Only 10 sleeps until Christmas, but it's not too late to fill your loved one's cycling stockings. Forget boring bike lights and unimaginative inner tubes, we give you our top selections from a year's hard graft trawling bike shows and reviewing the latest offerings from books to energy boosters. Here's Ride Velo's best little presents for 2016 which are guaranteed to delight the cyclist in your life.
Read MoreChamois Panties Review
A common dilemma for urban cyclists and commuters is 'to lycra or not to lycra?' Around South London I've noticed that about half do and half don't. Personally I never get lycra-ed up to go to work or for a jaunt around town. This is partly because there are so many red traffic lights it's almost impossible to get sweaty, and partly because I'm embarrassed to waddle around with a huge chamois pad between my legs, click-clacking on the floor and sliding and around in my cleated road shoes like a demented duck!
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