General Cycling Discussion - What did you get for Christmas

I got socks,underwear and these cool sunglasses/goggles http://www.wiley-x.com/eyewear/xl1flame.html

I got a bike stand! I bought a bunch of bike things for my wife and also a bike trainer for her and I.

I got...

Specialized M1 helmet
Michillin Wildgripper Hot S tires
Niterider Trail Rat headlight
Pearl Izumi Jersey

...Made out like a bandit :D

Merry Christmas,

Mike

shoes :)

A $50 GC to my LBS, a long sleve fox jersey, and a defeet Un-D-Shurt. Not too bad!

Big a$$ visa bill.

Dan really loves me, I got Barnett's 4th edition! I also got a Park Pizza cutter, and my boss gave me a Timex Speed+Distance System. Bandit isn't quite strong enough! Best of all, my daughter called, my son & his girlfriend spent the day, my brother-in-law came, and my Mom called. For our family that counts as being together for Christmas. I hope all of you had an equally wonderful day, and wish you all safe and happy New Year's.

Originally posted by 1oldRoadie
Big a$$ visa bill.

:roflmao:

Yesterday morning's ride was about the best gift I could have ever got. A southerly wind cooled conditions down and I got to ride through pockets of mountain mist, watching the smaller clouds rise up through the surrounding valleys. The dairy fields on the Beechmont Range were greener than at any other time over the last six months - the only yellow bits were the little flowers that were growing on these fields.

Even the rainforest around Lamington National Park seemed to have renewed vigour after the previous night's storm. I've been riding up to Binna Burra now for almost eight years, drawing strength and inspiration from it. It's power remains undimished.

2 new bikes!

I got the new SRAM XO shifters and derailler, a set of Avid disc brakes, a 661 full face helmet, and a Selle Italia seat. I think I made out pretty well! Now all I need to finish my bike buildup is a set of wheels and some brake levers :D


What about you guys? Did you all have a good Christmas?

Oh.. and I forgot.. a SRAM PC-99 chain!

CO2 cartridges and inner tubes. I've been the black hole of inner tubes this winter.

I got a $20 Gift Certificate to the LBS, a set of XT shifters, and some brake and derrailleur housing/cable. I also recieved many new bike-specific tools, along with lots of stuff for my new car. I'm happy. Merry Christmas!


-Moab

Kranked Trilogy on DVD
A mtb training movie (I think she wanted it but it is pretty cool as it is based on the shore)
Break it, Fix it, Ride it Repair cd
Two mtb book by William Neely
A couple of unkown subscriptions to mags of my choice

The rest is in the mail

I got $170 worth of GC to two bike shops. More toys for me, yipppeeeee!

Originally posted by Chris L


:roflmao:

Yesterday morning's ride was about the best gift I could have ever got. A southerly wind cooled conditions down and I got to ride through pockets of mountain mist, watching the smaller clouds rise up through the surrounding valleys. The dairy fields on the Beechmont Range were greener than at any other time over the last six months - the only yellow bits were the little flowers that were growing on these fields.

Even the rainforest around Lamington National Park seemed to have renewed vigour after the previous night's storm. I've been riding up to Binna Burra now for almost eight years, drawing strength and inspiration from it. It's power remains undimished.
Merry Christmas, Chris-man!

(Your power remains undiminished.)

I got my BikeForums.net jersey, 2 Pearl jerseys, and a Mule. Thank you Santa and Happy Birthday Jesus.

Originally posted by 1oldRoadie
Big a$$ visa bill.

Me too 1old, me too!

Still snowy over there? It was a close call over here, I got called out on an outage monday night about midnight, LOTS of monday's snow had melted by the middle of the night. It started back up about 2 AM and snowed hard until about 9 AM. If none of monday's would have melted I figure we would have 14" - 16" on the ground...

Performance Shorts
Performance Jersey
Performance Tites
Swim Paddles
and a really cool underwater Speedo swimming radio! It clips to your goggle strap and two ear plugs pump mind numbing tunes all while you complete the workout!

Thanks Santa!! (and Mary Jane!)

I got a Hawaiian shirt with bicycles on it- don't know where Gina found that. And most of all,hopefully no more complaints about putting my bike on airplanes. I got a bike carrier with a carrying strap with wheels on it.. My wife said she could not take any more of my tantrums- when the airlines beats the hell out of my bikes.. Rarely do we have a vacation where I don't take my bikes.
Oh yes. Other cycling gift of the day. Rode 31 miles before company arrived. And it was sunny and nice. So far the grand total mileage for year 8,701 miles as of today. Six days to go..
Think the airlines charges extra for a bike if it is in a box that makes it look just like luggage- just a far bigger box..

Originally posted by KleinMp99
2 new bikes!
Action shots! We want some action shots! ;)
I got a new car stereo and a dvd player for the Spinervals dvd I ordered. And I get to pay the big-a$$ Mastercard bill to go with it.:)

I got some CD's and stuff I am buying myself a Bianchi Grizzly for a new commuter/fun bike but it will be March before I pay for it. The coolest thing I got though was a bottle opener made with part of a chain and part of a chain ring. A very clever device the chain acts as a handle for the chain ring part to pop a bottle top or use the chain on twist off tops or the gear teeth to open a can of beverage very cool. And of course it included a couple of local brewed IPA's to try it out on.

