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Specialized Allez 2010 We have a winner! Christmas Schwag Grab Specialized Allez Double worth £500
Golly where did Christmas Eve go? And that bottle of egg nog… and the other one? Luckily there's still time to announce our Christmas Schwag Grab winner and give someone an extra and unexpected Christmas pressie, and that someone is…
timmers
The fickle finger pointed his way and Santa says he's been good too so the shiny red, and nearly new Speicialized Allez will be heading North West just as soon as we get back to the road.cc offices. Treat it well timmers we've grown very attached to that Allez shaped box which has been an integral part of the road.cc these last few months. While you're enjoying your new bike some of us will be looking for new places to balance our mugs of tea while fettling bikes. Ah well, them's the breaks.
timmers wins the Specialized Allez Double we tested back in the summer when described it as a "Benchmark setting entry level road bike that'll help you rack up the miles in comfort".
The Allez Double normally sells for £499.99… let's call it £500 then, and for that you get an A1 Specialized aluminium frame with the same distinctively curbed top tube as the higher end Tarmac models. It's all really well finished and there are even eyelets for attaching a rack if you wanted to try some fast touring or commuting. Upfront is a carbon fork which along with some skinny chainstays does a lot to kill road buzz and makes for a comfy ride. Geometry is racy but not ridiculously so. Drivetrain is an eight speed Shimano 2300 12-25 set up on a 53-39 chainset. It handles well, it's plenty upgradeable and most importunely of all that red paint job makes it look fast and Christmasey too which is apt cos postie permitting one lucky road.cc user will be riding it this Christmas. Okay it'll probably be closer to the 12th day of Christmas than the big day itself but it'll be something special to look forward to and certainly an improvement on 12 drummers drumming.
We'll have another schwag grab… soon.
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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That's nice,
I'd be coming down the road faster than Santa's sleigh if I won this - yes please. Really fantastic prize.
I would like a new bike for cristmas
Red looks good when riding in the snow??? Count me in!!!
Looks great, but where are the pedals?
Dear Santa
Can I have a Spesh Allez for Christmas as I have been a good boy all year!
Ooh, a winter bike!! It'll look nice next to my Stumpjumper too - same colour and everything!
this would cheer up christmas, put on a few fairy lights. Very festive !
Lovely bright, Christmasy colour. Just what's needed on a miserable, grey, snowy day.
Yes please. Allez, Allez.
In Christmas colours too !
I don't really want it but I'll have it if you must.
me me me
Je t'aime...
santa isnt bringing a bike to my house
Would come in handy to get some gentle road miles in after buggering up the MC ligments in my knee at the beginning of the month.
I'd like to ride one for New YEAR
happy christmas to my son, please
Allez allez allez
As Specialised will tell you i have ridden the black model at the TDF a couple of years running.
Give me a chance to win this one and i will ride it at the Giro d'Italia, Dauphinee, TDS and TDF this coming 2011 season, only changes will be to add the "Help Disabled Sport " decals in a variety of languages!
At the end of the year i will happily pass it on to an Adaptive racer to prepare for the 2012 Paralympic games.
What else do i need to do to convince the judges that helping me as i ride the 14th season is the "Right thing to do" ?
Ohhh the optimum number of bikes algorithm (N+1) shows I am a bike down...
I'd like a santa coloured bike... I promise to dress as santa and ride this if I win!
Yeah - why not?
Could do with one of these....
Dear Santa...
I've been moderately behaved all this year.
its the right colour!
Yes Please!
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