The RinseKit portable bike cleaner is a bike wash without batteries and no pumping required. It’s simple to use and move about but the pressure is severely lacking making it disappointing and actually not that great at its principle job of cleaning.

The Dakine Covert glove is tough mountain bike glove that will protect hands sufficiently whilst providing a good contact surface to grip the bars. A cheap glove, good for all year round use.

The Nukeproof mountain bike range is growing and it’s not just the bikes that are under development. Engineers at the brands HQ have also been working on a rim protection system, it's called ARD (Advance Rim Defence), it’ll protect your rims from damage and allow you to run lower pressures, all for just £49.99 and just a 135g weight penalty.

Specialized has just released an old-school computer game to promote the release of the new Stumpjumper. It's novel, actually pretty fun and we think it's best played using the actual keyboard on your PC or Apple Mac - who'd have thought? Don't worry though, you can still play this on your smartphone too. 

A British mountain biker has been accidentally shot dead by a hunter in the French Alps, reports the Dauphiné Libéré.

The Nukeproof Digger is, so they say, the gravel bike for mountain bikers. It's a term we've heard before (namely about the Marin Gestalt we tested last month) but taking one look at the Digger with its 650B wheels, the chunky 47c tyres and 120mm dropper post and it rather tickles our fancy.

Another budget bike rolled into the office this week in the form of the Marin Hawk Hill 3. Alongside it are some winter essentials from  Bosch and Dissent 133, some rim protection in the form of Cush Core and brake disc covers from Muc-Off.

A problem we truthfully hadn't realised existed until we saw the launch of this product, the Rehook is a tool that is designed solely to refit your chain when it drops off the crankset. Thinking on, we have been pretty miffed by dirty hands and gloves after dealing with this mechanical, maybe we'll be putting the Rehook tool on our Xmas list.

The 2019 Nukeproof range builds on a solid platform that saw it's latest overhaul completed just last year. The new season brings new colourways, new spec details and the inclusion of two of those 'hard to pin down' volume reducers in each and every shock.