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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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AnnaBombanna81 | 12 years ago
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Great prize! Yes please, a M would do nicely!

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John101 | 12 years ago
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Great Prize, count me in

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Markfwj | 12 years ago
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Pick me please

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dobbywomack | 12 years ago
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I'll have a go at that!!!

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jonwaldock | 12 years ago
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I should win a giant, because I am one.

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Marky Legs | 12 years ago
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Medium please

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Highlandcycler | 12 years ago
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What an awesome prize well done guys would go well with my new shorts I won last week hehe

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AdamML | 12 years ago
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Count me in!!!

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darth989 | 12 years ago
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I would love that

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andyfla | 12 years ago
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yes please, I need a new bike !

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andyspaceman | 12 years ago
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Wow, great prize, count me in please.

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andyspaceman | 12 years ago
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Wow, great prize, count me in please.

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nickpeters | 12 years ago
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I've never won anything, winning this would be EPIC

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antonyr5 | 12 years ago
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I'm in

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spin cycle | 12 years ago
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Im all over this... if I only EVER win one of these please make it this one

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Chiswick | 12 years ago
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Heck! Too good to hope for...

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aclucas | 12 years ago
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Awesome prize, yes please

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kev_wal12 | 12 years ago
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yes please

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lessismore | 12 years ago
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Very nice!

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LorneC | 12 years ago
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Yes Please - would fit either the L or XL.

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dacroupier | 12 years ago
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My bike died yesterday. So yes please

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ded | 12 years ago
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Oooooo. Yes Please.

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jimmyknowles | 12 years ago
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yes please - thank you  4

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stereojet | 12 years ago
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Wow! Awesome prize

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Zav | 12 years ago
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yes please

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Paul J | 12 years ago
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I've been saving up for a road bike for a while, so it'd be great to win this!  3

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Jezzag | 12 years ago
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I'm begging you! Over here (please).

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C Matthews | 12 years ago
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'GIANT' OFFER IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE !  13

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Teodor | 12 years ago
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Nice bike

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Viking | 12 years ago
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I'd like a Giant, count me in please.

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