Well it's been a long journey, but we've made it. From nearly 6,000 entries we've whittled down the list and arrived at just one. Juliet Elliot is the winner of our Trek Project One Competition, and her design will be made into a proper real Trek Series 4 bike.
In the end Juliet rather ran away with it, nearly hitting 2,000 votes, more than 800 in front of next-placed Simon Brown. So it's a pink, lime green and cyan colour scheme that Trek will be sending to the paint shop. The final counts are shown at the bottom of this story.
Here's Juliet's winning entry
To say Juliet’s thrilled would be an understatement. When we emailled her the good news, she replied:
“I kid you not, I was excited about the competition from the minute I entered it; I’ve ridden a Trek Domane before and really, really loved it and even the possibility of owning a bike in those colours made me squeal! I picked the colours right away, then I spent a while tinkering around with components so that I could get that wheel set in under budget.
“After I sent off the design, I kept thinking about it longingly and when voting opened, honest-to-god, I actually couldn’t sleep I was so overexcited!
“To actually win…. to win this? AAAAARRRRRRRRGH! WHAT? Is this really going to happen? I’m going to get to ride it? No WAY!!
“I can’t stop smiling, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that voted, particularly everyone at Mid Devon CC who were as excited about the whole thing as me. I’ll let you all have a go on it!”
We'll be following up to see the bike in the flesh, so stay tuned for that. And thanks to everyone that entered! There'll be plenty more stuff to win on road.cc in the coming months…
The final count
| Juliet Elliott | 1966 |
| Simon Brown | 1124 |
| Ed Greenough | 981 |
| Graham Dodgson | 763 |
| Graham Watters | 695 |
| Lee Watts | 617 |
| George Ince | 591 |
| Michael Downes | 575 |
| Alice Carter | 421 |
| Jamie Watkins | 398 |
| Brendan Thurlow | 365 |
| Andy Whitaker | 321 |
| Gareth Matthews | 313 |
| Stuart Knipe | 313 |
| Darren Collard | 306 |
| Ben Towell | 276 |
| James Nohl | 250 |
| Alex Gidley | 243 |
| Lee Griffin | 241 |
| matt simon | 219 |
| Mark Campion | 216 |
| Simon Hayes | 191 |
| Todd Dembrey | 173 |
| Richard Moss | 159 |
23 thoughts on “Trek Project One competition – we have a winner!”
That’s the one I voted for!
That’s the one I voted for! Easily the bestest! =D>
I am just happy the winner
I am just happy the winner doesn’t have flames on it.
[waits for the sh*t to hit
[waits for the sh*t to hit the fan] this one’s had more twists and turns than a Robert Mugabe election campaign…
Well done Juliet! Enjoy it.
Congrats, Juliet!
Congrats, Juliet!
Well done Juliet.
Hope you
Well done Juliet.
Hope you enjoy your Domane as much as I do mine.
Well done Juliet.
And very
Well done Juliet.
And very magnanimous in defeat there Si. My green & yellow flames (I like the flames!) could only manage mid-table – I think I’d feel slightly more gutted if I’d come second!
ah well done! Its nice that
ah well done! Its nice that someone so truly excited about it won it 😀 Great design!
glad that one won, was the
glad that one won, was the best looking by far
Probably the better design
Probably the better design from my memory, but given she’s a sponsored rider and can use her network of fans to vote for her, it should either have not been a ‘voted for by fans’ competition or she should have been allowed to enter. Danger with this is that it becomes a who has the most social media followers competition, not who has the dest deign.
well done! but I thought
well done! but I thought everyone wanted black these days 😉
How appropriate that up to
How appropriate that up to now Ms Elliott is best known for riding a fixie ….. =))
It actually kind of works.
It actually kind of works. Congrats!
1966, a good number to end
1966, a good number to end on.
Well Done Juliet
Well Done Juliet
=D> =D> =D>
Congratulations Juliet!
Congratulations Juliet! Though not sure I would buy a pink bike…
…yay…and i’m just a
…yay…and i’m just a jealous guy! Congrats; it was nearly as good as mine although I stood no chance of winning……. (because I never got short listed!!)…..what?
Nice bike in Dulux colour
Nice bike in Dulux colour chart paint scheme :O Enjoy the bike whatever happens!
Agreed that this seemed to be
Agreed that this seemed to be a contest of who had the biggest social media following in the end, but fair play to the winner, I hope the bike gets plenty of use.
Am I the only one that counts just 24 names on that list though?
What happened to the 25th?
Not my color preference, but
Not my color preference, but it looks like the color scheme would be for the Lampre-Merida team.
That is the most hideous
That is the most hideous paint scheme I have EVER seen. I feel sick just looking at at. :&
That is hideous. Nice
That is hideous. Nice opinions, you strange strange people.
Hideous is the word!
Hideous is the word!
It doesn’t work for me at all
It doesn’t work for me at all either but hey we all have different tastes and big grats for winning and getting a bike that looks how you want it to!