In my best Jon Snow voice, 'Winter is coming'... While some of you lucky cyclists out there will be feeling the breeze go through your hair as you are dancing on the pedals throughout your mild winter, a majority of us won’t have that privilege to ride our bikes as much as we want outside and will be forced to hit the trainer indoors… If you’re not going to throw on the Netflix and blast the volume at 87 in order to hear it over your trainer, podcasts are a great alternative that we've grown to love as you can really just focus on what you’re actually hearing and your thoughts. We’ve compiled a very subjective list of podcasts that we really enjoy and help that time on the trainer go by much faster. Technically, I guess this list isn’t exclusive to just riding the trainer but really anytime you have your headphones in while riding your bike. Thinking about listening to podcasts while riding takes me back to a podcast by Tony Kornheiser nearly a decade ago riding through the plains of Kansas to pass the time as we biked across the country. That memory alone brings me to a few thoughts: 1) Yikes, I’m getting old. 2) Podcasts have come a long way since then. 3) Podcasts have come a very long way since then if Tony Kornheiser was the best thing I found to listen to at the time(no offense Tony). We’ll go ahead and warn you though that there really are only a few cycling-centric podcasts on this list and this is more of a list of podcasts that covers a wide spectrum that we really enjoy, inspire us, teach us something, or just take our minds off the pain we’re inflicting on our legs…

It's that time of year again, where you start to stress out about finding just the right gift for that crazy cyclist Uncle Fred... You are worried that that piano key neck tie waiting under the Christmas tree won't exactly bring the smile to Fred's face that you were hoping for? Well fret no more, because we have put together a list of a few items that we think will turn his frown upside down AND won't break your piggy bank either because honestly you don't really want to spend that much on Fred in the first place... So without further ado here are a few (cheap) present ideas for that cyclist in your life for this Christmas.

We like bicycling, obviously… We like science… We thought it would be great to celebrate the combination of the two by going back to our high school Chemistry 101 days and recreate the periodic table of elements with our own cycling twist. We’ve replaced all elements in each groups and period with a bicycling related term, part, phrase, or just biking slang… For example element number 72 – F (Francium) has become element 'Fred' or 50 –Sn (Tin) has now fittingly become the ‘Bike Snob’… We’ve got pretty much every discipline covered from mountain and road biking, to cyclocross, to professional cycling. We racked our bicycling brains to get each cycling element just right to create our table. Hopefully this pic is HQ enough for you to see the detailed fruits of our labor and read all 112 new cycling elements. We’re slightly proud of this one ourselves which took some serious photoshopping and decided to even make this one into a shirt… If you really like it too you can check out our t-shirt in our store here.