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Friday Schwag - calendar and bookFriday Schwag Grab: Signed Coppi book and Prendas calendar - we have winners!
It's tiffin time here at road.cc towers (well, fairtrade chocolate shortbread time) so the random number generator has been duly fired up to distribute books and calendars to the masses. Said machine must have been in a particularly benign mood this afternoon, choosing as it has to bestow the prizes upon two road.cc stalwarts: long time member (and sometime blogger) Blackhound and similarly upstanding heavyweight jimmythecuckoo. It's not a fix, honest - we really do pick at random using a real random number generator and everything...
If you're cursing the fact that you missed out this week and there's a calendar-shaped hole on the side of your fridge, you might want to check out next week's Schwag Grab for another crack at the Prendas Ciclismo calendar... stay tuned!
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As you may well have seen on road.cc this week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of cycling legend Fausto Coppi. To mark that we've got a very special Schwag grab: two signed copies of William Fotheringham's acclaimed biography of il campionissimo, Fallen Angel: the passion of Fausto Coppi, a book already acknowledged as probably the definitive english language account of the life of Italy's greatest bike racer.
And there's more. Not only will our two lucky schwag winners get a signed book, the classic racing theme continues with a copy of the Prendas Ciclismo Memoires du Peloton calendar, which contains a selection of iconic images from the last 40 years of professional road racing. If you haven't got a 2010 calendar then it's the perfect schwag. If you have got a 2010 calendar you can throw it away if you win, because this one is better.
Usual rules apply: simply comment on this story and you're in the hat. No multiple entries please. We'll draw the lucky two at tiffin time next Friday, although in these new-year's-resolution-affected days of January, tiffin might well be a bowl of muesli or a banana or somesuch. Pft.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Just had to buy it! can't wait to read.
I'm in - well, for the book, I've got a calendar with 12 views of Yorkshire on it.
oooh suit me sir!
Choode me, loving my cycling books at the moment, cannot get enough
Tiffin, books, calendars, muesli, bananas... oooooo me heads swimmin! Luverly stuff! I'll have one of each please.
Just finished reading Jean Bobet's Demain on roule (Tomorrow, We Ride) about French champion Louison Bobet and the golden age of fifties cycling (a must read btw) so would definitely like to now get my hands on Fausto Coppi's biog.
I already have a signed copy of the excellent book, but if you were to split the prizes then I would love to win the calendar.
Thank you.
I've finished the cyclocross book I got for Christmas, so this would be most welcome.
Excellent. Please include me. Both excellent choices. The first real biography of the Campionissimo in English.
Yes please!
They would both be a welcome addition to my growing library of two wheeled literature - written or pictures for when I'm feeling dumber!
Was he a Captious Fop
A Coppi book and a calendar, it would be like Christmas all over again, only better!
yes please santa!!!
I'm game!
OOH, OOH, ME TOO....
Coppi The classic.
Yes please- great stuff!
count me in
Coppi load of that! What a prize! What a dreadful pun!
The books excellent - I read a library copy so would be good to own one an re-read it.
count me in please
Hey, very cool stuff, I'm most definitely IN.
Great looking book about a true legend.
Book looks great
The disappointment of not winning the Sky goodies still lingers but I'm giving it another go.
Count me in, Coppi is my cycling idol, yet I still haven't got this book.
Bought the book (signed) at Epic Cycles over in Shropshire, and then gave it to cousin for Christmas. I'd love to own my own copy or two! Calendar would look nice next to the desk with no window...
what a wonderful solution to my calendar-less quandary i find myself in
I'm in.
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