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.
Red red one
Make mine a double
Yes, please. It would be an extra Christmas present to my girlfriend so we can road ride together.
me please
Ho! Ho! Yes perlease
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
yes please Santa, I've been good.
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Me Me Gimeeeee.
Merry Christmas! Yes please...
I need a little stocking filler - but a nice bike would do very well
Alg
Yes please.
Santa would look good riding that, think I remember someone riding in a santa suit last year...I'll pass it on to him 
Don't mind if I do! Love it
Ohhh yes please Santa
Simon
me please, me please, me please
Ohhh me please. Be my first road bike.
Yes please
We all like figgy pudding. Not as much as a Spesh Allez though.
me too
Yes please
Ho, ho, ho I am Santa and this monkey has been good. So therefore he deserves this 
Um... Yes please?
Allez Oops!!
Count me in please.
Wow, a new bike AND egg nog and mince pies.
I hope the smell doesn't cause sleep aponea!
I imagine that would be the quadruple egg nog, though.
all the same - please send me them all.
Christmas cheer to you all.
maybe later
Am I to late for this?
Fingers crossed.
yes thank you, please, and very much.
Allez, allez, allez!
santa baby this is just what I want to find under the tree please
Polly
In different curcumstances I'd be crossing my fingers but since my hands are so cold I've lost all feeling in them I've crossed the dogs' legs! Good luck everyone.
Ooh! Ooh! Eyelets!
Abs'lutely perfect for my commute!!!
Naked Seven
Orange Kish
Please may I have one?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Please, please, Ho! Ho! Ho!
mmmm.... had to sell my spech to fund christmas alas
so this would be awesome to win
looks very nice indeed. Though a bit to snowy on the roads to take it for a spin at the moment
Guy
Yes please
A ride a day keeps the frown away!
Yes please nice and red as well.
I would love to win this for my husband who has lost 5 stone since taking uo cycling earlier this year
yes please
I would like to be included in this fine prize over the festive period. Please accept this comment as participation in said draw.
Mr Donohue
Avid Readers Digest subscriber
The perfect Christmas present.
Count me in please
Yes please! This is the closest I'll be getting to a new bike for some time until my company sort out the whole Cycle to Work new regulations!
Can I have it with studded tyres ?
Allez le Allez straight to under my Christmas Tree, s'il vous plait! 
Merry Christmas!
Yes please!
in before the lock
Yes please
Count me in..!
It's a sad and lonely Christmas over here, help cheer it up a little . . . please!!!
in it to win it...maybe
Count me in please.
Count me in!
Lovely Bike. Yes please.!!!
Great photo and summary of this fab looking bike. Winning it would make my year - and next year too! Fingers crossed!
Please Santa, bring me a nice new bike for Christmas!
Ho ho ho!
Je voudrais allez s'il vous plait
Still hoping...
Me too!
Yes please! My ither half will be able to keep up with me then!
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http://ravenfamily.org/sam
"Give me health! And a pony!"
I don't want a lot for Christmas... just this bike please!
Why not!
The stockings are hung. Large enough to fit the bike too. Please 
~rbx
Count me in!!!
count me in please
There are many places this bike would look good; under my Christmas tree, out on the road, in bed next to me but best of all, 'twixt my nethers!
me me me please
Last Christmas, I gave you my bike, but the very next day, someone rode it away. This year, to save you from tears, I'll give you this lovely Special....ized...
Yep, the boy would love this. Pretty please!?
Jim
Yes Please!
Very festive, count me in on the fun
Lovely bright, Christmasy colour. Just what's needed on a miserable, grey, snowy day.
I'm a mtbiker & can't ride a road bike so it would be no good for me!
In Christmas colours too !
I don't really want it but I'll have it if you must.
antonio
me me me
Je t'aime...
santa isnt bringing a bike to my house
Paul Embleton
Would come in handy to get some gentle road miles in after buggering up the MC ligments in my knee at the beginning of the month.
I'd like to ride one for New YEAR
happy christmas to my son, please
Yes please!
Ash
Allez allez allez
solentine
As Specialised will tell you i have ridden the black model at the TDF a couple of years running.
Give me a chance to win this one and i will ride it at the Giro d'Italia, Dauphinee, TDS and TDF this coming 2011 season, only changes will be to add the "Help Disabled Sport " decals in a variety of languages!
At the end of the year i will happily pass it on to an Adaptive racer to prepare for the 2012 Paralympic games.
What else do i need to do to convince the judges that helping me as i ride the 14th season is the "Right thing to do" ?
Skippy(advocate for "Disabled / Para Sport")@skippydetour. blogging as skippi-cyclist.blogspot & Parrabuddy.blogspot currently on the road with ProTour Grand Tour Events .
Only got room for 3 bikes in the shed - Mmmmm
which to get rid of if i win
.Lets hope-Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year.
Ohhh the optimum number of bikes algorithm (N+1) shows I am a bike down...
I'd like a santa coloured bike... I promise to dress as santa and ride this if I win!
Yeah - why not?
Could do with one of these....
Dear Santa...
I've been moderately behaved all this year.
-
Benjamin Cross
its the right colour!