:beer:

A Cannondale R1000 03' road bike :D

Let's see the parental units got me a pair of Chiba Gel Protect gloves, (yellow & black)http://www.chibagloves.com/thumbs2/t-30112.gif a Mongoose multi-tool for the commuter bike, and Schwinn Airdriver 800 pump http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/02/65/99/71/0002659971087_215X215.jpg

My girlfreind got a Schwinn Shock "O" Pump,http://www.bikeworld.com/jpg4/pumpshx.jpg as well as a copy of Lance's "It's Not About the Bike" for me. Her brother came through with a Cateye EL-300 http://www.cateye.com/images/el300.jpg and a Specialized T-shirt (I can't believe it's my first bike related shirt!)

This is something my girlfriend's mom came up with that I thought was pretty cool. http://www.hogwildtoys.com/images/Update%205.02/SW2Group.jpg It's called a SnapWatch and it's basicaly a small waterproof watch with snaps on both sides that attaches to a section of climbing rope.

I think I'm pretty lucky to have friends and family that are as supportive of my cycling as mine are. I hope everyone's holiday was as nice as mine was and I wish all of you the best in luck and health for the new year.:beer:

I got one big box. When I pulled off the wrapping, I saw that the box said 'Performance Bike'. :beer:

Inside were 2 shorts, 2 IlumiNITE leg warmers, 2 pair Defeet socks, 2 glove liners and a polyprop undershirt. - exactly what was on my list. ;)

I also got the extended version of the LOTR dvd.

my daugther gave me a Team Telecom Jersey and Bib Short,
my wife gave me a case of Beer, got drunk last night......:beer: :beer: :beer: :D :D

I got an HRM, a cadence kit for my computer and a new helmet. Wife really wanted me to have a new helmet.

Don

I got
Hope Mini disc. 6" front and rear
Mavic x221 laced with XT hubs
Giro E2 helmet
Winter riding gloves

and thats about it for biking stuff. I'm gonna set up the breaks today and help my bro bleed his XT's. I cant figure out weather it's gonna be fun or be a ***** to do

My wife got me a bicycle maintenance stand. Love it. I see much cleaner chains and cassettes in my future.

Hiya'll

I had a good xmas...

my wife got me a new pair of specialized gloves, and some Lemond Socks
my parents got me a minoura Mag trainer, a bike repair stand, and an aireon bike tool kit.... just what I put on my wish list,
and my mother inlaw got me a $30 GC for Supergo, and a $20 GC for my B-day this Saturday ! woo hoo no more boring shirts !! Hopefully tonite I'll hit the supergo after work, and trade those in for some cool gear :-)

Jeff

My wife also got me an Anaheim Angels World series jersey !! Truly a xmas miracle, since she's a hardcore Yankees fan !

No bike :( but decent set of lights :p

A couple of shirts, the latest CDs by Beck and Bush, 12 bottles of Starbucks Mocha Frapuccino (YUM!), a couple of other small things...

I was hoping for some bike tools that I didn't get. Oh, well, I'm not in it for the loot and I can always buy them myself. The only bike-related item (unless you think Frapuccino counts) I got was this book (http://www.ltolman.org/99arch/ironridersbook.htm) which someone very special gave to me. I've read a couple of chapters, and it's pretty good.

I just ordered the '01 TdF DVD as a post-Christmas present to myself. I always get the Tour Videos a year late when they are cheap.

The best "present" of all was my mom's pathology reports. None of the surrounding tissue was implicated. Without going into detail, she is going to be fine. It was especially good to have the family around me this Christmas.

It appears that bicycle riders are very definitative in their request for Christmas gifts....not only size, but type, color, exactly which grouppo to match, etc.

This only goes to prove that a bicycle rider is strong willed, opionated and aggressively verbal.


WAY TO GO GIRLS AND BOYS

Oh yeah, apart from my spanky ride, I got a couple of CDs (Oasis, Richard Ashcroft) and a couple of work shirts. Nothing bike related this year.

Disregarding those bike-related things I bought for myself recently which could count as Christmas presents, I got:

Wrench Force tire pump with built-in gauge
Camelbak MULE
Sidi Bullet shoes
Sigma Sport Targa cyclocomputer

Not a bad haul! :D

This year was our turn to host both families (hers and mine both since they are all local to us) and a wonderful Christmas was had by all!

...my mom is hanging in there...and i raised my glass to my dad , glad that he is no longer suffering.. my first christmas alone.. but its okay.....i still got to play in the snow :)

Merry X-mas! I got a couple of spare tubes, a subscription to bicycle magazine, bike dog tags, and LANCE'S BOOK! I read it that day. The best book I've read to date. Oh and I added to my hidden stash that I plan on blowing on a spanky new bike. ;) :D

Lets see...

