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We have a winner! Christmas Schwag Grab Specialized Allez Double worth £500

Win a bike for Christmas!

Golly where did Christmas Eve go? And that bottle of egg nog… and the other one? Luckily there's still time to announce our Christmas Schwag Grab winner and give someone an extra and unexpected Christmas pressie, and that someone is…

timmers

The fickle finger pointed his way and Santa says he's been good too so the shiny red, and nearly new Speicialized Allez will be heading North West just as soon as we get back to the road.cc offices. Treat it well timmers we've grown very attached to that Allez shaped box which has been an integral part of the road.cc these last few months. While you're enjoying your new bike some of us will be looking for new places to balance our mugs of tea while fettling bikes. Ah well, them's the breaks.

timmers wins the Specialized Allez Double we tested back in the summer when described it as a "Benchmark setting entry level road bike that'll help you rack up the miles in comfort".

The Allez Double normally sells for £499.99… let's call it £500 then, and for that you get an A1 Specialized aluminium frame with the same distinctively curbed top tube as the higher end Tarmac models. It's all really well finished and there are even eyelets for attaching a rack if you wanted to try some fast touring or commuting. Upfront is a carbon fork which along with some skinny chainstays does a lot to kill road buzz and makes for a comfy ride. Geometry is racy but not ridiculously so. Drivetrain is an eight speed Shimano 2300 12-25 set up on a 53-39 chainset. It handles well, it's plenty upgradeable and most importunely of all that red paint job makes it look fast and Christmasey too which is apt cos postie permitting one lucky road.cc user will be riding it this Christmas. Okay it'll probably be closer to the 12th day of Christmas than the big day itself but it'll be something special to look forward to and certainly an improvement on 12 drummers drumming.

We'll have another schwag grab… soon. 

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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Chuck | 13 years ago
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Some top schawg prizes lately! So yes please.

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Karl Merckx | 13 years ago
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i'd love that bike down the chimney!

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TheBigMong | 13 years ago
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Want!

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cslattery | 13 years ago
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Oooooooooohhhhh!

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nickpeters | 13 years ago
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Count me in!

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Team_Banana | 13 years ago
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First dibs

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olof195 | 13 years ago
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Would be perfect in Sweden

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xcstu | 13 years ago
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Santa Please  4

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dodgyrog | 13 years ago
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ooh yes

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dtd | 13 years ago
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just the ticket

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grahamdenny | 13 years ago
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It will match my Santa outfit.  36

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martyntr | 13 years ago
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me, me, me, me, me, please, please please, please........  2

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auric | 13 years ago
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perfect, yes please

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zenon | 13 years ago
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Xmas time!

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bigheads | 13 years ago
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i have room for one!

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neil peart | 13 years ago
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Can you not make winning a bit more of a challenge? I'm typing this one-fingered on my laptop mounted to my TT bars, sitting on a turbo with an arm in a sling after having screws in a busted shoulder - now I feel I've earned the right to enter the competition!

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pickles | 13 years ago
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I've been good, honest!  19

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alp777 | 13 years ago
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Oui, Oui, Oui!

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SteveAustin | 13 years ago
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tick

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Chay | 13 years ago
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Red like my cheeks! Both pairs

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Jaybee1978 | 13 years ago
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Last chance to win in 2010?!

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chrisp1949 | 13 years ago
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just send it now!

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r.r | 13 years ago
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Yes Yes!! I am in.

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vsmith1 | 13 years ago
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Oh yes please

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gingernash | 13 years ago
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yes please santa, yes please.

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Tuffmonkey1908 | 13 years ago
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Me likes. Can I have please thank you

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eddie11 | 13 years ago
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yes please yes please yes please, ive been good

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DM | 13 years ago
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yes please

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Tim Print | 13 years ago
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That would make my Christmas!

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neil.almond@goo... | 13 years ago
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I'm in

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