Best gifts for cyclists 2019: fantastic ideas for Christmas

Lycra, padded gloves and anything made of carbon fibre: these are surely the best gifts for cyclists?

We’d actually suggest staying away from things that require fitting. And bike clothing gets seriously expensive if you buy the good stuff.

While you may thing that limits what you can buy the bike enthusiast in your life, that's definitely not the case - and that's why we created this cycling gift guide.

Some of the items in it are silly, some are useful. But they are all a good fit for an early cycling-themed Christmas gift, or a birthday present. And here are some top cycling deals from Black Friday:

Free HR strap

£199.99 at awin1.comYou'll find this watch for around £200 elsewhere, but that won't also get you Garmin's HR strap worth £80 on its own. You need one of these for super-accurate heart rate readings. The watch itself is a brilliant GPS tracker, among the best for runners.

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£899.99 at awin1.comThe Tacx Neo might be the greatest turbo trainer series in the world. You can now get £300 off the second-to-newest model. And as many of the Neo 2T's added benefits are a bit of a mystery, we suggest you snap this one up.

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• If you want to cycling in the dark, take a look at our list of best bike lights, best bike turbo trainer guide and best exercise bike Shortlist

Best gifts for cyclists

£45.52 at Amazonbest bike lights mega test. Our cycling tsar says you can’t get any better at the price.Its build quality is bomb-proof, there’s enough power for real cycling and you can mount it to just about anything. This is a high credibility cyclist’s gift that doesn’t cost the earth. A lot of higher-end bike gear does.

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£51 at AmazonWahoo Blue SC.

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£6.47 at AmazonThere are mountains of cycling books. But what makes one appeal to the pathologically cycling obsessed and those just getting into it? Humour.French Revolutions is, like so many bike books, based around the Tour de France. But it’s not the memoir of a great from the field. It is a sort-of travel diary from writer and humorist Tim Moore as he attempts to cycle the entire Tour de France course (over 3500 km of it), which some of your may have fantasised of doing.Think of it as Bill Byron, minus quite a few pounds, on a bike.

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£6.99 at Amazon

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£28.41 at Amazonbest PS4 games shortlist.

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£182 at Amazonthat important.

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£9.95 at AmazonThere’s a naff T-shirt for every hobby. Cycling offers a load of them. This pick by 6TN is a take on the classic evolution of man motif.Oh how we laughed, until the brake oil leaked from out eyes. Yep, this is the T-shirt equivalent of a novelty birthday card. However, it doesn’t cost all that much more than some of those. And it’s free from cringy text.

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£15.78 at AmazonYou probably think “Haynes” when someone mentions car maintenance. These are the legendary manuals that break down each model of car, component by component. But for bikes? While Haynes does make a bike manual, Zinn is the bible for cyclists.Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance is the 500-page-plus manual that shows how to perform key repair jobs. And it provides plenty of insight into how a road bike’s insides actually work.

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