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'Won' a meal for two and so.e beers in the local working mens club whilst on a whale watching trip in Australia. I say won, the trip was delayed from the previous day because of bad weather and nobody else could use the tickets, we were literally the last people on the boat to ask!
Also won a signed Leicester city shirt from the season they won the.................
Worthington cup!!
5kg of cheese (Stilton iirc) at a track meet for best attack of the day.
Ha! On the theme of odd prizes, I once won a full cutlery dinner service for a top ten in a road race:
I laughed at the time, but years later I use it every day, so it's probably actually one of the better prizes I have ever won!
Flights accomodation and race entry to the gore moonshine trail race in New Zealand for 2.Courtesy of the top folks at nofussevents in the prize draw for doing the 3 ten undwrs in 2008.
I remember you winning that Terry! I'd done 2 of them that year (first and last) in spite of my efforts to do all three. IIRC I couldn't get time off work for the middle one of the year.
I did win a bottle of Benromach whisky at one of the 10 Under events.
A signed limited edition print of Keggy Keegle when he was in his prime playing for Hamburg and England.
I wasn't sure it was really signed (in pencil) so I rubbed some of it out. It was. So it was then part signed by Kev and part by me. I don't think it detracted hugely from the value.
Haha aye Sticks in my mind oddly too...
*No one we know wins those things*
Gordon says -" errrr Terry . That's you"
This thread has just reminded me... My missus won the £200 raffle at the local Ducati dealership when it opened up a few months ago! She even got presented with her prize by none other than Carl Fogarty (she didn't have a clue who he was!)... 😂
It still hasn't been spent... 🤔
My Wife and I won our wedding photographer...
We went to a wedding fair and there was a photographer offering a full day wedding shoot and a pre-wedding shoot free prize draw.
We stuck our name down and thought no more about it.
About 3 months later my Wife got an email saying we'd won it!
Saved us a packet and he was a nice bloke and decent photographer.
Daystate Huntsman air rifle in a daystate draw for people who bought their pellets. Had the entry in my coat pocket for about 2 months before I remembered to post it. It was all screwed up, so I straightened it out and stuck it in the postbox. A month later I got a call to say I had won it.
Ended up selling to a guy a few months later who came over from a Holland to collect it.
Yeah yeah we’ve all “won” a few bikes in our time I’m sure.
Have you now? Well I actually did. Later sold for a hard tail.
I also dont win much but then again I dont enter much either. last thing I remember winning was maybe 82 or 83 around about 9 years old and I won a half bottle of Dewars whisky.
I won 2 tickets to see Michael Jackson at Wembley in 1992 and a trip to Ibiza the following year, courtesy of the big breakfast. Nowt since, I must be due something soon 🙂
A car for me. Way back in the 1990s. It was a caterham 7 kit in performance car magazine, I had a day at the factory and then the race van turned up at home with the kit, all new parts, and I spent a great couple of weeks putting it together. It was brilliant fun to build and drive
chrismac
SubscriberI spent a great couple of weeks putting it together.
Couple of weeks. COUPLE OF WEEKS? You're supposed to take 2 decades then discover you're too old to drive it because of your bad back
Won £4000 on the lottery about 10 years ago for 5 numbers. Think the jackpot had been £10 mill + for just one more number, sooooo close. 'Bout shit myself when I was checking the ticket mind.
Won a Nikon D750 DSLR body in a photo competition a few years ago. That was pretty good, sold both my crop-sensor bodies and went wholly full-frame.
Best bike-related one was an Exposure Maxx-D, though I nearly didn't get it, the first one posted presumably got misappropriated by a naughty courier and never turned up. The website or me directly in touch with Exposure and they shipped a second one to my office.
My best prize is a trip on a school trip. I was the best in history class.
Our 13 year old just won a full set of Castelli GCN kit.
He’s well impressed
Wait what was it, a spoon, brown, wooden maybe. No I remember now a kick up the arse.
£100 on £2 scratch card. 😃
Way back, probably very early 90’s, I won a Muddy Fox Sorcerer MTB, which I eventually sold to someone I worked with, who still has it and rides it regularly.
