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Friday Schwag - calendar and bookFriday Schwag Grab: Signed Coppi book and Prendas calendar - we have winners!
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.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Please insert my name into the hat.
A book signed by Coppi? I want one of those!
yes please
Count me in...
It would be a great addition to my collection of cycling books
meow
Count me in ... aand send me the tiffin too so I can sit and much something while I read it?
Gosh! 50 years?
Gotta love free stuff. Gotta love road cc.
Sounds a good book
MERCKX
Oooooh. Pick me.
pretty please pick me as its no officially the off season so got time to read
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)
I'm in...
The calender would look great on my wall.
Oooh, yes please. At least I can read about riding while this snow lasts...
put my name in the hat
ooooh me, me, me .... had a Coppi for a while and the
man was (in my eyes) a god
count me in please
count me in
Count me in...
Would love a copy of both - count me in please.
Don't have eitehr and would love to win, so here goes.
Schwag me! Been eying the Fausto book for a while.
Please put my name into the helmet.
looks a good read, on both counts ...
count me in legs and fingers all crossed
The Coppi book was on my X-mas list as I have read Mr F's biog of Tom Simpson and thought it was very well written and engaging. Didn't get it for X-mas so fingers crossed.
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