For February, Wiggle are pleased to celebrate the Best of British brands on site and are offering our customers the chance to win a superb British bike and dhb kit.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply buy something Best of British at Wiggle.co.uk before Midnight Sunday 28th February?

Cooper Bikes, the bicycle division of Cooper Car Company, launch their new range of bikes at the Earls Court Cycle Show on the 6th October 2009. Utilising the engineering and technical know how that has been synonymous with the British company for 50 years, and with a nod to their racing heritage, the first models code name T100 will be called “Monza” and “Sebring”, after the circuits which saw the company’s F1 Championship victory in 1959. Mike Cooper commented: ”

The Cooper Car Company has always had a passion for bicycles and we have been thinking about diversifying the business for a while. We wanted to turn our engineering know how to making bicycles that offer the best possible components for the best possible price.”

These iconic British branded hand-built road bikes will only be available from selected dealers worldwide.

The prize

The winner may choose between:

• Cooper T100 Sebring
• Cooper T100 Monza

We will also provide the winner with over £300’s worth of dhb kit including:

• Finchdean Bib Shorts
• Short Sleeve Jersey
• Long Sleeve Jersey
• Droxford Waterproof Jacket
• R1 or M1 Shoes

How To Enter.

Simply buy anything Best of British for the month of February and you will automatically be entered into this fabulous competition.

For full terms & conditions please view here

Wiggle.co.uk recently teamed up with Cycleops to provide a superb competition which meant customers who purchased any Cyleops Turbo Trainer during January 1st to 31st 2010 were entered into a prize draw to win 1 of 3 fantastic prizes!!

The competition has now closed and we have picked three lucky winners.

1st prize: CycleOps Powertap SL Plus Hub System worth £1249.99!
Winner: Mr Phil Crowley

2nd Prize:All 4 Real rides DVD’s & CTS Training with Power DVD worth £135!
Winner: Mr Rich Turner

3rd Prize: Real Rides: Power, Force & Speed DVD’s worth £80!
Winner: Mr Nigel Dinning

Congratulations to all!

We have now picked the winner for the adidas Virgin London Marathon competition which ended in December 2009. The lucky winner was Justin Sanderson, Justin will be entering the London Marathon with his friend Mike Bullock. We will keep you posted on how they both get on after the event. Below is Justin’s reaction to winning the competition.

Congratulations Justin!

I got the mail-shot from Wiggle about applying to enter the draw for the Adidas sponsored London Marathon places, and to be honest I usually ignore that kind of thing,… I had a spare 5 minutes so replied as in the ad, and was really chuffed to get a place!! I NEVER win stuff like that!! As soon as I found out I went and bought a couple of Lucky Dips in the Lottery, just in case!!

Anyway, rewind three years, and I was a lazy fat git, I weighed about 17stone, smoked 40 fags a day, drank lots and ate junk. I had a fast-track pass to a heart-attack. Myself and my mate Mike kept doing daft things, playing tricks on each other and generally seeing who could think of the best prank; for example, after a long hard hike in the Peak District he said to me “Can I have my brick back now, please”… He’d slipped a house brick in my rucksack back at the car!! Git!! I repaid him by buying his kids the noisiest and most annoying Xmas presents I could find… itching powder, whoopee cushions etc. Anyway, I’m waffling, Mike, who is a good distance runner, entered me into the Wilmslow Half Marathon in Jan 07, bearing in mind I was unable to run a kilometre. I joined a running club and trained three or four times a week, and hit my target time of 2 hours, still smoking and drinking.

I then got a bit ambitious, and entered a full marathon without realising quite what I was taking on. I still smoked 40 a day and drank too much, and actually took a couple of cigarettes and a lighter in the race with me as I couldn’t go five hours without a smoke!! It was a suffer fest, I was completely under-prepared, walked most of it past mile 16, and took over 5 and a half hours.

