Bontrager’s new Blaze helmet with WaveCel tech is an attention-grabbing enduro and trail open face lid that claims to keep your head uber safe. In practice, this is an expensive and slightly warm helmet with an uncomfortable Boa cradle that won’t suit all head shapes.

The new CamelBak Podium Dirt Series21oz (620ml) water bottle is a simple plastic drinks bottle with a brand new valve and cap. The new valve is great but the Mud Cap is an afterthought and doesn't work well in practice. 

The Specialized Purist MoFlo 22oz water bottle is a simple drinking bottle that is easy to drink from and doesn't retain any aftertaste, great for use with electrolytes or other recovery drinks. 

The Ride Concepts Women’s Traverse shoe is a pair of SPD or clipless shoes, in fact, the only clip-in model in the brand's range. The well styled shoe is on the pricier end of things and they do size up really small and slightly narrow but they are pretty stiff and supportive.

This week we entered full geek mode and directly compared weights and prices of mechanical Shimano GRX to the Di2 version. We also got our hands on those new Sector wheels from Kinesis UK, plus a new bike cleaner by Naked Bikes, some women's autumn gear from Castelli and the new Stan's NoTubes DART Tool. 

The 2020 Specialized Turbo Kenevo is a downhill smashing, uphill shuttling monster of an e-bike and it makes us pretty damn excited. With looks to emulate the Turbo Levo the 180mm Kenevo has gone down in weight, up in aggression and up in power too from a magnesium bodied motor. Piqued your interest now, have we? Read on....

The owners of Windhill Bike Park set up a GoFundMe page to help raise the funds needed to rebuild the large start ramp and welcome hut as well as to replace tools that were damaged or stolen in the recent fire. 

We, well actually our Dave Arthur (Instagram @davidjarthur), spotted this very cool looking Evil Bikes gravel bike on the 'gram on Monday and since then we've been trying to get our hands on more information. It's a first prototype drop-bar bike from the mountain bike brand, it's almost certainly carbon, it has fat tyres and is definitely topping out on the 'rad adventure bike' scale, here's what else we know....

Trek has just launched their updated 2020 X-Caliber line, with new bikes retaining the same low price and cross-country credentials. The two of the three bike range gets a 12 speed drivetrain with the most expensive only priced at just over a grand.