We have a winner! Christmas Schwag Grab Specialized Allez Double worth £500
Win a bike for Christmas!
Specialized Allez 2010
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.
First post?!
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH MEE MEE MEE! 
Count me in please!
yes please...
Christmas Dreams do come true?!
Ohh boy can I. Pretty please!
Happy Christmas
It'd match my tree decorations! Yes Please.
Fantastic prize...
Yes please.
Does it come with wrapping paper and a bow
I never win anything 
This bike is beautiful 
Happy Christmas xxx
Merry Christmas.
You can ask Santa I've been really good this year & would love this to replace my crap old bike.
Yes please
A ride a day keeps the frown away!
Be a great pressie for my teenage daughter.... 'Allez our way merci'
Is this Santa's bike?
I'd like! 
yes please father christmas
even though I have a road bike already can I say "yes please - me me me!" 
Yes please
ahoy there! that be me lost treasure.
Lanterne Rouge
Yes Please.....early xmas present to myself
Just what i need
i'll throw my chamois into the ring
Dear Santa,
Please count me in. Thanks.
Is this taking up room in your offices? Shame, I'll be more than happy to relieve you of that problem!
Wow a big sparkly thing you can win. Yes please would make my Chrimbo.
let me lift that weight from you guys...ship it here
Spesh!
How about it...I never win anything...
could do with an upgrade,
cheers
61cm please.

Well, it is too big for me, but it would be fine for my eldest son, so please count me in
Allez, Allez!
I have been a very good boy this year. No really!! I have!!!!
And in my size too!
Nice
Double or quits.
Oui
Look at the shiny shiny
Can you put it on a hot wash to shrink it a bit???
Damn it man......pedal faster!!
Yes please!
I'll keep trying...
Allez, allez, allez!
A great replacement to my accident damaged Sirrus Sport
Count me in please 
It would look nice under the tree.
Ridire
It's Santa Colour! yes please!!!!!
A great replacement to my accident damaged Sirrus Sport
this would do the job especially after all the festivities to get back into trim count me in pleaseeeeeeeeeee
not for me but my son really needs this thanks
yes please
hi- cadence
yes please!
Just my size! Yes please.
Come on fickle finger of fate, finger me this time
Yes please
Count me in too
yee-haw!
pleeeze
I had a SMIDBL which wrote my bike off last week & need a new one...
this would look totally tremendous next to the blood red Ellis Briggs on my living room wall!
dan Daren't But He Did anyway
Arriba!
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
I don't believe in Santa but I might do after winning this
All I want for Christmas is a Specialized bike
Ian of Woodford
ooh yes please perfect for blitzing away the xmas/new year overindulgence.... 
Tres bon!!! count moi in !!!
That would fit nicely 
Is a facebook like of "I Am Specialized" enough to satisfy "join the prize sponsor's mailing list" (Schwag Grab rules)
Size don't matter but red is certainly the colour and if it's been run-in then that's fine.
It's a bike and it's going to be miiiine.
Doing Nightrider 2013 for Parkinson's UK
I don't have a red bike!?!??
Pick me and i'll ride it till the cows come home.
Nice fit for me.
I love my Secteur!
I can just see my rosy red cheeks parked on the saddle of that rosy red bike
Yes please
Oh yes please!
appy xmas!
OMG yes please!
Happy Chrimbo to all at road cc.
meluvsunshine
Allez toujours!
please santa, please
allez - givez moi un bicyclette
Beats my eight year old Trek hands down, so clearly I NEED a nice shiny Spesh for Xmas...
MikeTheBike
Red bike! Matches my toenails!

I do believe in Santa I do, I do!
Felix
shame it's a 56 .... oh no it isn't, oh yes it is .... 
still on the 3rd switch-back of Bwlch !
It matches my eyes...
Plus... be nice to say what we all say at Christmas 'Ohhh, look, just what I wanted' and...
actually mean it!http://road.cc/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Yahoo!/angry.gif

