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Valentine's competition - win a bespoke print from Velolove!
Love is in the air! This is the time of year when your inbox is flooded with Valentine's day offers for the special person in your life, and everyone from shed wholesalers to online survey providers* manages to magically align themselves with cupid's arrow. We're incurable romantics round here though, so we don't mind. Much.
The chaps at Vélolove have been working on a set of ten prints inspired by great relationships within the bike industry. Sort of as a Valentine's thing, but the prints will look splendid on your wall all year round. Anyway they've teamed up with us to offer you the chance to do your own! We'll let Cameron from Vélolove do the explaining bit...
"Here at Velolove.cc we've recently created a set of perfect pairs cycling prints. We had so much fun coming up with the 'loved up' cycle combinations that we thought road.cc readers might like to have a go themselves. As a prize Velolove.cc will offer the best cycle related pairing a bespoke print of their perfect pair just in time for Valentines Day.
"Our pairs (see the gallery above for the full range) include Molteni & Merckx, Bianchi & Celeste, Wiggo & Weller to name a few. But which cyclist would you like to cosy up with? Which cycle brand has captured your heart? What pairs in the cycle industry are the perfect fit? What team turns you on?
"Simply complete either the phrase 'We go together like______&_______' or 'I love you like ________loves_______' for a chance to win. Have as many goes as you like."
So that's it. SImple. Put your thinking cap on and stick your perfect pair in a comment below. Obviously, you can't use anyone that's already been done by Vélolove. We'll sieve through them over a cup of tea on Monday and impartially pick a winner using our huge experience and encyclopaedic knowledge of cycling. Or, we might just choose one that tickles us. Either way, the winner gets a custom-designed print of their pair all nicely wrapped in tissue paper and rolled in a tube, ready for framing. Just in time for Valentine's day.
Here's some terms and conditions: 1) The competition runs until midday, Monday 11 Feb. 2) The winner will receive a custom Velolove print, no cash alternative will be offered. 3) the winner will be contacted via the email address associated with their account. We're not responsible for non-receipt of the winner's email. 4) The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
*We really did get valentine's offers from those two last year
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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V-day cards for cyclists: "Sorry, love. Rule 11, see?"
We go together like coffee & cake
... like beans & toast
... like clip-on tribars & a damp Thursday night on a bypass
I love you like Ned Boulting loves Yellow Jumpers
... like Millar loves Argyle patterns
... like Jonny Hoogerland loves car-free roads
... like the Daily Mail love blaming cyclists when they need a break from blaming immigrants and poor people
We go together like the UCI and ineptitude
We go together like Sagan and silly victory dances
I love you like my front wheel likes potholes and raised manhole covers on night rides, which isn't in fact a great deal despite the apparent magnetism.
I love you like Obree loves jam sarnies.
I love you like Voekler loves gurning.
I love you like Bertie loves (tainted) beef
I love you like Armstrong loves the Statute of Limitations?
I love you like Jens loves pasta
we go together like Obree and Bananas
'Pat loves Heinz'
any particular product, or the entire brand?
I love you like Voigt loves the work
We go together like Telegraphe and Galibier
a chain loves a sprocket
like Cav loves a lead out.
like Didi loves a Mountain Stage
Champs love a Yellow
Campag loves Carbon
I love you like Jonathan Tiernan-Locke loves Caerphilly mountain.
We go to together like...
Paris & Roubaix
Tourmalet & Galibier (Kraftwerk ftw)
'I love you like Cavendish loves Paris'
'I love you like Froome loves Attacking Wiggo'
I love you like LeMond loves Hinault.
We go together like Lance and Oprah.
'I love you like Boonen loves the Roubaix Velodrome.'
'We go together like cassettes & chains.'
We go together like Snow & the Stelvio
I love you like Renshaw loves third place
I love you like .......
Pat loves Heinz
Valv loves Piti
Alberto loves beef
Brad loves sideburns
Cav loves winning
Graham Watson loves his fisheye lens
Phil Liggett loves Paul Sherwen
Andy Schleck loves chain catchers
The Spanish authorities love witholding information about dopers in other sports.
We all love having a good row about whether we should wear helmets or not.
We go together like Hoogerland and barbed wire
I love you like Gilbert loves Rainbows
I love you like Hoogerland loves stitches.
We go together like Lance and lies
I love you like Belgium loves Boonen
We go together like Cav & The Venge
British Cycling & Dave Brailsford
Veockler & Polka Dots
Anquetil & Poulidor
I love you like Martin loves his TT bike
My bum loves Fizik
I love you like Froome loves finishes
mayo and frites.
Mayo and EPO.
We go together like classics and chips.
I love you like Tom loves Roubaix.
Kimmage and Twitter
Pantani and cats
Armstrong and Ferrari
Pat and Hein
Obree and marmalade
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