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.
oh yes please
Would be an incentive for my wife to get fit, so yes please
Mark Doherty
ooh, yes please!!!
nice, choose me please!!!
Jon, it may be you LOL
Yes please, count me in.
Had a s*&^ week I deserve this!
solentine
Ta very much (in advance).
Count me in
i might start believing in Santa again if he brings me this !
Some top schawg prizes lately! So yes please.
i'd love that bike down the chimney!
horscategorietours.blogspot.com
Want!
Oooooooooohhhhh!
ConZoR
Count me in!
Raindropsandrimbrakes.blogspot.com
First dibs
Would be perfect in Sweden
Santa Please
ooh yes
just the ticket
It will match my Santa outfit. 
perfect, yes please
Xmas time!
i have room for one!
..L
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!
I've been good, honest!
Oui, Oui, Oui!
tick
Red like my cheeks! Both pairs
Last chance to win in 2010?!
just send it now!
Yes Yes!! I am in.
Oh yes please
yes please santa, yes please.
Me likes. Can I have please thank you
yes please yes please yes please, ive been good
yes please
I'm in
Will it be gift wrapped!
Would love a bike with gears 
Nice one Santa!
Bendy
Suppose so...
Seeing as its Christmas could I have one in red?
Yes, please.
A little too big for me, so don't rush to pull my name out
yes please
For teh first time evar let me win sumfink. Winning a spesh will be aces!.
Giddiup
Ho Ho Ho! It's MINE!!!
That'd make a nice winter bike. Yes please.
Just noticed it's my size too!
yes please
Well Iam up for this one dudes, the last bike I got for Christmas was a Raleigh Chopper, its a bit small for me now, at least this is the same colour anyway.
say no to the engine!
mmm shiny
make a nice pressie for the mrs…
Red ones go faster!
Yes please, me want.
This would go great with the new pedals I've just bought...
Cycling would be fine if that bike were mine!
Nice. Count me in.
Would make the perfect gift for my wife
Please.
ok if I dont win I will settle for the eggnog and mince pie, ta....
Get me out of here.
Allez Allez, It would be just something to get specialprized at Christmas.
Bud
Count me in please!!
Please count me in.
Thanks
Bianchi on the road.
NMD in the water.
Ideal - in red, I'll be able to find it easily if I fall off into a snow drift!
Besides, red is scientifically proven to be the fastest colour of all.
Allez! Allez! Allez!
yes please
Great for the new year!!
peajaybee
oooh damn that would look ideal under me.!
please please please.. me!

Red is just sooo my color
I'm in!
Fingers crossed!!
Allez! Allez! Vite! Vite!
Me please, I could do with a new bike and it would match my team kit perfectly!
Bath Cycle Races
A circuit road race series taking place in Victoria Park, Bath, every Wednesday night throughout May.
i should co co
Please Santa, I need this for spouse so he can come out pedalling with me.
You have no idea how much I need a new bike!
'Curbed top tube'? Is that naughty top tube threatening to go on the rampage again? Tch tch.
Put it in my care, I'll curb it's ramblings. You'll have no more worries about top tubes going berserk. Trust me, all my top tubes are well under control.
Red hot - thanks
Cor blimey, guv!
Scarface Ninetoes

Yes please!
Allez, Allez, Allez!!! Yes Please.
All I want for Christmas is a shiny red bike!
Merry Christmas everybody enjoy the egg nog

