| Rubber Soul
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| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:36 |
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| Think of your wetsuit as having a life of its own. Care for it lovingly and it will look after you in return – for many years to come. Jez Crook 
1 Putting on your wetsuit. Make sure the fl oor surface you are standing on isn’t rocky and dirty, you can now buy ready made changing mats, it won’t take long to scuff the wetsuit material and quickly, open tears will appear. If you’ve got a back zipper and there’s somebody handy, ask them to zip it up for you, if the zip isn’t pulled up directly vertically it can put strain on the bottom where the zip is stitched and then it tears (see above).
2 Be careful when putting your wetsuit on if you are wearing jewellery, neoprene easily snags and tears if caught on sharp edges.
3 A common problem with wetsuits is that if they aren’t kept clean or dare I say it, you pee in it, they tend to smell really bad, now we’re not saying you have to clean your wetsuit after every outing but it is a good idea to wash it, say every 5 times you use it. If you ski in the sea, it’s really important to rinse it out with fresh water after every use, salt water is a wetsuit’s worst enemy, it eats into the neoprene and will quickly corrode the zip.
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| More Engine Power
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| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:39 |
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MotorShack “Power Booster” is an “add to fuel friction” modifi er/reducer, with special fuel system detergent additives. It is suitable for use in all types of leaded and  unleaded petrol, including race fuel and petrol/ethanol blended fuels. It is said to improve power by up to 2.6%, provide corrosion protection, improve fuel economy, reduce emissions and extend the life of your engine and fuel system components. It also claims to provide an instantaneous power increase (dyno tested).
Impressive!
Cost £11.75 per 250ml Bottle
Available from Line One Distributors Ltd
01285 713888
www.lineonedist.co.uk
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| FREE FREERIDE STUFF
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| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:32 |
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Freeride Innovations are giving away a surf battery pad with every order, and for October and November a set of hood saver straps or standard limiting rope with every order over £50. All Freeride Innovations products are tested in house by their team of freeriders and freestylers and come with full colour fitting instructions or they offer a parts fi tting service for those of you who’d rather not get your hands dirty. Sounds like a bargain. To fi nd out more go to:
freerideinnovations.co.uk
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| Jettribe Goggles
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| Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:26 |
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(8 votes, average 3.75 out of 5)
|  Jettribe has designed a sleek, high-end goggle for PW riders called the Pro Series. The goggles have a sunglass style about them, with hinged arms attached to an elastic adjustable strap. The lenses are shatter resistant “polycarbonate” and have 100 % UV protection, coated with a treatment designed to give extra sun defl ection. They come with a snazzy hard zippered case for protection.
www.ncjetski.co.uk
0151 691 0006
£39.95
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| Where’s Your Head At?
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| Thursday, 29 April 2010 16:18 |
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|  Snowboarders are doin’ it. BMXers are doin’ it, skateboarders are doin’ it and so are we. Keeping your head is cool these days and one of the front runners in the helmet game are a Gecko. We asked what makes them special.
Gecko head gear was created by the custom surfboard maker, Jeff Sacree in 1993, a helmet whilst surfing, cool? Well of course not, and Jeff’s sales reflected this, young surfers and water uses did not like the restriction, and being surfers they felt their locks needed to be flying in the wind. However the Gecko was created by Jeff because he was slightly more hardcore than these posers, he was tired of getting a cold head whilst surfing over the winter. The Gecko was originally designed to prevent surfers from getting ‘ice cream’ headaches which can occur in cold water. The idea therefore was to have a helmet which retained heat, protected the head and to survive alongside wetsuits and other products of the water-sports industry. Now as formally mentioned, this idea did not immediately take off.
However Gecko had inadvertently stumbled across a huge market for safety, the Royal National lifeboat Institute (RNLI to you and me) were seeking a better option for their crews, Gecko contacted them, and a partnership emerged, testing and trials took place for the next three years, trying to perfect the helmet which could offer lightweight efficiency and compatibility with the RNLI kit. In 1998 the Gecko Mk 5 was released into service, and since then, Gecko has literally set the standard. In 1998 Gecko’s release created the first Maritime Safety Standard in Europe.
Naturally after so many years of development and research the Mk 5 was excellent however not prefect and continued to develop, in 1999 the ‘hook and loop’ fastenings meant that the adjustability of the helmet was beginning to reach its potential and gained more customers such as the Ministry of Defence and the Australian Navy. Four years on and 10 years since the first Gecko was created the Mk10 is introduced.
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