Fight Cancer, Win a Hand-Built Bike by SyCip, Fully Tricked-Out With Shimano and PRO
Wow. Today’s headline is really long, isn’t it? That may have to do with today’s contest being so jam-packed with awesomeness that it’s hard to fit into a nice, concise headline.
The crazy thing is, as long as it is, the headline is still leaving some really amazing stuff out, including the ability to get a Shimano group you can’t even buy yet.
So let me lay out exactly what you can win in the contest that we’re starting right this second.
You Get to Choose the Bike
Imagine owning a bike that fits you perfectly, because it was made specifically for you – to fit the look you want, your body and your riding style, based on measurements and discussions you had with the builder.
And now go one step further and imagine that you have to choose whether to have a classic steel road bike or a classic cruiser hand-built for you.
SyCip (pronounced “see-sip”) Designs has been designing and building custom bikes like this since 1992. Each bike they build is customized for the lucky person who buys it.
Or, in this case, wins it.
For this contest, the winner gets to choose between a SyCip Custom Classic Roadster and a SyCip Custom Java Boy or Java Girl.
Go to the SyCip Flickr page to check out a lot of their bikes, but here’s a few pictures to whet your appetite. Check out a couple shots of the Roadster:
and here’s another one:
But suppose you’re looking for something for getting around town. For cruising, or maybe commuting. Or maybe — just maybe — for riding around for fun. Well, the Java Boy or Java Girl ought to fit your needs pretty darn nicely.
One top tube? Two? Curved up? Curved down? It’s your bike, so it’s your call.
Yeah, I think your SyCip custom-designed and hand-built bike is going to make the word “awesome” feel sad and inadequate.
The Bike Will Be Outrageously Outfitted with Shimano and PRO Components
Let’s not forget, the frame is only half of your custom bike equation. Since Team Fatty is Shimano-Powered, you can bet that your bike is going to be tricked out beyond belief with Shimano and PRO components.
If you go with the Roadster, your bike will come equipped with a complete set of Dura-Ace 7900 components, wheels, and pedals. And that’s just the beginning. Your Roadster will also be equipped with your choice of PRO handlebars, stems, posts, and accessories.
Yeah, my head’s spinning too. With jealousy.
But suppose you want the Java Boy or Java Girl? Well, Shimano’s got you covered for that, too. Covered, that is, with the yet-to-be-released Shimano Alfine 11-speed internal group.
The Alfine group highlights with a wide-range 11-speed internal hub, disc brakes, and a list of other jaw-dropping bike technology.
The Bike Will Be Hand-Painted By Spectrum Powder Works
Regardless of which bike you choose, it’s going to look the way you want it to, because one of the artists at Spectrum Powder Works is going to talk with you about colors you like and details you’d like to have on your bike, and then make your frame more beautiful than you would have ever imagined possible.
How You Can Win
Whichever bike you get is going to be simply too cool for words. You will try to use words to describe how cool your bike is, and you will be unable to. But that’s OK, because riding the bike is more fun than describing it.
In other words, I think this is a contest you might want to enter. But to do that, you’re going to need to do a little cancer fighting with me. Here are the ways you can donate.
- By Raising Money at Your OWN Team Fatty LiveStrong Challenge Page: If you’re a member of Team Fatty, now’s a great time to donate money to your own LiveStrong Challenge, as well as to get others to donate to it. For every $5 you have raised in your LiveStrong Challenge by Midnight, June 17, you get another chance at the bike of your choice. And if you haven’t joined Team Fatty yet, click on one of the links below to join in the city of your choice:
- By Donating at my Seattle LiveStrong Challenge Page: For every $5 you donate at my LiveStrong Challenge page between now and Midnight of June 17, you get another row on my spreadsheet. That DOES NOT mean that if you want to donate $50, you’ve got to do ten $5.00 donations. I’m awesome at Excel and will be able to give you the correct number of chances automatically, based on how much you donate. Click here to donate now .
The contest ends Thursday, June 17 at Midnight, MDT. At that point I will choose a winner at random from my spreadsheet, using random.org to pick the lucky person. I will then fire off an email to the winner. Once I get acknowledgement, I’ll announce it on my blog, and you can begin the agonizing process of picking out which bike you want, how you want it customized, what you want the paint job to look like, and so forth.
Sweet, sweet agony.
By the way, since the Seattle Challenge is next week, I highly recommend those of you on Team Fatty-Seattle work your hearts out raising money for this contest.
Why This Matters
I hope you win this contest. I really, really do. But the fact is, what really matters in this contest — like all the contests we do here — is that we’re doing something in the fight against cancer.
And the truth is, this fight is going to be personal — in one way or another — for every single person, at some point in your life. You’ll either have cancer, or someone you care about will. It’s that widespread. And it’s that awful.
