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Charge Plug Grinder schwag grab: we have a winner!

You told us where you live and now we're coming rou…oh wait a minute!...

Well we had a tremendous response to this rather special schwag grab, not surprisingly, and we now know where you all live (well, 1,100 of you anyway) which will help us in the long run to make the site more useful for everyone. More on that later. There can only be one winner though, so it was off to www.random.org to pick a winner. And that winner is...

... pregnant pause ...

mers hanson!

Yup, South-East-based mers is our lucky winner! he/she hasn't been on the site long, but long enough to share this gem with the readership, for which we're very grateful.

Sorry to everyone that missed out this time around but at least you can take solace in the fact that you've helped to make the site a bit better. There'll be another schwag grab along in a minute to help ease the pain...

Thanks to the guys at Charge Bikes for the prize!

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A shiny bike! A shiny bike to give away, to one of you, for free! Thanks to the inestimably generous Charge Bikes one lucky road.cc user will be walking away with a Charge Plug Grinder in not much more than a week's time.

Not familiar with the Plug Grinder? Well, it's a singlespeed, fashioned from Tange heat treated tubing and painted in a city-friendly olive green. The fork is Tange steel too, and most of the finishing kit is Charge's own brand gear, including the wheels and the excellent Spoon saddle. You get a Sugino-Messenger-powered drivetrain (42x16) and full colour co-ordinated metal mudguards which makes it a superb all-weather commuting and round town bike.

We think it's a cracking looking bike, and we're not alone. Of all the bikes that have come and gone from road.cc towers, not many have been as much admired as the Grinder. It really is pretty. And it can be yours.

"What do I have to do to win such a great prize", I hear you cry? Well there's the thing. It's not about commenting this time. Let me write that in big:

It's not about commenting this time.

Here at road.cc we're dedicated to UK cycling and we're always looking to improve our site. One of the things we want to be able to do is show you regional content, be it events or news or whatever. Some of our content is already tagged regionally, but we want to do more with it further down the line, and to do that we need to know where you, dear reader, are.

To that end, there's a new bit in your profile to fill in, and this is what you do:

1) Log in and click your name top left, where it says 'Hi [your name], welcome back'
2) Hit the edit tab and then click on Location
3) Choose a region from the drop-down menu and click on Save
4) That's it! If you're regional, you're in the hat.

If you don't have a user account, now's a good time to be creating one, eh?

This compo will run from now until Thursday 21 October at tiffin o'clock. Usual Schwag grab rules apply, and you might want to look particularly closely at the one concerning overseas postage for this grab. 

If you think you could be in two regions, just pick the one you'd most like to be in. Cheers!

If you want to talk about the compo or ask us anything about it or to do with our perverse and arbitrary division of the country… such as where is "Central South?" (it's that bit that's north of the South, but south of the Midlands… sort of nowhere, Milton Keynes and similar latitudes to be exact), then feel free to comment below. But remember: comments aren't entries on this one!

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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badbunny | 13 years ago
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Why does the NW of England get rolled in with Isle of Man?  7

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xcstu | 13 years ago
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ccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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youngoldbloke | 13 years ago
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- have I done it?

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cian power | 13 years ago
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would look good in waterford mite help get sum more subscribers,haha  4

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steve9686 | 13 years ago
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Nice and flat for a singlespeed in Reading!

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jonboy | 13 years ago
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Job done !!! Can i have a delivery date please >>>  1

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pllb | 13 years ago
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me please  1

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OneLooseNut | 13 years ago
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Ok. Followed instruction. But just like my TV: am I South East, London, or East Anglia. Can I have an option for no man's land?

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captain_pink | 13 years ago
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Me please? please? Please?

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mauricebeaton | 13 years ago
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oh go on then - i'll have it if you insist!  3

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SimpleSimon | 13 years ago
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ooer, I'd love it to bits

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andylul | 13 years ago
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Yay! I didn't win, thank feck for that...

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rugbyrichard | 13 years ago
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lovely bike, yes please

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bikingbadger | 13 years ago
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To make this competition truly global i think that this bike should be sent to someone in the Rest of the World  39 Quite possible Israel  31 And with the username bikingbadger  3

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vorsprung | 13 years ago
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Perhaps it looks worse in the photos but it doesn't look fantastic to me.

The colour for a start
And it doesn't have drops
And the rake on the fork looks like it's been in a head on already

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Mike McBeth | 13 years ago
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Done - happy in the south west ... but in Bristol we're close to Wales too - a fixie over winter would be fine!

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Tony Farrelly | 13 years ago
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@leelondon117 it's an old Trek - Tete de Course, woolen trainer top prob one of the first bits of cycling kit you can wear off the bike type clothing… basically a cycle themed wooly jumper. It's getting on a bit now, but I'd have to say it has stood up to the test of time really well. Yes, think that is Henri Desgrange's sig on the sleeve - other sleeve has a Nike swoosh and a moth hole  1

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heliphil | 13 years ago
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just the thing for commuting in Essex

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outfoxed | 13 years ago
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sorted , would love a new singlespeed!

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wilhay | 13 years ago
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yes indeedy please..

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northernrebel | 13 years ago
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I'll be as fit as a butcher's dog if I use this for my Peak district commute.
http://www.sharemyroutes.com/routes/United-Kingdom/Tideswell-Derbyshire-...

Or dead!  39

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Myriadgreen | 13 years ago
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OOoooohhh! new bike! Please! Count me in to win! One day, oooneee day, I'll get some free stuff.

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Boneshaker | 13 years ago
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done and done

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kentdowner | 13 years ago
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Done, and done!!

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mrchrispy | 13 years ago
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stand down people....this one's mine!

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pingpong | 13 years ago
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I am sure that I can make room for just one more me thinks  19

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Ms Morthern Rebel | 13 years ago
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I have never had a go on a single speed so it would be interesting to test it out around the peaks. Hard work too I imagine!

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pedalismo | 13 years ago
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Yes purlease.

I would, albeit reluctantly, chop my right arm off for this bike.

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russellb | 13 years ago
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Great ride to work

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herohirst | 13 years ago
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A great bike for a prize and from my home town of Frome too. Should I win then I promise to blast it up the cobbles in next year's annual hill climb.

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