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Kinesis Decade Tripster schwag: we have a winner!
Unprecedented amounts of interest in this one, and some very interesting bikes y'all are riding out there. We'll put them all into a big spreadsheet or pie chart or something when we've got a bit of time. That's not now though, what with our Fantasy Tour de France game requiring our attention and the road.cc randomiser blinking and bleeping in our ear. Ah, it's stopped bleeping. What's that you say, randomiser? An eighties football legend is walking away with the prize?
That's right! step forward Luther Blissett (not, judging by the email address, the actual real Luther Blissett). You're our winner!
Commiserations to those of you who have missed out this time but don't forget you can win £300 of Rose Bikes cycling kit at the moment right here, and there's also the just-unwrapped Fantasy Tour de France game with a £600 KHS road bike up for grabs for the best Directeur Sportif out there. And more schwag on the way! Stay tuned...
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Bike Week approaches, seven days of celebrating cycling in all its forms, so what better way of doing just that than by winning a truly cool frameset designed to give you ultimate cycling versatility - the Kinesis Tripster. All you've got to do is tell us what bike you ride in the comment field below, if you've got more than one bike you only need mention your main one (you can list 'em all too if you want though).
The Tripster is designed to be fast, precise and adapatable – in fact that's the motto on the top tube. This is a supremely versatile frame made from double butted 7005 series aluminium that can be built up loads of different ways and will do the business whatever role you build it up for.
You can set it up with 700c wheels and drops, or as a 26in wheeled machine with slicks, or as a all terrain commuter/weekend racer with 700x33 cross tyres. Or any combination of the three that suits. Pretty much any way you build it up the Tripster makes an ideal fast commuter, the design is based on the highly successful Kinesis Crosslight frames but with some commuter friendly touches such as a slightly taller head tube for a more upright traffic-scoping riding position.
Our lucky winner gets the choice of either an Aqua Blue or Supergloss Black frameset in a size to suit and to make you look even more the part there's some Decade Ts in the mix too, all courtesy of our friends at Upgrade. If you want to get an idea of what you can do with it check out our other Tripster gallery.
Cos it's such a good prize we'll be running it through Bike Week and we'll pick the winner at tiffin time next Friday (25th), Usual Schwag Grab Rules apply, and remember all you have to do is comment and tell us what bike you ride… why? Well, we're just nosey really plus road.cc is supposed to be a site for all types of cyclists who ride on the roads and we want to find out how we're getting on.
To can find out more about the Tripster and the Decade range of bikes visit the Kinesis Decade website http://kinesisdecade.co.uk/
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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Specialized Ruby, my winter/commuting bike's (Pinnacle Sentinal) poorly as some muppet managed to run us over
An Enigma something. A Condor fixie. A Specialized made-out-of-bits. A Cotic. And a Pashley. What a tit!
Last bike i rode was my salsa fixed yesterday! I came off it so i deserve a new frame for all my troubles!
Giant TCX-0 or Flandria FCS1 at the weekends.
Boardman team road bike is the main one.
+pompino+jake the snake+voodoo wanga
Giant SCR 2
1997 Kona Hahanna mtb w/slicks
Merlin Malt 1 whenever I can
.... and hopefully a Kinesis Decade Tripster cyclecross set-up in the future
I ride a Planet X superlight.
I ride a holdsworth triath élan
Fort ROT7005
Giant TCR TT
PlanetX superlight
Marin Mt Vision FRS
Trek 1200 circa 1999 for daily commute
Fuji CCr1 2009 for special occasions
A new frame so that i could retire the ancient Dawes Giro 300 (back up commuter)would be much appreciated!
I was riding a Dawes Super Galaxy or a reconstructed 1980s Raleigh until the summer. But then I got a Moulton APB and haven't ridden anything else this summer.
Day to day riding on a twenty year old Chas Roberts custom made frame set up as a fixed wheel
A Windcheetah, Three wheels good, two wheels bad
Who me? A Trek Pilot 1.2
Smooth: Specialized Allez triple
Rough: Kona Blast deluxe
Back-up: Vitus 979
A 15 year old Trek 320, which is a bit like Trigger's Broom
Trek Soho - Commuter
Focus Killer Bee - Hard tail
Marin Kentfield - Rusty shopper
etc...
I ride a Giant scr-c4
I've just built up an Orbea Carpe Diem.
Very similar to the Kinesis Decade Tripster.
Carbon frame and forks with disk, mudguard and rack mounts.
Xt disk hubs, Maxic CX33 700c rims.
Shimano Ultegra drivetrain.
Flat bars with Deore hydraulic disks and R700 10-speed trigger shifters.
My latest favorite bike is my Salsa La Cruz.
It can do anything!
custom built Kona paddywagon
'05 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR120 for off-road
'99 Rockhopper for lugging Stumpy Jr (aged 3) around
'10 Boardman Team Carbon for my new on-road adventures
Tripster would neatly fill that CX bike-shaped hole in the garage!
Defy 2 and a Specialized Tricross.
But a Decade bike is rrrrrrrrrrrrright up there on the wishlist!
That frameset's worth nearly as much as my entire bike cost when new: my 2007 Trek 7.6FX, in metallic red, with back rack & mudguards added to make it a practical utility bike.
I have 4 bikes, 3 of which I ride regularly, they are:
Planet X SL Pro Carbon with 2010 Ultegra
Focus Variado 2007
Qubic Fixed Gear Road Bike with full guards
I have four bikes. Apart from the old Ridgeback 602 mountain bike that I've had for 21 years and which has clocked well in excess of 30,000 miles/50,000 km, I have two other mountain bikes although one is on its way out of my house as it is no longer required and I have a buyer. But my no 1 favourite is my GT Speed series framed BMX race bike. I have done some short trips on this too, though the Ridgebacks are my main commuters.
Obviously a new lightweight frame would be a nice addition to the fleet - something I don't have at present.
I ride a Specialized Langster
A GF Mako with a poorly hub mostly
but got a giant defy and a kona kula for weekends...
a Trek 7.3FX.
I need an upgrade
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