Gifts For Cyclists

Isle of Wight on a cycling map at 1:46,500 from Heritage House, highlighting three longer and 12 shorter recommended routes, plus lists of cycle-friendly accommodation, and bike shops and services.

The Classic Bicycle Clips by Rex International are a pair of vintage looking clips to keep your clothing away from the bike chain and frame.

In the ninth addition to his bestselling "Fifty Places" series, author Chris Santella is back at it again, this time exploring the world on bikes with Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die. Biking has grown increasingly popular in recent years, as both a leisure and extreme exercise activity and Chris cover trips for cyclists of every level.

The Classic Chrome Bicycle Bell by Rex International is a vintage looking, stylish accessory to warn pedestrians and other cyclists of your approach. The metal bell includes fittings to mount it onto the handle bar, and produces a gentle, ‘ring-ring’ type of sound.

Greenways and Cycle Routes of France map from the IGN highlighting numerous international, national and regional cycling routes, indicating their official number and the type of road surface. The map includes a QR code for downloading descriptions of individual routes, plus a list of the EuroVelo and the Grand Itinéraires Nationaux with their downloading code numbers.

Cycling is Britain's biggest boom sport and nowhere is the boom more evident than on the road: once seen as the preserve of serious racers, the road bike has recently found a new lease of life due to the popularity of challenge rides and Sportives. It is now possible for cyclists of all abilities to ride a well marked, well marshalled event just about any weekend of the year, usually based around one, two o...

Lost Lanes: 36 Glorious Bike Rides in Southern England presents an imaginative selection of interesting bike routes in southern England including the Home Counties. 30 tours are grouped geographically, with a special “best for” section providing a selection of best rides for families, wild camping, pubs, gourmets, history, etc. Six of the routes are the well-known organized rides, including the annual Londo...

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's what fascina...

Bike Snob, with a subtitle “systematically & mercilessly realigning the world of cycling”, is written by BikeSnobNYC, a blogger, frequent racer, daily commuter, former bike messenger and author of numerous cycling-related publications.

Welcome to the weird, wonderful and two-wheeled world of cycling. Though this isn't the usual side of professional cycling the newspapers report. This is the real world of cycling, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the sport's bizarre history! Cycling is nearly two hundred years old. The velocipede invented by Baron Karl von Drais in 1817 started the craze for the two-wheeled machine that has ha...

The smell of lavender at a roadside picnic, waiting for the Tour de France to race past. The Pacific Ocean view from the 10,000-foot summit of Hawaii's Haleakala volcanic crater (after 5 hours of uphill riding). A fresh Fat Tire ale hitting your lips at the new Belgium brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado. These, and a wide-ranging variety of other experiences, all rooted to a specific location or event, compr...

Julian Sayarer grew up riding a bicycle and worked as a bike courier in London. When the world record for a circumnavigation by bike is broken - the biker riding in conjunction with banks and big business - Julian sets out to take it back. Life Cycles is his story of that record, riding 110 miles a day for six months, on only GBP7.82 daily, through jungles, snow and twenty different countries. He finds hims...

The Chrome Plated Bicycle Horn by Rex International is a vintage looking honk with metal fittings to fix it onto the handle bar. Made of metal, chrome and rubber, the horn makes a pleasing honking sound. It comes in a box with retro illustrations and text.

United Kingdom on a double-sided route planning map at 1:606,000 approx. showing the network of Sustrans’ National Cycle Routes, national trails where bikes are allowed, other cycling routes, mountain biking centres, etc, plus a list of over 300 recommended cycling routes.