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Cycling related Xmas prezzies

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  1. gembo
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    I was lucky enough to be given a coffee bean grinder. It uses the Burr method of grinding. I confess to not knowing what that was. Seems the beans are rubbed rather than chopped. Does not whine so much which is a bonus. De longhi brand so it is elegant, cleverly designed, functional, likely to last and mid range in price. Mrs Garto who have me this present did her research for sure.

    My mum also gave me a very warm merino buff. This one made in Cumbria by EdZ looks to be very good quality. I have amassed a fair few buffs from Granny Gembo over the years. She goes for pricier buffs which complement the cheap ones I tend to opt for.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  2. Trixie
    Member

    I have a nice little pair of binoculars. Nothing fancy or expensive, just for slinging in my pannier to hopefully enable more posts in the wildlife thread.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  3. wishicouldgofaster
    Member

    3 long sleeved cycle tops - can never have too many :)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  4. LivM
    Member

    New RED (!!!) pedals for my newish bike. DMR V8s. Pins are quite aggressive - advice on getting tamer ones or am I going to have to file them down?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  5. ARobComp
    Member

    3 bottles of whisky. You know. For cycling.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    A canvas bond print of a dead cat.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  7. wingpig
    Member

    Depicted as dead, or died since depicted alive? A former colleague once declined the opportunity to paint a former boss's dead dog, albeit from a photo of the dog from before it was dead.

    I received no cycling-related gifts. I still have to sell one from last year which didn't fit. I usually get myself a cassette or two in sales around this time of year, so might get a new chainset for the singlespeed.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The gifting window slams rapidly shut and yet no one has offered me one of these. Mysterious.

    https://vervecycling.com/why-infocrank/

    @wingpig

    The cat is pictured in happier times. A likeness in death would be too awful.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  9. unhurt
    Member

    I got the same thing as every year: an escalating annual reminder that I find Christmas incrementally harder to deal with every time it comes around.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    @unhurt, that sounds like a rubbish present.

    It used to be you could head into the hills to a remote bothy and spend the time on your lonesome getting away from it all.

    Nowadays these bothies in remote places are rammed at Xmas.

    Everyone appears to be trying to get away from it all.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  11. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    During her recent sojourn the IWRATS-mother reminded me that she succumbed to peer pressure to celebrate Christmas only when she had children. It's a fixed point in the year for me as a result - for them it was a half-day at most.

    Our festivals should suit us and we are free to spurn Christmas if it feels false. I think it increasingly does feel wrong.

    I suggest that we recover the solstices and equinoxes for natural purposes. The autumn equinox should be the Day of the Dead and the spring equinox the Day of New Life. I already tricked you into participating in a summer solstice festival in Glen Feshie.

    Hogmanay is to be retained as a mark of artificial and voluntary conviviality but you must stray no more than two thousand paces from your own home and no money should change hands. Everyone should sleep behind someone else's sofa.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  12. amir
    Member

    I received lots of books, perhaps to encourage me to cycle less. Though one is about cycling routes in the Netherlands :)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  13. Edinburgh Cycle Training
    Member

    A rather natty Hibernian cycling jersey.

    It'll be a few months* before I can wear it on display mind

    *because of the weather, not last evening's result

    Posted 5 years ago #

  14. sallyhinch
    Member

    I find other people's families much less stressful at Christmas than my own, probably because I'm deaf to the subtexts. I'm sure the power of the Internet could be harnessed to allow people who like a nice festive Christmas, but not necessarily with their nearest and dearest to celebrate with people who like a full house at Christmas but are short of suitable guests.

    My only bike related present was a nice jute-and-inner-tube duffel bag from Cycle Of Good. I like to think that it's got one of the inner tubes collected by MiniSRD in it, but I don't know how quickly they turn them around.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  15. jules878
    Member

    A lovely Crane bike bell which has wonderful tone.

    Only problem is that it is a "right handed" bell.

    The world is designed by right handed people for right handed people. Guess what. Yup - I'm completely and utterly left handed.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  16. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I think the Crane bell is designed to be operated ("trung"?) using the right index finger, but if it was turned around perhaps us left-handers could use the left thumb instead?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  17. Greenroofer
    Member

    @jules878 (and Arellcat) hear hear! Everything from microwave doors to pouring ladles. I get my revenge by leaving left-handed scissors all over the house.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  18. jules878
    Member

    Good to know I'm not alone in my struggles in a right handed world.

    We need a left hander's club to offer to test out all new cycling products whilst they are at the design stage!

    Posted 5 years ago #

  19. Trixie
    Member

    *Raises left hand* I would join this club.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  20. paddyirish
    Member

    Santa got me a wahoo elemnt bolt bundle , which will hopefully mean that I don't have to spend time stopping to get a map (paper or electronic) out every couple of junctions on longer journeys.

    Will be interested to look at cadence and heart rate data post ride to see if I learn anything, but not interested in that during a ride.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  21. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @paddyirish

    Wahoo elemnt bolt bundle

    That's not a tub of stainless machine screws is it?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  22. sallyhinch
    Member

    Lefty too. My Crane bell is on my left bar, and I operate it with my thumb. It never occurred to me to use my index finger to ring the bell.

    There used to be a shop in London called 'You've a right to be left' - my mum used to buy me all sorts of left handed things from a fountain pen to scissors and rulers (although I actually cut with my right hand).

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  23. Trixie
    Member

    I had a lefty moment while assembling Mr Trix's new bike speedo. I screwed things together entirely backwards without even considering the lefty way is not the way things are usually designed.

    Back in my school days, I earned PE certificates for golf and basketball despite not attending the classes. My absolute leftyness gave the teacher a headache so we came to an agreement.

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  24. crowriver
    Member

    A belated January sales type pressie from Mrs crowriver of an official Tour de France bike ride journal. For recording rides, including start and end point, distance, and average speed (!). That latter will be very much a relative term I should think.

    Suppose I'd better make time to ride my bike a bit then...

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  25. fimm
    Member

    <Volunteers Mr fimm for the left-handed cyclists club>

    We got a lot of books about cycling, including Geraint Thomas' first book. Yes, its is ghost-written and light, but it is funny and interesting as well. Still to read; one about Eddie Merckx, one about the film "A Sunday in Hell", and another one, I think. Also I gave Mr fimm a book of cycling photographs and my sister gave him a rather fetching cycling cap. And I got a fancy rucksack for mountain biking.

    I think that's it...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  26. gembo
    Member

    I need to source the actual film Sunday In Hell as we will be showing it if Edfoc are desirous in June 2019, hopefully with Belgian beer tie in. Warning This Film contains a lot of mud.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  27. fimm
    Member

    The book I couldn't remember is Chris Boardman's autobiography.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  28. SRD
    Moderator

    My only bike-related prezzie was a pollution mask!

    Posted 5 years ago #

  29. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I gave my Mum a copy of Ishbel Holmes' "Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy", after her inspirational talk at Recyke-a-bike last month. Mum gave me a copy of Mark Beaumont's "Around the World in 80 Days", signed by the man himself.

    I did receive a book about unusual things to see in Glasgow, which might form a connection with a psychogeographic dérive, perhaps performed on Brompton.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  30. neddie
    Member

    Beaumont's RTW book is less boring than most, mostly due to his naïevity

    Posted 5 years ago #

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