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Win a unique HOY Autumn edition bike with road.cc and Evans Cycles!
Heads up people! To celebrate the fact that we're all going to have to dig our longs and lobster gloves out of the back of the drawer, we've teamed up with HOY Bikes and Evans Cycles to give you the opportunity to win a very special bike indeed.
You might remember that a few weeks ago we went down to London to meet up with Sir Chris, and he was in the process of building up three very special Autumn edition bikes. Based on the £1000 Sa Calobra .003, they've been taken away and powder coated in some autumnal tones, and then it was the job of the main man to build them up with some matching kit and hand-apply the decals. Check out this video of Chris working on the bikes.
That makes these bikes very special indeed. There's only three of them, they're all different and they're all hand-signed by Sir Chris. A truly unique and beautiful thing, and we have one to give away. Ours is the one pictured on its own above; it's a deep red finish with bird decals, matching leather bar tape and saddle and red-accented tyres. Roll up to a club run or sportive on that and you can absolutely guarantee there won't be someone on the same bike...
Entries are now closed
Thanks for all your entries! We're currently compiling a shortlist of 20 entries and from that Sir Chris himself will choose a winner on Friday 25 October.
Terms and Conditions: The competition will run until Friday 18 October 2013. Employees of Farrelly Atkinson, HOY Bikes, Evans Cycles, and their families and agents are excluded from entering. Entry is open to UK residents only. Only one entry per person. The winner will be selected from all the valid entries and notified using the email address associated with their user account. Farrelly Atkinson are not responsible for non-receipt of a winner's email. Should the winner not respond within three days, another will be selected. The name of the winner will be posted on road.cc following the draw. The prize is a Custom Hoy Sa Calobra .003 bike; no cash alternative will be offered. The judge's decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
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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Cycle commute to work through the backroads of Hampshire. In the autumn the sun is just rising and creating wonderful colours across the fields and sky. Making the most of it before winter falls.
Red bridge ride
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not knowing where the path is or goes
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Through the autumn leaves.
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Out with the fisherman at Lake of Menteith...
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Early commute
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Erddig, Wrexham 10/10/2013
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4 degrees this morning - hello autumn
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Long Shadows and Long Sleeves
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Wind whistling through the trees, leaves falling, calm before the storm.....cowbells, saucepans, old steel bike frames & hammers, air horns - Autumn is hill climb season: welcome to the house of pain! I'm sure Sir Chris is familiar with this on training rides up the Sa Calobra
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Autumn is the time to put away the road bike and dig out the single speed cross bike and head out on to the gravel and forests and find new places with no cars.
Heaven, is a track, a bike, and me.
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Autumn riding for me this year has all been through the park to work unfortunately.
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Taken last Sunday at the bottom of Greater London's Woldingham Ridge. I am explaining the physics of gravity and the beauty of the Autumn to my erstwhile photographer.
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Took this on my ride out to Rivington and Winter Hill today. I stopped by Anglezarke Reservoir to take on some food before tackling the beast of a climb there! When I snapped this shot, with the leaves and clouds, I instantly remembered reading about this comp!! "Perfick" I thought!
Terrible effort I know, but as you can see I need a new bike...
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Boston Wheelers rider gingerly finding his way through the trees during the Alford Wheelers cross event.
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Taken on commute into work. Summer already seems like a distant memory!
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Autumn is the end of summer and the start of jolly eccentric autumn/ winter shenanigans! Today riding in Somerset I found an Oompa Loompa! Cheers to the local farmers and use of left over hay bales!
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Morning commuting to work. In Staines Upon Thames
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Wonderful unexpected bike ride whilst on holiday last week.
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Stow on the Wold , Sunshine
Cotswolds
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30 miles through prime Mamil mating territory and not a single sighting - rainy autumn days are made for cycling
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Passing the Preselis on the way home from work
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Ride on Strines moor. Pretty gruelling in places. Broke my front shifter but completed 50 mile ride including Holme moss.
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Dunkery Beacon descent, heading for Porlock Hill, then lunch in Lynmouth.
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Autumn is: racing track bikes, in face paint, through Leeds City centre on Halloween.
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Stormont, Belfast, basking in the autumn sun,waiting patiently for the Giro to come
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bikes, tow paths and real ale - its what October was made for
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Autumn is hill climb season!
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