Yes, it would be most desirable to have this bike.
Yes please...
merry xmas
My first ever post, please Santa, lol.
Yes please in this season of good will
everyone wants a red bike for christmas! me please!
Lovely fetching red!
Santa please cring me this bike 
If your not living on the edge you take up to much room.
yarrrrr
They're gorgeous. Me, please!
Yes please - I need something to go out on with my little boy on his first bike this year!
It will be a perfect match for my eyes on New Year's Day! Yes please!
ChrisS
This would make an excellent replacement for my 07 Allez!
All I want for Christmas is one of those!!
Feisty
Yes please! Merry xmas!
I'll come and collect!
TROUBLE (double)
Allez (me) up!
Pretty please - cherry on top, natch!
Count me in!
wheel it my way please..
Decide if its too cold and wet after the ride...
yes please
ME ME ME, attach the sleigh and i'll do the present deliveries !
Red & white, just right for Santa.
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TedC
I can't find room for another, count me out.
antonio
nice color.
can i have it by christmas?
Lovely!
yes pleeaasse
Oh yes, I'd love a shiny slightly used thing of beauty like this 
This bike is no Christmas Turkey..Yes please
Allo Allez
Very yes please!
Send it on over.
Forced myself to stop dribbling long enough to get a comment up.
I need this.
Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...
Yes please
I might as well try! Please..!
this is special!!!
i would be double-happy to win it!!!
Allez le schwag!!!
My mate has the 2010 allez sport and absolutely loves it. I'd love to see how this bike compares.
Go Go, Allez, Double
Mmm 56cm, I think I may need my other Christmas wish to come true...grow another 2'' (unlikely at 35)!
I'll have it, ta.
Go on then yes please
red bikes are fastest. Yes please.
Pale Ale
that's a special double, a great bike and a New Years resolution too.
A red bike would be great
'Tis the season to be cycling, tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-lah!
go on then please
No thanks it's too big for me.
Yes please!
one can never have too many bicycles !!!!!
Ah, go on go on go on!
Yes, yes, yes; me, me, me; please, please, please!
Bloomin' heck, the prizes just get better and better.
Matches my Santa suit. Count me in 
me too
Wouldn't it be nice.....
Count me in too!
mmmmm its shiny me likes! A great entry level bike for the missus.
I'm in!
O lord, won't you win me a Specialized Allez?
My friends all ride Bromptons, I must make amends.
Rode hard all my lifetime, no dynamo friends,
So Lord, won't you win me a Specialized Allez?
I'd feel rather special with a bike like that!
Yh, why not.
My size and my colour. Perfect.
Just what the doctor ordered!!
Like Road CC it's red all over! Yuk did I think that up?
Argon Welder
ME ME ME!
COS THE WIFE'LL NEVER PICKUP THE HINT AND BUY ME A ROAD BIKE FOR XMAS!
An Allez...ooo yes please!!
Go on, I do need another bike, really. 
No lumps of coal please!
Wow, yes please
Present sorted then.
Come on Santa, you'll need some extra help delivering the pressies! ....
Annie
Pretty please with a bright red cherry on the top!
Merry Christmas Everybody!
Count me in
I'm not sure if Santa's sack is big enough but yes please !!!
New bike would be great....new legs even better!
Oui , s'il vous plaît
Could I have two please? In pink?
christmas is a time for giving.... yes please!
New bike for Christmas please
Will it have santa' sleigh at the back and a shiny nose.?
Ride hard
A winter beater - lovely
It must be mine!
yes please, can't wait until end of March when the clocks go back, I can ride into work again. Hate getting the bus.
Nice
Red. My favourite colour. Yes please, over 'ere gov'nor.
Red would match my face when giving it some..!!!!
jasonchatty31
Yes please!
Oh yes!
Will extra strong sherry make Santa see Double this year?
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
I never win anything, so make this my special Xmas
Drop it down my chimney please! (Gently, though)
yippie!
Not got a chance, well maybe just a small one....
Fantasy Tour de France Winner 2010
Tour Down Under Purist Winner 2012
Tour of Qatar Purist Winner 2012
red bikes are best - please pick me!
Me in the hat please
That would be lovely! Me please.
A colour that makes me look fast, now that's my kind of bike.
It's not my Ribble, but it'll do for rides to the shops so "Yes Please"
It would match my suit on Christmas eve
matches my santa suit lovely
Getting into the spirit here...
"Oh what fun it is to ride on my Specialized Allez......" 
It'll be a match for my eyes on New years morning.
That'd go lovely with my other red bike so yes please
My mate just got one of these. Flippin brilliant bikes for the money
Yes please!!! It would replace my one that got nicked in August nicely!!!
The Specialized Allez, a great classic bike
Explore, Dream, Discover
Yes please.
could i have it by christmas please
gears
Yes please! Count me in!



























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