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Cateye computer schwag: we have winners!

One each for three lucky road.cc readers...

Tiffin has been a bit of a damp squib today, as no-one was willing to leave the office to get caked up and we instead had to rely on Zipvit strawberry energy bars; not bad at all, but not tiffin. Anyway they've certainly perked us up enough to fire up the road.cc randomiser, and the names punched in binary on the ticker tape today are...

sfisher0, jak001 and jova54!

Looks like it was favouring the 'short letter sequence followed by some numbers' usernames today but it's a fickle beast, so if you didn't snap up a prize this time round you've every chance when we run our next grab, which will be soon! Stay tuned...

UPDATE: bizzarrely enough, the three people out of the hat were the first three people that entered. The odds of us picking these three out of the 350 peeps that entered are around 40 million to 1, so it's pretty weird. It is, of course, the same odds as picking any other combination of three entrants. That's random for you. The numbers the randomiser actually picked are 69, 144 and 156 as the comments are picked in order of user ID, not of posting time. Which kind of makes it even more weird. Or maybe less weird. We can't decide.

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Ah, le Tour. All over for another year, and we can all get on with our lives. In road.cc's case that'll be sorting out the Fantasy Vuelta game, we've had great fun playing the Tour de France one. Still, it'd be nice to carry round a little memento to remind you of all those incident packed days of the 2010 Tour, no? And we've got just the thing: jersey themed Cateye computers!

That's right, Cateye have taken their excellent Strada Wireless unit and give it a summer makeover. Whether you're a GC man, a sprinter or a mountain specialist you should find one to suit you. We've got one of each to give away courtesy of the nice chaps at Zyro, and it's as easy as ever to enter: all you have to do is comment below to be in the hat, Schwag Grab Rules apply of course. We'll make the draw on Wednesday 28th July at Tiffin or thereabouts. Good luck! If you don't luck out in the compo then the special edition computers are available from all Cateye retailers at £49.99, the same price as the standard Strada Wireless.

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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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zaaniwoop | 13 years ago
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a cool cat-eye on my bars would certainly make me purr!  16

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otterfire | 13 years ago
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Save one for me.....please!

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youngoldbloke | 13 years ago
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Me too - hope I'm not too late!

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rowes | 13 years ago
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Count me in please.
Thanks

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sryan123 | 13 years ago
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me please

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dave6779 | 13 years ago
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Yes please!

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CycleGringo | 13 years ago
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get some  26

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munded | 13 years ago
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Hells yes please!

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adscrim | 13 years ago
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count me in if I'm not too late!

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mellowmaloy | 13 years ago
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Yes please Sir.

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lboyman | 13 years ago
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Count me in!  1

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andrew261168 | 13 years ago
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I am happy to join in order to try and win this great prize

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chiefoldmist | 13 years ago
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Ooooohhhhh.......yes please

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shay | 13 years ago
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Green, yellow or polka dot - any one would be good so count me in thanks  16

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stevemoulder@mac.com | 13 years ago
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yes please, don't mind which one either!

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Dave_Weir | 13 years ago
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green for me please

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hagi | 13 years ago
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Too hard to choose, go dotty, yellow love, or green with envy!

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pomtarr | 13 years ago
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Count me in!

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tawnycam | 13 years ago
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Yes please.

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wildrnes | 13 years ago
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I love lamp

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Aidan | 13 years ago
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AA KOTM one for me please to match my jersey (but sadly not my climbing ability)  1

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rpkiller | 13 years ago
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Would be most useful for my commute/training  16

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guttertrash | 13 years ago
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Seems a bit odd that the first three people to post are the ones that won?

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nobled | 13 years ago
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I'd like one!!!  1

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londonplayer | 13 years ago
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Your computer probably isn't as randomised as you think. Just a thought....

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dave atkinson | 13 years ago
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We use www.random.org, which is certifiably random

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jova54 | 13 years ago
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Random enough for me.

Cheers guys.

The KoM one will go well with the red and white Peugeot rebuild.

After my less than impressive showing in the Fantasy TdF this is a welcome surprise.

Can't wait for the Fantasy Vuelta.

John

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handlebarcam | 13 years ago
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I see www.random.org claims to generate random numbers from atmospheric noise. Perhaps then this is proof that Einstein was right after all and "god does not play dice with the universe."

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dave atkinson | 13 years ago
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They use de-tuned radio receivers in three countries to generate the noise, apparently. Perhaps our winners have found a way of sending signals to them to win prizes. Or something.

Weird stuff does happen sometimes. I watched a program once about a guy who answered a ringing payphone to find his boss on the other end asking him a question about IT. Turned out he'd typed his payroll number in by mistake and that happened to be the number of the phone the chap was walikng past. Might be one of they urban legends I guess, but the guy seemed genuine...

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bentleywood | 13 years ago
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me too please

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