP0016S. Weighing just 30g – or the veterinary-approved weight for a Uk-based budgerigar – these will perch on your face to offer optically tuned vision, all while promising to stay mist-free thanks to nine anti-fog vents.
5 AGUULP SUPPLEMENTS From £30 (for 30 sachets), aguulp.com
OK, so Pro Green isn’t a real professor, but he is a top rapper and mental health advocate, so what he lacks in science he makes up for in spirit. It’s why he cofounded Aguulp, supplements designed to boost mind and body. There are five types: Gut, a probiotic; Immunity, vitamins and Omega-3; Brain, a ‘cognitive enhancer’; Sleep, a mineral blend; and Recovery, which is electrolyte-based and unashamedly ‘allows you to feel human the morning after the night before’.