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EF Pro Cycling's 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
Let our riders help you pick presents for the cyclists you love
If you are looking for the right gift to hide under the tree for your favorite cyclist this holiday season, our team can help.
Our riders use the very best cycling equipment and goods , testing products to their limits in the toughest WorldTour races. All together, we ride more than a million kilometers per year.
So, when it comes time to buy presents for our family members and friends who ride, we rely on the products that we have come to love and trust on the road.
Check out our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. We know our picks will make great presents for your loved ones.
EF Education First
At EF Education First, we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, EF Education First has helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. We open the world through education.
Team pick: EF English Live
On our team, we have riders and staff from all over the world. We speak many languages, but when we all get together, we usually speak English. For teammates who didn’t grow up with the language, EF English Live is the best way to improve their skills. It brings real, 100% certified native-speaking teachers to online learning. They are always available and will design lessons and classes that fit your routine.
Team EF Coaching
Benefit from the knowledge and experience our team has earned in the WorldTour. Whatever your ambitions, our coaches are ready to teach you Tour de France-proven training, nutrition, and techniques to make you a better cyclist.
Team pick: 1:1 coaching
We can’t think of a better gift than helping your favorite cyclist reach their full potential. That’s why we started Team EF Coaching—to pass on skills, techniques, and lessons from our pro team to help riders everywhere become better athletes. Our 1:1 coaching offers the ultimate support, with pro coaches that have decades of experience in every cycling discipline as well as nutrition and strength training support.
EF Pro Cycling Fan Merch
Find the goods for your next adventure. Our latest collections were designed for athletes and world travelers and inspired by your favorite pro cycling team.
Team pick: Argyle KOM Crewneck T-shirt
Celebrate Richie Carapaz’s polka-dot jersey win in our King of the Mountains t-shirt. Lightweight and breezy, it’s an understated, elegant choice for high-altitude barbecuing on Pyrenean summits or roadside naps way up in the Alps. Don’t rely on the publicity caravan to dress yourself.
Cannondale
Cannondale has supplied us with the best bikes in the peloton for nine years. They have been pushing bicycle design forward since 1971. Founded in Connecticut for bike riders who want to explore their own limits, they bring the latest developments in science and engineering to our race machines—and our gravel bikes, and our cyclocross bikes, and our mountain bikes. Together, we are reinventing bike racing.
Team pick: Cannondale Synapse Neo
Thanks to the Cannondale Synapse Neo, our pro racers can share rides with family and friends without having to soft pedal. With Shimano Ultegra Di2 components, HollowGram R45 carbon wheels, and a smooth-riding carbon frame, the Synapse Neo handles just like a race bike, while its light and powerful Bosch electric motor helps non-pros keep up with our athletes.
Rapha
We have been shaking up professional racing with Rapha since 2019. The London-based marque was founded in 2004 to make cycling the most popular sport in the world. Rapha makes our on-bike and off-bike clothing.
Team pick: The Extra Mile
Published to mark Rapha’s 20th anniversary, The Extra Mile tells the inside story of how our kit partner was built through passion, innovation and obsession.
Wahoo
Wahoo makes advanced sports technology simple and intuitive so athletes can focus on their goals. Day in and day out, they provide us with better ways to use technology in racing and training with their pedals, indoor trainers, bike computers, and apps.
Team pick: Wahoo SPEEDPLAY Pedals
Wahoo SPEEDPLAY is the most comfortable and efficient pedal system there is. SPEEDPLAY cleats clasp around the pedal, bringing the sole of your shoe in direct contact with the pedal surface for better power transfer. While it is still easy to click in and out, the Wahoo SPEEDPLAY design links you more firmly to your bike for near lossless pedalling. SPEEDPLAY is also the only system that allows you to make independent adjustments on three axes, making Wahoo SPEEDPLAY pedals much easier to fine tune to your body’s mechanics.
Oatly
Oatly is the world’s largest oatmilk company. For over 30 years, they have been exclusively focused on developing expertise around oats: a global power crop with inherent properties suited for sustainability and human health. Our squads enjoy Oatly’s delicious range of oat-based, dairy-free milk alternatives that offer the same creamy taste, frothy feel, and functionality as cow’s milk while generally having a lower environmental impact.
Team Pick: This holiday season, take your favorite cyclist out for a ride to a café serving Oatly.
Our bike riders are getting pretty good behind an espresso machine, but when they want a really good flat white or cappuccino, they turn to the pros. Wherever they are in the world, they can check out The Oatfinder to find the best cafés that have Oatly on the menu. It’s the first place they look when they are planning out their recovery-day coffee rides. Take your favorite cyclist out for a spin for coffee over the holidays. For an extra challenge, see how many café stops you can hit in one ride.
POC
POC brought their clean, colorful aesthetics and their devotion to safety to the road in 2014. We’ve been wearing the Swedish brand’s helmets and sunglasses ever since. POC helmets are the lightest, airiest, most comfortable, and safest you can get.
