Friday Schwag Grab: Signed Coppi book and Prendas calendar - we have winners!
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It's tiffin time here at road.cc towers (well, fairtrade chocolate shortbread time) so the random number generator has been duly fired up to distribute books and calendars to the masses. Said machine must have been in a particularly benign mood this afternoon, choosing as it has to bestow the prizes upon two road.cc stalwarts: long time member (and sometime blogger) Blackhound and similarly upstanding heavyweight jimmythecuckoo. It's not a fix, honest - we really do pick at random using a real random number generator and everything...
If you're cursing the fact that you missed out this week and there's a calendar-shaped hole on the side of your fridge, you might want to check out next week's Schwag Grab for another crack at the Prendas Ciclismo calendar... stay tuned!
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As you may well have seen on road.cc this week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of cycling legend Fausto Coppi. To mark that we've got a very special Schwag grab: two signed copies of William Fotheringham's acclaimed biography of il campionissimo, Fallen Angel: the passion of Fausto Coppi, a book already acknowledged as probably the definitive english language account of the life of Italy's greatest bike racer.
And there's more. Not only will our two lucky schwag winners get a signed book, the classic racing theme continues with a copy of the Prendas Ciclismo Memoires du Peloton calendar, which contains a selection of iconic images from the last 40 years of professional road racing. If you haven't got a 2010 calendar then it's the perfect schwag. If you have got a 2010 calendar you can throw it away if you win, because this one is better.
Usual rules apply: simply comment on this story and you're in the hat. No multiple entries please. We'll draw the lucky two at tiffin time next Friday, although in these new-year's-resolution-affected days of January, tiffin might well be a bowl of muesli or a banana or somesuch. Pft.
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Don't include me!
I have both, just wanted to recommend them to anyone thinking of entering, fantastic pics in the calendar, and a terrific book.
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posted by John_the_Monkey [170 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:20
I don't have them, though they look great!
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posted by othello [50 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:23
marvellous, fingers crossed for 7 days time...
posted by trevorx [19 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:24
Looks good, may have to get the book even if I don't win.
posted by nellybuck@msn.com [19 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:33
Both instant classics!
posted by el.dudino [28 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:35
Coppi = Cycling God
posted by nathangoss [13 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:39
Please include me in as well.
Just been reading some of the internet entries on Coppi.
The biography looks really impresive and you can never have too many calendars.
posted by jova54 [127 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:43
I've been meaning to read this. Calendar looks good too.
posted by Art Vandelay [3 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:44
Dave, where do you get this great stuff ??? Love it ! B)
posted by roadiesean [25 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:49
We have friends B)
posted by tony_farrelly [2229 posts] 8th January 2010 - 16:56
I'd like to win these goodies
posted by James Poole [18 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:09
I'm in.
posted by stereojet [26 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:15
what a wonderful solution to my calendar-less quandary i find myself in
posted by kao [17 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:24
Bought the book (signed) at Epic Cycles over in Shropshire, and then gave it to cousin for Christmas. I'd love to own my own copy or two! Calendar would look nice next to the desk with no window...
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posted by MalcolmBinns [42 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:27
Count me in, Coppi is my cycling idol, yet I still haven't got this book.
Complicating matters since 1965
posted by DaSy [629 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:29
The disappointment of not winning the Sky goodies still lingers but I'm giving it another go.
posted by GreenMark [22 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:32
Book looks great
posted by pjay [21 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:34
Great looking book about a true legend.
posted by grant [24 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:48
Hey, very cool stuff, I'm most definitely IN.
posted by Simon E [173 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:51
count me in please
posted by mrchrispy [62 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:53
The books excellent - I read a library copy so would be good to own one an re-read it.
posted by TheHatter [210 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:53
Coppi load of that! What a prize! What a dreadful pun!
posted by cavasta [4 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:54
count me in
posted by andrew_gilmer [12 posts] 8th January 2010 - 17:57
Yes please- great stuff!
posted by StuAff [20 posts] 8th January 2010 - 18:23
Coppi The classic.
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posted by surlyrider [2 posts] 8th January 2010 - 18:26
OOH, OOH, ME TOO....
posted by dadada [3 posts] 8th January 2010 - 18:48
I'm game!
All the gear and no idea!
posted by JonMack [69 posts] 8th January 2010 - 19:08
yes please santa!!!
posted by polo [18 posts] 8th January 2010 - 19:15
A Coppi book and a calendar, it would be like Christmas all over again, only better!
posted by Triracer [1 posts] 8th January 2010 - 19:42
Was he a Captious Fop
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posted by jobysp [122 posts] 8th January 2010 - 20:30
They would both be a welcome addition to my growing library of two wheeled literature - written or pictures for when I'm feeling dumber!
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posted by narch [42 posts] 8th January 2010 - 20:44
Yes please!
Chris
posted by Chrisc [25 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:01
Excellent. Please include me. Both excellent choices. The first real biography of the Campionissimo in English.
Michael Shires
posted by MShires [2 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:03
I've finished the cyclocross book I got for Christmas, so this would be most welcome.
posted by sponging-machine [62 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:04
I already have a signed copy of the excellent book, but if you were to split the prizes then I would love to win the calendar.
Thank you.
posted by Old Cranky [106 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:18
fingers crossed looks good though
posted by mellisr1 [14 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:23
Please insert my name into the hat.
posted by demoff [233 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:38
A book signed by Coppi? I want one of those!
posted by Blackhound [263 posts] 8th January 2010 - 21:44
yes please
posted by miffed [56 posts] 8th January 2010 - 22:14
Count me in...
posted by pomtarr [17 posts] 8th January 2010 - 22:19
It would be a great addition to my collection of cycling books
Aidan
posted by Aidan 27 [2 posts] 8th January 2010 - 22:58
meow
posted by Alankk [93 posts] 9th January 2010 - 2:03
Count me in ... aand send me the tiffin too so I can sit and much something while I read it?
posted by Ruthe [50 posts] 9th January 2010 - 9:19
Gosh! 50 years?
posted by chrissncco [2 posts] 9th January 2010 - 11:56
Gotta love free stuff. Gotta love road cc.
posted by AndyyK [32 posts] 9th January 2010 - 12:33
Sounds a good book
posted by fiftyacorn [13 posts] 9th January 2010 - 15:55
MERCKX
posted by Fringe [597 posts] 9th January 2010 - 18:47
Oooooh. Pick me.
posted by Noddy [10 posts] 9th January 2010 - 19:22
pretty please pick me as its no officially the off season so got time to read
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posted by scottishcyclocross [31 posts] 9th January 2010 - 21:02
I persuaded East Yorks libraries to buy the book, so think I deserve a copy as a reward for making it available to all in my 'hood. B)
posted by wild man [125 posts] 9th January 2010 - 22:12