In late 1992 I entered a competition on Simon Bates Radio 1 show, a promotion tied to the movie Hackers. Posted off the answers and forgot all about it. Some time later, I think January, I get a call at work to let me know I’d won, which was nice, although I couldn’t for the life of me remember what the prize has been, something like a directors baseball jacket or something.
Anyway, next day, the lady calls back, asks if I’m free at the end of April, at which point I’m thinking, what? So I admitted I couldn’t remember what the prize was. She said she thought I sounded a bit casual about it, it was a trip for two to LA for a week, hire car, entrance to Universal Studios...
More recently I won two tickets to see Leonard Cohen at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, on what turned out to be his last ever tour. He was wonderful, a never to be forgotten event.
My best prize was a crappy little trophy for winning a karate sparring competition.
I worked hard for that - it's one of the few things in my life that I really feel I earned.
An all-expenses-paid 10-day holiday for two to Thailand. Shortly after arriving in NZ I entered the Taupo Round the Lake challenge, they'd just created an off-road version on local trails. It was an 80km ride, the longest training ride I'd managed was 40km! It was a hot day, my riding buddy dropped out half way due to cramp. Race numbers were drawn after the race, mine was second prize. Top prize was a Holden Commodore SS, the lad who won it was still a couple of years too young to drive so I'd say his dad was pretty pleased 😀
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My mate and I won something for making this dalek.and K9 and getting my dad to fit it in his Cortina to take to school.
I'm the platinum blond.
The dalek was mounted on a skateboard and my mate could get inside it and push it along with his hands.
This in turn pulled K9 along on a bit of string.
K9 was mounted on Lego wheels.
Still remember making that. We used egg boxes to make the dalek "bumps".... man we had enough eggs to last months I think.
Don't remember what we won and don't care, the making of it was great down in the garden shed!
Pair of nice Poc kneepads from a comp on here. Well I say a pair, they are both left'handed' 😂
I won an avalanche airbag rucksack by writing and performing a rap song about avalanche risk.
I won a Raving Bonkers fighting robots thing, when I was about 10, from a Buster comic Spot The Difference competition.
In the mid '90s, I won a life sized shop display of "The Rock" in full WWF/WWE guise (it was for my nephew). I got to the shop half an hour late, and the guy had given it to the next person in the draw, because he wanted rid of it quickly. I still give the shop a death stare when I walk past 😡
Hungry Hippos.
RM.
Earliest prize I win was when I was about 6 years old- bottle of Bells whisky, I felt a little hard done by at the time! I have since tried Bells and it's ****ing foul!
About 6 years ago I win a lid with STW Tuesday Treats, made my day!
On a flight back of your answered the questionnaire you could win the drink of your choice. I won, think I said a cider. Old dears next to me said I should of requested champagne.
My mother enters loads of competitions, and won a few. But she enters everything, even the ones she doesn't want, including a murder mystery weekend! Which she won but then declined..
Hubby bought some raffle tickets for a disabled skiing charity. There was a fancy evening function and a Royal read out the winning ticket. A friend of ours was at the function and rang us to say we'd won a free skiing holiday. The official notification came a few days later.
The holiday win was not all it was cracked up to be, as there were so many rules about where you could or go not go. Also there was limited choice of accommodation.
We ended up having a good time though.
Surly Krampus Frame at Tide to Tide.
Was quite pleased with that.
Mate of mine won a competition in a Scots golf mag, named the top 20 courses in Scotland that matched their choice, and won a four ball at each of them. Took him and his dad 4 years to do it, but a great way to spend lots of time with his old fella, and they were both golf mad.
In 2001 I won a competition about digital watermarking with Reuters. Prize was an all expenses trip with Williams F1 to Monza to watch testing. 5 star hotel in Milan and meeting Ralf Schumacher and Montoya. Incredible experience, got to walk on the pit straight and have dinner with Williams and BAR crew.
About £400 in the Bay Horse pub quiz over the last couple of years.
That includes the 'Play Your Cards Right' bit at the end.
A friend's dog picks the cards. She always wins.
Nice one Cinnamon.
In 2010 I won a trip to Scotland through MBUK, we had an apartment in Innerleithen for 2 nights and a meal at the Glentress hotel, great weekend and my first time riding there.
