Kinesis Decade Tripster schwag: we have a winner!
Tell us what bike your ride and win a Kinesis Decade Tripster frameset worth £500
Kinesis Decade Tripster (black)
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/
I ride a Giant Defy.
I ride a BeOne Storm 1.0
Depends where I'm riding
Surosa Toleda today
Known as Greg Collins to his friends and enemies alike.
I ride;
A Giant SCR2.0 with upgrades in nice weather
A Surly Long Haul Trucker built up with cast off bits from the Giant on nasty days, the commute, touring and on towpaths &c
A Brompton S3L when I need to work late, get the train somewhere, or run errands in town.
--
"Tant que je respire, j'attaque!"
Most days, a Brompton M6R
Planet-x Superlight
Gary Fisher Ferrous SingleSpeed
On-One 456
Giant NRS
I've mostly been falling off the 456 and Ferrous recently.
Dry days - Boardman Team Carbon. Wet days - Orbea Enol.
I commute on a Boardman Hybrid Team and do my mountain biking stuff on a Boardman Mountain Pro, i also have an old raleigh renolds 501 frame custon build that i used to race on and TT on, but it's tres old!
dan Daren't But He Did anyway
Specialized Allez "frankenbike" with 105 and other miscellaneous bits
Kona Paddywagon
currently riding a CUBE streamer 08 [orange and black]
Ksyrium SL wheels
Deda zero 100 stem / seat post
Deda Newton Bars
full RIVAL groupo
I ride a Trek 1.5 and I'm also riding a semi-restored Dawes Milk Race that I've singlespeeded.
My main bike is a Olowski track bke
Cotic Roadrat and Merlin Malt4
Planet-X superlight in the dry
Giant SCR in the wet
And my FRANKENBIKE sometimes
Damn it man......pedal faster!!
Trek 7200
...because it's the only bike I've got and the one I started my riding with last year.
Kinesis Maxlight XCpro2 on the singletrack
Kona Kapu ´95 on the tarmac
Long Rides - Specialized Secteur Elite
Rough Rides - Specialized Rockhopper
Town Rides - Dahon Vitesse
For town a Genesis One Fixie, for touring a Saracen Skyline 'bitsa'recently upgraded to brake lever/gearshifters. Though I still catch myself reaching for the frame mounted one.
Currently neglecting my Boardman Pro Carbon Race Prepared and Boardman Team Carbon!
All the gear and no idea!
Specialized S-Works M2 (got it in the mid nineties, fully rigid, very old school) for off road duties
Giant OCR for the roadie rides...
Bianchi 928 - Nice weather
Giant OCR3 - Winter/Rain/Turbo
Felt B2 - TT Bike
and a couple of those muddy mountain bike things we don't talk about on Road.cc!!
2009 Cotic Roadrat with Alfine
or
2005 Orbea Gavia
or
2007 Setavento Custom Audax
Audaxing Blog - Long Distance Cycling @vorsprungbike on Twitter
I'm on a Kinesis Racelight TK with 105 group and second-hand DA wheels. Why? Because its a fine all-year round machine.
I ride a Raptobike Lowracer the majority of the time.
Bianchi Xenon 2010
I've got a functional and not too expensive Gary Fisher Wingra (2009 model). (Wet or dry!)
Merida Scultura Evo Team
Traitor lugged single speed everyday | Look 585
Road: Specialized Tri-Cross SS
Off-Road: Cannondale F900SX with a Lefty Fork
A ride a day keeps the frown away!
Yes please!
I ride a Voodoo Dambala 29er 853 Hardtail
and
a Viking 1958 frame cabbaged into a Singlespeed around town
Cheers!
Scott addict
Road: Focus cayo 105 - 2009
OffRoad: Scott scale 30 - 2008
just blagged an old Kinesis Racelight T of ebay for winter geared duties so another to make into a 26in monster cross type thing would be grand.
(and hey maybe i might just win a schwag grab for once..)
Genesis Equilibrium
today: and early ninties giant peloton converted in to a steathly fixed gear hack/winter trainer
On the weekend: my lovely Bob Jackson Olympus Road
Carpe Diem ab absentis: seize the day off
I ride a 1980s Raleigh triathlon i found in a skip, so a new frame would be super, please & thank you.
a shed of a kuota kharma, i don't even lock it up and it still never gets stolen 
Giant TCR Composite ONCE Team
depending on circumstance: 1970s raleigh TI track frame, bob jackson vigorelli, condor acciao or fratello, or a planet x stealth.
Giant TCR Advanced 1 for posh at the weekends, old Viner monocarbon comp for rain and commuting. Planet X Stealth with a funny hat when I want to be disappointed at how fast I can't ride.
All the gear...
