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For Sale: John Degenkolb’s 2015 Giant Propel race bike
Professional race bikes occasionally pop up for sale from time to time, but here’s your chance to own one of the fastest race bikes from the 2015 race season, as listed on the road.cc classifieds. It’s a Giant Propel Advanced SL belonging to German sprinter John Degenkolb.
The bike is described as being in excellent condition, save for some marks as you would expect of a race bike. The Propel is Giant’s aero road bike and it’s equipped with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupset with a 52/36t chainset and 11-28t cassette. The Shimano theme continues with the Dura-Ace C50 carbon wheels, Pro Vibe carbon 140mm stem and Pro Turnix carbon saddle.
- Tour de France 2015 Bikes: John Degenkolb’s Giant Propel Advanced SL
John Degenkolb is 5’11” and the bike is a size medium (54.5cm). The seller, who tells road.cc he won the bike in a competition recently but is too tall to fit the bike, is looking to sell it to a good home. He’s asking £4,999 for it. He's throwing in a signed jersey as well, so you can look the part.
Here’s the advert in full:
Hi guys
I have for sale a Giant Propel Advanced SL ridden by John Degenkolb himself at the end of 2015. Now, you might wonder what I’m doing with this beauty, the fact is I won it in a competition a few weeks ago. The problem now is that because it’s Degenkolb’s actual bike I couldn't choose size once I won it so it’s unfortunately way too small for me. Mr Degenkolb is 5.11 (180cm) and I’m 6.5.
So, this bike deserves a better home where it will be ridden. It’s in excellent condition, you can see it has been used by a few marks on the bars and the wheels but the bike has been treated really well as expected by a pro team.
I will also throw in a signed jersey by Degenkolb as well as the water bottles. The only thing it won’t come with are pedals.
If you’re interested, the seller's contact details are in the classifieds listing.
David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes.
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Updated price is now £4000
JEALOUSY up in here.
At the risk of going completely off topic, this has led to a bit of day dreaming over my coffee this morning. I'm exactly the same size as John D and I wonder what I'd need to spend to make it fit me as a "normal" cyclist. Buy a shorter stem for sure, another carbon pro. That's a big drop between saddle and bars, how would you fit spacers in as the stem is cut. Suspect I would fit wider bars too. I'm just not as bendy as the pro's. To be honest though I'd just hang on a wall. In the front room.
Fair play for winning such a great prize...
I'd be in the same boat, unless it was a bike from Quintana or someone equally as titchy as him...
Doesn't stop me entering any comps, just coz I'm a short arse...
I once won a 'Suzy' doll at prize bingo when I was 14...what a cruel and sadistic sod I was...I didn't donate it to charity...oh, the profit I made from that doll....
I wonder if the same people hated the winners on Bullseye who sold the speedboat instead of letting worthy speedboat enthusiasts take part instead.
I'm sure the two negative comments here were just a bit of light hearted bants rather than a heartfelt critisism.
I spent a bit of time sizing up team riders as I had applied for a job with a pro team sponsor and would have been able to buy an old team bike at a discounted price. I think £5k is a bit optimistic, but an auction might see it get up there.
Good luck with the sale.
Unbelievable comments. It's no-one else's business what you do with the bike. Obviously idiot trolls. Hopefully you'll get what you want for it and get yourself a dream bike, I know that's what I'd be doing...
If I had the cash I'd buy it in a heartbeat, my size too!
You know, now these guys come to mention it I wouldn't be at all surprised if some horrible, cynical people are entering the lottery *not* so that they can have a big pile of money to look at but because they actually intend to spend some of it. No, they should give it all away to charity and go to work in a leper colony.
Some people seem really touchy about other people winning comps (see the recent story in the UK about the photo of a horse winning a holiday)
Fact is, if you won the comp fair and square, then the prize is your properity to do with as you like, and that includes riding it or selling it or hitting it with a hammer.
Of course, if the rules of the comp state that you can only enter if you fit a 54cm bike, then boo to you, and hope you feel ashamed.
If I had 5k to spare, then I would buy it. (but i don't)
I had to Google this! Hahaha! What a story.
Congratulations on winning a very nice bike mate .... I wouldn't bother my back side with the negative comments on here, it's either pure jealousy or they weren't held enough as children or who knows what?? I'm pretty sure if they were in the same boat as yourself, they would do the exact same, I know I would .... unless it fitted me, in which case it would be a keeper!!
Fair play to you; you won a competition, and it's yours to do as you will. I would love that bike, but sadly £5k is a pipedream. Hope you get it.
Interesting that it's specced with a 52/36 - was it the bike he was riding the Vuelta with? I would've thought he would use a traditional double being a powerhouse.
Not sure which races it was used in but it can't have been many as it's immaculate. The only marks you can see is on the bar and the tyres.
Obviously Alpecin took it after a race as they sponsor Giant for the purpose of putting it up as a competition prize.
Congrats on winning the bike and choosing to do with it as you please.
Shame to see a couple of idiots posting negative comments....
Beautiful bike, hope you get a good buyer.
Does it have a motor?
So he entered a presumably free competition to win a bike which he knew wouldn't fit him, won the competition, then decides to sell it for £5k? How charitable!
Personally I'd do some kind of raffle with the proceeds going to a charity, but that's just me.
EDIT: Clearly great minds think alike...
Personally I'd auction it in the hope of raising more than £5k and using the proceeds to help fund these imported Italian granite tiles I want to get for my kitchen extension. But that's just me.
What a pair of worthy tossers.
Sell the bike it and buy yourself something nice. FFS people need to stop and think before they post.
Presumably a couple of the competition entrants?
JonMack & smwatson90 try to think before posting
So he entered a competition to win a bike he knew he could never ride, presumably paid nothing or very little to enter, and is now selling for £5,000?
Charming.
I'm the seller. What do you expect me to do? Not enter a competition just because the bike is a bit small?
What a stupid remark.
In your defence, if you're a member of One Pro Cycling then at the end of the season you have a chance of winning one of their race bikes.
I doubt I'd fit their bikes so I'd be in a similar position if I won.
Also, what you choose to do with the bike is your own business.
Why did you enter the competition? Just in case you won something you could sell for a big profit? Do you go around various websites entering as many competitions as possible?
Just seems to me to be in poor taste. I don't really care though, so good luck to you.
Poor taste? For what? I won it, it's mine now, I do whatever I want with it. It's not like I'm ripping anyone off.
Don't understand the negativity, there are hundreds of competitions all round the internet dialy, do you track all them sending negative remarks to all the winners who don't keep the goods?
For the same reason that anyone, anywhere, ever enters a competition - to win something of some value?
And what if he does? I believe plenty of people do just that, and some of them win a lot of stuff. Some of them probably don't even realise they are (apparently) doing something wrong!
He won it fair and square, he can do what he likes with it, and, er, that's it really.
Is that the one he was riding in the crash