How good was Santa to you?

gregster10217

Had asked the wife for some clothing bits for Christmas, and thanks to my LBS (she had no idea and just asked them to stock her up!) I got some Altura bib tights, a Spesh base layer, some Spesh thermal socks and a cosy hat thingy for under my helmet (skull cap or something!?)
Just need my cold to disappear and the weather to improve slightly before I get to try them all, but the look on my 2 1/2 year olds face when I tried on the bib tights was a picture, accompanied by "Daddy, WHAT are you doing?" Had me laughing for hours.

SO? What did Santa bring to all you guys and girls? Did he get it right?

mkirby

a dvd, money for new bike and 2 jars of pickled eggs. not bad i think

gregster10217

OOH, pickled eggs - nice

prawny

I asked for cash, ended up with nearly £300. It's all gone now though.

Gore Path jacket, gore tex gloves, endura baa baa socks, met sine thesis helmet, giordana bibtights and a C+ subscription with a free windproof jacket and skull cap.

Lovely, can't wait til next year

robmurr2000

wife got me a nice blue and white spesh long sleeved jersey ( matches my summer bike) and new pro tarmac overshoes...chuffed!!!

wiffachip

combined Christmas with me birthday (28 Dec) and got a Lapierre S Lite 200 off the missus and 400 quid from family

like a kid in a bike shop

fjellrunner

I got colon hydrotherapy! Can you believe they do gift certificates for that?
Had it done today :shock:
Let's hope that sets me up for the new season.

Bikerbaboon

fjellrunner wrote:

I got colon hydrotherapy!

sounds a load of old crap to me. or was it a bit of a wash out i could just keep going.

I got new trek 1.7 2009 in the sales.
new warm kit for winter.

so well chuffed.... and only 7 days to my birthday.

markos1963

Enough money for me to order my Gigantex 50mm rims on Novatec Lite hubs for this coming season. Several jars of nice honey and a large tube of Jelly Belly beans, yum yum! Oh and a nice book, Tour Climbs as well as my C+ sub.

Anonymous

Socks.

So I bought a new bike for myself to compensate.

Lady Venom

Socks, pearl iz cyclone gloves, an extra Knog light for my bars and a zipp carbon cage.

RyanB

Rapha merino baselayer bundle and classic jersey bundle. Now just need some weather.

cathald

Took the wife out to my lbs and told the owner she was out to get me my crimbo pressy
He took a new carbon felt bike down of the rack but it soon went back up when she heard the price.
I came away with a €300 voucher and a set of crud road racers

LardLover

3T ARX Team stem and Chris King bottom bracket 8)
No sign of the Arundel cages that was on my list however, I'm having to send her over to the US to pick me up a couple in a few weeks time

mkirby - Stakeford eh? do you get out much??

mkirby

LardLover wrote:

3T ARX Team stem and Chris King bottom bracket 8)
No sign of the Arundel cages that was on my list however, I'm having to send her over to the US to pick me up a couple in a few weeks time

mkirby - Stakeford eh? do you get out much??

Not recently, usually found riding up by Rothbury. I try to get out with the Wansbeck lot on a sunday but only managed it once so far. Are you local?

ScottieP

A pair of new Vittoria Open Pave tyres (the 320tpi ones), an Endura BaaBaa under the helmet hat, some new Endura overshoes. .... and a few other non-cycling related bits and pieces. Looking forward to getting out on the new tyres in Jan - got work to get done first and the weather's pants again.

ScottieP

Squillinossett

Few bottles of Malt, Electric Razor (So fancy im sure its a puzzle as well), Mad Men DVD's! and bike wise the carbon Thoork saddle and some DHB Bib tights

Not too bad all and all, couldn't be too callus with money as just paid deposit on my house (booooo)

Lagavulin

Not much bike orientated stuff but I did very well, again. I well and truely scored in the whisky department. Two bottles of Royal Lochnagar, a bottle each of Laphroaig, Talisker and Singleton, money, Generation Kill and a few other DVDs, some Licher wheat beer, a couple of lovely books and I topped up some of the grand parents money and treated myself to a Castelli Mannaggia windproof jacket. Also have a belated surprise coming. Having commented over christmas lunch that I fancied putting some of my money towards a new watch I was told there's one on the way to me and not to buy one just yet. It could be a £10 Casio mind and I suspect it isn't a Breitling.

