FSA has a couple of new Mega-Exo outboard-bearing cranks. This is the £159.95 Afterburner, with two-piece crank/spider and machined rings. Not spendy enough? There's also the Carbon Pro Team Issue with carbon fibre arms and a £359.95 price tag.

The Atomlab hub range has got a little bit bigger with this 150mm wide model for owners of big bouncy bikes. More normal sizes are also available.

This is a BLT Ozone LED headlamp. It's available in two versions, the 1W 9ine and 0.5W 5ine (no, we don't know how to pronounce that). Both are lightweight, self-contained and funky-looking. BLT also has a range of somewhat eye-searing rear lights in a variety of designs.

In a hurry to break in your Brooks saddle? Fear not - you can now get your classic leather perch in pre-softened form thanks to a new process that simulates a solid year of riding. And no, they don't just give it to someone to use for a year and then package it up, it's cleverer than that. We'll have a closer look at Brooks soon - it's got some very cool retro gear.

Berghaus

The Berghaus bike range is diversifying for 2006. As well as the current range of waterproof jackets, there'll be superlight "high intensity" wind/showerproof jackets, short-sleeved jerseys and shorts in both baggy and Lycra flavours.

The jerseys come in men's and women's designs and a choice of colours. There's two cuts, a slimmer, racier one with traditional rear pockets and a looser, more casual one without pockets. Baggy shorts also come in men's and women's versions and have a built-in liner with contoured anti-bacterial chammy. If you want to be more aero, Berghaus is doing distinctive eight-panel Lycra shorts with heavy-duty fabric in the outside panels.

The jacket is a cunning dual-purpose design. Plenty of jackets have detachable sleeves, converting them into gilets, but the Berghaus offering lets you zip off both sleeves and most of the back. You're left with a mesh-backed gilet with a windproof front. Neat.

Kinesis

A couple of new items from Kinesis. The frame is the latest incarnation of the popular Maxlight XC Pro. The XC Pro 2 has hydroformed Kinesium tubes and a carbon fibre wishbone seatstay. It's designed for 90-100mm travel forks plugged into a zero-stack head tube. Three colours, four sizes, five-year guarantee and £399.

If you've ever thought that there aren't enough rigid carbon fibre forks on the market, then fear not - there'll soon be another one. This is the Kinesis Xmax fork, designed to replace a 100mm travel suspension unit. Carbon blades are bonded into aluminium crown and dropouts. There's an IS disc mount and optional clamp-on V-brake bosses, plus a hose guide on the back of the left leg. Claimed weight is 700g and the Xmax will cost £139.95.

A stack of Coves - from the top we have the revised Handjob in Columbus chromoly. The geometry has been tweaked for a 130mm travel fork and there's a choice of seven colours (although we're not sure how many Chocolate Browns we'll see).

Next is the Litespeed-built Hummer titanium frame. Again, the geometry's been refined for longer forks and it's sprouted a gusset under the down tube/head tube junction. £1,399 and any colour you like as long as its raw titanium. Which is as it should be.

The blue frame sneaking out of the edges of the frame is the Sanchez, a 4130 chromoly dirt jump/street frame. Singlespeed-ready horizontal dropouts, 24in wheel compatible, lots of metal, not much money (£250).

Easton's wheelsets have touched down in the UK. There's two versions. The AM Havoc is the all-mountain/freeride package, with a 28mm rim and straight-pull DT spokes. The front hub can be converted from 9mm QR to 20mm through-axle without tools, and the whole package weighs a claimed 1,875g. The lightweight XC One wheelset weighs 1,590g with 23mm rims and 24 spokes. Both versions will cost £500 a pair.

DMR

A couple of new things from DMR. First we have the Extype chromoly crankset. At first glance this looks like the two-piece chromoly cranks that have been around for ever and a day, but the Extype is compatible with standard outboard-bearing MTB bottom brackets from Shimano, Race Face, FSA or whoever. Which makes them about 400 times easier to fit than the old-style chromoly jobbers that always took lots of fiddling with spacers and swearing to get right.

Also filed under "beefy" is the splendid Trailblade 2 rigid fork. It's a hefty 4130 chromoly unit designed for, well, landing on. You get a choice of three versions for standard 9mm MTB axles, 14mm BMX axles or, as shown here, a 20mm through-axle. The Trailblade is the same length as a 100mm travel suspension fork and costs between £79.95 and £149.95 depending on version.

Looking for bike cleaner? Two rival brands of apparently chrome/anodising/paint/decals/disc brakes/plastic-friendly degreasers. This is Fenwick's, notable for availability in two concentrations and pleasing retro branding...

...and this is Fuchs Wash-Off (they've rebranded it since these bottles were printed...) from the mighty Silkolene empire (although actually it's the other way around, as Fuchs owns Silkolene. As well as all the usual cleaning prowess, the main USP of this one is that it's not pink.

Fi'zi:k

The punctuation-challenged Fi'zi:k has a selection of new seats. In the top picture we have the all-new Nisene. The original Nisene was Fi'zi:k's first MTB saddle, and the new one retains a familiar profile while adding a longer tail, Wingflex sides and two toppings - if you want a bit more squish you can choose a CP model with extra gel. There's also a pop-out bit at the back that lets you clip on a custom seatpack or, coming soon, tail light. The white seat is the Freek freeride saddle, complete with handhold under the nose, non-puncturing turned rail ends and arse-saving flexible top. At the other end of the scale is the all-carbon Arione (bottom picture) which not only has a carbon fibre hull but has carbon fibre rails too...

Hope

We saw Hope's Pro 2 hubs this time last year, but they're now actually in production. From left to right we have a 150mm DH/freeride model, singlespeed cassette hub, 12mm through-axle rear hub, standard QR rear hub, Maverick-compatible 24mm front hub, 20mm front hub and QR front hub. All the front hubs are the same shell and bearings with different end bits and the 12 and 10mm rear hubs are mostly the same too, leaving just the 150mm and singlespeed options as unique items. The useful thing about this is that, for the most part, you can change from one kind of wheel mounting to another without having to get new hubs and rebuild wheels.

Also imminent from Hope is a new seatpost. Just as it originally only made hubs because it needed something to fix a brake rotor to, the Hope stem came about because the company's Vision light project attached to a stem. And once you've got a stem in the range you need a seatpost. This prototype is claimed to weigh 225g, which isn't too shabby.

Hydrapak is entering the freeride hydration pack market. What's a freeride hydration pack? It's a hydration pack that you can carry a full-face helmet and pads in or on. The Hydrapak offering has a combination of chin-guard straps and a bungee web for the former and side pouches and straps for the latter. It's robustly constructed, with a semi-rigid outer panel.

Formula's Oro brake has been around for a while now, but there are a couple of new variants for 2006. The original Oro is now known as the Oro K24 and sits in the middle of the range. Below it is the K18, essentially the same brake (ambidextrous levers, choice of 160, 180 or 200mm rotors, compact caliper) but without the K24's neat bite-point adjuster and in black rather than silver. You save about twenty quid per brake, though. If you want to go posh, the Oro Puro adds a carbon fibre lever blade, Kevlar braided hose and titanium hardware into the mix. You're looking at the best part of £200 for one of those.