I then decided another marathon was WAYYYY too far, so had a go at a couple of sprint triathlons… My god triathlon is addictive, almost as addictive as Wiggling and waiting for that little cardboard box of presents to arrive every week! (Is it just me or is Wiggle a really good way of getting free deliveries of Haribos to your door???) Anyway, from sprint tris to training camps, to half ironmans and then the full ironman distance last October (with a slipped disc!!), stopping smoking, losing weight and getting a whole lot fitter, healthier and happier along the way, as well as making some of my best friends through the sport. I’ve got anther couple of Ironman races planned this year, in some really cool parts of the world.

I’ve never got into the London Marathon, so this will be really special, and excellent training for my races later in the year (though don’t expect an impressive time!!)… My life has completely changed from three years ago, and none of what I’ve achieved and experienced in that time would have been possible if Mike hadn’t got me to do that half marathon, which is why I’m particularly pleased to be able to take him along with me, just to say thanks in a small way, with the amount of kit I’ve bought, Wiggle should thank him too!!! :o)

Justin Sanderson

We have had a huge response to the Garmin Review Competition where we have collaborated with the generous guys at Garmin to give away 5x Garmin GPS products to our favourite reviews created during November & December 2009!

Now the competition is closed and we’d like to thank all of those who submitted their reviews. Check out the winning reviews and their responses below.

The prizes

Jonathan Cant

Peter Goodfellow

Mary Hardwick

Andrew Gore

David Lewis Smith

Garmin Review Competition Winners Feedback

Click here to read Peter’s winning triathlon review on the 2XU Mens Elite Compression Tights.

I never win anything, well at least not competitions to win useful things, (I even struggle to win a goldfish at the fair – not technically useful for me, but keeps the children happy!)….. so what a great surprise to get the email from Jason at Wiggle saying I’d won a prize for a review.

Dead chuffed. To be honest, I saw the prizes, and have used garmin kit before – and liked it, and thought it would be great to have a go, so pulled up my recent orders and did a few reviews – then thought a video review would be the best way of getting noticed……so I’ve got these new 2XU tights which are pretty good, and I ask the children if they think they’re any good, and to encourage them video me dancing like a loony and getting their comments…… and thus the video. Making the video with the children was great fun, and I didn’t really consider winning anything after that, but its a fantastic surprise.

Well, a fancy GPS watch will keep me on the straight and narrow – I’m sure we all like to think we’ve run/cycled further than we might actually have managed, and this gadget will bring the harsh reality of winter training speeds to life. Cant wait to use it and get fitter and faster for next years season….. (Hey I can even be one of those chaps who runs a 10k race and then tells the organiser the actual course measurement ….. how popular can a guy get???) Thanks to Jason and all at Wiggle!!

Pete

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Just a quick update from Wiggle HQ. The Garmin goodies have arrived! So get your product reviews in before the 20th Dec 2009 and you could be in for a nice Christmas treat.

The prizes

Our 5 favourite individual reviews for each sporting category will win the following:

For the best chance of winning add video’s and photo’s but all types of review have the chance to win!

How to enter

Simply review any product from the Wiggle site before December 20th 2009 for a chance to win!

View the Terms & Conditions

This week the Suunto Review prizes were dispatced to the 5 winners. Each winner received a Suunto t3c HRM Training Computer worth £120 each!

Follow the link below to read their reviews.

Winning Suunto Customer reviews

Here is what several of them had to say.

Ian Sutcliffe

A couple of days ago i got an email from Jason at Wiggle – not the normal ads that tell me whats on offer this month but a BIG surprise to find I’d been selected as one of the 5 winners of a Suunto T3C as a result of my review on my Elite Chrono Fluid turbo trainer !

Its a surprise as I’m not the sort of bloke that wins anything – not even a tenner on the lottery. In fact, i think the last time i won anything i was about 8 years old at the school tombola and even then it was probably a small bag of sweets or a jar of jam…

Today it arrived and to say I’m chuffed to bits is an understatement – i haven’t had one of these before and having tried it out on the bike and trainer its a great aid to my training . Now all i need is the speed pod and maybe a cadence one…

Better check out Wiggle and get one on order ;-)

Thanks again to everyone on the Wiggle team and Suunto !