This is a chance for you to do something to fight back, while simultaneously getting a chance at winning an unbearably cool, custom-designed, hand-built, hand-painted, tricked-out bike.
At the very worst, your donation will have done something for someone’s fight against cancer. And it may just have won you a bike in the process.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
So. Go sign up and raise money on your own Team Fatty LiveStrong Challenge page now, or go donate at mine.
Thanks, and good luck!
Comment by pgreen | 06.10.2010 | 8:38 am
Wow.. Just Wow!!!
Love a nice retro steel bike!!!!
Comment by KanyonKris | 06.10.2010 | 8:55 am
Very cool!
Hey, did you have your first date with FattyFly yet?
Comment by HeidiR | 06.10.2010 | 9:17 am
I have no words for your awesomeness……
Comment by AngieG | 06.10.2010 | 9:24 am
Amazing! A big thanks to Shimano and SyCip for supporting Team Fatty and the fight against cancer. Very gracious!
Comment by KK | 06.10.2010 | 9:30 am
Sweet rides!
Comment by Kamala | 06.10.2010 | 10:56 am
I was going to re-raffle my entries, but I can’t bring myself to do it. What an awesome looking bike!
Comment by Jeff | 06.10.2010 | 11:22 am
This contest is, of course, awesome.
But what I really want to comment on is; top tube curved upwards? That’s just asking for trouble.
Comment by Clydesteve | 06.10.2010 | 11:37 am
I am so so so slobbering over the Roadster.
My keyboard just sshshshsorted outtt…
Comment by Dan | 06.10.2010 | 11:44 am
Fatty, you, Shimano, SyCip, Spectrum Powder Works are totally awesome!!!!! How can cancer stand a chance against such awesomeness!?!?!?
Comment by NoTrail | 06.10.2010 | 12:26 pm
I sense a Java Boy in my future! My commute will never be the same. Great contest!!!
Comment by Paul G | 06.10.2010 | 1:14 pm
I think Fatty killed the SyCip website. Too many people going to drool.
Comment by James N | 06.10.2010 | 1:19 pm
This guy should win it.
http://consumerist.com/2010/06/delta-smashed-my-bike-and-wont-even-refund-the-baggage-fee.html
Comment by Cyclin' Missy | 06.10.2010 | 1:53 pm
Wow! Both bikes are amazing. I’m in!
Comment by Fatbikeracer | 06.10.2010 | 2:14 pm
Ok, so the new Superfly didn’t come in? Did they ship it? You can’t post a contest after all the hoopla about the UPS delivery!!!
Comment by Drew | 06.10.2010 | 4:10 pm
Fatty, as always, you do good work with your massive internet celebrity.
Also: holy cats, those bikes are gorgeous. If I don’t win, I’m going to sob quietly outside their factory like Alvin with his harmonica.
Comment by subleft | 06.10.2010 | 5:19 pm
Wow, that is some gear you are giving away. I will see what I can scrounge up some dough.
Also, can’t wait to see your build. Gets me thinking of what I will do when my wife is done school and I can get myself a new bike :)
Comment by Jeremy | 06.10.2010 | 9:44 pm
I could sell off one of my bikes to make room for either. It’s much more cool that we have now taken down top spot in Sea-town. I look forward to dinner with a whole load of you.
Comment by Mike Roadie | 06.11.2010 | 5:38 am
Another amazing contest to help us do what we are passionate about and win something we love! How cool is that????
Comment by Fat Cathy | 06.11.2010 | 8:20 am
I so wasn’t doing this anymore. But I can’t stand it. If I win, I’ll have a really hard time deciding which option to go with. Yet another road bike (yet totally incredible) that I don’t need (I only have 4 now) or a truly cool bike to ride around town with my kid?
Comment by Jodi | 06.11.2010 | 12:37 pm
Oh man I know I’m slow on the draw mcgraw here, but I just signed up. While I recognize that people would likely call shenanigans if your sister won this, I have a feeling it would be ok if someone won it by donating to me! OK!
Or am I wrong – can I win? Ok ok ok. I know.
Comment by Betsy | 06.11.2010 | 1:11 pm
Sweet rides, I have picked out my paint colors already. Thinking on of the cruisers would look really good on me. Thanks Fatty.
Comment by Jeremy | 06.11.2010 | 4:06 pm
Can people donate to your San Jose link? We’re in third place by right now! We were down to second place by a measly $95 dollars a few minutes ago, now it’s up to $145.
Comment by Whitney | 06.11.2010 | 9:40 pm
Oh my GAWD! Those bikes are sweet!
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great contest and great cause. fatlete.blogspot.com
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Comment by meligrosa | 06.20.2010 | 12:15 pm
wowzers i love sycip <3 norcal’s finest!!
love that mustardy with pink one, would look awesome as my Frenchie’s cousin
xxo.m
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