Roadman, today I'll give you 10 gift ideas for the Christmas
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…
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.
Need to start with sort of a lukewarm water and turn up the heat…
You need to start with sort of a lukewarm water and turn up the heat slowly because if the hot water hits your feet straight away, you're just gonna have to go straight to accident and emergency to paying a so bad. The Castellia streamers, they're gonna alleviate all that pain, 146 quid, could be the best 146 quid you'll ever spend. This one, it's the Piasted de la Resistance, the creme de la creme, and you will need some seriously generous ass partner to get you this one. It is the Wahoo Kicker indoor bike. This is your Rolls Royce of indoor bikes. I've recently had the pleasure of using a peloton bike and actually might do a full podcast on that because peloton was super impressive. I have a walk bike in my house. I would trade the peloton and the walk bike for this puppy. the kicker bike. You're looking at 3,500 euro for this but it's literally unprecedented this bike and you can just get yourself into the perfect position, the exact same position as you are on your own bike. It's obviously built in power meter, it's got all the built in Wahoo functionality we come to expect. It's as realistic an outdoor experience as you can expect indoors. I've used one and they're absolutely phenomenal but it's €3,500 so yeah hopefully you have some real generous relatives they're going to get you that for Christmas. It takes instead of lights for the house who haven't got those generous relatives. These instead of lights are they're going to save your life and I would be a big advocate of using lights even in the daytime on the bike. These are a super cool set they're called exposure trace pack. you're looking at 95 euro for a set front and back, super worth investment. Where are we at? We're at number nine. No, we're at number 10 and this is the last one on my list. So I haven't saved the best to last. That Wahoo bike was the best but this one is cool and this one is going to buy a lot of street cred. It's a Castelli Graffiti Teramel Longsleeve jersey and yeah it's graffiti. It's cool. It looks street. It's got a bit of thermal as well. It's It's bright, it's bold, it's brilliantly warm, and it's ideal, outerwear for a sort of colder weather in the autumn, or as an extra layer of insulation under a winter jacket. You're definitely going to earn extra brownie points at the coffee shop for being the coolest motorfoker on the spin when you have it. Folks, that's it, that's my Christmas gift guide, 10 gifts. So what they say to Wahoo, watch the neck warmer, the pizza cutter, the thermal headband, the sub-zero gloves, the massage gun, to forget about it overuse, the Wahoo indoor bike, decent set of lights and a long-sleeve thermal. That list took me a long-ass time to come up with, so I hope you'll appreciate it. It's getting to that time now where the really unorganized folks among us, myself included, started panicking about Christmas presents. While I was dealing with my own panicking at Christmas presents, that's when I decided to put together this list for you guys. Take it, enjoy it, pass it off as your own work as any good student does and roadmen enjoy your weekend, ride safe and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Hey everybody it's Anthony again, really quick I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge, it's a challenge called a 14-day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making a faster and making you leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guess work out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's masters, beginner, advanced, there's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you through at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the boil, at roadmancycling.com slash 14 day.