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Kinesis Decade Tripster schwag: we have a winner!

Tell us what bike your ride and win a Kinesis Decade Tripster frameset worth £500

Unprecedented amounts of interest in this one, and some very interesting bikes y'all are riding out there. We'll put them all into a big spreadsheet or pie chart or something when we've got a bit of time. That's not now though, what with our Fantasy Tour de France game requiring our attention and the road.cc randomiser blinking and bleeping in our ear. Ah, it's stopped bleeping. What's that you say, randomiser? An eighties football legend is walking away with the prize?

That's right! step forward Luther Blissett (not, judging by the email address, the actual real Luther Blissett). You're our winner!

Commiserations to those of you who have missed out this time but don't forget you can win £300 of Rose Bikes cycling kit at the moment right here, and there's also the just-unwrapped Fantasy Tour de France game with a £600 KHS road bike up for grabs for the best Directeur Sportif out there. And more schwag on the way! Stay tuned...

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Bike Week approaches, seven days of celebrating cycling in all its forms, so what better way of doing just that than by winning a truly cool frameset designed to give you ultimate cycling versatility - the Kinesis Tripster. All you've got to do is tell us what bike you ride in the comment field below, if you've got more than one bike you only need mention your main one (you can list 'em all too if you want though).

The Tripster is designed to be  fast, precise and adapatable – in fact that's the motto on the top tube. This is a supremely versatile frame made from double butted 7005 series aluminium that can be built up loads of different ways and will do the business whatever role you build it up for.

You can set it up with 700c wheels and drops, or as a 26in wheeled machine with slicks, or as a all terrain commuter/weekend racer with 700x33 cross tyres. Or any combination of the three that suits. Pretty much any way you build it up the Tripster makes an ideal fast commuter, the design is based on the highly successful Kinesis Crosslight frames but with some commuter friendly touches such as a slightly taller head tube for a more upright traffic-scoping riding position.

Our lucky winner gets the choice of either an Aqua Blue or Supergloss Black frameset in a size to suit and to make you look even more the part there's some Decade Ts in the mix too, all courtesy of our friends at Upgrade. If you want to get an idea of what you can do with it check out our other Tripster gallery.

Cos it's such a good prize we'll be running it through Bike Week and we'll pick the winner at tiffin time next Friday (25th), Usual Schwag Grab Rules apply, and remember all you have to do is comment and tell us what bike you ride… why? Well, we're just nosey really plus road.cc is supposed to be a site for all types of cyclists who ride on the roads and we want to find out how we're getting on.

To can find out more about the Tripster and the Decade range of bikes visit the Kinesis Decade website http://kinesisdecade.co.uk/
 

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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el.dudino | 14 years ago
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A Specialized Allez Sport 2004 that's too big for me, bought 2nd hand before I had a clue! Getting sold  2

Trek SU200 hyrbid.

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Jonty79 | 14 years ago
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Trek 1.2 2009 - I like the colour!
Pub & commuter - Mongoose Hybrid. High front end so handle bars clear wing mirrors in heavy traffic!

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thesloth | 14 years ago
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Road: Giant TCR 2
Tour & Commute: Cannondale Touring Ultra
Off road: Orange 5
Off road: Trek 8000
Pub: Raleigh Westcoast

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girodilento | 14 years ago
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Specialized Allez Elite 2005

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ravenbait | 14 years ago
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Today I'm on the Orbit Harrier, because the Pompino needs two wheels built, I've got too much stuff to ride the Pinarello and the other two are stuck in a corner.

Sam

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sc129806 | 14 years ago
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Trek 1.9 2009 model. Commuting seems like a bad idea on such a beautiful machine  2

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srb1972 | 14 years ago
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Ridgeback Solo for commuting, lovely riding steel framed singlespeed, and Cannondale Synapse for long mile munching weekend rides.

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Trevor Perkins | 14 years ago
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Rusty old Giant, mostly commuting and winter riding.
Litespeed for triathlon.

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rosshaxton | 14 years ago
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Currently on

Glider Tupelo Ti
Felt Six Comp 2009

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drain | 14 years ago
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Planet X SL Pro for (relatively!) serious rides.

Surly Traveler's Check for the 'interesting' Somerset back lanes and trails.

Too many mountain bike combinations to mention!  3

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DirtyLyle | 14 years ago
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Wiler singlespeed, innit?

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antonio | 14 years ago
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Don't need it, won't win it, so why am I entering this?

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derekkelly | 14 years ago
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Dawes Galaxy

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palazzo72 | 14 years ago
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Focus Variado with 105

ciao

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Ms Morthern Rebel | 14 years ago
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I ride a Cotic Soul and I am taking delivery of a Trek Pilot 2.0 WSD on Friday for some road riding fun.

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antonio | 14 years ago
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Forgot to mention, I also ride a Fuji fixed.

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mattjng | 14 years ago
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A Ribble Audax for road touring duties

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hagi | 14 years ago
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I ride a Litespeed Avior

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the-daily-ripper | 14 years ago
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mostly a cube Agree GTC Race. On nice days the BMC gets a look in (the one i used on the road cc night race), but this is England, so in reality I hardly ride it cos I'm so precious about it!

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szaboat | 14 years ago
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Specialized Hardrock PRO

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Fish_n_Chips | 14 years ago
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An old Trek 1000, I have other bikes but this gets ridden all the time as it is just simply fun.  16

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eddieallen72 | 14 years ago
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Heavy duty all road bike in the style of a Surly LHT, made from a 1990s Saracen hybrid frame and bunch of begged, borrowed but not stolen parts!

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joewhitebaby | 14 years ago
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Brian Rourke customised Scuro frame, Campag Record 11, PHIAN C5 carbon wheels
Beautiful bike  1

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Gary613 | 14 years ago
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Cervelo S3 on dry days, Cervelo R3 on wet days......  1

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woodturner | 14 years ago
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I ride a Merida s'presso 500 around town and a '631' framed tourer built up for me at my local bike shop, just swopped the drops for 'Butterfly' bars plus MTB brake levers, front mech and rapid fire shifters.
Very pleased with the end result, makes for more comfortable riding positions, personally.

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eclaire | 14 years ago
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no more cross bike, so ribble...

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billiobob | 14 years ago
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My Raleigh chopper.
Niall, 59

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vinnn | 14 years ago
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The daily ride is a egg-shell blue Kona Honky Tonk, the weekend ride (when not riding the Kona) is a black/carbon Cannondale Synapse Carbon.

The Decade would make a great cross bike.

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patsouza | 14 years ago
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My daily commuter is a stumpjumper from 1987 and i ride an old FSR or a 70's columbus and campy road bike for giggles

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neslon | 14 years ago
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today I be riding my Giant Anthem

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