STEFANOS4784

After making it clear i wear small size cycle tops i recieved a long sleeved winter jersey and a hi-viz gillet(both size med)lol

Also socks, but hey it aint about the presents..............................................It's about how quick you can blow a months wages down the pub (very quickly) :oops: :roll:

Flasheart

Endura Baa Baa socks
Lots of carb gels and bars etc
Muck Off pack
A new buff that matches my kit
Camelback (from girls in office)

A couple of PC games
A couple of Blu-ray Discs

rogerthecat

Assos 851 Jkt
Catlike Whisper
a Buff
Farscape Season 1 DVD set
Pandoras Box for the DS

a few others bit and bobs

Slimbods

Forerunner 305, chuffed!

Chip \'oyler

Got the Cav autobiography, some aero brake levers and a 3t stem for my new TT rig.

And I got a nice bonus from work which meant I could give Derek @ Wheelsmith a call

themightyw

Tacx iMagic and permission to turn the attic into my turbo / training room - woooohooo! My plan by the end of NYD is to have the whole attic kitted out with my spare PC, turbo, spare stereo, weights and rowing machine.

WHEEEE!

Lagavulin

themightyw wrote:

WHEEEE!

The sound you make as you come crashing through the ceiling?

hopper1

themightyw wrote:

Tacx iMagic and permission to turn the attic into my turbo / training room - woooohooo! My plan by the end of NYD is to have the whole attic kitted out with my spare PC, turbo, spare stereo, weights and rowing machine.

WHEEEE!

I hope you've strengthened your joists :shock:

themightyw

hopper1 wrote:

themightyw wrote:

Tacx iMagic and permission to turn the attic into my turbo / training room - woooohooo! My plan by the end of NYD is to have the whole attic kitted out with my spare PC, turbo, spare stereo, weights and rowing machine.

WHEEEE!

I hope you've strengthened your joists :shock:

It's all properly floorboarded and carpeted up there, with the floorboards spreading the load over the beams - still bloody freezing, though. I assumed it would be strong enough to support a turbo and a small rowing machine. You've got me worried now though...

Sevenfold

Bit jealous of Lagavulin "Two bottles of Royal Lochnagar, a bottle each of Laphroaig, Talisker and Singleton" - I only managed two bottles of Glenfiddich PLUS a Team Carbon (not Limited Edition unfortunately!) @ 10% off so £900 as it was ordered on Christmas Day (Halfords did 10% off if you ordered on line for that day only - mine was ordered at 08:30 am...) which left me £100 for a new helmet, track pump & saddle bag from the balance of my C2W voucher. Had to then spend £60 on some Ultegra pedals...wife said "a bike without pedals - bit like a car with no engine" so that took a little explaining :roll: Still never mind, picked it up Boxing Day, pedals arrived yesterday so now just need some decent weather!!!

floosy

Redundancy..... well chuffed....

lots of time to train now...

cant grumble really..... was only supposed to be 6month contract...... that was nearly 3 years ago..

so back to being a house husband..

Dave.

Wulz

My very lovely girlfriend got me......

Endura thermal skull cap
Endura overshoes
Protective fleece jacket
A set of blades with three sets of lenses
micro multitool
Bontrager carbon bottle cage and bottle
Protective winter gloves
Call of duty MW2
very nice dune casual shoes.

I think i did quite well..being into road bikes makes it very easy to get xmas stuff for you, a bit like golf

Happy New when it comes

Willie

kfinlay

Got a workstand, bibshorts and a wee late bonus of Zipp carbon bars/stem - delighted