Esbit: Elegant Cookware for the Outdoors

With roots in foldable stoves and block fuel, the German brand continues to mix ingenuity and grit

Longtime backpackers will no doubt recognize the name Esbit. The German company’s fuel tablets and pocket stoves have been an outdoor, survival and military mainstay since its first iteration in 1936. While the brand’s fuel blocks and compact stoves have advanced with new technologies to burn cleaner and more efficiently, it’s their latest offering of outdoor-focused wares and heating equipment that’s currently grabbing attention. The …

Nutlock Bicycle Wheel Security System

Replace conventional hex-nuts and secure your wheelset with custom-designed fasteners

As many know from unfortunate experiences, bike thieves target components just as often (perhaps if not more so) than bicycles as a whole. While a sturdy U-Lock does well to secure a frame, it leaves one—sometimes both—wheels vulnerable. Carrying multiple locks and chains is cumbersome, and looping and locking it all up is time-consuming. Nutluck aims to solve the issue of wheel theft with custom-engineered …

RASH Wetsuits for Pilgrim Surf + Supply

Brooklyn's surf outpost teams up with Japan's oldest masters of neoprene for a retro-styled capsule collection

Fresh off an extremely on-point partnership with Japanese clothing brand Beams, Brooklyn-based surf shop and apparel-maker Pilgrim Surf + Supply ventured back to Land of the Rising Sun, this time for special edition wetsuits. Founder Chris Gentile teamed up with Japan’s oldest (and considered by many to be the best) atelier de neoprene, RASH, for a limited run of collaboration suits that call to mind …