You’ve not left it too late. If you’re quick – and you remember to select priority shipping – then there’s still enough time to order something for the dirt rider in your life in time for Christmas Day.
Below we’ve rounded up around a dozen things that any mountain biker will appreciate. You’ll not be subtly asked if you kept the receipt for any of these surefire suggestions.
LifeLine Pro Sliding T Bar Hex Set, was £89.99 now £59.99
Tools and other home mechanic-ing stuff are featured a lot in this list of gift ideas. There’s a good reason for this; they’re all one size fits all, as it were. You don’t need to know what sort of bike or wheel size or body type of the person you’re buying for. Tools are a very safe bet. And you can never have too many tools. Particularly if they’re nice tools. Such as this T Bar Hex Set (aka Allen keys). No more making do with a ropey, rounded-off multi-tool. Proper Hex keys are a delight to use.
View LifeLine Pro Sliding Hex Set at Wiggle
Bosch Easy Aquatak 100 Bike Pressure Washer, £89.99
You’ve no doubt seen other small pressure washers from brands that you’ve never heard of. Those are okay but they’re no match for a proper Bosch blaster. This isn’t a portable washer (they don’t really work, trust us, you’re better with a bucket and a brush). This is a dinky domestic washer that does the job really nicely.
View Bosch Easy Aquatak 100 at Wiggle
LifeLine Pro Digital Hanging Scale, £32.99
A very dangerous gift. This is potentially a gift that may cost its recipient a whole lot of money in the long run. You should, of course, never weigh a bicycle. No good will come of it. But… every cyclist does it. So why no get them something that can do it accurately? No more borrowing the bathroom scales and trying to bodge it.
View LifeLine Pro Digital Scale at Wiggle
Park Tool Tabletop Digital Scale, was £44.99 now £43.00
View Park Tool Digital Scale at Wiggle
Topeak Gravel Gear Bag and Repair Kit, £99.99
In no way is this a good value product but… it’s Christmas. Everything is about excess. What this kit is though is a really nicely all-in-one solution and peace-of-mind for running tubeless on skinny tyres. You ca mount it on a top tube or you can stash it in a backpack/hip-pack. OTT niceness. Much like Xmas.
View Topeak Gravel Kit at Wiggle
Topeak Ratchet Rocket Lite Tool, was £31.99 now £22.39
By all means you can use this for working on a bike but by far the best use for this kit is a fidget spinner for grown-ups. Drive fellow office-workers insane with incessant ratchet-clicking and spinning.
View Topeak Ratchet Set at Wiggle
LifeLine Essential Torque Wrench Set, was £36.99 now £24.99
At the opposite end of the ratchet spectrum to the Topeak mini kit above is a decent torque wrench for the home workshop. Although the most immediate job for a torque wrench is to ensure safe and secure cockpit bolt tensions, the longer term money-saving, bike-improving torque-y task is for when doing up suspension pivot bolts to the correct level.
View LifeLine Torque Wrench at Wiggle
LifeLine Pro 3 Drawer Work Station, was £69.99 now £44.99
Noe of yer messing about with rinky-dink lightweight plastic toolboxes. Get someone a proper tool chest. They might end up with a hernia when attempting to transport it around but that’s by the by. Proper tools deserve proper storage. Perhaps best combined with a trial membership of a local gym.
View LifeLine Pro Drawers at Wiggle
Wolf Tooth 8-Bit Pack Pliers, was £76.00 now £59.00
Very probably the best multi-tool for the sort os trial-size repairs that we actually need to do in the modern era. Namely, undoing pesky powerlinks and dealing with the shortcomings of tubeless valves (“clear tyre sealant clogs from valve stem; loosen/tighten valve stem lock nut” – about freaking time!)
View Wolf Tooth Plier Tool at Wiggle
LifeLine Digital Shock pump, was £39.99 now £29.99
This is not an over-the-top tool. Unlike most workshop things with ‘digital’ in their name, a digital shock is far better than its analogue alternative. As suspension pressures get lower in forks and rear shocks seemingly get increasingly unforgiving of incorrect setup, an actually accurate pump is essential to ensure your bike is working anything like it should be.
View Lifeline Digi Shock Pump at Wiggle
LifeLine Pro Coloured Allen Key Set, was £14.99 now £12.99
According to The Internet, we should be featuring Wera’s multi-coloured Allen keys here. But we actually think these are the better option regardless of price (being cheaper is the icing on the Christmas cake). Why are they better? They have a greater length a hexagonal insertion depth and as such they’re much better/safer to use on thing like bolt-thru axles. And we think the use of colours is better because the adjacent size colours are clearly different to each other. No more having to stop and stare at two tools trying to assess whether it’s the pale green one or the dark yellow one.
View LifeLine Coloured Allen Set at Wiggle
Chain Reaction Cycles Gift Voucher, £1.00 up to £whatever
Not a Book Token but a Bike Token, if you will. Contribute to your beloved’s next bike project with a gift voucher. Available in a pre-ordained amounts up to £100 or go with a freeform option. Money in the bike bank. Priceless.
View Gift Vouchers at Chain Reaction Cycles
Singletrack E Digital Gift Membership, £20.00
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