We’ve got a load of chainstay protectors to give out today. Usual time 2pm.

Heads up for next week..

We have an ex test bike to give away! It’s a Focus hardtail in size large. It’s been in our bike store for many months and we thought the best home for it would be with one of you guys. I’ll post more details on it’s spec and a few pics later via our Twitter feed. But here’s kicker..

If you want to be in it to win it you have to do more then just follow our twitter feed at http://twitter.com/singletrackmag

We are only going to draw a winner from the followers who have changed their profile picture to display our mag logo 🙂 Yes, we are going to try and squeeze some extra promotion for ourselves out of this by exploiting your own Twitter profiles. The logo has to be clearly recognisable in the thumbnail image of your profile. We’ll judge if it is or not on the day of the draw – 20th March 2pm. Logos have to be visible at the time of the draw. WE’ll be randomly handing out some little prizes of stuff we have lying around the office as logo displayer spot prizes from 2pm Thursday. That’s so we can try and squeeze at least 24 hours worth of exploitational promotion out of you 🙂

Grab a pic of the mag, yourself in one of our jerseys, t-shirts, coffee mugs.. etc.. Well not you IN a coffee mug, although that would be very impressive.

It’s shameless promotion on our part but hey! You could end up with a bike.

Remember.. 2pm today for chainstay protectors. Next friday for a bike.

Is Twatter like My Face and Spacebook then?

STW being the democratic meritocracy that it is, wouldn’t it be better to give prizes away to best post of the week, or the OP of best thread of the week, rather than shamelessly ‘buying friends’ on twitter? You ain’t ever gonna compete with stephen fry or lance…

I’m not keen to leave any more evidence of my existence for Mr Murdoch et al to sell on and use for marketing purposes. I don’t think I have anything to hide but I’m not sure what would go against me if push came to shove.

I’m still waiting for my won T-Shirt 😉

Do defaced logos count? 😉

Dam, read it wrong, I’ve already changed my picture over, no wonder no-one else had done it when I checked Singletrack twitter site… doh! TFIF, time to get out on the bike! 😀

twitter is blocked here at work, but i am following the mag so we’ll see…

have changed twitter picture but cunningly it still identifes me…albeit a company in cardigan bay might be also grateful for free advertising

Hang on, you say it’s today and then you say it’s on 20th March.

I demand to know if I need to change my picture today

twitter is blocked here at work, but i am following the mag so we’ll see…

Same here. But, http://www.tweetgrid.com/ isn’t… (Choose a layout, then click the little + next to settings and choose ‘friends’.

No.. today’s giveaway is just for chainstay protectors.. no profile pic changes needed.. It’s the bike giveaway for next week that needs the pics changing 🙂 But we’ll send out spot prizes for randomly selected profile pics that have our logo in them between now and next week too. 🙂

Mark, have you got a logo you could post for us to use please? (post it/link?) I have the world’s most bacic PC here at work and can’t even crop or resize anything!

I can’t update my Twitter profile pic and I’m not the only one. This is the official answer from Twitter:-

Update: we’re still having problems with uploading profile pictures. This is happening across multiple browsers with multiple file types. We’re aware of this issue and working on fixing it. Thanks for your patience in the meantime!

more chance of me winning then 😀

Pete,
You have a week to figure it out. We want to see a variation.. If we posted a logo everyone would use it and where’s the fun in that? 🙂

so thanks to tweetgrid i know i didn’t win anything. oh well, story of my life!

Same here. But, http://www.tweetgrid.com/ isn’t… (Choose a layout, then click the little + next to settings and choose ‘friends’.

dabr.co.uk gets past most corporate firewalls too.

That’s perfect! 🙂

Got four small multitools on my desk this morning. Going to hand them out to Twitterers this week for a whole raft of arbitrary reasons. Just get our logo in your profile pic to be innit2winnit 🙂

Other random goodies may cross my path as the week goes on 🙂

My efforts.

Hi, I couldn’t find a logo. I have used the mag title, is that OK?

Heh – my profile is now suitably updated with a rather cheeky version of the logo

@simonralli

…and my Spitfire one.

Someone is getting a bike tomorrow!

BTW.. It’s used. has v-brakes but is perfectly fine 🙂
Sold as will be seen in pictures tomorrow. We’ll clean it up and give it a once over with an oily rag and that. I like the carbon bars mind 🙂

My profile – hopefully – updated with a technical version of the logo – see @disben

Enjoy!

In fact….

Sandwich – You what?

Thanks Mark 🙂

claire At singletrackworld DOT com?

cheers? for what? Have you won the old scabby boneshaker?

No, I won a multitool.

Woo Hooo!!!!!!!!

better than a kick in the head though.

A masterpiece, non!

My ten pence