[Closed] What is the best prize you have won?

I won a wetsuit in December. A woman's wetsuit so it went to a female friend. But a win is a win.

Many years ago I bought a copy of MBUK and then read inside that I was the winner of last month's competition.

I got a set of American Classics wheel skewers.

Very light but awful as the lever was so thin it dug into your hands/fingers when trying to open or close them.

I fitted them to my Cannondale M700 that later got stolen.

A lezyne 200lumens front light when 200lumens was impressive

A rainbow jersey signed by Alejandro Valverde

MTB Monthly 1991 or 92. Set of Magura Racelines + Magura bike computer, t-shirt and various other bits and bobs.

They looked very pimpy on my Kona Explosif 😎

Then it got nicked 😟

A tin of biscuits at a local footy match in 1975. That's it. Really!

As a kid our family won a £3000 holiday voucher which we spent on a holiday in Tunisia. Our family's first trip abroad. 3 days into the holiday the Tunisian Bread Riots kicked off and we spend much of the rest of the time on holiday under curfew in the hotel surrounded by tanks and listening to machine gun fire

Our second holiday aboard was to Yugoslavia in the spring of 1991. When we got back we mentioned to the travel agents that its probably wise to stop advertising holidays there 🙂

All expenses paid trip to watch England v Argentina in the World Cup in Japan. Only there for 48 hours but was bloody brilliant.

As an out-of-towner top prize in the meat raffle at a fairly local looking pub in Dorchester. Then look on the locals faces said it all but as we leaving the next day we had a pretty pimping breakfast

Back in the day I won a Santa Cruz Chameleon and an Alps holiday for two.
I didn't even know I had entered and thought that it was spam when I got the Congratulations email from Singletrack

Years supply of face packs and an extension lead from the local newspaper. The theme was that they were both orange in colour. There may have been a mug too, I forget.

I went through a phase of entering loads of competitions, won a Kangol Parka from the Daily Telegraph fashion pages (never wore it, was hideous), some cheap saucepans and by pretending to be a plumber won tickets to hospitality at some England home football game. Didn't go, opened the email too late to get there.

Last summer won the top prize at daughters swimming club raffle. A nights B&B in a local posh hotel which was nice.

Several years ago though my mate won a ‘family’ trip to Alton Towers. 2 days in the park with fast track passes, dinner, b&b at the splash landings hotel with access included to the pools. However he didn’t have a wife and kids, so took three mates! Two of us had to sleep in kids bunk beds but it was a real laugh. We all had the most expensive steak option on the dinner menu etc. It slightly took the piss to be fair but the T&Cs didn’t exclude it!

XT group set and wheels from this here establishment back in 2009. Still going strong.

5kg of cheese (Stilton iirc) at a track meet for best attack of the day. Unfortunately when I was racing track 5kg of cheese was not something I had a lot of use for

Grandstand tickets to the 2007 British GP. The racing was rather hard to follow and I had to watch it on TV when I got home to get the full picture but the atmosphere was brilliant. Got an autographed Lewis Hamilton poster at the after race party too.

Back in 1998 I gave my name and address in exchange for a free pack of Marlboro lights in a nightclub. 6 months later I got a call telling me I'd won a £5000 trip to California including £500 in cash.

Still the best holiday I've had.

Backstage passes to see The Almighty in 1994. My 2nd ever gig and it was bloody awesome. And the band were super lovely too, though having a couple of underage kids backstage probably cramped their style a bit.

A 2k full suss trek bike. Lucky dip at the bike show.

A mountain bike holiday in Verbier.

Won a holiday to Chamonix to learn French but couldn't afford the flight at the time so never got to use it.

One Christmas, I won some invisiframe fork protection from single-track but I was between bikes so never claimed it.

I'm not very good at competitions.

I never win anything..

except a leather waistcoat and Suede tickets to a gig in London the day I landed in Australia.

Only thing I can remember is Bontrager Crowbars off a mag about 10 years ago. They’re still on the Fisher Sugar in my garage.
Last year my mum won an eBiking holiday in Austria! She took someone else 😐

Something about being born British? Does that still count?

A night for me & +1 in a suite at the Shard Hotel in London with a meal at a Michelin star restaurant and then a flight in the London Helicopter the next day.

It was a Santander Cycles photo competition.

Done OK out of Santander Cycles, I won £123 once from them too (the Santander 123 Account).

A few weeks ago I won £140 on the lottery (4 numbers). Bought about 4 tickets for the next draw convinced I was about to win £10m.
Didn't get a single number.

I never won anything either. I had a few premiu bonds for over 50 years, nothing.
WHY?
I reckon youre all cheating

Mrs Beener won a custom Moots Ti gravel bike and a trip to Colorado for a fortnight to collect it. It was the main prize in the Rapha Festive 500.