Team Pick: Calyx
Some of our riders like to head up into the mountains during the winter holidays in search of fresh powder and pillowy ski turns. With the POC Calyx, they can cycle up to the snowline and safely transition to skis without having to pack an extra helmet. The multifunctional Calyx meets strict safety standards for cycling, skiing, and mountaineering. It is lightweight and well-ventilated for road climbs and uptracks and built with a dual-density EPS liner and an ABS shell for downhill protection.
Box Altitude
Sleeping at altitude is the key to improved athletic performance. Box Altitude allows our team to supplement the benefits of altitude camp once the riders return to their homes and simulate the benefits of altitude training when they don’t have time to travel to elevation.
Team pick: Box Altitude Sleep Cloud system
Elevate your performance by sleeping at altitude every night in your own bed #fasterasleep
Use the code SM200 for a discount on your purchase of a Box Altitude Sleep Cloud system
Incrediwear
We rock Incrediwear wearable technology, like tights and socks, to improve circulation, speed recovery, reduce pain and optimize performance. Unlike compression products, Incrediwear relies on negative ions, rather than compression, to promote healing.
Team pick: Leg sleeves
In the bus after a grand tour stage or in the evening back at the hotel, our riders will put Incrediwear’s leg sleeves on to help their muscles heal. They soothe sore legs, allowing us to race at our best day after day. Every athlete should have a set.
Muc-Off
We ride our bikes everywhere and across every terrain – on paved roads and dirt roads, through fields and up mountains. That means our bikes inevitably get dirty. Muc-Off gets them clean again. And not just any kind of clean, but new-bike-day shiny clean. Clean bikes ride better and last longer. Muc-Off delivers a smooth ride anywhere and every time.
Team pick: Ceramic protection kit
Ceramic coating is a highly advanced, durable, silicon-infused protective layer that chemically bonds to your paintwork, producing a high-performance hydrophobic layer for maximum water and dirt shedding properties. It’s designed to keep your bike cleaner for longer, and much easier to clean and maintain. This is because the coating drastically reduces the surface tension, providing long term, year-round protection to your pride and joy, even in the harshest weather conditions.
FSA
Full Speed Ahead (FSA) supplies EF Pro Cycling with stems, handlebars, seat posts and chain rings – but the partnership doesn’t stop there. Through our partnership with FSA, dating back to the team’s inception, we deliver feedback that drives development of the next range of products for consumers like you.
Team pick: SL-K Compact ACR Handlebar
With its unidirectional carbon construction, the SL-K Compact handlebar is ready to race. It features the latest evolution of our compact bar shape, with a shallow 125mm drop and gentle flare. A wide center section gives ample room to mount accessories like GPS units or lights (a computer mount is available separately). The areas where the stem and levers clamp have additional reinforcement and a textured finish to avoid slip. It's available in four widths.
Use the code FSA_EF30% for a 30% discount on your purchase.
Vision
Vision is obsessed with aerodynamics. We have made countless trips to the wind tunnel with them to improve the performance of our equipment. Their engineers are constantly asking for feedback to make sure that their equipment exceeds the real-world demands of WorldTour competition, where speed counts most.
Team pick: Metron 5D integrated handlebar
The Metron 5D integrated handlebar is the stiffest and most aero integrated handlebar and stem system. Mixing aerodynamics and ergonomics, the unique shape includes an Aero-Ergo central section. With a slight rise from the stem clamp and a 10 degree forward bend, the 5D accommodates the natural position of your arms for more comfort and easier breathing, while the wing-like shape of the bar top aids aerodynamics. Reinforced carbon fiber construction gives a great strength-to-weight ratio. The 5D features internal cable routing, with guides that accommodate wiring for electronic shifting.
Use the code VISION_EF30% for a 30% discount on your purchase.
Vittoria
The official tire supplier of EF ProCycling, Vittoria has been producing the best and fastest bicycle tires for the past 60 years. With a focus on performance, precision and perfectionism, the Italian brand relentlessly pursues innovation and improvement.
Team pick: Corsa N.EXT
Winter is the time for long miles, often in bad weather and on mucky roads, for our pros. Vittoria’s Corsa N.EXT Tubeless-ready tires offer best-in-class durability and protection, so our riders don’t puncture in the cold when they are training. They are grippy in the corners and roll almost as fast as full-on race tires too.
EightSleep
Eight Sleep is the world’s first sleep fitness company with a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. Better sleep leads to better recovery and better performance.
Team pick: Pod 4
The Eight Sleep Pod 4 allows our riders to control the temperature of their beds and monitor metrics such as their heart rate and breathing rate when they are sleeping. Keeping cool is one of the most important things they can do to improve their sleep quality. Each of our racers has an Eight Sleep at home to make sure they can fall asleep at the ideal temperature. Our team also brings the units to grand tours.
Pelotan
Good sun protection is vital when you spend hours in the sun like we do. Pelotan provides us with an alcohol-based spray-on sunscreen that quickly became a rider favorite because of its quick absorption and unmatched breathability. The high-performance sun protection was created specifically to maximize comfort while ensuring athletes avoid sunburns that impede achievement.
