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... a new road helmet, and a very cool new jersey from Stolen Goat. Mrs SR outdid herself this year!
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Any other bike-related gifts here? Regardless, happy Christmas everyone!
Tickets to Fort Bill DH in June and four nights in Spean Bridge.
Lounge wear, a new smoking jacket (dressing gown) and some posh shoes for me. Oh and Now that's What's I call Rock". 😐
Sore throat and a cold 🙁
Only just got started on presents, so far some cool Star Wars espresso cups 🙂
Back massage chair from the wife, 7idp helmet from the outlaws, exposure light from, er, Santa, port x 2, and a card from my teenage daughter with such nice things written in it that I cried a tiny bit 😳
A nice bottle of whisky, some cash and the pleasure of seeing my daughter's face when she got her first proper bike from Santa. I expect she'll be dropping me on the hills by easter.
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Happy Christmas all !!. I got a really nice Thomson stem , at the right length and rise, amazingly and also a multitool which weighs more than my heaviest bike with 'spanners' on it . But hey, its a great day. Just off to the pub with friends and neighbours now for a tipple and goss !!
Happy Christmas!
My bike-related gifts are a Singletrack bob hat 😆 and money towards a cool black new Madison waterproof.
I got a new MTB helmet from MrsMC.
In September.
**** all today apart from some chocolate.
Feeling strangely deflated today. Watching my 12 year old unwrap a new Inbred frame.
There is the tiniest glimmer of hope my folks will have something for me later. But I'm expecting more chocolate. And slippers.
I got a really nice Barbour leather briefcase, and yesterday I cracked open a bottle of Talisker and a bottle of Grey Goose. Inlaws just left after staying over, and now getting ready for my side to arrive about 3ish.
I bloody love Christmas.
My other half bought me a shan 917 frame and a muc off kit which made me have to buy all the rest of the build 🙂
Nothing, but you know what I'm just happy to see my wife laughing with her father. We've been through a lot this year.
Stolen Goat? Flash git 🙂
I got some fantastic casual looking Endura baggies, and an altura windproof top convertible into sleeveless, but that's too small.
Bike wise I got a Camelbak Palos Bumbag for added enduro cred, some TLD shorts and a pair of Ergon GA2 grips, but my favourite is this:
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Screen printed by my Sis and the only one that will ever exist.
I take it back - Exposure Link from my parents!
Wow!
New helmet from my parents, fix it sticks from the OH. Looking good so far!
@`woodster. You have the best sister in the world 8)
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My favorite gift.
Painted by my grandad. Unexpected. Mrs t-r commented on how good his paintings were last week when we were round visiting.
We certainly didnt expect to recieve one as a gift !
Will get pride of place in our house. - do we need to do anything special with it to keep it in good nick ? Think its oil on canvAs but happy to be corrected.
New MTB Shoes F2o clipless very nice and fit ( they joys of huge feet!)
Some dosh that's not already booked to pay a bill so is lined up for the bike fund,
TOBLERONE my life is complete!
I had my Dune Fat Bike a month early so wasn't expecting anything. Ended up with my favourite minion (well a reproduction of), a doorstop in the shape of a puppy (as my wife really doesn't want another dog) and this
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which is fab. A bloke makes them to whatever ideas you have. So that's a green bike and purple shorts/orange top to match my riding attire. The biggest difference is the lego fella has some hair.
Awesome present tho. Now above my desk in my home office. Makes me smile every time I look at it.
Bike related...
Endura mt500 gloves
A pair of five tens
Race face d30 elbow pads..
Very happy
Castelli sent me this for xmas!
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Rapha waterproof top............Lovely. I'm a lucky boy!
Nothing this year, cash is tight so we asked everyone to club together for merlin annual passes so we can entertain the wee uns on the cheap for the rest of the year.
Actually, I did get some marzipan fruit and a bottle of jack d so not all bad.
An incredible bottle of whisky
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A Citiz nespresso machine whisky is just great complete with a stunning new espresso cup 🙂 I was rubbish with the wife and feel rubbish but will be getting her some of the already agreed I o u's next week 🙂
The Ladybird Book of the Shed. 🙂
And not bike related but two lino cuts from my youngest daughter who has just started A level art that are so good I got a bit emotional. Might have been influenced by the quantity of pre and during dinner drinks...
Bikey stuff this year was a pair of waterproof shorts, an Osprey Talon 6 and one of those folding bike stands that slot into the HT2 axle.
A Rapha mechanic's apron... cool as hell and been wearing it most of the day to help Gti Junior set up his new Tarmac.
Slippers
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Bizango (got it last month mind but it's for xmas)
Pair of vans.
D&G the one aftershave.
Coffee machine.
A chainsaw, with which i'll probably end up decapitating myself 🙄
Best thing is the giant fleece dressing gown that makes me feel like a bear. Followed by the aeropress & new bike shorts.
I also received the ladybird shed book. Quite funny.
New pair of wellies. Super bright cree torch.
Guy Martins new book, and Burt Reynolds book too. Some Amazon vouchers but most importantly, a happy little daughter
Proper Christmas stuff:
Socks. Nice ones
Toblerone. My favourite.
Chocolate orange. My other favourite.
iTunes voucher. Handy.
Bike stuff:
Park Tool pizza cutter
Park Tool DAG 2.2. (Very happy with that one)
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Nowt great but did get to play with a storm trooper!
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Two brilliant albums amongst other stuff, thank you daughter Seadog.