Won a hammock for an hilarious letter to Whitelines snowboard mag. That's been used on a good slice of the warm sunny days we've had since... 2003! Blimey, time passes, doesn't it.
Similar note to kcr and chestercopperpot, the team I was in won an actual wooden spoon each for coming last in a quiz. The winners got a bottle of bubbly each, but where's that bubbly now, 4 years later? Long pissed down the drain, whereas my trusty wooden spoon has years left in it.
He who comes last, stirs longest.
Second prize in a MBI competition which turned out to be a set of 1 inch steerer Pace RC35's, still got them.
Won quite a few things - from competitions or races...
Minidisc player when I was about 15 (what HiFi mag comp)
Tickets to see Women's wimbledon finals
Bike lights (4fourth/exposure)
Helmets (one brass monkey series I won 4 helmets..)
Bike grips/pedals...
Most I give to mates nowadays!
DrP
Three times in a row I won a Football365 competition to see Leeds play in the Champion's League including food and drink in the Revie Bar. I got to see the matches against Barca, Milan and Real with the best seats in the house (I already had tickets to the games so gave them to my brother). In the bar I got to rub shoulders with all sorts of ex-players / pundits etc like Ron Atkinson and Mark Lawrenson.
Superstar Pedals from Pinkbike 12 days of xmas
many many years ago I submitted a pic of my girlfriend to MBUKs riders wives (dont judge me, 2003-FHM/ loaded was a thing)
she won a womens saddle, shoes & gloves, she still uses the shoes 17 years later!, but rarely off road now
double win, shes now my wife
Makes a note to never go on Holiday with maccruiskeen
Best prize was a very fancy Sony Ericsson mobile. It was never that big a 'thing' but Coca-cola used to run a club sort of thing, every bottle had a short code printed on the plastic, if you entered them online you could amass points. I did, and still do drink stupid amounts of diet cola drinks, so I got a LOT of points. They were mostly useless and I was losing interest, but they had a prize drawer to win an as-yet unreleased Sony Ericsson mobile, I spent all my points on a few thousand entries and won one. Coke called me and asked me a load of questions to be used as a bit of a write up and then e-mailed me a surprisingly long and complex set of instructions of how to take a photo of myself with the phone (using a mirror so it was visible) and how to send it to them VIA THE MOBILE, a bit like how I thought SMS messages were a bit of a faf and would never catch on in 1999, I suspected taking pictures of yourself and then transmitting them via your mobile phone was a bit of a faf and would never catch on in 2009. I appeared in some online ads for a few days later that week.
That was the only time I used it, It came with all the sorts of accessories you'd never actually buy yourself like a docking station. Sold it for £400 on eBay, my first go at that (never catch on) to some Techhead after sending a dozen messages explaining how I'd managed to get hold of this mobile that wasn't being released for another month.
Once won a ski trip as Bunnyhop (Mrs NBT) has explained.
"Won" a montane featherlite velo by sending in a nice pic of people riding above Boredale Haus. Mrs NBT still uses it on most rides, one of the best bits of kit we've ever "bought"
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Won a "Powered By Pies" riding shirt from Bikemagic when Seb Rogers chose my image of a mate riding through the ford at Martindale. Gave the top to Monksie as a thank you for helping us move house.
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Portable stereo 90s ghetto blaster from top man, I never entered but my flat mate worked there and entered in my name. Used it when decorating for years actually quite miss it now.
Some lucky people on here, to the unlucky holiday winners I know someone who won a prize to new york which coincided with 9 11.
I had a guilty non-pc chuckle at "Riders Wives" 😄😄
Back in 2005 I won a Global titanium/carbon fibre hardtail plus an Exposure light courtesy of a MBR competition. Think the prize value was £3.5k. I only rode the bike a handful of times & then px'd it against a downhill bike from RideOn in Rawtenstall. I remember Craig at RideOn, on seeing the Global that I was px'ing, recognising it as the prize bike's frame that they'd supplied to MBR. He called me a jammy git (or words to that effect)
In 2007 I won a set of Mavic Singletrack ST wheels courtesy of...Singletrack!
You sexist pig Kimbers.
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