Team pick: Pelotan SPF 30 200ml spray
The fact is that too many cyclists don’t protect themselves from the sun. No one wants sunscreen blocking their pores or stinging their eyes in the middle of a hot, sweaty race. Pelotan is made for us. It provides lightweight, breathable, high-performance sun protection. And it smells really, really good. Summer days might be far off, but get your family and friends Pelotan now, so they’ll be prepared for the spring’s first shorts-and-jersey days.
TrainingPeaks
TrainingPeaks is a global leader in providing smart and effective digital training solutions to athletes and coaches. The Colorado-based company offers our riders, their coaches, and team staff complete web, mobile and desktop solutions to plan smart, effective training and contextualize race performances.
Team pick: Go for a ride on TrainingPeaks Virtual
Until April 2025, all TrainingPeaks subscribers have access to TrainingPeaks Virtual, the online racing app with realistic physics and a focus on community. Invite a friend to take it for a spin. No matter where you are in the world, you will be able to ride online together.
Silca
Silca brings old-world craftsmanship to the manufacture of cycling technology. Founded in 1917 in Milan, Italy, Silca remains focused on building goods that will last, using the finest materials, and investing in state-of-the-art technology.
Team pick: HX-One Home Essential kit
Silca’s HX-One Home Essential Kit contains a complete set of our mechanics’ favorite hex wrenches and bit drivers. Manufactured from high-grade steel with a thin chrome coating and grippy polymer finish, they come in an elegant beechwood storage box that will elevate any workshop.
WHOOP
WHOOP allows our riders to perform at their best, no matter how hard the race or training ride, by providing personalized biometric data.
Team pick: Annual Membership
An annual membership comes with the WHOOP 4.0. WHOOP’s latest band is smaller, smarter, and designed with new biometric tracking. It has become an invaluable tool for our athletes to better understand training and racing strain, as well as their sleep quality and how well they are recovering.
BestBikeSplit
BestBikeSplit is an innovative app which uses course information, power data, and weather conditions to develop race-day pacing plans.
Team pick: Best Bike Split athlete subscription
Help your favorite athlete get the best out of themselves on race day. They will want to get to the finish line having left it all on the road, but not blow up. We use Best Bike Split to determine our pacing strategy for time trials. The app’s math and physics engine lets us prepare for our races with unmatched accuracy and detail. The athletes you love will love it too.
Scicon
Founded in 1980 in a garage near Bassano del Grappa, Italy in the cradle of the cycling industry, Scicon set out to solve the problem of how professional cyclists could travel with their bikes. Since then, Scicon has made some of the most trusted travel bags in the industry. From the cobbled classics in Belgium, to Cape Epic in South Africa, Scicon bags transport our bikes all over the world and allows us to Explore the World.
Team pick: Scicon Aerocomfort 3.0
Scicon’s Aerocomfort 3.0 makes traveling with a bike as simple as possible. Lightweight and compact, these bags protect our race bikes on flights without requiring us to disassemble handlebars, saddles, or seatposts, so we can dash to and from airports with confidence.
Tailfin
Tailfin designs and creates racks and bags for the ultimate racing and bikepacking adventures or simple day-to-day commutes that are lightweight, beautiful, and easy to use.
Team pick: Top Tube Bag
Tailfin’s Top Tube Bag - Flip is Lachlan Morton’s favorite. It provides him with instant access to his phone and snacks without slowing him down or impeding his pedal stroke whatsoever.
Amacx
Amacx helps you get the most out of your riding performance, whether you’re racing a grand tour or going for a spin with friends. Amacx’s commitment for quality and affordability has made them a leader in sports nutrition for over a decade.
Team pick: Turbo Gels
In races, our athletes aim to consume up to 120 grams of carbohydrates per hour. Amacx’s Turbo Gels make that easy. Each gel contains 40 grams of carbs in a 1:0.8 ratio of glucose to fructose for maximum absorption. Available in Citrus, Cola Lime, and Cassis flavors, Amacx turbo gels are also delicious.
Nix
Nix Biosensors is the leading provider of cutting-edge hydration monitoring technology. Nix’s revolutionary biosensor allows us to customize hydration strategies for athletes on our men’s and women’s teams to optimize performance.
Team Pick: Nix Hydration biosensor
The Nix Hydration biosensor allows our riders to continuously measure fluid and electrolyte losses during their training rides to help them learn when, what, and how much to drink to perform at their best.
Use promo code EFPC15 at checkout to receive 15% off a Nix Hydration Biosensor.
Miscela d’Oro
Miscela d’Oro
Founded in Messina in 1946, Miscela d'Oro keeps our squad sharp with their delicious blends of coffees, which are sourced from the best growers around the world and roasted by Miscela d'Oro's master craftsmen in Sicily.
Team pick: Espresso Gran Gourmet Coffee Beans
Our riders have a running Oatly latte art competition going. A few of them are getting good with their oat drink designs. They always use Miscela d’Oro’s Gran Gourmet Coffee Beans to pull their shots of espresso to make sure that they get top marks for taste.