This gizmo here is the new Garmin Edge 305HR. It uses GPS to monitor your location, speed, distance and all that stuff, has a barometric altimeter to track climbs and descents and there's an integrated heart rate monitor. So once you've been out riding you can see exactly where you've been, how steep the hills were and how hard you had to work to get up them. You get training software with it and it works with various web-based services that we've never heard of too. There's also a 305CAD with a wireless cadence sensor - if you've got the HR model you can add the cadence sensor to it and vice versa. And apparently the new GPS architecture works better under trees and near tall buildings. Also available is a cheaper Edge 205 which does without the barometric altimeter. All of them run off rechargeable Li-ion batteries with a claimed run time of 12 hours. More details at www.garmin.com.
Dialled Bikes's new 853 incarnation of its popular Prince Albert long-travel hardtail has just touched down at BM towers. It looks largely similar to the Reynolds 520-tubed original, only without the extra tube up front. It's a pretty burly device, with 34.9mm top and down tubes and gussets up front - it came to a hefty 5.5lb on the BM scales. That much 853 should make for a ludicrously strong frame - we don't know anyone who's managed to bust one of the originals, so this should be nigh-on indestructible. Probably not one for fans of traditional pingy steel frames, though. An 853 PA will cost you £380 - head to www.dialledbikes.com for more details. This one'll get built up and tested as soon as we can.
NKE 6.0 is a new sub-brand from sportswear supremos Nike. It's aimed at "young talent who love action sports", it says here. As part of the marketing push for NKE 6.0, there'll be (somewhat inevitably) an action sports team of surfers, skaters, BMXers, MTBers and people who do things on snow, all of whom will doubtless be showing off across the UK. This is the Zoom Mobisu shoe, by the way. Various colours available, on sale soon, no idea of price yet. More at www.nke6.com.
