Giant Glory 0 Mountain Bike ($5,600)
At last year’s Downhill World Championships, 19-year-old Danny Hart put together a mountain bike run so incredible Evil Knievel would have been all, “Damn.” And this is the bike that carried him down the hill. The Glory 0 has 8 inches of suspension on both wheels, so it can hammer over rocks the size of old CRT computer monitors at breakneck speeds. Braking is handled by Avid Code R disc brakes with 8-inch rotors designed to dissipate heat and keep you from ending up in the Helivac. It’s surprisingly light despite its burliness, but don’t expect to do much uphill pedaling. This bike is made for abuse, so skip the bike park and feed it healthy amounts of choppy rocks, gnarly roots, and big drops.
Surefire G2X Pro Dual-Output LED Flashlight ($95)
The light from your cell phone screen is fine for finding your keys on the floor of your car, but try navigating the great outdoors like that and you’ll likely end up being the target of a search party … or hungry bear. Surefire’s G2X pro is made out of ultra-tough Nitrolon polymer and comes in four colors. Cranked up to max power, it can throw an eye-scorching 200-lumen beam through its polycarbonate lens. But down at 15 lumens, you’ll get 45 hours of light before the batteries die. Oh, and it has an anodized aluminum bezel you can use it to clobber anyone who tries to bust in and break up your shadow puppet show.