I ride Specialized Dolce
2 please
2008 Bianci via nirone c2c...when my knee is working!
Yes please!
Riding a Cannondale CAAD9 4
Hi! My main commuter is self built on a Tifosi audax frame; 700c drop-bar 9 speed.
I ride a Raleigh Team Banana.
Kona Unit 29er
On-one Inbred
Planet X Superlite
Kona Major Jake
Revolution Cross
So something a little lighter would be great
for me - The ride is about adventure, camaraderie and the sense of accomplishment that comes after a long day in the saddle.
An Argon 18 Platinum for me ....
Most days, an old steel single speed of indeterminate origin. Weekends is when the Alan Richards tandem comes out to play.
ooh shiny lovlyness...yes please
I rides a Spesh S-WORKS and a GT rigid singlespeed
Charge Duster ti
Focus Cayo 2007
Cotic ROADRAT
Just an ageing Coyote Manitoba, Frankenstein'ed-to-f*ck with whatever I find to thrash it round any trail I find...
Find more of my rubbish here
A 2008 Giant SRC 3
Ridley Orion
Generic 'made in China' steel single-speed badged as a Dawes SST
trek 1400 road from 2005
iron horse warrior pro 9.0 mtb from 2000
Either:
- LeMond Versailles (full carbon road bike)
- Marin Point Reyes ("Urban"/MTB)
- Dahon Mu Uno (Single Speed folder)
Today....I'd riding a Cotic Roadrat
I ride the subway. 
I ride a steel frame road bike built by Paul Villiers for long day rides
A gary fisher triton single speed around town and to and from work
That frame looks nice
Giant Defy
For commuting: an aging Marin Point Reyes hybrid.
For weekends: an Orbea Aqua T105 CT road bike.
Mostly my Planet X Uncle John.
Single-speed Kona Hoss for commuting, Trek 2.3 for road. The Hoss has a cracked top-tube due to a careless and anonymous colleague so a new frame would be smashing!
Dolan fixie for commuting. Merlin Malt 3 for mtbing. Litespeed Capella for sportives and weekend road rides. All due for retirement.
Jim
My GTR Aggressor XC3 gets me to and from work every day.
when it's sunny ... my less than "stock" trek 1.9
when it's not ... slot dropout inbred 
still on the 3rd switch-back of Bwlch !
I have a stack of wheels here,and for once they all fit;-)
Various,recumbent,road,i just like biking.
Kiron MTL Blade
genesis croix de fer
currently molesting a older giant tcr composite once!
GT Transeo 3
Cube Streamer 2007 Triple (The granny gear is my friend).
trek 7200
Kona Chute
Cannondale Jekyll
Trek 1.7c
Intense Uzzi DH
Cannondale F900
Trek Fuel 80
and for crooozin
Electra 8 Ball
I've almost finished my winter project, A Kinesis T2 frame(light blue & white).It's going to have it's first outing tomorrow.
I'm still looking for some cheap white rimmed wheels? Anyone know of any? Freewheel not fixie though.
Orbea linea because I decided "if you can't do the etape and marmotte on that you ain't going to do it something carbon". Proved correct by the number of pinarello princes I rode past whose owners were pushing them up the hautacam.
Oh,and a Santa Cruz Blur XC
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
A brommie, a Pompino, a Soma, a Holdsworth, and a Saracen , not all at once 
Raleigh 20 3 speed twist grip 1976 ...
(british racing green)
oooooooo, disc-brake-road-frame-tastic! 
I currently ride a 1980's Apollo (yes, that one) Equippe made from Hi-Ten.
Currently riding a Ridley Excalibur, well not right now but you know what I mean
Bob Jackson and a Mercian. Best of British!
i ride a planet x superlight pro carbon!
Condor Italia
Condor Italia Cross
Cube Aerium
and a Kinesis Decade perhaps???
Yes please its got my name on it.
solentine
I love the Raleigh 20 in BRG - superb
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Serious Unrivaled 8 Speed Nexus
(although I love MTB/road- I'm on the commuter most of the time!)
Currently on a Carrera Virtuoso whkch has turmed into a bit of an upgrade project
Saracen zen 1 MTB
Chinese-made cheap and nasty "2007 World Scout Jamboree" MTB - looking for something better
cboardman team hybrid, just went with me all over Holland. Ya - i know it's flat.
mainly ride a 20 quid ebay frame set up as a fixed.
Brooks Colt saddle,
cheap fixed Suzue wheels.
Plantet x bars.
old athena chainset running 44*17
looks cool my old kinesis is showing its age so this would make a dogs replacement
SteveM
Commute on a brompton
Giant Defy 2 roadbike
Kona Paddy Wagon (08)
Genesis Equilibrium
Yes, please.
Specialized Roubaix Pro for me.
