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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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Don't have eitehr and would love to win, so here goes.
Schwag me! Been eying the Fausto book for a while.
Please put my name into the helmet.
looks a good read, on both counts ...
count me in legs and fingers all crossed
The Coppi book was on my X-mas list as I have read Mr F's biog of Tom Simpson and thought it was very well written and engaging. Didn't get it for X-mas so fingers crossed.
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.
Two great books
I'd like this.
I could use the to pass the time, just broke my arm when I fell w the bike ;(
Would love to read this book. A legend!
it's snowing again, looks like angels falling from the sky
Still no sign of a win for me, and to be honest I would have preferred the Team Sky stuff
But please could me Tony and Dave
ohh pick me please!
I want I want I want
...please
This volume would be a fine addition to my little collection of Bikie books, and I have no calendar for 2010. So I need this more than anyone else!!
I suspect this "names in a hat" lark is suffering from a fundamental problem. They're using a helmet and the names are falling through the holes
Coppi hardback
not floppy
paperback
Memoires du peloton
je reviens
"Its Roche its Stephen Roche!"
Fin
Any chance to learn more cycling history and keep an eye on the future.
We still want the bus!
Would love these.....
very nice,put me down for a slice.
Si, per favore!
Tres Bien- Merci !!!
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