Ooooh yes please, that looks just the thing for me !
Mick
Yes please
Right here please.
yes please
I'm in for schwag!
Bring me sunshine, and dry roads
Go on - I'd love it.
I can't wait for santa to bring it down the chimley!!!!!
56cm please...
could do with a winter trainer!
Wow. YES PLEASE!!!!
Add guards and you got yourself a neat winter bike .... pick me please....
Makes a great Christmas present for whoever gets it,
Merry Christmas all regardless!
just what santa ordered
Got to give it a go.
Yes please!
yurp garn then
Looks nice,count me in please.
w00t!
bring me one santa
Mine
Just what the doctor ordered. Yes Pleeeese. Thank you in advance.
me please!
Dear Santa,
Allez Allez Allez!
looks very nice. Have I been a good boy this year?
Guy
Not too shabbeh
Very festive! Count me in!
it just my size and so matches my eyes!!! Go on Santa you know you want to!!
I'm in - new steed required!
Take it as red - a 56 will do fine for me!
THIS MAKE ME DO SEXY WEE.
Yes Please Sir.
Cool prize. Happy Christmas everyone!
Me please. Great winter bike
Allez in a manger
No crib for his bed
The little lord jesus
Loved his new schwag
hello yes please thanks
Hit me!
allez,allez,allez,oi,oi,oi yes please!!!!!
allez les rouges
Marsbar
Saves buying new tyres and a chain so I'll go for it. Ta
Merry Cringle
Put me in the draw please.
I would love to win this bike and I would use it loads but also take care of it
I'd like a nice red bike!
Give it to me pls Xx
it would be great to win this bike and to give it to my girlfriend so we can road bike together.
while i recover from a nasty fall from the second ramp at dolby forest (if you have been, you will know what i mean lol).
You've been treating it with love? Hopefully not this kind
!
If cycling is indeed a sport of self-abuse why aren't more cyclists sectioned under the mental health act?
Yes please - it'll save me cleaning my knackered old winter bike!
me too please!
yes please! will it fit in my xmas stocking?
Oooh yes please!
on the first day of christmas
Soon like my reptilian brothers the pterodactyl i will be free to soar the skies
True up yer wheelsets for the Baby Jesus!
That'd actually fit me perfectly.
Very nice, s'pose.
Liz Farrelly
It's very red - just the colour for Christmas - just decorate with a bit of holly and away you go = yes please.
This would get me so many gold stars off my other half - so yes please!
Perfect for my growing boy, nice piece of kit
This is on my list Santa.
Please!
si si si por favor...
... Soyez Realiste-Demandez L'impossible ...
Yes please!
Wow...you guys are the best! What a prezzie!
Looks like a Santa Special Ice!
I'm in!
thanks very much,I'll look after it..
Will it fit down my chimney?
Ride more, ride better
Yesh pleashe!
Me me me me me! Please.
errrrrrrr, totally made for me. can't see why it should not totally be me?!
Todeloo
count me in....
Need to get a bigger chimney !
giantforrest007
Ooooh I'd love that, I would even get a bigger tree for it to sit under.......Merry Christmas
Come to Daddy!
I'll make room then!
Yesh pleash.
pick me !!! Pick Me!!! PICK ME !!!!
Me please!
Would look good in my collection. Count me in, s'il vous plait.
yes please
Nathan
pleeeeese
go, go, go, ...
Ooh, a little brother for my Roubaix.
Please.
yes please 61cm!
Hshdp
Moi, s'il vous plait.
J'aime bien le specialized allez en rouge.
Allez vite.
I'm fat and fifty - I'm going as fast as I can!
Aww, too big for me
Climbing slowly since 2007...
That looks luverly, let me have a go please.
I'm soon going to be a Dad for the first time so my chances of buying a bike in the next 18-20 years are over...
... so please pick me !
Ah please Santa, Ive been a really good boy all year and I PROMISE to eat all my sprouts on Christmas Day....
A bike that doesn't squeak. That'd make a lovely change
WELL THIS WILL BE GREAT RIDE IN THE SNOW WILL IT BE MINE X
Shiny Shiny, pick me please, pick me please !!
Having recently had my bike stolen I could really do with winning this one. Merry Xmas
Ooh, happy Christmas for me please!
That would look lovely underneath my Christmas tree. 
GO ON That colour really suits the bike
Perfect size for me!
Moi silver plate. Allez Mainsewer
Kind Regards
Jono
please count me in too.
Merry christmas to everyone
"It never gets easier, you just go faster."
said Greg LeMond but i will go a lot faster on this than my 1981 raleigh, i hope.
Oh yes please
SteveM
I feel the need for speed
Allez allez vitement monsieur!
me, yes please!
Red bike
just like
my childhood trike
I would love a bike for Christmas








































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