Revolution Track Fixed wheel
Dawes Audax Sport
Dawes Onetrack - seemed a good idea at the time.
dfpalmer
Commute on a Dahon Speed Pro TT, cruise the seafront on a Single Speed Specialized Hard Rock 
I ride a Specialized Sirrus and a Trek 1400
Ooh. Count me in, please. It's me birthday on Friday.
My rides?
Road race: Wilier
MTB: Rocky Mountain
Commute: Genesis
Winter trainer: Orbit
Retro: Velos Fougere (John Fern)
Hack: Dawes hybrid
I do a 30 mile daily commute on a Ridgeback Element
Pity me ... and gimme the swag
In the dry: Cinelli Genius steel frame from 1999 with Campag Record group from 2006-08.
In the wet: Bob Jackson Club Audax, with old Campag Record brakes, changers, hubs etc, and Campag Racing T drivetrain.
Shopping: Kona Explosif 1989 with much part substitution and fettling, rack and mudguards, swaps between drops and straights about as often as Mrs Bikeylikey changes hairstyles.
i need a bike, as my 17 year old mtb 'al carter' should be retired...
I ride every day a Colnago Dream in The Mapei Colours, I am retired but get in about 100 miles in a week at my own pace. I also have a Fausto Coppi San Remo with Gold accessories that I built myself with bits fron EBay
Schwinn Fastback Pro for the sunny weekends
custom Dolan TT for racing against the clock
Regal Jester as the commuter
I ride (you've guessed it) a Giant TCR, Simon Burrows signature compact Aluminum frame from about 2004 (or possibly earlier). Would love this to replace or turn into a single speed commuter.
Boardman Team Carbon or Focus Mares Cross.
Ribble 7005SL
Peugeot 525 Comp for muddy days
Scott CR1 Pro (my new baby
)
Lapierre s lite 500 (now my winter baby)
My main ride is a Wilier Mortirolo.
Humm, mostly a Gary Fisher Triton.
I mostly ride a steel 1986 Trek 560 with the only upgrades being Shimano 600 8 speed "Brifters" (man I hate that term) and a 1990's vintage Ritchey DS Pro wheelset. I may be (a) poor (fool) but I still love to ride!
Kona Jake the Snake.
ooh add my name to the hat please!
modded dawes galaxy when i have luggage,
Ribble nero rc Centaur Carbon when it's sunny
and a fixed conversion road bike when i want to get to the pub.
Nigel Dean classic lightweight tourer, 531, saddlebag and mudguards, I'm not a carbonised pensioner-yet.
antonio
a specialized 99' steel rockhopper all tarted up for the off road stuff... a kona jake the snake for the lets go to work stuff and a Focus Cayo DuraAce for the lets go race stuff
Bazzzzzzza
Commencal hard-tail on the dirt ... Giant Simple cruiser very occasionally (round the park on a sunny Sunday), Felt F75 on the road, ie, to work and back every day.
Bloubiker
A Colnago Master
(I wish more people would ask me this question)
When it is sunny I ride a Ridley Helium custom build
Usually s Specialized Allez or Charge Plug
Focus Variado 2008
That kinesis frame looks perfect for my commuter bike project.
ProLite Carbon TT bike with Campag, Giant Defy 4 and a Claud Butler mtb 
Cyclists do it on their bikes!!
Me Please, oh Please let it be me, mee, mee!
The time of heroes is dead: the christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs, fear and shame!
Mine's a Genesis Aether for best and a motley selection of hybrids for getting to and from work.
Mike
Commute - Dolan Track (Fixed) 66GI
Fixed Road - Condor Pista 66GI
Road - BMC SL01
Mostly Claud Butler Venturer 200 for commuting & trailer hauling.
Specialized tricross comp
Felt Dispatch Fixed Road
Spot Singlespeed MTB
gary fisher bigsur
Planet x Kaffenback
Blair
Summer commute Boardman comp
Winter commute an old Raleigh Max sort of hybridized thingy
Wez
Boardman Team Carbon me!
OK
1983 Raleigh Record Sprint (fixed)
Genesis Day One 'cross (fixed commute, freewheel off road)
Salsa Casseroll (geared with carbon campag stuff)
always room for one more though!
communter; Giant Aluxx hardtail with Polisport front child seat and trailgator with Raleigh 14" y-frame attached...
we're convoy!
"Inside every car is a pedestrian, just Waiting to get out..." S.J.L.
Most days: On One Il Pompino
Most miles: Mercian Classic
Kinesis 4t for road/tour
Rock Lobster 853 for off road
Ribble mountain bike (!) for commute
Lemond Fillmore
I ride a Kona Dew Drop to work & back every day, so yes please!
Commuter is a Spesh 'Globe' 1, weekender is my old Maverick ML7.