Yes Please!
Don't mind if you did
Ged
Yes please!
Count me in if you would be so kind, Merry Chrimbo to all....Ho Ho Ho
Red is good for me
Super
This bike would be the perfect size for me and with it's sloping top tube would be a much better climbing bike than anything I'd ridden before. It would also be the best colour bike I'd ever ridden. Please, please, let me have it.
whizz kid
Just the job.Count me in.
Me too please! Pretty please!
I have to wonder if it would fit under the tree but who's complaining.
I promise to look after it. (if lucky enough to win)
First post?!
http://road.cc/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Yahoo!/devil.gif
Looks a beast to keep me away from the Christmas feast
jack
spiffy
AL
I would love this as it does not look too large (I am quite small!!) Happy Christmas
Yes please!
I'd love this bike - to me, to me!
Yes - a special(ized) please
Shay
Red ones go faster.
Yes please - Happy New Year!
Help me get off my 3 speed Please
Oh me pleeeeease! For I too have been living in a carboard box since August!
rog
Beginners' luck? I hope so
all i want for christmas is me two schwag wheels, me two schwag wheels etc etc ah go on go on go on
All up hill here mun
Welsh see
Yes please - I want a bike
yarp.
oh go on!
my favourite colour as well!
AndyD
Not really my colour - but go on then!
I'll be happy to add pedals.
Just what my son needs !!
Can I have one pretty please 
Oh go on
Burn some rubber
It will match my shoes and helmet
robbiec
Oh yes please!
I'll take one, could make a man i know very happy.
Merry xmas.
YES PLEASE! Thanks
Yes please a remedy for the winter blues .....
paddysb
That would get me back on the right 'cycle' track
Yes please
Lets see if lightning strikes twice. Merry Christmas
Definitely, yes please
yes please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pleaze pleaze pleaze,
ta
Save me buying a new bike in the New Year, so pick me PLEASE!
Ricicle
Very nice bike!
YES PLEASE LET IT BE ME ITS JUST WHAT I HAVE ON MY CHRISTMAS LIST
simone1
Yes please, count me in:-)
waca
Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control (bloody bankers & politicians) Santa won't be bringing me much at all this year so please enter me in your draw.
Shaggie.
That's nice,
Liz Farrelly
I'd be coming down the road faster than Santa's sleigh if I won this - yes please. Really fantastic prize.
I would like a new bike for cristmas
Red looks good when riding in the snow??? Count me in!!!
Looks great, but where are the pedals?
John Bamford
T'would be the start of a Happy New Year! cheers!
Dear Santa
Can I have a Spesh Allez for Christmas as I have been a good boy all year!
Ooh, a winter bike!! It'll look nice next to my Stumpjumper too - same colour and everything!
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this would cheer up christmas, put on a few fairy lights. Very festive !
Allez vit.... c'est tre bien
Looks like I'm in with a thousand to one chance.
antonio
Come on man! I have entered all these all year and NOTHING, NOTHING I say. Am i getting through? Hello, Hello, damn it they have hung up on me again.......
Bud
Cranberry coloured bike for xmas! Yes please.
"All I want for Christmas .....is you!"
just because.............................Thanks
Ride-on
find room in your hearts - thanks!
Yes please
N3IL
GET A BICYCLE YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT, IF YOU LIVE
– MARK TWAIN
I'd love to win this for my brother
now i know what to get my sister for christmas
!
Yes please!
Oh, and Merry Christmas!
The Lo Fidelity Bicycle Club
http://lofidelitybicycleclub.wordpress.com/
This is my first post
It won't be my last
If you ever so nicely
Send me that red bike real fast.....
(ok so I'm no poet)
I'd love one - I shall need to pedal off the Xmas pud
Alg
Looks great
great comp count me in
Cyclosanta
wow!
Kaz
Yes please!
I'd be quite happy to win this bike
Yummy...sprinkle over my Xmas pud
Pour moi merci bien!
go on then you can never have too many bikes ....
Wouldn't say "no". Like the gearing.
Merry Christmas
mine all mine.
it's my favourite colour, and will help me get fitter next year
Wicked and in Santa Red to match my 1983 Dave Yates 531st. About time I up graded!
Bikeboyslim
Please count me in .
daves
one of the best
champ
Merry Xmas!!!!
Bike 
Festive red and 56 is good for me
Keeley
It would definitely be a treat.
Lovely... In Santa's colours too!....
Whttp://road.cc/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Yahoo!/devil.gifill Will this bike make uphill as easy as down?
well i dont have a bike at the moment and would love one
what a great prize
I'd love that festive coloured bike!
Mmmmm... Internet crashed on my last attempt to post something, so I'll try again...
Burn-e
how's about it?
56cm, I have no idea
Me please, I only have 3 bikes and the missus says its ground for divorce if I get any more !!
My bike has been in pieces for years, I'm not good at piecing things together, so I'm going for this easy option!
its fastest if its red
Great bike - count this as my entry- thanks
Count me in! Would love to win a comfy road bike
yes please!
That looks like a sweet ride, people!
count me in thanks

































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