Other stuff included a set of bike bookends and an Einhell multitool (Dremel type thing, very neat), Ladybird books - Husband, and The Shed.
AA just emailed you 😀
A fastrakk fat bike stand for the dune, a few t shirts, Costa voucher for my caffeine fix, selection of whiskey miniatures, couple of books, and the family round the table who all enjoyed the dinner I cooked, that was all I reall needed to be honest......well that and the fat rack 😆
Bike stuff - a Park Tools torque driver, Simon's Cat jersey, pirate water bottle, Kinpex wrench, history of British hill climbing, Bike Porn book.
Other stuff - t-shirts, mini-lego style Patrick Star, notebooks, coffee cups, chocolate, beer.
All in all I'm very happy, nothing I'd not want.
A book about spies, a book about closed branch lines, some beer and a new jacket.
Happy Christmas!
Slippers and a JIS no.2 screwdriver, bugger all from the misses as I have just spent a couple of grand on a new bike so don't deserve anything else.
One of my tips from one of my customers was a cycling top and two bottles of waterproofing stuff! Mrs bought me 1x11 xt drive train MiL bought me some waterproof shorts 🙂 happy bunny!
My 7 day ban expired on stw.
I was going to post January photo of the maxxis calendar but think I'd be banned again.
I seem to have got several nerf guns, a walk on the beach and a small boy who won't leave my side! I taught my lad how to play chess today and ate Xmas pudding!
Cyclist top trumps.
Pair of mud tyres
Overshoes
Set of Sealey Pro ball end Hex wrenches
Airshot tubeless inflator
Crank bros multitool
Norwegian Wood book
Wood moisture meter for the wood burner being installed on 31st Dec !!
Pretty happy all in!!
GoPro Hero 4 Black! Now everyone can watch me crash in 4K
A makita cordless drill from my mum and a proper cowbell from my dad. I am inordinately happy with both. I suspect neither featured on any 'what to buy women' gift lists anywhere.
Whiskey, 7 bottles 😯
There's a theme here...
Nothing bike related. Come to mention it, nothing at all. 🙁
Since we just had new granite kitchen countertops put in this past week, that was the mutually agreed Christmas (and birthday and anniversary) present with Mrs busydog.
Stepson and wife coming by for dinner in a couple of hours and rumor has it they are bringing me a very expensive bottle of Japanese whiskey, so all is not lost.
Oooooh - which one? I'm off to Tokyo in January, so will top up my stash I seem to have drunk over the festive period.
Both sons home, thus the family is complete again.
A walk in the woods, good food afterwards. Skypeing my absent family.
It's been a good day.
Aids...
No bike stuff this year, but I sure can't complain... Yikes! She was paying attention to the nose prints I left on the Omega store window in Las Vegas lol!
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Various bits and bobs here, but main presents were tickets to 2 comedy shows (paddy McGuiness & Sarah millican) plus a pair of tickets to see the stone roses in the summer!
Also a 6 month coffee subscription, not sure that it'll fully feed my addiction, but will help.
My wife and son have been incredibly generous this year:
Bottle of balvenie Carribean cask, bottle of Jura superstition, load of craft beers, Rapha h van model, Rapha mechanics apron, tweed jacket, tweed bedroom athletic slippers, plus lots more lovely things.
We don't normally buy each other much so I was a bit overwhelmed.
Hope pedals!
A selection of warm clothes including a couple of lovely fleeces and a new dressing gown to laze about in, running socks, a big box of High5 gels and a slow cooker.
Tips from customers were put to use getting euros for our week in Spain starting later today, and I also used some to order a couple of Cards Against Humanity expansions and a bigger box to hold it all.
Xbox One, a couple of Howies T-shirts, Bike top trumps, Paranoid on vinyl, Homer Simpson slippers.
colournoise - Member
Bikey stuff this year was a pair of waterproof shorts, an Osprey Talon 6 and one of those folding bike stands that slot into the HT2 axle.
And not bikey stuff.
Steven Terry's sumptuous new book about cooking.
A VERY cool refillable proper Japanese fude.
Rotring 900 pencil.
Lego McLaren P1.
One of these in black
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XT 11 speed shifter/mech/chain/cassette and an oval chainring along with a few books and a nice shirt. And a dropper specific Hope seatclamp from my brother. All very nice.
An idiot proof and easy to use dash cam, looks like i'm going to have to engage the other brain cell. 🙄
Exposure Equinox
The last ever Bontrager FR3 for my 29er!
Season 1-8 Big Bang theory
Some nice t shirts
Gooseberry Gin
My dad got a dashcam, not overly impressed with its functionality tbh. Lots of manual intervention required.
A dongle for Trainer Road and some Rapha chamois cream. Christmas is such fun! Useful for this weather though.
ordered my first ever complete bike at the lbs, but it hasn't landed yet. Been tooling around on their demo bike for a couple of weeks and it was going to be too hard to hand it back.
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That's the shop's; ordered mine in 105 flavour as it's going to be a bad weather workhorse.
I got a few bits and bobs and tickets for the Underworld gig at the Roundhouse in March!
Copy of 'Fast after 50'. What are they trying to tell me 🙁
Actually really enjoying it so far. Joe Friel writes well
Chuffin hell!!! That Omega is a £5500 watch!!
What a waste of money, even if I could afford it.
^^^ You could buy a bike for that! 😯
tweed bedroom athletic slippers
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tweed bedroom athletic slippers
One presumes, with a grippy sole. Or cleats. Or a little pocket for holding a pump of lube....
Interesting idea 😉