Unique gifts for a cycling dude?

[crazycanuck]

Ivona..Those BBQ tools are soooo cooll!!!! I just have to find out if a bike shop here can get me some...

[kenyonchris]

Well, for my cycling guy I took some pics of his bike, enlarged them, and are framing them. I am going to see if I can upload a few....mmm. I am not sure how to resize them to be manageable? Anyhow, I did them in black and white...they wound up being awesome.
For a cycling friend, I bought the Campy corkscrew (amazon, search for Campagnolo corkscrew).
I did the pic thing for my lieutenant for his birthday and they were great.

[Chile Pepper]

This thread was great motivation. I managed to find some a reasonably good selection of energy bars and—gasp—gels, which will make great stocking stuffers. I know it doesn't sound like much, but here in Chile we just don't get much in the way of cycling goodies. I'm quite pleased I found a new source.

[channlluv]

I just called my LBS and ordered the barbecue set. It will be here Friday! Thanks for that tip!

Roxy

[channlluv]

Well, for my cycling guy I took some pics of his bike, enlarged them, and are framing them. I am going to see if I can upload a few....mmm. I am not sure how to resize them to be manageable? Anyhow, I did them in black and white...they wound up being awesome.
For a cycling friend, I bought the Campy corkscrew (amazon, search for Campagnolo corkscrew).
I did the pic thing for my lieutenant for his birthday and they were great.

How did you pose the bike? This is a great idea.

(It's like boudoir pics, but with a bike...would that be garagoir pics if he keeps his bike in the garage?)

Roxy

[kenyonchris]

How did you pose the bike? This is a great idea.

(It's like boudoir pics, but with a bike...would that be garagoir pics if he keeps his bike in the garage?)

Roxy

I took a black sheet and tacked it up on the wall and put another on the floor. It was on a wall that was adjacent to my big southern window. When the sun was coming through the shutters, I used the low light portrait setting on my camera (I am NO professional) and took a million pics of the components. The best one was of the crankset....his bike is a Cannondale in the Team Toyota colors, it had stars that stream along the chainstay. His tires are Mavic Cosmos. It was a closeup of the crank, the stay, and the edge of the tire, and the Cosmos logo is just barely visible along the edge of the stars. I printed four of the best pics in black and white, got them matted and framed, and he loved them. LOVED them.
If anyone wants to see them, send me a message and I will email them to you, the file is too big to attach here.

[kenyonchris]

Duh!!! My avatar pic over there is it! Wow. This is what happens to me when I am working nights. My ability to be coherent becomes nil.

[nc tam]

Last year I got two of the bike chain photo frames and put cycling pics of dh in them. I was lucky enough to have a few good "action" shots to choose from. He loved it.