Genesis Flyer. This'd fill the 'geared road bike' hole in the stable quite nicely.
Scott CR1 Team.
So clearly I need something a bit more versatile too..
Giant TCX
Kona Kula
This would be an amazing addition, or a great bike for the Mrs!
I ride a FUJI Cross Pro with discs and 42mm tires and I like it.
www.cx-sport.de - - - -cx market survey
Bonjour!
This would Commencal my Meta 5 and Casseroll in my Salsa!
This week I've mostly been riding my Specialized Tricross Singlecross. Fixed of course.
2008 GT Agressor XC2- but i'm looking to build a road bike for my cycling world record attempts!!!
David Clark- Competing in the 1st ever Global race, covering 18,000miles in over 20 Countries. 18th February 2012.
While trying to break the following world records at the same time;
- Fastest person to cycle the world
-Youngest person to cycle the wor
I ride a Carrera Vanquish and a Boardman CX pro (Halfords x 2).
... ... need more speed!
I ride a Pinarello FP3 and a Massi
BaggyBoy999
Merida 904 compact Road Race or Merida Cyclo cross 3
or in the winter an old steel Peugeot Optimum 14.
But I am at least 1 bike short
I ride a Cotic Soul (off road) and a Trek 1.1 (on road)
I ride a Dawes KaraKum - but I want a speddy racing machine. Help!!!!
Planet-X or Cannondale Capo depending on my mood.
i ride a bianchi mono-q, amongst others.
Unicycle
Cotic Roadrat
Thorn
Brompton
Dawes
GT
he with the most bikes wins.
Enigma steel frame beauty, Look CF race bike and an old 80's Raleigh 531 frame built as a single. Would love this one to round off the stable
Canondale R800
Condor Pista EOM
Merlin XLM
Orange P7
BeOne Black
I ride a Genesis Flyer. Mudguards, discs, and the rack option would be awesome for the new 25km commute.
Round town a salvaged Marin Pallisades trail and for trying to get fit rebuilt 1990's Peugeot road/race bike.
Doing Nightrider 2013 for Parkinson's UK
I attempt to ride a Ribble winter trainer with full tiagra on road and a Carrera Fury off road.
verenti rhigos 02
Old Kienesis cross light an assortment of old parts
Schwag me up! I ride a Kona Jake, a Rock Lobster Team Ti, a Giant OCR3 or a Kona Explosif single-speed conversion. Depending on my mood and location in the world.
A custom Comtat Tourmalet on the road, a Canyon Nerve XC on the mountain and a 1970's Gitane frame converted to a single speed to & from work
I ride a Cannondale Capo
joe waugh columbus SL
ride a unamed steel frame would be nice to have a bike with a name on it and would love to have a new kenesis as they are a really nice frame builder leys hope eh fingers crossed
Specialized Secteur Elite - anytime, any weather...
I ride a,Boardman road comp during the week and a Boardman pro carbon at the weekend.
Today, I was riding a Ritchey Breakaway, the day before a Kuota Kross, the day before my Colnago, before that a Battaglin - but there's always room for another
Make mine an Italian with Campagnolo on the side
I ride a Cervelo SLT and a Trek 6000 Series.
I ride a Specialized Tricross single converted to a fixed
I would sell my own mother for one of those,
currently riding a 2005 specialized hardrock MTB
My three rides:
- Trek Madone 4.7 for the hours lost in the countryside
- Ridgeback Flight for the London commute
- A restored 1960s Claud Butler racer, with all original issue GB, Campag and Stronglight components - just for fun 
Cannondale Bad Boy (converted to singlespeed) for commuting
Boardman Road Team Carbon for long, sunny rides
Giant VT for offroad
Three is such an ugly number...
At the moment a 1966 Dawes in red. 531 (naturally). Down tube shifters. Heavy but all original. Sweet.
Kind Regards
Jono
my only bike is a Specialized Langster(08) british racing green
Ribble 7005
Aging GT Pantera
My road bike has a Kardan carbon fibre frame with all campag bits and pieces.
I also have an old Marin for off road / foul weather stuff (poor thing!)
2010 Specialized Allez Sport Double. I do everything on it. Kit includes Tubus rack, Ayup lights, Topeak pump, Giant saddle bag and, when commuting, Altura Dryline 56 panniers. I carry a lot to work..
Kinesis Racelight, great workhorse and do-it-all bike.
Van Nicholas Mistral, hmmmmmm titanium.
The Cotic Roadrat in singlespeed cyclocross mode is doing it for me at the moment.
It makes the commute a whole lot more fun.
Mines a Condor Squadra...
Ridley Damocles is my fine ride
Pale Ale
Solitude Cycles no.6 or the Ratbike most of the time...
On-One Ti cyclo-cross
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