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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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cornycol | 12 years ago
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About time i got myself a speed machine !

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lrvsilva | 12 years ago
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I would love to have this bike!  4

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ronstar | 12 years ago
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Giant bikes are awsome!  4

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domo_sy2001 | 12 years ago
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 39 I'll have a bit of that action.

name in hat please kind sirs  4

oh yeah and M/L if im the lucky one

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roadccdanray | 12 years ago
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Watcha

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markymoo | 12 years ago
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OOOOH Yes Please!

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GT500KR | 12 years ago
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Who wouldn't love riding a Giant. Awesome price to win, would be even more special then buying one.

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stilts88 | 12 years ago
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WOW!! AMAZING PRIZE! YES PLEASE!!!!  31  38  38  38

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focus | 12 years ago
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this is an awsome prize!!! would love to take it off your hands  4

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mad_scot_rider | 12 years ago
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would it be too obvious to say "yes please" ? - tough!!!

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grahamdenny | 12 years ago
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Would love this one!

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Jigs | 12 years ago
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Count me in.

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ANGUS139 | 12 years ago
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yes please

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grant.smith | 12 years ago
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Please send my lovely new bike too...  4

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Gepin | 12 years ago
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TCR me up please...Stunning looking machine!

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ullrichfan replied to mancsi | 12 years ago
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G I ANT seen a prize like this before. Count me in

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sotong | 12 years ago
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Ooooh that would do nicely!!! Yes please!

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abally | 12 years ago
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Yes please - I need to win this!

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timboid | 12 years ago
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It's a work of art. I'll need a medium frame (50cm) to put it in and some sturdy wall fixings.

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Miles Back | 12 years ago
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This would be great for my wife!!

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Wheelieniceone | 12 years ago
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Judge me by my size do you  19

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Wheelieniceone | 12 years ago
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i would be good for your wife  19

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Villiers | 12 years ago
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Yes please i want to get my 8 year old cycling.

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stormsberg | 12 years ago
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yippeeedee doo dah, largest one they make please

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hybridgolf | 12 years ago
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GIANT is for me, yes please!  16

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simoncon | 12 years ago
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well, might as well it a chance, just this time!

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Mikeh789 | 12 years ago
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Count me in please!

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waving_sausages | 12 years ago
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me please  1

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jfarringtonr | 12 years ago
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Get out the violins.

My road bike is a Harry Quinn with 531DB tubing circa 1975. I still have tubs on which are older than my son!
Tons of sentimental value despite the laughs of onlookers, however still gets me over the Horshoe Pass ahead of the flash boys with no legs.

On a plus point my off-road bike is a Giant Anthem X4 that I bought last year to do a charity trek across Dorset.

However, after watching the Giro, Tour & Vuelta I'm dreaming of a matching 21st century Road Bike!

Fingers Crossed
JFR
James

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velogirl | 12 years ago
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Would love one please............

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