Ultimate Gift Guide: Parts

The real beans.  The five top bicycle parts any self respecting in the morning cyclist could ever want to need.

Not because they know they need them.

Because we are telling you they do.  That’s a real gift unto itselfish.

Awesome Strap – BACK COUNTRY RESEARCH – 12$

The only strap that is what it is and exactly what electrical tape could be.
Without all the sticky residue.
Mind you.  My personal Awesome…it had residue.  And a seductive note from Richard Mr Backcountry himself.

Egg Beater Rebuild Kit – CRANK BROTHERS – 15$

Egg beaters are the best clipless pedal.  Nothing else is anything else.  If you disagree that is because you are quite possibly stupid or blind or otherwise.
Egg beaters are not perfect.  Egg beaters have one problem.  Two if you count the name.
One unavoidable, undeniable, annoyance.  They probably already need to be serviced…new or otherwise.
Buy the kit, maybe two and add a set of (premium) brass cleats to save on shipping, the original cleats are pretty much shot as well.  Three problems, but that’s no matter.

S110 Headset - CANE CREEK – 150$

Opinions vary.  Much like the great clipless debate, there are two sides to this very story.
There are those enlightened souls – clear of though – free of service who choose only Cane Creek headsets.  Then there are those dark, self loathing types that just wanted something else because the colour was ‘rootbeer’.
Chiseled from large swaths of pure Montana river rock and tumbled in whiskey kegs until they represent the finest alloys ever anodized in the Carolina above the South.

Black Hat – MISFIT PSYCLES – 19.80$

Hair type?  Skull type?  No matter.  Helmets look daft when worn devoid of a bike.  Cyclists in coffee shoppes smell like taint and look like self waxed sadists partially employed as undernourished ballerinas.  On the best of days.
Prodigious cranial coverings merely enhance the spectacle.
Of course, the only thing more stupider then a helmet without a bike, is a head what was and isn’t wearing a helmet.
Cover up their sporadic mop and those unsightly scalp lines with the only black hat guaranteed to decrease cycling stigmata by 12%.

kg271/Bucket – MADSEN CYCLES – 1299$

xtracycle FAIL.  Explosive website.  Confusing kits.  Overlapping products.  Bits and pieces.
Wheel sizes in xplicably small.
Enter Madsen.  While the procurement of a product exclusive of the desired diSSent base may seem off, the process is a world simpler and the price – not entirely far off.
Consider these major points along with the fact that this modus cyclorendi will scream urban sheik when u-locked at their suburban Ikea.

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Ultimate CYCLIST’S Gift Guide: Riding.

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