Time Waster
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Anyone got any suggestions for a load of stocking fillers through to up to £100 present ideas for my son.
He decided he wanted to restart to ride a bike this summer after 2 or more years of disinterest except for a few holiday trail centre trips on a hire bike. He outgrew his Frog bike but we got him a medium giant stance MTB full suspension bike with a 1x conversion and other upgrades secondhand this summer after that comment about wanting a bike.
He is getting or is good on offroad trails. Fearless, fit and skilled (naturally skilled too I think). So I want to buy him things to encourage him.
First thing we do need is a new helmet (another thread asking for recommendations on here). Second is full finger cycling gloves that are not too cycling focussed, he likes the Fox racing ones so we will get them at about £30 for him. Anything else??
He rides on local trails and when we or friends take him to trail centres he rides blue or red trails (also black is not beyond him). He is 13 yo this December and rather tall (15yo plus clothing due to height but he is slim with it). So due to age it needs to be cool presents too. So helmet is black, gloves are a cool MTB brand like fox racing and similar "cool" things.
This summer we will take him to a kids mountain biking training camp at Whinlatter (about an hour away at the opposite end of the Lakes from our south Cumbria home area). So he is likely to learn a lot from that about offroad riding and trail fixes for the bike too I think. We want to encourage this activity / interest.
So anyone with a teenage son into MTBing with knowledge or recommendations for me? Or indeed anyone with good ideas?
He decided he wanted to restart to ride a bike this summer after 2 or more years of disinterest except for a few holiday trail centre trips on a hire bike. He outgrew his Frog bike but we got him a medium giant stance MTB full suspension bike with a 1x conversion and other upgrades secondhand this summer after that comment about wanting a bike.
He is getting or is good on offroad trails. Fearless, fit and skilled (naturally skilled too I think). So I want to buy him things to encourage him.
First thing we do need is a new helmet (another thread asking for recommendations on here). Second is full finger cycling gloves that are not too cycling focussed, he likes the Fox racing ones so we will get them at about £30 for him. Anything else??
He rides on local trails and when we or friends take him to trail centres he rides blue or red trails (also black is not beyond him). He is 13 yo this December and rather tall (15yo plus clothing due to height but he is slim with it). So due to age it needs to be cool presents too. So helmet is black, gloves are a cool MTB brand like fox racing and similar "cool" things.
This summer we will take him to a kids mountain biking training camp at Whinlatter (about an hour away at the opposite end of the Lakes from our south Cumbria home area). So he is likely to learn a lot from that about offroad riding and trail fixes for the bike too I think. We want to encourage this activity / interest.
So anyone with a teenage son into MTBing with knowledge or recommendations for me? Or indeed anyone with good ideas?