Iain

Alice Elliott

I’m delighted to have been selected by Wiggle to receive the Suunto t3c for my review of the Adidas Adistar jacket. I’m just putting together my Christmas wish list on Wiggle’s website so that I have all the best clothes for running in this winter. The Suunto t3c will be a brilliant addition and greatly enhance my training, helping me to achieve my new goals for 2010. Thanks Wiggle!

Tim Zimmerman

So I was eating my Hummus and various Greek ruffage I had decided to make that evening after my run. I consider myself an aggressive amateur with a height handicap of 6 foot 3 (190cm for everyone not in the US) and it tears up my knees (cycling is my forte). Having the good fortune of a very cute (and very quick, though I’m sure the pace wasn’t even breaking a sweat for them) pacer to try and keep up with for the duration of my workout, led to my best pace yet achieved of 7:54 minute mile. I had gone sub 8 minute mile, this was big for me, big in the same way I am big- height I mean… not fat (much), just tall.

So a good recover shake was in order, a good meal, and several acceptable beers that are available in my small town (not Busch-Miller-Coors garbage, yuck). So over the course of the next hour I was preparing and enjoying my delicious dinner, and two beers (most likely demolishing my progress….) going through my bookmarks. Checking the weather, the blogs, the webcomics, and the email: spam, spam, spam, get a bigger pen15… spam, something from Wiggle. Whats this? I won free stuff? Are you sure this isn’t spam… surely you jest… What follows the discovery of winning a fairly nice HRM is me giggling like a fairy at my good fortune. Fortunately no one was around to witness my moment of weakness.

I was not only ecstatic about winning a nice piece of training equipment, I was relieved. Allow me to elaborate: Recently my crew has been committing mutiny against their captain. My very nice headlamp of three years decided to stop working in such a way that it would not stop working. I had to disconnect the battery pack from the light to turn it off, not an easy task considering the robustness of the connection. I sent it in for repairs, no more early morning workouts before the sun rises. My cassette on my road bike has become so worn that it has begun jumping and skipping hard when I am mashing up hills, robbing my momentum and taking the fun out of the masochism that is road biking. The pads and fitting mechanism on my helmet has become separated from the helmet creating a very dangerous helmet that could fly off my head while the cinch straps stay firmly in place, so it will effectively become one of those silly leather helmets of the days of old.

My relief originated because I knew I would soon have a new gizmo to play with, that would most assuredly function properly, till I abuse it into submission. Which is something I can guarantee will happen eventually. Nothing stands between me and the frustration of dealing with home brew repairs or giving the warranty department a headache.

Thanks,
Tim Zimmerman

David Bishop

I’d like to thank my family and friends, my English teacher, Internet provider and the teams at Wiggle and Suunto, without whom I wouldn’t be receiving this great prize….

Go back five days before this award winning acceptance speech and there I was, with aching limbs, a temperature of 39, a resting heart rate of 118bpm and flashing lights when I closed my eyes. Competition fever had been running high. It actually turns out that I had swine flu, which would better explain some of the symptoms, however this is not to say that entering the Wiggle competition and waiting for the outcome wasn’t exciting. What I can say is that winning one of the Suunto watches has given me a much needed boost in my recovery from the dreaded “S” word and as I don’t yet have a watch to help me in my training then this is a double whammy of a prize. Furthermore, I am supposed to be running the Abbey Dash 10k on the 22nd November and the Suunto heart-rate monitor will give me peace of mind to give it a go and be confident that I can keep an eye on my condition! In all seriousness, thank you Wiggle and thank you Suunto.

Dave

Ian Harper

When I seen the competition was running I thought “yeah as if I have a chance of winning that”. But I stepped up my reviewing a bit and even entered the top ten reviewers for a while. But the main reason for doing the reviews was not to win the competition, that was soon forgotten. I quite often find myself relying on reviews by others when parting with my cash and thought it is only right to leave my own reviews to help others out.

