Support road.cc

Like this site? Help us to make it better.

news

We have a winner for the 2012 Giant TCR Composite worth £1499!

We've chosen our winner… is it you?...

My word a lot of you wanted to win this prize… not surprising really cos the new Giant TCR Composite 2 is indeed a thing of beauty when you see it in the flesh/carbon as we did last week in Germany. Now we're back and after a few reviving cuppas we've worked up the strength to fire up the random-number-o-meter and get the fickle finger to do it's proddy/pointy thing, and the winner is…

Blackhound

The lucky dog has been informed and as soon as we know what size and where to send it the nice people at Giant will be getting it to him, he won't even have to wait until 2012. It doesn't really get any better than that.

Enjoy the bike Blackhound and if you didn't win don't worry there will be another blisteringly good Schwag Grab coming this way soon.

===================================================

Giant pretty much invented the compact road bike and the TCR Composiste continues to set the benchmark for what compact design road bikes can deliver in terms of weight, ride, and handling. We were really impressed with the TCR Advanced 2 we tested earlier this year and the 2012 TCR Composite looks like a winner too. Here are some of the key features our lucky winner will get on their new bike:

  • Lightweight TCR Composite frame made from T600 carbon
  • Advanced-Grade Composite fork with alloy steerer
  • Overdrive head tube tapering from 1 1/8 at the top to 1 1/4 at the bottom and for even more front end stiffness and steering accuracy boosted even further by having the top and down tubes wrap around it
  • PowerCore bottom bracket – oversized and stiff and designed to get all your pedalling effort to the back wheel as quickly as possible
  • Shimano Ultegra shifters and rear mech matched up to a 105 front mech and with uprated for 2012 Shimano brakes and chainset
  • Wheels are Giant's new PR-2 offerings sporting Giant PR-3 tyres

The 2012 Giant TCR Composite is available in five sizes: S (48.5), M (50), ML (53.5), L (55), and XL (58.5) so there should be something there for everyone.

To win one all you've got to do is comment in below, we'll be drawing the winner When we get back from Eurobike (that's how far we've had to go to see one in the flesh) on 5 September. Usual Schwag Grab rules apply.

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.

Add new comment

2625 comments

Avatar
nutjob33 | 13 years ago
0 likes

Schagtastic

Avatar
SaveNoSouls | 13 years ago
0 likes

In my dreams...

Avatar
martinsynergy2011 | 13 years ago
0 likes

please please !  4

Avatar
CL-J | 13 years ago
0 likes

yes please!

Avatar
deborahm | 13 years ago
0 likes

Oh WOW I would so love to win this bike. I have been saving for a (proper)one for the past year and have not done to well!

Avatar
littleemiss | 13 years ago
0 likes

Would love to win this mean machine hehe, my bf would be soooo jealous!  4 x

Avatar
les tocknell | 13 years ago
0 likes

 16 It's mine...

Avatar
strewthie | 13 years ago
0 likes

Great prize. I would love to win it.

Avatar
Ade61 | 13 years ago
0 likes

I was burnt off by one of these bikes this morning so I need one!

Avatar
Ekul619 | 13 years ago
0 likes

pretty please  1

Avatar
Graham Howell | 13 years ago
0 likes

Would very very very much like one in my fleet. Been drooling over the magazines and press releases for weeks.

Avatar
simpsonclan | 13 years ago
0 likes

Pleaseeeeeeee  16

Avatar
golfnuts69 | 13 years ago
0 likes

Pedal power is silent , but ! not when on my Giant.

Avatar
xkiller213 | 13 years ago
0 likes

Dying to have one road bike! Make it S please  4  16  4

Avatar
casspuss | 13 years ago
0 likes

Would love to wwin!

Avatar
dnb | 13 years ago
0 likes

I sure hope I win this Giant as my current bike is no longer reliant !!

Avatar
Mark Pimlott | 13 years ago
0 likes

Yes Please, very very nice bike and would happily replace my ebay special which is falling apart  4

Avatar
dwilkins | 13 years ago
0 likes

go on then

Avatar
The_Duke | 13 years ago
0 likes

An extremely impressive bike. Definitely count me in!  1

Avatar
Flyingscotsman | 13 years ago
0 likes

ohhh Yes please

Avatar
Argon Welder | 13 years ago
0 likes

Yes please, me please, over here, I say, oooh oooh, can you hear me?

Avatar
Argon Welder | 13 years ago
0 likes

Yes please, me please, over here, I say, oooh oooh, can you hear me?

Avatar
ancientzzz | 13 years ago
0 likes

ONE OF THE NICEST GIANTS I'VE SEEN AROUND!!

Love at first sight  16  4  4  4  4  1  1

Avatar
budfly | 13 years ago
0 likes

great prize. Id love to win it

Avatar
insane_obsession | 13 years ago
0 likes

I dont have a road bike, Id love to have one!

Avatar
ote | 13 years ago
0 likes

I'll give this a shot.. Would be awesome.
Great work you have been doing with this site!

Avatar
physwesp | 13 years ago
0 likes

Fingers (and toes) crossed!

Avatar
Ben Burns | 13 years ago
0 likes

Yes Please!

Avatar
philg28 | 13 years ago
0 likes

Count me in please  1

Avatar
mikeyc38 | 13 years ago
0 likes

Yes please! what a great prize to win!

Pages

Latest Comments