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Popular MTB Goods This Month! Top 5 (Ep 4.24) [Video]

It's been a while since our last installment of Trending MTB products, and we have some seriously fresh goods for you all this month! Featuring newly released products from Fox, KETL, Crankbrothers and SRAM, plus some classic favorites from brands like Continental, Reserve and others, you won't want to miss this one!

Crankbrothers SOS Tools

Since the inception of mountain biking, riders everywhere have debated how and where to carry their riding essentials. Strap it on the bike, throw it in your pack, or maybe just raw dog it and don't bring any tools at all like our fearless leader Jeff. It was this dilemma that inspired Crankbrothers to create this all new line of products called SOS (save our shred) that cleanly integrate your tools and tube into one package. You can either utilize an accessory mount for the twin tube design like the one that's shown below, or you can utilize one of the bottle cage mounted versions like the ones that is shown above, and have all of your riding essentials cleanly in one place, never forgotten in the garage or in your vehicle.

Fox Transfer Post

Fox's Transfer post has long been the go-to for riders everywhere looking for a quality dropper post, especially if you have Fox suspension and are looking for that matchy-matchy setup. The latest Fox Transfer sees some awesome updates that are very welcome and some would say needed improvements over the previous version. You can now adjust the air pressure in the post head underneath the saddle clamp as well as adjust the travel in 5mm increments. Not only that, but this new post is much more user serviceable than the previous version. You can also easily unthread the collar and add some grease and keep your post running smoothly. All things that riders everywhere will appreciate.

SRAM XX1 Eagle Chain

SRAM has had an oil slick XX1 chain in their arsenal for years now, and it has consistently been one of the most popular chains we sell. It could be the fact that the rainbow colorway goes with tons of bikes and it's been extremely popular for a while, or it could be the fact that it's just plain awesome. While other oil slick parts seem to have come and gone, the XX1 rainbow chain has stuck around and is clearly a fan favorite.

Continental Kryptotal

Continental MTB tires are certainly having a resurgence at the moment. Their latest tread designs, compounds and casings are just as competitive and impressive as the other top dawgs and have been extremely popular among us here at the shop as well as riders everywhere and racers on the World Cup circuit. One of our favorites is the Kryptotal, which has a designated front and rear tread pattern. This tire has an excellent combination of rolling speed and grip, and the most popular variant of this tire that we've been selling is the Downhill casing tire with the super soft rubber. Install some of these on your bike and you'll be a hero on the gnarliest downhills in town.

Reserve Wheels Reserve 30 DH SL AL Wheelset

Reserve has long been known to make some of the most bulletproof wheels on the market, and they are also known for their impressive lifetime warranty if they aren't as bulletproof as you thought. Either way, this video of Danny Macaskill smashing a set of reserve carbon wheels lives rent free in our heads as it's one of the most bonkers things we've ever seen someone do to a set of carbon wheels and it's certainly recalibrated our brains to think how strong carbon wheels are.

SRAM Maven Ultimate Stealth Disc Brakes

Braking power is a hot commodity these days, especially with the latest crop of extremely capable and modern enduro, downhill and e-MTBs that you'd see these SRAM Mavens installed on. These brakes are the most powerful brakes that SRAM has ever made, and they utilize a massive master cylinder, caliper and reworked internals in order to dish out all that stopping power. They've also utilized Mineral Oil as the braking fluid in these brakes as opposed to the DOT fluid that most of their other brakes use. Long story short, if you're looking for some insanely powerful brakes that will make you stop on a dime, look no further than the Mavens.

SRAM Ultimate Piston Press

There's nothing like a purpose built tool that makes your life easier and helps you perform a specific task, and that's exactly what the SRAM Ultimate Piston Press tool does. This tool will easily and evenly push your brake pistons back into the caliper so you can either bleed your brakes, install fresh pads, or all of the above. This tool will also work on a large number of brakes as long as they don't have a bridge across the caliper like the new Mavens or Magura MT7s for example. You might be saying "yeah well my $3 plastic tire lever does the same thing" and well you might be right. But does your tire lever press all of the pistons back into the caliper with the same exact force at the same time? If they do that is very impressive, but I haven't seen anyone do that yet.

KETL Vent Touch Glove

For our second unique glove design for KETL, we were shooting for something that was not only highly ventilated but also had excellent touchscreen compatibility and was extremely comfortable. We do believe we hit all of those marks with our all new KETL Vent Glove, and we are very stoked with how it turned out. Perfect for hot days on the bike or for those who just prefer a thinner, less cumbersome glove, the KETL Vent Glove will have you staring at your hands for hours because of how damn good looking and comfortable they are. Just don't blame us when your partner is angry at you for going on a 6 hour ride and you said you'd be "right back". We've all been there.

