(festive instrumental music)
- Happy Christmas, everyone.
Yes, it's that time of year where I have to wear this hat
and this outfit again,
and feel slightly festive.
Yes.
Anyway, coming up, we tell you 10 great gift ideas
for mildly obsessed, slightly eccentric cyclists,
by actually asking six of them
what they really want for Christmas.
Six of us.
I'm one of them.
- Now what I really want for Christmas
is to be seen when I'm out on those roads.
Now, it doesn't happen that often,
but you know, those linking roads between
stretches of Great British gravel,
I wanna be as visible as possible.
Introducing the Safety Pizza.
Now you attach these to your saddle hanging down on the back
and I think you'll agree, they're pretty rad.
But the best thing is you get to customize them yourself.
So it comes with a basic pizzata base,
and then, you get to add your mushrooms,
onions, pepperoni, whatever's your jam.
How cool is that?
- This is something I actually would like.
Imagine doing an epic challenge
and making some art out of it.
This is what I'm talking about.
This is from Print My Route,
and you can do your challenge,
and then put it on your mantle piece for everyone to admire.
I mean, John o' Groats to Land's End, for example,
I haven't done it, but it will be on my mantle piece,
and hopefully one day, I'll get to do it.
Wow, it looks tough though.
Woo, Christmas, yeah.
Oh (beep).
Didn't really work so well.
- What I really want for Christmas is a wind tunnel session.
There are actually several wind tunnel
facilities out there that you can book time in
and travel to, and, I mean, wow,
I could just spend time honing my position
and making myself even faster on the bike.
Trying out all sorts of geeky stuff like
different bar widths and hand positions,
and all sorts of equipment.
I'll have an absolute field day.
Except it would be in a tunnel
and not a field,
and it's also quite expensive too.
So failing that, then I'll probably just be happy
with some custom name stickers for my bike.
- What I really want for Christmas
is some art work, actually, with 13 legends
of the sport sat around enjoying a meal.
Yeah.
Maybe at the foot of Mont Ventoux.
Tom Boonen on the table swigging from a champagne bottle.
Chris Froome having an arm wrestle with Alberto Contador.
No detail left unturned.
Yeah, chuck in Peter Sagan as well,
being, well, Peter Sagan.
The Last Supper.
Wow.
I asked, I got delivered.
Thank you, Santa.
Look at them.
There's even little lamps down there as well.
Look where he's sat.
Blimey, I'm happy.
- Well, since Santa's retirement from road racing,
he's been getting into a spot of online Zwifting
and, well, it's great fun,
but Santa does get a little sweaty under the beard.
So for Christmas, what I would really like is a fan.
But not like this one.
I don't think that's going to
cut the mustard for sweaty Santa.
This bad boy, though, oh yes.
Oh, Santa does approve.
Ah.
- I've been using tubeless tires on mountain bikes
and cyclo-cross bikes for a while now
and I think it's great.
I am genuinely looking forward to making the transition
at some point over onto my road bikes as well.
However, what I would like for Christmas is a plug kit.
One of these.
That's right.
You stab the tire with that little thing,
leaving one of those gooey little twiglets behind inside
and there you go, job done.
These aren't the most glamorous of Christmas presents.
You can get nice looking ones now,
but there we go.
If anyone was wondering, that's what I'd like.
- I don't want a Christmas present, actually,
because I have enough stuff in my life.
And frankly, I do not need even more chocolate.
The whole shopping frenzy in December
makes me go all bah, humbug about Christmas.
Not least because of the waste of resources
on unnecessary and unwanted Christmas presents.
So after that rant,
I doubt that Santa will be feeling generous,
but if he's listening, what I would really like
is an experience rather than a thing.
So I would ask for a cross-country skiing lesson.
Now I've tried cross-country skiing, and it's awesome.
Awesome fun, but also awesome training.
However, unfortunately, it requires technique
and I'm rubbish,
so I would love to learn cross-country skiing.
- These aren't massively expensive.
Can I ask for another one?
Would that be cheeky?
Ah.
Hey, happy Christmas.
Yes.
What I would also very much like for Christmas
is a set of smart lights because
although I've been riding in the dark now for six years,
on and off, obviously, seasonally, to and from work,
I am still that Muppet that, once or twice a year,
runs out of batteries half way home.
So what I think would solve my problem
is if my light kindly sent a notification to my phone
to let me know when it needs to be plugged in and recharged.
And yes, these Cat Eye wanna do
a whole load of other cool things,
but that's the one I would really genuinely benefit from.
So, please.
- And I'm back with Dan's surprise Christmas present.
Yup, he doesn't know anything about this,
but we thought he needed cheering up in the festive season.
And he has been dropping a few hints.
In fact, he told us that he hasn't had
any new pants for four years.
I mean, I dread to think what
his pants are looking like, frankly.
I don't wanna think about it.
In fact, I'm not sure why I've been left
with the job of gifting him these underpants,
but apparently the boys all went out for lunch.
So anyway, Dan, happy Christmas.
Enjoy your pants.
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Size ordered him extra small.
I think that's a bit harsh.
- Now I don't want you to think that I'm being greedy,
but there is actually one other thing
that I would really like for Christmas.
And that is a Joe Blow Booster
from our mates over at Topeak.
And it's because this thing really does make
setting up tubeless tires a piece of cake,
and let's face it, I could do with all the help I can get.
- Well, there we go then.
10 things that GCM presenters would like for Christmas.
Make sure you get involved in the comments section
and let us know what you think you would like for Christmas.
That actually would also be quite funny.
So you let us know what you think the GCM presenters
should actually get for Christmas instead.
And if you say something Celeste for Jon Cannings,
I will love you forever.
Anyway, also, gotta give a quick mention
to the GCN Cycling Club.
We now have a gift subscription on offer there,
so you could get your dearly beloved membership to that
where, of course, they get, among other things,
a pair of cycling socks delivered
through the post every month.
Different cycling socks each month.
How cool is that?
And then also the GCN Shop is a constant source
of inspiration for gift ideas,
not least the new coffee that is just in stock now.
So that's pretty cool.
Right, please give this video a big thumbs up,
and if you wanna watch another video right now,
if you haven't seen the GCN show this week,
I'd definitely give that a watch.
Food for thought there if nothing else.
♪ Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way ♪
♪ Oh what fun it is to ride on a one horse open sleigh ♪
♪ Print My Route is here to stay ♪
♪ Thanks for everyone for watching ♪
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(laughing)