Four brands you need to know

We're all a bit guilty of looking in the same places every time we go shopping. We know what we like and we like what we know, which  makes a sometimes difficult process that little bit easier. But every now and then it's fun to have a look around and find something new, and here we have four really cool, offbeat brands available on Freewheel that you might be interested in. Each a little different in their own way, Urban Iki, Dynaplug, Outdoor Tech and SP Connect are all well worth a few minutes of your time. Check them out below. 

Urban Iki

Combining Japanese quality and safety standards and Dutch design flair is a pretty potent combination, and Urban Iki takes those two concepts and turns them into one of the most stylish child bike seats on the market. They prove that practicality doesn't always come at the expense of style. 

Ever conscious that your child’s safety is the highest priority, Urban Iki seats not only conform to the European EN14344 safety standard, but are also independently tested by TUV to make sure they meet those requirements so you can be sure that your child is safe, which is the most important thing. 

Dynaplug

Solving all your tubeless tyre puncture woes, Dynaplug makes some of the most infinitely useful products on the market to get you back rolling again with minimal fuss and minimal equipment needed. 

The products essentially make fixing a flat on a tubeless tyre easier incredibly easy as it’s a system that uses little viscoelastic cores to fill up the hole in the tyre just bu pushing them in. It’s brilliantly simple and simply brilliant. 

The Dynaplug products come in various shapes and sizes depending on what you need. At one end there’s the Racer, a simple double-ended plug designed to just plug the tyre and go. The Megapill is the other end of the scale, ready to carry a whole variety of plugs and even has a small cutting device to help you trim the plug once it’s in and a pipe cleaner to prep the insertion tube for the next plug. 

Outdoor Tech

Born in sunny Southern California, Outdoor Tech is a brand with a single goal: to make sure people spend more time outdoors. Sure, it’s easy to do that in SoCal, you might say, but it’s Summer here too so stop complaining. 

Outdoor Tech’s product range centres around quality but hardy audio equipment and power banks to recharge all the many devices you might need when off outdoors for an adventure, or maybe just a day at the beach. 

The most noticeable product they make is probably the Turtleshell 3.0, a waterproof bluetooth speaker with a built in powerbank. It also floats, which makes it ideal for use at the beach or on the water. 

But you should also check out the Buckshot 2.0 or the Pro Ultra, which are smaller bluetooth speakers with a built-in light, designed to the strapped to your bike and provide a soundtrack to your day out. 

SP Connect

While it’s nice to sometimes dream that we’re all out on bikes setting time trial records, climbing mountains or tearing up downhill tracks, the fact is that most of us use a bike as a really convenient way to get places. That’s where a brand like SP Connect comes in. 

SP Connect is a brand that essentially make stuff that helps you integrate life with bike and bike with life. Like waterproof phone cases that mount your phone safely to your bars so you can use it to navigate, then uses that same case and mount so you can wear your phone on your arm while jogging, or use it as a Satnav in the car. If you don’t want your phone on your bars, they also make storage cases that mount in the same way to give you a little bit more space to take things with you on the bike too. 

Sure, it might not be the most exciting stuff in the world but it’s practical and in every day life practical definitely tops exciting.