Having looked at the reviews for the t3c it looks like I’ve won a good product and with intentions of picking up some running over the winter when I’m on the bike less this will spur me on that bit more and be a bit more focused in my effort. I’m really looking forward to getting my mits on it and giving it a try out.

Ian

This is a first for the guys at Pro-Lite and a great opportunity to see how people are using their products while giving a little something back to those that have helped them come so far. People like YOU!

The idea is simple.

Take some pics that show off the Pro-Lite gear on your ride and your photographic skills and send them to promotions@pro-lite.net before Nov 30 2009.

Prizes

1st Prize Grande composite road fork
2nd Prize Trieste Handlebar with new EPO Plus extensions
3rd Prize New Trieste aero handlebar

Runner up Prizes
Plus a prize pack with a polo shirt, a hat and a San Carlo saddle will be given to the top three photos and 5 runner ups!

Feeling a bit shy about your photographic skills? No problem. Pro-Lite will also pick 5 entrants with a random draw to receive the prize pack.

So send those pics in and enter the FIRST Pro-Lite Photo Contest!

View the Terms & Conditions

At the end of September Wiggle paired up with Suunto to give away 5x Suunto t3c HRM Training Computers worth £120 each for our favourite reviews created during September! Well again we have been inundated with many fantastic reviews.

We have now chosen our favorite 5 winners, so without further ado here are the lucky winners and their reviews…

Winner 1

Ian Sutcliffe reviewing the Crono Fluid ElastoGel Trainer

Winner 2

Alice Eliott reviewing the Adidas Adistar Gore Ladies Jacket AW08

“I bought this jacket to run in, attracted by the brand, the style, the sale price and the colour and I was not disappointed. It is light weight and bright enough to wear running and cycling. The pocket for my MP3 is perfect and the length is good although it could be a little longer for a 5″11 woman.”

Winner 3

David Bishop reviewing the Ronhill Vizion Beanie and Glove Set.

With the autumn/winter weather closing in and me being a relatively novice runner, I needed to add a hat and gloves to my ever growing kit. I found the Ronhill Vision Beanie & Gloves to be the best value deal on the day I made my purchase and as they are Ronhill I figured I couldn’t go wrong. I made the order and received the goods in super fast time, but not as fast as I scoffed my complimentary Haribo – thanks Wiggle.

Checklist:
- Beanie? check
- Gloves? check
- Visible to others when dusky? check
- Reflective? check

I have worn the gloves on several runs and they have kept me warm and comfortable. The hat is yet to make its debut, mainly because its not really been cold enough yet, but partly because I may have to wait until the darker nights draw in to be brave enough to wear it in public.
Now, I bought the medium/large size and it might be that I have a strange shaped head…. but…. to be fair to Ronhill I think its safer to say that I make this hat look bad rather than the other way around. Don’t get me wrong, running is not about the fashion, but this noggin-huggin beanie crosses that line between acceptable and “hey mum what’s wrong with that mans head?”. Anyway, it’s practical right?!?
Also, I tried to take a picture of my hands but couldn’t get both in shot as I had to hold the camera… so I put the gloves on my feet and took a picture that way. They don’t fit as well as on your hands, but having kept them on under my desk I can say that they are toasty warm. I haven’t attached the picture as it could be construed as unsavoury.

Winner 4

Ian Harper reviewing the Focus Cayo Ultegra 2009

Having covered over 3000 miles on my hybrid in 6 months I had managed to justify the investment in another bike as I could be sure I’d get the use out of it. This would allow me to have a racer for pleasure as well as some commuting and my hybrid for horrible days commuting and the winter. Having never had a racer before I looked into it quite a bit and was very attracted by the 1 week trial money back wiggle offer. The reviews were good and the level of spec matched bikes around £2000. At £700 less it left me some cash to invest in some more kit and a nice new light for winter and still have some cash left over.

Read More!