KETL NoFry Short Sleeve / Long Sleeve

Our best selling garment here at KETL currently is our NoFry Sun Hoodie, and we found that people loved to wear it for all sorts of activities and were looking for another version with slightly less features. That's why we created the NoFry long sleeve and short sleeve shirts - these are extremely featherweight tops that are perfect for hot days on the trail, in the gym, or wherever you find yourself needing an upper body covering during the sweltering heat and want to look good in the process.

If you are one strange human that would like to read a transcript of the video above, continue reading below!

ladies and gentlemen mountain bikers of

the world we are back with our

installment of the trending top most

popular important mountain bike products

of the month for April 2024 as we come

into the mountain bike season and we've

got some really good exciting

stuff what's going on with you just

excited about the new dropper post from

Fox

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or our first product

what the Craig Brothers SOS toolkit

modular tool system modular tool system

save our shred that's what SOS actually

stands for shred bro let's see here

we've got a myriad of applications here

Solutions Crank Brothers you know they

really just dive deep into the thought

process of like what do you really need

on your ride what's going to save your

ride if things go haywire and you break

your chain you get a flat tire and you

just want to have everything on your

bike ready to go at all times so that's

kind of the whole thought process behind

the SOS as you can see here they have a

few different styles this one here

attaches to your accessory Mount and

basically can deploy you know your

multi-tool your bacon strips everything

in here whereas these other Solutions

like je is holding here uh is a more of

a ball cage mounted solution where you

can put your tube in there everything

else so there's a few different

solutions and it's worth checking them

all out but they're super Nifty I think

the coolest thing is that they're

modular so there's like various

different versions like that one you can

mount to the accessory Mount or you can

have this one which is really simple

just Mount the tube in there tire lever

um this one is more of a comprehensive

you put your tube in here your CO2 there

your tire levers right here this has

bacon strips and a full I think it's a

15 or 17 piece multi-tool with all your

different allenenes and torqus and like

every possible thing you're going to

need multi-tool tube CO2 tire lever kit

all in one piece that you could just

hook right on your frame and do it in

this fashion the accessory Mount fashion

the water bottle Mount fashion super

well thought out product and definitely

something that was popular and popping

off in the month of April popping off

and popular popping off and popular

don't pop your tube unless you have this

who has tubes

anymore next up is this month's video

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all in the bottle and finally we have

