Buying Christmas or birthday gifts for men can be a real chore, but not if your man is a cyclist! And now you don’t even need to buy boring cycling gifts like bike gloves, as one of the latest trends in mountain biking is to add colored components to customize a bike.
This article offers ideas on cool cycling gifts for men to customize their latest mountain bike or to make an old bike look like new.
Bike Gift Ideas
Quality mountain bike part brands like Race Face and Chris King offer a great range of colored components to set a bike apart from the rest of the crowd. Consider these bike gift ideas:
- Crank set – Race Face offer a variety of colored crank sets in their Atlas AM range; red, blue and gold are top choices.
- Riser Bar – buy a Race Face riser bar to match from the same range (see picture below)
- Headset – Chris King is the top brand of choice when it comes to bullet-proof headsets and color is also King when it comes to customizing a mountain bike; pick a color to match the other components.
If the above items are too expensive, opt for smaller items like a colored quick release for the seat-post and quick release skewers for the wheel hubs. Or consider a colored saddle, a sure way to make your man’s bike stand out from the masses.
Latest Gadgets for Cycling
Some of the latest cycling gadgets also make great cycling gifts for men plus are good ways to further customize a mountain bike.
How about a remote control suspension seat post? Suspension seat posts have been the norm for a while but the gadget geek will love one that changes height at the touch of a button. Options are available at varying price points; look at the Reverb from Rockshox, the Turbo Seatpost from Gravity Dropper or Specialized’s Command seatpost.
Or for mountain biking men who just love to get out and ride whatever the weather, what about a portable pressure washer? Mobi do a version called the V-17 that can spray water at up to 130 psi; just charge it from the car battery and avoid bringing that trusty steed back covered in grime, not to mention the car!
Trendy Mountain Bike Gifts
For stocking fillers, you can put together a DIY gift box full of small but trendy mountain bike gifts like bar grips, headbands, karabiners (for attaching key items to backpacks) and even boring old cycle socks, provided they are all color-matched to the cool bike components above.
A word of warning; be sure to place orders early for Christmas as some colored components like stems may have to be ordered direct from the manufacturer.
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Helen Smeaton - Helen Smeaton runs a cycling and hiking business and is also a freelance writer and web designer. Read her profile for more information
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