Megasack Giveaway Day 8: Specialized Gambit helmet

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A full face lightweight helmet from Specialized – one of Benji’s favourites. Light enough and ventilated enough to wear pedalling along, as well as on an uplift day.

Specialized Gambit Helmet

A capable full facer with the ventilation and fit of a normal helmet. An impressively lightweight carbon fibre shell, bolstered by some polycarbonate backing, and five sections of “targeted density foam for reduced weight, optimized fit, and increased ventilation.”

Integrated Fit System that accommodates variations in head shape. Occipital base adjustment for comfort and allows you to tune helmet to ensure that your helmet and eyewear work well together. 4-position adjustable cheek pads provide further fit tweaks.

SBC Integrated Fit System does away with much of the bulky padding of a traditional full-facer.

Brow cooling provides a gap between the helmet and forehead, drawing airflow into internal air channels even at low speeds.

MIPS tech inside helps protect your brain from shearing impacts.

Here’s some of the righteous blather Benji single finger typed into his review of this most excellent hat:

“The 640g Gambit weighs a couple of hundred grams more than a proper deep-coverage open-facer and does a better job.

“The breathability and ventilation are amazing. I’m never in a mad rush to take this lid off at rest stops. Obviously the physics of the thing mean it must be warmer to wear than an open-facer but… I just haven’t noticed. I don’t ride in Spain. I ride in the UK. And if I’m up somewhere decently high in the UK, chances are it’s at least windy and very probably quite chilly. Overheating is rarely a problem here.

“The Specialized Gambit is an extremely comfy lid to wear with the trad retention dial band on the back working just as on a regular open-face helmet. The Gambit has the added benefit of increased protection from the elements – you get less wind baffling and mud spray hitting up your senses. When the elements are against you, sliding on a Buff® underneath the Gambit is a joy that’s on a par with cheating.”

Sign Up To Win

Anyone with a login to Singletrackworld can enter the daily prize draws. But free accounts can only submit one entry to the Megasack prize draws. Paying subscribers can enter twice. Because you are rad.

All users will need to log into singletrackworld.com to reveal the question (the question is hidden until you log in) to enter every day’s Megasack prize draw. You’re name will also go into The Very Big Hat to have a chance of winning The Megasack AKA one of EVERYTHING given away in the daily draws.

Subscribers Always Get More!

If you’re a Subscriber to Singletrackworld, you’ll see the question (which you have to answer correctly!), but you’ll also get a box to tick to ‘double your entry’. Only paying subscribers will be able to see that box. Don’t forget to tick it!

Small Print Stuff

We can only post prizes to a UK address. One entry per person (unless you’re a Subscriber, in which case tick the box and we’ll double it). Vexatious multiple entries will be disqualified.

Today’s question

Thanks to this year’s big supporters:

Day 7 Winner Revealed!

The winner of the Goodyear Newton MTF and MTR Tyres daily prize on Day 7 is: greavo
Congratulations! Do a little jig! We’ll be in touch about getting your prize to you!

Missed a day? You can still enter

Entering a competition you can no longer win sounds daft but if you have missed a day then there’s still time to go back and enter in order to increase your chances of winning the grand prize MegaSack on New Year’s Eve.

Click here to check out all the previous daily draws.

Orange Switch 6er. Stif Squatcher. Schwalbe Magic Mary Purple Addix front. Maxxis DHR II 3C MaxxTerra rear. Coil fan. Ebikes are not evil. I have been a writer for nigh on 20 years, a photographer for 25 years and a mountain biker for 30 years. I have written countless magazine and website features and route guides for the UK mountain bike press, most notably for the esteemed and highly regarded Singletrackworld. Although I am a Lancastrian, I freely admit that West Yorkshire is my favourite place to ride. Rarely a week goes by without me riding and exploring the South Pennines.

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  • DickBarton
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    Just checking – do we only get 1 email now even if we have ticked both options? I’m not fancying my chances, but just checking that my chances are higher with 2 entries instead of the 1…

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    nickjb
    Free Member

    Mark put a post about the changes in yesterday’s thread:

    With the new tick box system there will only be a single confirmation email. If you are a full member and you’ve ticked the box all is well and you will be counted twice.

    dknwhy
    Full Member

    I only had one entry box to tick so not sure if I got my second entry

    Kramer
    Free Member

    I thought that Hannah’s guess was pretty good.

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    Anybody else putting random answers in for the draws they don’t want just to get entries for the Megasack? Or is it just me? Feels wrong to be in with a chance of winning an individual item that is not wanted but somehow okay for the whole thing.

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    Mark
    Full Member

    If you are drawn as a winner for the Megasack your entry still has to have the right answer to the question associated with it. Wrong answers don’t count in the draw.

    The way it works, as you will see on the live broadcast on New Year’s Eve, is that first I pick a number between 1 and 16 using Random.org and that picks the day from which I then pick the Megasack winner, again using random.org. The winner is only the winner if they got the answer right for that day. The reason is that if we just picked from all entries then we’d be running a lottery and that needs a licence. However, you don’t need a licence for a ‘game of skill’. In this case the skill is in picking the right answer.

    This explains why daytime TV programs run competitions with ridiculously easy questions to avoid having to declare themselves a lottery and get a licence for every competition they run.

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    ossify
    Full Member

    If you don’t want the day’s prize then simply enter for that day late, after the draw.

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