Christmas Gift Ideas
Here's our shortlist of great gift ideas. We've divided them up into three categories to suit all budgets, and we're offering free gift wrap.
- Secret Santa gifts between £5 and £20
- Winter warmers up to £100
- Blow the budget luxury items up to £500
If you can't find something suitable, please don't hesitate to contact us, we're sure we have something that will light up any face on Christmas morning.
Secret Santa Gifts - £5-£20
Lights get mis-placed left right and centre. Knog make handy luminous companions available in a range of colours and clip onto the bars without any messing around with brackets and screwdrivers.
2. Cyclopedia: It's All About the Bike - £16.99
A guide to miscellany of facts, figures, interesting snippets and quirky characters, plus the first ten copies at Condor are all signed by the reknowned author, William Fotheringham.
3. Rapha Performance Skincare - from £7.00
Rapha's new line of skincare is based on the herbs of Mont Ventoux and includes chamois cream, soap and embrocation. The warming embrocation is particularly ideal for those cold winter starts and for toasty toes.
4. 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs: A Road Cyclist's Guide to Britain's Hills - £8.99
A must have book for any British cyclist. Sized perfectly to fit in a cycling jersey back pocket, this book is an essential read for anyone who thinks they know their way around the hill of the British Isles.
A tool box in your pocket, our Condor multi-tool is invaluable for home or when you're out on the bike. The 10 function tool from Condor has all the features one would need to fix common bike related issues.
Winter Warmers - £25-£100
Best for a warm head and ears. Made from 100% soft and luxury merino wool, the hat features a knitted peak and ribbed earband. Available in grey, red or grey with contrasting stripe.
2. Buffera Tubular Wool Buff - £21.99
Best for the keeping the chill from your face and neck. Made from insulating, breathable and odour absorbing merino wool. Buff say it can be worn 12 different ways from headband, to balaclava, cap and more, but we like it best as a neckerchief. Worn to stop the chills creeping through the gaps in a jacket collar. Pull it up over the chin and nose to stop the wind licking your face on a fast descent.
3. Endura Baa Baa Merino Baselayer - £34.99
Best for keeping your core temperature happy. Merino wool is a naturally insulating fabric and has low odour properties. Wear it in the morning on a commute to work and pull it on for the journey home without a stench. We like the Endura Baa Baa because it has a high warmth to weight ratio, even when wet. Its soft and the seams are flat-locked for comfort.
4. Assos Early Winter Gloves - £70.99
Best for toasty fingers. There is nothing worse than suffering from the painful discomfort of freezing cold hands. It's the impressive wind proof fabric used on the popular Assos AirJack 851 winter jackets that earns this glove the right to sit as the star atop of the Christmas tree. 851 fabric is a 3-layer system laminated for water resistance and supremely wind proof with internal 3D air channel to ensure breathability. The gloves are low in weight and bulk making it easy to grab hold of energy bars from the back pocket or fiddly zips.
5. Rapha Winter Embrocation - £20.00
Best for warm legs. Those first few miles, a descent, waiting at a junction. It's where the cold will hit you. Embrocation contains warming agents that help heat the muscles before taking to a long ride, while the massaging action loosens muscles and stimulates circulation.
6. DeFeet Woolie Boolie Socks - £11.99
Best for warm toes. Soft merino wool insulates while Lycra in the fabrics maintains 
shape and holds the socks close to your feet for extra warmth. A lighter material runs along the top of the foot for breathability while a cushioned sole and heal provide added comfort. They are our favourite winter sock; we dig them out year after year.
Luxury Presents - up to £500
1. The Peloton (Hardback) - £50.00
The Peloton is a five-year labour of love by Berlin-based photographer Timm Kolln. Kolln travelled the length and breadth of Europe attending every major race on the calendar to photograph the entire professional peloton and capture their images just moments after crossing the line. The results, as previewed in Rouleur issue 4, are the most hauntingly insightful portraits ever seen in the cycling world. Interviews accompany each portrait, every rider giving their very own taken on life in the saddle, and the trials and tribulations of a sport in turmoil.
2. Garmin Edge 800 GPS Computer with Heart Rate and Cadence - £449.99
The ultimate touchscreen bike computer with GPS. Follow a sportive route, monitor your training, speed, calorie burn, height, and distance, navigate, and record your ride - it's all in the Edge 800. Perfect for commuting, competitive cycling, touring, mountain biking, and cyclo-cross. Link to your PC or Mac for a finely tuned analysis of your ride.
3. Assos iJ.HaBu5 Jacket - £248.99
There's a breaking point when the weather gets cold enough that thermal jerseys alone don't provide eno
ugh warmth. The Assos iJ.Habu jacket is designed to take you beyond that barrier. It wears with the weight and feel of a jersey and is ideally used over one of Assos' three different Interactive base layers to vary the total effect of its warmth. Antonmically cut, using the same wind proof material as Assos' proven winter range, but with a lot less bulk.
4. USE Exposure Joystick Front Light - £144.99
The original and the benchmark for winter riding, Exposure's joystick is small and lightweight, but packs a serious punch. Ideal for off road at dusk and dawn on a cyclo-cross or mountain bike, or dark lanes on your road bike when the lights of a town or city are just a distant glow. It has three strong light settings to create a beam out in front of the rider. Recharge is merely a few short hours.
5. Brooks Barbican Bag - £209.99
For those who want to cycle in style and want the functionality of a bag designed for cycling. At home on the shoulder of a rider but equally suited to walking around town. In 1910 John Boultbee and his son, Wilfred Mason Brooks, filed two patents related to improvements in satchels, knapsacks and the like. Both these patents guaranteed more equal distribution of the load over the straps and more stability of the bag whilst cycling. This season Brooks have recreated the bag known now as the Brooks Barbican Bag.
6. Assos T FI.Mille Bibshort - £164.99
The ultimate bibshort. The short we recommend for your longest ride, hardest sportive, and perfect day in the saddle. For years Assos bibshorts have been tried and tested and have kept our customers on their rides. Tailored for total comfort, the full ergonomic pattern and four-pattern construction guarantees optimal muscle compression with plenty of freedom of movement. Worn in the summer or under winter tights, we can safely say these are our #1 cycling short.
7. Rapha Breton Sweater - £130.00
Sophisticated cycling wear for the city. Constructed from fine merino yarn, made using a traditional process of knitting pieces together rather than stitching. The jersey is soft, insulating, breathable, and odour resistant. Featuring a three button shoulder packet with fine rib, the jersey can be worn as a mid-layer under a jacket or outer layer in milder weather.
8. Campagnolo Corkscrew - £129.99
If you can't drink your Côtes du Rhône in the Rhone Valley itself, uncorking a bottle of big red in the comfort of your kitchen with this gorgeous Campagnolo corkscrew is the next best thing. As you'd expect from any legendary Italian component maker, this is a gem of beauty and is functional, too.
9. Lezyne Alloy Floor Drive Pump - £59.99
The highly polished aluminum barrel and varnished wood handle make the Alloy Floor Drive pump look as if it belongs on display. The large wooden handle lets you get a good grip on the extended length steel piston, which snugly fits the CNC'd barrel to let you pump your tyres up to operating pressure with ease.
10. Condor Cycles Gift Voucher
Does your Gran not know her Assos from her elbow, or her Campagnolo to her Rapha? Decrease the chances of unwrapping a Rubik's Cube this Christmas when you were hoping for Roubaix tights. Suggest a Condor Cycles gift voucher, available for any value and are valid for a whole year. Simply call or pop in to the store.
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