This has been a life changing prize for her.

an all expenses trip around the best vineyards in Tuscany for two, accompanied by a MW. Five days, based in Siena, visiting lovely spots with a meal at each. Last night, spent drinking a wine flight of very expensive wine, talking to the owner, who was heavily into l'eroica.

Got lucky on twitter. Only knew we were going three days before hand

PlayStation 1 probably.

Used to get a steady stream of decent CDs off GLR while on the night shift, because no other bugger listened to it probably.

Back in 92 i won a purple specialized rockhopper comp by collecting 3 barcodes from mountain bike action and sent them in for a giveaway promotion, think it was run by the uk publisher for the mag and i won the bike in a free draw - gave the bike to my gf at the time as i had a marin pine mountain which was a much better bike.

And in 2006 ish i entered a competition in the st enoch shopping centre (glasgow) to win a 14 day family holiday in dubai along with £5000 spending money, I'd absolutely no interest in going to dubai so i gave it to a mate and his family who had been through a rough time with his bro who'd recently OD'd on heroin.

Not really won much else of note.

Aged 9 I won a bottle of 2 stroke lawnmower oil and a bottle of cheap plonk at my primary school tombola. We had an electric mower

Over my 45 years I haven't won much.
First thing was second place at the Queen's Silver Jubilee when I was about 3.
Won tickets to the Birmingham premier of Ghostbusters - went with my Mom.
Won a Falklands era Navy watch in a raffle a few years back.
Last thing I won was £99 credit on the Dream Bike Competition a couple of months back.

Probably the best one was the Ghostbusters premier tickets though.

Ian Rush autobiography on a radio phone quiz. They said it was signed, it wasn't. And rather dull.

I've just remembered, a few months after I had joined up I won a competition in the Mucky Duck in Portsmouth, 2 mins behind the bar to pour as many pints as I could and keep them for my mate and the 3 wrens we were out with. Previous to job, bar manager for Scottish and Newcastle. I was in my element, and very quickly drunk.

A groin friction stick thing when me and my pal Zoe came second at 10 Under the Ben. One each obvs, no sharing 👍

A set of hunt road wheels when they first set up.

Won a digital camera years ago, back when they were quite rare and expensive. Was a Casio with an interesting swivel lens design. Got a few years use out of it, and some pretty decent photos anyway.

The lottery.

Couldn’t believe it when my three numbers came up.

Oh, and an amazon echo. But let’s not get into that.

I never win anything.
Wife won the 50/50 at a football match, about£400 iirc.
She also won a draw to win a cycling top from the diabetes uk cycle team, she is T1 herself, she was pretty proud of that.
And won a draw to get the shirt off the players back at the ice hockey, she was well chuffed with that, although i seem to recall we had to wash it about 5 times to get rid of the sweaty smell.
She took it along to the next game and the player actually signed it for her.

£2000 from Thomas Cook for a 24 hour delay on our family trip to the US last year, we were going for 10 days, they put us up in a hotel in Manchester and we had an afternoon there before flying the next day, they went bust 4 weeks later, effectively free flights, 10 days would have been too long anyway.

Millennium Falcon (Return of the Jedi era) in a Radio Times competition....to be exact, we won 2 which was a tad handy being a twin! Still have it and the box.

...used up all our luck on that win and cant recall winning anything of particular note after that

A 2k full suss trek bike. Lucky dip at the bike show.

Yeah yeah we've all "won" a few bikes in our time I'm sure.

Wahoo Elemnt Bolt when they were first released.

A professional gym spec treadmill - that was heavy to get upstairs!

A day at Millbrook test track when Toyota launched the MR2 Roadster and Celica.

I won an all expenses, kit travel, food guiding etc skiing/snowboarding trip to the Haglofs press camp in Riksgransen in sweden for 5 days for 2 people. simply the best fun you can imagine and many miles of untouched powder. Amazing

Also one some pretty cool lights and a reverb on here in the old weekly comp they used to run.
Oh and i won two other holidays (one to tenerife, one to any pierre vacance property (went to spain to go climb EL Chorro).

Guess i've done ok really.

Not won a huge amount but did once win an employee of the year type thing, which was a 10 day all expenses paid trip to a dude ranch in Arizona, including spending money. It was great, but it was 20 years ago!

Flights accomodation and race entry to the gore moonshine trail race in New Zealand for 2.
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Courtesy of the top folks at nofussevents in the prize draw for doing the 3 ten undwrs in 2008.

Not won much else of note since but I can live with that was a crazy trip.

'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

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I 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.