Lot’s of people coming and looking at the site (we know, we’ve been checking!) and we are guessing a lot of people wondering what’s going on with us - people are even calling our UK office and asking!

Believe it or not we have been hard at work planning new kit (which is why we put a hold on any new GTO offerings). Seems easy but when you want to do something worthwhile and work to some rather new design principles and methodologies, it always ends up harder than what you thought. We are not going to let out what we are doing with Lab-Gear as a whole just yet but product wise we can say that we have coming:

• A new 165gsm Merino sleeveless base.
• A 165gsm Merino T
• Some spanky cotton drill cruiser shorts
• All new under-knicks/boxers to go with the spanky shorts.
• And…. something we are not telling you but might surprise many!

Our aim is have a line that is simple, solid and made up of natural fibre kit that you can really do a lot with. And we are thinking when we get ready to do the run, we might do some special eds. available to those on the newsletter only! Keep your eyes peeled.

We know a bunch of people have been waiting for the GTO Bespoke ‘Traffic’ shorts to be offered and to be honest we thought we’d have them ready to go about a month ago. We have been really swamped with a bunch of things though, including continued research and development for the new Lab-Gear line, so have held back from letting them out the door for a while longer.

For those that know us, they’ll know that these days we don’t rush things out the door for the sake of it, which is why we are taking our sweet time with all the new kit. When it finally comes, and this includes GTO as well, it will be well worth it. Promise.

It’s been a long time but Lab-Gear is getting back involved with enduro events.

The 2009 ‘Vestal Virgin Classic’ sees Lab-Gear’s first involvement with mountain bike enduro events for many years. While Lab-Gear does not have a hard core mountain bike specific focus in it’s kit any more, it still has strong ties to the sport where it started and through GTO, still caters to sectors of it. The decision to get back into promoting enduro events stems to its love with all things dirty, especially mountain bikes.

Check out details on the 2009 Vestal Virgin Classic here.

Happy to say that the last of the GTO kit went out today and we hear that people are already liking the Heritage X Jersey. We can start working on getting the next order period rolling. Wondering what that is? Then check here.

Welcome to Lab-Gear 2008. It took a little longer to get back online this as there was some significant work behind the scenes to get the new cart system running. We think the wait was worth it though, our friends at CWS have done a brilliant job providing what is the fastest and friendliest cart system we have ever used.

The relaunch also signifies the return of Lab-Gear back to Australian shores. Scott of Lab-Gear UK, who’s been running things for the past few years, is still on board as the man and contact point for the UK and EU, but the main distribution point will once again be in Australia. Doing this allows us to produce new designs and restock faster than if we had to ship it over to the UK and distribute from Manchester, as well as being more flexible in the way we run things; and that to us is very important.

Over the next 3-4 months we will be working on a new and comprehensive line of kit, as well as continuing to offer GTO kit, as it comes, to our mailing list subscribers.

We at Lab-Gear are all excited about what this year has in store, we hope that our loyal customers out there will be too.

Cheers,

The Lab-Gear crew.