been blessed with a new updated Fox

transfer that's right ladies and

gentlemen you know the old Fox transfer

while it was one of the best dropper

posts on the market still left a couple

things be desired like adjustable travel

adjustable air pressure you know they

finally knocked out of the park and they

gave us those things with this new post

and user serviceability user

serviceability that's right easier to

rebuild and service um things that are

really good features in a dropper post

transfer reliability with all those

other really important things and most

importantly kushima and fox and yeah you

get the point I actually uh was lucky

enough to test this post out prior to

launch and also in a trip to Southern

Utah where you about use your dropper

post more than any other component on

your bike let me tell you it was very

nice you know it was a relief to know

that I could rely on this dropper post

every time I needed it which was about a

100 times every single mile all those

little climbs and descents one after

another this thing just kept on going

work Fox nice work another popular

important product on your bike that you

really need to be reliable and

dependable and also ideally rainbow

colored oh your chain the stram xx1

rainbow chain you know what can you say

about this this is probably probably the

best this is the best Eagle chain you

can get for your bike it's rainbow

colored AKA oil slick AKA super cool

compatible with all the eagle stuff and

you know transmission or not

transmission no that's right not

transmission but all of the other Eagle

stuff so e variant possible but not

transmission that's compatible with I

think that's been a top seller for so

long because a lot of people that have

NX or GX drivetrain throw on a rainbow

chain and Bam your bike looks way more

fancy and expensive just because you got

the top-of-the-line chain but maybe not

the top-of-the-line drivetrain or maybe

you do have the top line drive train and

then you can top it off with the rainbow

chain we don't we all just want a little

rainbow chain in our lives speaking of

which you know what else we want in our

lives the Continental cryptool down Hill

casing super soft compound this is an

absolutely phenomenal tire that I have

also run personally which the grip is

insane yes it rolls slow but unless

you're doing some like really good

gravity oriented riding I mean that's

where this thing properly comes into its

own and it will just grip and hold on

for dear life and not only that but the

casing really just kind of allows you to

just plow through the chunder you know

what I mean yep you just Supple Supple

Continental which has been just in the

last few years really biting at the

heels of Maxis which is kind of the

dominant Tire maker makes amazing

mountain bike tires of all kinds

Continental now is just really coming up

better tires fancier tires more options

more variants more product availability

which is nice which is helping them sell

more a lot of people are testing them

out and falling in love with them one of

the things I was surprised about is one

of our good friends and sponsored racer

Nico malale his whole team actually

switched from Maxis to Continental and

we had Nico on the MTB podcast not too

long ago and he talked all about that

and was really focused on the casing and

the feel of the cas in and how that

casing feels in Rock Gardens and

cornering and all that sort of stuff and

a lot of World Cup racers World Cup

Downhill Racers that are ending up on

podiums nowadays are riding Continental

Tires which is pretty cool and different

if you are looking for a Super grippy

Tire look no further than Continental

cryptool they do have a front and rear

version so keep that in mind how many

different compounds three different

compounds and casings you know what it's

going to take you a little bit to figure

that out Continental Tire video coming

soon to explain all of these little

nuances in these tires you're

welcome you'll also want to keep an eye

out for the next product Jeff what do we

got here Reserve Reserve 30 hdsl alloy

wheels these have a lifetime warranty in

an alloy wheel at a good price point

what more could you really want reserve

is kind of famed for their amazing

warranty on their carbon wheels and

really put their put themselves on the

map with that crazy video of Danny Max

skill just riding stairs with no Tire on

doing all this absolutely insane stuff

and Reserve has become known for durable

reliable incredible warranty Carbon

wheels and now they're expanding their

wheel lineup with some alloy stuff which

is kind of needed cuz a lot of people

message and say hey don't want carbon

not my price point and want something

under 800 750 what's a good alloy wheel

set unbelievably reliable DT Hub good

lace up good res warrant and with a good

warranty like a bulletproof warranty

basically good to see some more

competitors here because I9 was a little

bit uh taking too much of the cake on

this price point alloy wheel they really

were yeah good to see Reserve come up

with something amazing and you know what

else is cool about these they come with

the reserve Filmore valves if you didn't

know which are very nice pretty pretty

spiffy you know you know what I'm

talking about you know that I'm the

cream with a crap our next product the

new stram Maven ultimate bricks I mean

are you kidding me look at these things

if you want to talk about power stopping

power we're not talking about like you

know tyrants or anything like that

breaking power beefy beefy this is the

most powerful break that stram has ever

produced it is legit I mean this is

probably strictly reserved for downhill

bikes and ebikes maybe a super Burly and

duro bike you know what's funny is a lot

of four piston beefy downhill brakes

have come out and said they're

specifically made for downhill like the

code RSC like the uh trps and then

everyone just puts them on their Enduro

and trail bikes because they want

amazing power and modulation and feel if

you want an unbelievably powerful break

SRAM brakes have come a seriously long

way in the last 5 years if you've tried

recent sham brakes you kind of if you

know you know and the mavens are the

latest and greatest most powerful

beefiest gnarliest brakes Rams got on

the market so worth checking out if

you're trying to stop faster beefy and

gnarly but our next product is probably

one of the coolest things that stram has

come out with in a while that isn't a

component but it's tool this is the Sham

Universal piston press which ironically

enough doesn't work on the maven brakes

but is that true is true that's because

the bridge and the caliper doesn't allow

you to actually use this so this works

on actually most brakes like aside from

mura that has the bridge in the caliper

or the maven so but codes Shimano brakes

whatever you can actually use this piece

here you can basically use this to crank

down and then it will evenly spread all

four Pistons or two whatever you got

simultaneously evenly into the caliper

so you can put new pads in or bleed your

brakes whatever it is so Works super

well I've used it multiple times this

week and it's like you know people say

oh you can just use tire lever whatever

but does a tire lever push all of your

Pistons out evenly and at the same time

if you have for hands maybe but no that

tool while not being 100% necessary is

actually a joy to use and also just a

total

Flex it really is let's be honest like

it's super nice to use don't absolutely

need it however it's a total Flex it's

really nice to use and yeah it just

looks rad and works great yeah works

great is it a flex yeah does it work

great yeah what are tools for other than

flexing I to be prepared I guess yeah

but mostly for flexing shout out toolbox

Wars check out my toolbox you know check

out my tool box see what I got and give

him the least but not last least but not

last what do we have here the new Kettle

vent air touch gloves um we redesigned

the whole Kettle glove that uh as you

guys know since you watched this video

this long we own the apparel brand

Kettle mountain and this is a brand new

mountain bike glove for us featherweight

Ultra lightweight ready for the

summertime amazing touchscreen ability

you can type in these things you can do

whatever weird things you do with your

phone while you're out on a mountain

bike ride with these gloves no it

doesn't have the little like thread that

makes a touchcreen compatible the entire

fabric it's woven into it so like

anywhere and any finger and any part of

the glove will be touchscreen compatible

on top of it having incredible

perforation on the top the bottom and

just being a very clean simple minimal

glove that acts down tiny and super

lightweight so super nice comfortable

you could even you've probably been

seeing pictures of me wearing them while

riding my forbidden Dru it on your

screen this whole time and like right

now but you know we're talking about

flexing I mean these are some of the

nicest whest breathable gloves

breathable I like that breathable

another thing that we made for the

summer season with Kettle um our most

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