Roadman, today I'll give you 10 gift ideas for the Christmas. Let's cue that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our long changes? That is the question on this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Welcome back, it's Roadman Christmas gift guide podcast. Thanks for joining me today. So today and over the next 15 or so minutes, I'm going to give you 10 of the best ideas to pick yourself up a little something something for the Christmas or for that cyclist in your family or if you're anything like my dysfunctional family, where we all actually just tell each other what we want for the other person from Christmas. So it's basically like just buying your own Christmas present. Well, maybe for a jump into today's podcast, I'm going to ask you to head across to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch patreon how I fund the podcast. It's especially important given all the huge plans we have for 2021. If you're getting some value from the podcast, if you're learning little tippets, if you pick up a gift idea today, buy me a point of beer for over the Christmas and it keeps the podcast moving forward. Okay, road man, in no particular order, my 10 Christmas gift ideas. Varying price points. Number one, I've thrown down and it's the new Wahoo watch. The reason I truly this one down is it's the time of year when we can get out on the bike but also it's nice to get out and do a little bit of a run. It's nice to do a little bit of cross training and Wahoo just launched this new amazing multi-sport watch. I haven't actually got my hands on it yet but I'm really hopeful that Santi's going to bring me one of these. By the way, everything I mentioned in today's podcast, it's in the link in the description shown out so that I'll bring you straight to it. But yeah, this Wahoo watch does heart rate, does speed, all the functionality from Wahoo Boy Computer, but on your watch. It's just a nice little extra. Most of us have like a Boy Computer anyway, so this is not really a replacement. It's just something nice extra to have. But for me, where I think there's quite a cool application is for cyclo cross-roiders because you're changing up bikes all the time. So you have consistent power ratings on the watch consistent heart rate, consistent stock watch, multi sport athletes, or if you're just going out on a gravel bike or something you don't want to have additional mounts on all different bikes, I think it's pretty cool. I really like it anyway, that's one on a higher price point one, I think it's in around 350 euro, so you'd have to be particularly good lad to get that. Now this next one, it's a grip grab multi functional neck warmer. If you haven't used a neck warmer yet, I think this short story best sums it up and it was the pro cyclist Phil game and then he's quite, yeah, it's an all right YouTube channel. Let's not get ahead of ourselves and call it a good YouTube channel. It's fine. He's a fine YouTube channel, but one of the funny stories he did tell on it was back when he was writing for Garmin and he got a bunch of kit and in this bag of kit he had a neck warmer and it's the first time he'd ever worn a neck warmer so he said he stuck it on out trying and thinking this is a bit weird, a neck warmer. Never had need for a neck warmer. My neck's never really got cold so he said he went trying and came home from trying and then he went out down to the shop and he talked to himself, wow my next calls, my next never been called before. I think that sums it up nicely, if you haven't used an Equomer before, you don't really know what you're missing, if you've used it, it's really hard to go trying them without an Equomer, it's just a nice functional piece of kit, you can pull it up all day, especially going into shops and stuff now, it's really cool, cheapest chips, 15 euro for the neck warmer.
We all enjoy a bit of pizza and we all enjoy a car loading before the big session and the turd item on my gift list is a Pctul pizza cutter. You're looking at 16 euro for one of these beautifully crafted. It is a gem of a gift for someone who doesn't like Pctools, that beautiful bold iconic blue that we have all of our tools. You know, we're used to just saying on our wall with our Allen keys and our wrenches and stuff with that blue color, same blue color on a pizza cutter. Really, really cool linked rats in the boil as well 16 quid for that one by the way like these are not companies stood on in any way endorsing our affiliated with other than they just make some cool shit that's good for a Christmas gift. The next one up is a thermal headband and I've chosen a Castelli Pro thermal headband here you're looking at 14 euro and 66 cents for this puppy on Wiggle. Well, why do you want a headband? You're wondering. It's kind of in the category of neck scarf, I would say. If you haven't used a headband, you probably don't think you need one, but if you've used a headband, it sits just snugly under your helmet. So you don't notice it. If I wear a cap under my helmet, I kind of notice it and the helmet sits a little bit higher. With the neck with the headband, thermal warmer, it sits under the helmet, flush with the helmet. You don't even really notice you have it on, but your ears, they're just still tanky for it. It's beautiful. It's like a hug around your head. It's like pouring a cup of hot chocolate over your head as you're cycling along. It's epic. On that team of staying warm, I've chosen a set of gloves that I'm using at the moment by Velocio, the Sub-Zero, close gloves. enough but I tell you for anyone who's been out and you've got a proper miserable day where your hands are just killing you for the day. These gloves are 79 dollars. I've used them in I would say down to minus zero and rain and my hands are still toasty so they're a really really good glove and I know a lot of people message me and DM me saying what gloves you use what gloves you use because gloves are something you can literally have 15 pairs and you end up just throwing them all in the bin every time you get called because it's such a miserable feeling having cold hands. So, Kiskoboy, that Valochio, zero plus glove. On down the list, we've got this one. Looks like some say, our masochistic instrument, but it's a mini massage gun. It looks like, yeah, you could get up to some maybe bedroom antics with it, but it also looks like you might be able to do some sort of renovations around the house with it. It's a gun. It's a flow mini massage gun. You've got a 168 euro and what it does, it butters your legs after a session the same way a massage does and it gets that fresh blood floater. I don't actually own one but I'm calling it open. Santi's listening and I get one for Christmas because they're awesome. I've used them once or twice and they're a really, really cool piece of kit. Flow mini massage going, 168 quid, kind of in the middle of the, middle of the kind of what you could spend, this was 168 quid, not bad, you could have a generous brooder or sister when we get you one of them. In around the same products point, and on the team of winter and staying warm, these are a set of overshoes. They should nearly call them, they forget about it overshoes, because if you think your feet are getting cold wearing these, forget about it, the Castelli-A-Streamo overshoes. These are heavy duty, you know, I know it's 146 quid for a set of overshoes and some of you are probably thinking, you know what, fuck that. I'd prefer me feet to get cold and to spend 146 quid on overshoes. But if you're not an Ebenezer Scrooge type character and you value having circulation in your feet and not having that, you don't need to get into the shower after a spin and your feet are so cold when the hot, you kind of get to turn on the hot water.