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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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timlennon | 14 years ago
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I've got a functional and not too expensive Gary Fisher Wingra (2009 model). (Wet or dry!)

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caroline | 14 years ago
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Bianchi Xenon 2010  16

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dukeofvanholt | 14 years ago
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I ride a Raptobike Lowracer the majority of the time.

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stereojet | 14 years ago
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I'm on a Kinesis Racelight TK with 105 group and second-hand DA wheels. Why? Because its a fine all-year round machine.

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vorsprung | 14 years ago
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2009 Cotic Roadrat with Alfine
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2005 Orbea Gavia
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2007 Setavento Custom Audax

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JohnBuc | 14 years ago
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Bianchi 928 - Nice weather
Giant OCR3 - Winter/Rain/Turbo
Felt B2 - TT Bike

and a couple of those muddy mountain bike things we don't talk about on Road.cc!!

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falls offlots | 14 years ago
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Specialized S-Works M2 (got it in the mid nineties, fully rigid, very old school) for off road duties

Giant OCR for the roadie rides...

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JonMack | 14 years ago
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Currently neglecting my Boardman Pro Carbon Race Prepared and Boardman Team Carbon!

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ticklerik | 14 years ago
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For town a Genesis One Fixie, for touring a Saracen Skyline 'bitsa'recently upgraded to brake lever/gearshifters. Though I still catch myself reaching for the frame mounted one.

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bogglecycle | 14 years ago
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Long Rides - Specialized Secteur Elite
Rough Rides - Specialized Rockhopper
Town Rides - Dahon Vitesse

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Roadkill | 14 years ago
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A Cervelo RS and some others.... but nothing like the Tripster

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doutorphil | 14 years ago
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Kinesis Maxlight XCpro2 on the singletrack
Kona Kapu ´95 on the tarmac  26

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Martok | 14 years ago
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Trek 7200

...because it's the only bike I've got and the one I started my riding with last year.

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pups110 | 14 years ago
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Planet-X superlight in the dry
Giant SCR in the wet
And my FRANKENBIKE sometimes  16

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elbooch | 14 years ago
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Cotic Roadrat and Merlin Malt4

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farcorfe | 14 years ago
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My main bike is a Olowski track bke  26

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spicypedro | 14 years ago
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I ride a Trek 1.5 and I'm also riding a semi-restored Dawes Milk Race that I've singlespeeded.

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richmitch | 14 years ago
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currently riding a CUBE streamer 08 [orange and black]
Ksyrium SL wheels
Deda zero 100 stem / seat post
Deda Newton Bars
full RIVAL groupo

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North Cheshire | 14 years ago
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Specialized Allez "frankenbike" with 105 and other miscellaneous bits
Kona Paddywagon

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dannyg | 14 years ago
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I commute on a Boardman Hybrid Team and do my mountain biking stuff on a Boardman Mountain Pro, i also have an old raleigh renolds 501 frame custon build that i used to race on and TT on, but it's tres old!

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pshillabeer | 14 years ago
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Dry days - Boardman Team Carbon. Wet days - Orbea Enol.

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wwaswas | 14 years ago
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Planet-x Superlight
Gary Fisher Ferrous SingleSpeed
On-One 456
Giant NRS

I've mostly been falling off the 456 and Ferrous recently.

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colonel wax | 14 years ago
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Most days, a Brompton M6R

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John_the_Monkey | 14 years ago
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I ride;

A Giant SCR2.0 with upgrades in nice weather

A Surly Long Haul Trucker built up with cast off bits from the Giant on nasty days, the commute, touring and on towpaths &c

A Brompton S3L when I need to work late, get the train somewhere, or run errands in town.

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workhard | 14 years ago
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Depends where I'm riding  3

Surosa Toleda today

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pllb | 14 years ago
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I ride a BeOne Storm 1.0

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demoff | 14 years ago
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I ride a Giant Defy.

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BaggyBoy999 replied to demoff | 14 years ago
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I ride a Pinarello FP3 and a Massi

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jengy replied to demoff | 14 years ago
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Trek 1000sl
OnOne inbred 29er

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