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We have a winner for the 2012 Giant TCR Composite worth £1499!

We've chosen our winner… is it you?...

My word a lot of you wanted to win this prize… not surprising really cos the new Giant TCR Composite 2 is indeed a thing of beauty when you see it in the flesh/carbon as we did last week in Germany. Now we're back and after a few reviving cuppas we've worked up the strength to fire up the random-number-o-meter and get the fickle finger to do it's proddy/pointy thing, and the winner is…

Blackhound

The lucky dog has been informed and as soon as we know what size and where to send it the nice people at Giant will be getting it to him, he won't even have to wait until 2012. It doesn't really get any better than that.

Enjoy the bike Blackhound and if you didn't win don't worry there will be another blisteringly good Schwag Grab coming this way soon.

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Giant pretty much invented the compact road bike and the TCR Composiste continues to set the benchmark for what compact design road bikes can deliver in terms of weight, ride, and handling. We were really impressed with the TCR Advanced 2 we tested earlier this year and the 2012 TCR Composite looks like a winner too. Here are some of the key features our lucky winner will get on their new bike:

  • Lightweight TCR Composite frame made from T600 carbon
  • Advanced-Grade Composite fork with alloy steerer
  • Overdrive head tube tapering from 1 1/8 at the top to 1 1/4 at the bottom and for even more front end stiffness and steering accuracy boosted even further by having the top and down tubes wrap around it
  • PowerCore bottom bracket – oversized and stiff and designed to get all your pedalling effort to the back wheel as quickly as possible
  • Shimano Ultegra shifters and rear mech matched up to a 105 front mech and with uprated for 2012 Shimano brakes and chainset
  • Wheels are Giant's new PR-2 offerings sporting Giant PR-3 tyres

The 2012 Giant TCR Composite is available in five sizes: S (48.5), M (50), ML (53.5), L (55), and XL (58.5) so there should be something there for everyone.

To win one all you've got to do is comment in below, we'll be drawing the winner When we get back from Eurobike (that's how far we've had to go to see one in the flesh) on 5 September. Usual Schwag Grab rules apply.

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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naeco | 12 years ago
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Nice piece of kit  26

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keith_newnham | 12 years ago
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Yes please!! I need a replacement for my bike that got nicked last year!! Can't afford to buy one!!

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lennythelion | 12 years ago
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Gorgeous - Gimme a large one!

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ando78 | 12 years ago
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I wouldn`t mind winning that!

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apnm84 | 12 years ago
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yes please

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Int3rceptor | 12 years ago
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Im a bit of a porker so I could so with this to kick start the new healthy regime!
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Matt81 | 12 years ago
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I'd like to think I'm due a bit of luck

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SlasherFF | 12 years ago
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Sweet bike... be an awesome upgrade from my current ride.

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daddyELVIS | 12 years ago
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Wow, I'll start praying now!

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nscott | 12 years ago
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Very nice.

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geeemarshall | 12 years ago
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My bike is only slightly more modern than the penny farthing, so this would be a GIANT upgrade.  3

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ps | 12 years ago
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 16 Please enter me to win this super bike. A WSD would be fab for me. Thanks.

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tko | 12 years ago
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Count me in, feeling good about 0.06% odds.

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sam24a | 12 years ago
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Want!!!

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sweetfame | 12 years ago
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That's one sexy bike..Rolls Royce in a bike world..Thank you for the great competition,i can already picture myself on that bike..Fab...

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Tarzak | 12 years ago
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I'll need and XL please

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pepsi118 | 12 years ago
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Just what I nred  4

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wannabethin | 12 years ago
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Wow, I would like one of those please.  4

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jeffpastor | 12 years ago
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my wife wants to start riding with me- i need a bike please

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Tarzak | 12 years ago
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oops

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foisa | 12 years ago
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Yes please!

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eddyk | 12 years ago
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Wow Great Prize. Heres hoping

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baguette | 12 years ago
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Me!

Me!

Pick Me!

(please)

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Titonius | 12 years ago
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LOVE THE BIKE!
L for me, please.

Thanks!

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HughATA | 12 years ago
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YES PLEASE!!!

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atticus | 12 years ago
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me please

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kissmeraas | 12 years ago
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Perfect for nipping to the shops!  4

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Spursrider | 12 years ago
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That is one fast-looking bike. Love the colour scheme too

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Cambat | 12 years ago
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Pretty please with hundreds and thousands and some of that monkeys blood.  3

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Branthill | 12 years ago
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Cool yes please

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