Winner 5

Tim Zimmerman reviewing the Descente Classic 3/4 Bib Tights.

“Having never owned a pair of knickers or knee warmers, after buying these I want more pairs of the style.As it turns out, knickers are a FANTASTICALLY versatile garment. They protect sensitive knees with less risk of overheating than with full-length tights. They are typically comfortable into the high 60s.

Though, a few aspects of specifically these knickers need to be addressed: The pictures don’t do justice to the extent to which they are blue. They are a kind of blue someone would exclaim, “Dang, now that’s blue” upon seeing you in these knickers.

They’re blue like winter is cold: it’s blatantly obvious, no-one should need it pointed out to them, yet everyone WILL remark on just how blue these knickers are”.Read More!

This month we have collaborated with the generous guys at Garmin and we are giving away 5x Garmin GPS products to our favourite reviews created during November & December 2009! So it’s time to get creative as every review you leave us is your chance to win!

Good, bad or indifferent… for every review you leave us you have a chance to win! Simply click on the ‘write a review’ link on the product page. It’s your chance to have your say so please be creative, be eloquent, be passionate, focus on the product and the Heart Rate Monitor could be yours! Remember to add some video for your best chance to be noticed and win!

Garmin manufactures and markets navigation and communications equipment for the aviation and consumer markets such as the popular Garmin Edge mountain bike and road bike GPS range. Specifically Garmin aim to enrich the lives of customers, suppliers, distributors, and employees by providing the very best products that offer superior quality, safety, and operational features at affordable prices. What started out in 1989 with a handful of dedicated engineers and a great idea for a product has grown into the Global Positioning System (GPS) leader–both in sales and critical acclaim. Garmin has helped to take GPS to new heights by going beyond the ordinary features and performance found in typical GPS receivers.

Today, Garmin has a diverse product line and distributors in virtually every part of the world. While Garmin’s immediate success has resulted from developing innovative products for a variety of markets, their long-term success is based on commitment to support customers after the sale. They are winning over new customers with quality products, tremendous value, and superior service, and are working to turn them into loyal Garmin supporters for many years to come.

The prizes

Our 5 favourite individual reviews for each sporting category will win the following:

For the best chance of winning add video’s and photo’s but all types of review have the chance to win!

How to enter

Simply review any product from the Wiggle site before December 20th 2009 for a chance to win!

View the Terms & Conditions

The lucky Winners of the nuun review competition have now been announced and we have some of their winning responses to share with you.

Paul Smernicki

“What a week is has been in my house. New baby, new kitchen and now to cap it all, I find out my video review has won a £350 Nuun goodie bag. Happy days!

My winning review was for my iMagic trainer which has really come into it’s own this week as I’ve tried to fit in some sort of training around the new arrival. As well as all the benefits it brings in the rubbish British weather, it means I can use any spare minutes to head off to the shed and get some time in on the bike knowing that however long I’m there for it will be a solid session uninterrupted by traffic lights, cars or potholes.

One thing about the trainer though is that without a head wind, perspiration pools on the floor are a regular feature so having a years worth of hydration products at hand has come at a great time, especially as the new arrival has already developed a nappy habit that rivals my kit buying habit!.”

Shane Levine

“When I received an email from Jason at Wiggle informing me that one of my reviews had been chosen as a competition winner I was ecstatic! I rarely win anything, in fact, I haven’t won anything since I was about 8 years old, so it was a very nice surprise.

I enjoy writing product reviews for items that I purchase – I only ever buy things that other Wiggle customers have reviewed, so I think it’s important for me to share my experiences too. Winning a competition for it just makes it all seem worthwhile!

I’d recently been complaining to my girlfriend about the fact that when I arrive to the office after my morning commute, I sometimes feel quite sick and light-headed. I’ve put this down to being quite dehydrated when I wake up and not having a chance to have breakfast or much to drink before I leave the house. I’m looking forward to adding one of the nuun tablets to my water bottle and seeing what kind of difference the hydrating nutrients make”.