#holiday

’Tis the season to do some frantic last-minute holiday shopping for the loved ones in your life! If you’re lucky, those loved ones include women who ride. I’m usually horrible at finding the perfect gift, and I’m sure you can relate, considering the fact that you’re consulting a cheesy article for gifting tips. All teasing aside, you’ve come to the right place. As a woman who loves motorcycles, I can think of a few gifts that I would be overjoyed to receive. So, I offer this gift guide to help you shop for the female riders in your life.

Motorcycles are awesome. I think we can all agree on that. You probably wouldn’t be reading this right now if you thought otherwise. Unfortunately, though, motorcycling is not the cheapest of hobbies, and that’s why most of us see it as more of a lifestyle. With the holidays around the corner, here are a few gift ideas that in most cases ought to make your two-wheeled life a little easier, and more fun!

So, you may not be rolling in the dough, but this list covers a wide range of cool gifts for less than $100. Something here is sure to put a smile on the face of your favorite motorcyclist.

Despite all the holly-jolly, ho-ho-ho, and being the most wonderful time of the year and all that, you’re still stumped as to what to buy for that motorcyclist. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you’re flush with cash. So, money is no object, meaning that, while the 98% is looking down in the bargain basement for moto-products, you can play the field. In the spirit of the season (and with hopes that, if money really is no object, you’ll buy some of these for me), I present to you the annual Holiday Gift Guide for presents $250 and up.

Whoever said you can’t put a price on love obviously hates America. Of course you can, and the more you spend, the more love you can get. But why fight the holiday crowds when you can sit there on your laptop and gather unto yourself pallets of love by giving your favorite motorcycle aficionado one of the following superb gifts? The true spirit of the season begins kicking in right at the $100 threshold. Set jinglebells to stun, Mr. Sulu.

Can you believe it’s holiday season again already? This time of year always seems to creep up on us unexpectedly, and this year’s no different. But as always, your trusty MO editors are here to help you with gift ideas for the moto friends and family in your life. Last week, “Big Guns” Roderick brought you some gift ideas ranging from free-ninety-nine to $50. This week we continue the list of ideas, upping the prices from $50-$100. You know, for those people you like enough to buy something nice, but not too nice.

OK, so you’ve budgeted between $50 and $100 for a few moto-friends, you’re strapped for time – and you want to attend your local International Motorcycle Show. Well, you’d be amazed how much cool, bargain-priced gear you can find in the last 45 minutes of the day at an IMS event. (That way you can spend the rest of the day ogling all the new hardware on display at the manufacturers’ display areas.) Let’s just say that we understand how that could happen. So, with time ticking down, our mad dash to find a selection of MO-worthy gift ideas illustrates that you can have your cake (seeing next year’s bikes) and eat it, too (taking care of holiday shopping). And if some of the frosting (accidentally purchased items for yourself) just happens to end up in your gear bag, that’s OK, too.

Now that the annual gathering of friends and family for the Thanksgiving orgy of consumption (usually consisting of food, alcohol and football) and the international embarrassment of Black Friday are behind us, we enter the Holiday Season™ where our focus is supposed to be: on giving to others. In a consumer-based society, like ours in the United States, this giving usually takes the form of things. Kids give their parents endless lists of things they need to get for Christmas. Adults decide to give themselves some of the things they’ve desired over the year, as well.

Behold the 50 days of Christmas! Five lists comprised of 10 gifts per, we’ve provided you with a selection of moto-specific gifts to fit every level of expenditure for all kinds of riders. Or, maybe they’re not gifts for others but ideas of what to buy for yourself with all those X-mas greenbacks you’re about to receive in a month’s time. Whatever the case, there’s a lot to look through here, but if that’s not enough, maybe check out some gift guides from Christmases past: 2013 Holiday Gift Guide, 2012 Holiday Gift Guide.

You never know who’s swimming naked till the tide goes out, says Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett. And you never know whose pockets are really deep until they lay a swell gift on you like one of the following. We at MO of course hate to encourage such crass commercialism during a time that’s really all about human and spiritual connections, but it’s basically what we get paid to do. And you can be certain that if motorcycles had existed in 0 AD, these are the gifts people would’ve bestowed instead of frankincense and myrrh and dreidels and whatever.

For those of you with relatively deep pockets, a giving attitude, and motorcycle-riding friends you really like, may we suggest a few gift items ranging from $250 to $500. However, if you’re on the fence about spending this kind of dough for a holiday gift, rest assured, if any one of the MO staff were to receive one of these, we would be extremely grateful. Odds are, your benefactor would be as well. And isn’t that the point of gift giving? The 10 items below cover a wide swath of riders, both genders, and even the little ones.

Spending $100 to $250 on a loved one for Christmas says you really care about them without breaking the bank. If you’ve a brother as cheap as mine, you’d be looking at the $0 to $50 Gift Guide, but if you’re not a scrooge and have only one motorcyclist on your gift list, you can probably afford to splurge. From a Bluetooth communication system to custom hose kits, as well as something for the sport rider to the cruiser pilot, this list spans a diverse line-up of possible moto-gifts. But, if you can’t find something here be sure to check what’s listed in our other 2014 Gift Guides.

While the MO Holiday Gift categories range in price from cheap to astronomical, the $50-$100 range falls into the practical spectrum. Here, you can find some gift ideas that the rider in your life can actually use while not breaking your budget. Although we don’t want to make your gifts the equivalent of comfortable shoes, we still managed to include some footwear. Still, we hope that you’ll see the practicality in (almost) every choice.

It’s the thought that counts, isn’t it? We motorcyclists are a simple lot for the most part, and it doesn’t take a load of cash to please us. Try on these 10 things for size.

We now come to the upper echelon of our holiday gift guide, for those who are just rolling in cash and are willing to spend it on a loved one who’s the hardest of hardcore motorcycle enthusiasts. We’ve looked at gift ideas for different budgets up to $1,000, but what if you want to give something even more extravagant, and have the means to do so?