road.cc picks up two Bikebiz awards! (+ video)
It's three in a row in the best consumer website category, and we scooped the new social media gong too!
Tony, Mat and Elaine with the Bikebiz award
We've been at the swanky Hilton Metropole at the Birmingham NEC this evening for the 2012 Bikebiz awards. And we've walked away with not one, but two!
It's a third gong in three years in the Best Consumer Website category - after a year in which we've seen our traffic more than double we're really happy that once again the UK bike industry has acknowledged our efforts with the award. And we've also picked up a new award in its first year: Best Use of Social Media. In a year where we've topped 10,000 followers on twitter and been ranked number 34 in the Hedstream Social Brands 100, the Bikebiz award is the icing on the cake.
Now for the gushing acceptance speech... we'd like to thank everyone that's worked so hard to make road.cc the site it is. Writers, reviewers, commercial team, designers, photogaphers and other contributors: there's a lot of people to say thankyou to. But most of all we'd like to thank our readers. That's you, that is. road.cc is all about the community: without you guys the site would be desolate and pointless. So thanks for coming! We really hope you continue to visit, and push us to make the site better and better. Gosh, we're welling up. Best hit the bar.
And here's Tony giving a brief acceptance speech offstage after picking up the awards - a fair bit of background noise, but hopefully you'll be able to gather what he's saying.
Congrats. And thanks for the cheque.
Spend it wisely 
congratulations - and well deserved
OldRidgeback
Three in a row!
Congratulations once again. The content of the site keeps getting better and the interaction with the members/readers is excellent.
road.cc is always open on my laptop and it does become a bit of a diversion from work occasionally but as I'm self-employed I've cleared it with the boss.
Doing Nightrider 2013 for Parkinson's UK
Well done guys. You deserve it!!
Really well deserved, best cycling website in my humble opinion. But please don't ever lose the humour that's what makes your site so great.
Hear hear. Well done everyone at road.cc
Someone better get the hammer and nails out. Road.cc needs a trophy cabinet.
Congratulations once again. You can now put more stars around the header logo
Well done, team.
Well done. Best thing is you don't need to bother changing the site header...
Hooray! Schwag for everyone. Is there a caption competition? How about 'Wake up Tony, you've won an award.'
Noli porcum linguere
Not the most flattering photo though.
OldRidgeback
Well deserved congratulations
Road.cc is the reason i turn my computer on every morning 
congrats girls and boys
your standard of podium girls has slipped though Tony
My head hurts…
It's amazing how quickly you pile on the pounds once the season ends
Road.CC lot's of diverse opinions and comment but singularly, this award is the one that counts, carry on with the good work guys.
antonio
Congratulations, well deserved
Great site guys and gals, I second this award. Another year in the rainbows eh.
I could barely make out a word in the video above. I did enjoy this "speech" though
congratulations - and well deserved
Congratulations! Great, little site!
Very glad to hear this.. Very well deserved.. Congratulations!
Singletrack MTB mag
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