Avid Discs, 8" front, 6" rear
Maxxis Mobster front, High Roller rear
XT front derailleur
King headset
Night Hawk dual pro lights
AmFib tights,

thats basicaly it

New bike jersey,
DVD of 2002 TDF,
Bike tool,
Computer table,
Nautilus lat pulldown/low row machine,
Concept 2 rower,
Powertec squat machine,
And my early Christmas present was a new K2 MOD 5 road bike, (My first bke outfitted with Dura Ace and I love it, I will never call it overpriced Ultegra again).

My wife loves me.......:D

Originally posted by RegularGuy
The only bike-related item (unless you think Frapuccino counts) I got was this book (http://www.ltolman.org/99arch/ironridersbook.htm) which someone very special gave to me. I've read a couple of chapters, and it's pretty good.
Here's more, very interesting!

http://www.ltolman.org/99arch/01819ironriders.htm

Nothing cycling related here. Mostly clothes (some that I might wear while cycling) and a spare tire (from eating too much).

The most memorable event of the holidays was the dish my mother-in-law brought to x-mas dinner. Shredded cabbage (green and red) and carrots in lime jello, served with a layer of mayonaise on top! I took a hit for the family and tried it. GOD!!!! If it wasn't nasty enough to start with that slimmy miracle whip going down my throat just about killed me.

I realize there is a long history of jello dishes in the Midwest, but of the millions of receipes in the world why would anyone pick this one? And the scariest thing is that this same veggy and jello gene may be lurking somewhere in my wife. I have this fear that some day when I'm too old to see, taste or complain (well, maybe not complain) she'll plop a dish of this down in front of me (probably in revenge for giving her Mom so much crap). If it ever comes to that, all that I can hope is that a cell phone talking redneck in a pick-up truck will take me out while I'm out on my daily tricycle ride!

Oh no, Easter dinner with the in-laws is only a few months away!!!!.

Got an espresso machine and a reflective vest. My wife likes coffee almost as much as me, and she worries when I go out riding. Since all of my riding has been during daylight, I think I'll tell her the vest is permission to buy lights and ride at night.

Originally posted by Jim311
I got the new SRAM XO shifters and derailler, a set of Avid disc brakes, a 661 full face helmet, and a Selle Italia seat. I think I made out pretty well! Now all I need to finish my bike buildup is a set of wheels and some brake levers :D


What about you guys? Did you all have a good Christmas?

jim311 - You've got your XOs before mine. If you experience anything untowards whilst fitting them, could you let us/me know about it? I should get my XOs next week sometime. I'm aiming to fit in Feb when my wife goes back to Joburg for 3 weeks as I'll have lots of time then.

What did I get? XO for one - almost. Boxes of nuts (edible kind), lots of socks, hair clippers, and a Nikon Coolpix 5700 - almost, as I'll be getting that next week.

Hair clippers, you ask! I'd been asking for a haircut for ages and Caroline usually does mine. She'd been muttering about clippers to make it easy. So had I. What I did not know is that she bought some for me! So, I went from maybe 10cm average hair length down to a breathtaking 1cm! I look like a convict, a bouncer, someone who'd be rounded up as a suspect in the Great Granny Pension Robbery.:D

First time in my life I've ever had hair that short, and funny thing is I might go shorter! I used to hate riding with long hair, and I could not tolerate having a sweaty, dank, mat hanging over my face. Now, I'm looking forward to when I can get back on the bike, so in a way, a radical haircut was maybe the best material present.

If I could only have a new pancreas (I'm Type 1 diabetic) then I'd be real happy all over again.

First the most important; (2) $25.00 gift certificates to my lbs :beer: I also got the usual clothing.

From my parents I got homemade "certificates" for a jersey and pair of cycling shoes of my choice. Woo-hoo! :)

This year the hub swore off getting me anything bike-related but I guess his muses failed him and he couldn't come up with anything else besides a new bottle of White Lightning Race Day and a pair of gel shorts.
Thank god it wasn't cookware or home furnishings!

weirdest gift this Chiristmas?

a frog flashlight that croaks and flips its mouth open when you turn it on.

Not exactly bike related but I scored
a nice set of metric and sae sockets.
got myself some armwarmers
and some new Pink Floyd cd's

marty

Originally posted by psycholist
weirdest gift this Chiristmas?

a frog flashlight that croaks and flips its mouth open when you turn it on.

Sounds like a great flashlight. I want one.

The only cycling related thing I got for Christmas was a track pump.

Apart from that there was the usual CD's and a couple of DVDs.

Oddest present? My brother sent me a coffee cup that could easily hold a couple of pints. Drink one of those and I'd be on the ceiling all day!

New Speedplays! And $500 cash from my mum that my LBS will probably end up with.. :D

It's supposed to be in the 60's tomorrow. Life is good!

Oh, and a friend of my hubby's gave him new cycling socks and gloves. I got a shopping basket that clips on the front of my commuter.