I’ve had one of the VeloSolo track tools for a couple of years and I absolutely love it, not only is it a joy to use but it looks great too!

“To celebrate the launch of three new colours for our best selling VeloSolo Track Tool we are giving away three tools in each month of May and June. How to enter? Simply place an order on the VeloSolo website with a value over £35.00 (shipping not included) and your name will be entered into the draw. Customers worldwide are eligible to enter. Three winners will be picked at random at the end of each month to each win a VeloSolo Track Tool of their colour choice. The winners names will be posted on the blog and contacted via email.”

So all you have to do is place an order with VeloSolo, one of the original online shops supporting the UK fixed gear scene, and then sit back and wait!

Perki from Deaf Pigeon has posted a review of the awesome Made in the UK Grim Burton messenger bag and he has one to give away too so you now have a second chance to get your hands on one!

Click through to Deaf Pigeon to enter!

Right then folks, I have a right Bobby Dazzler for you here! This is your chance to win an ORIGINAL DRAWING by Jack Kirtley, aka Foreign Eye. This is not a copy, it is the actual drawing and will be worth many millions of dollars in the future.

Jack’s illustrations are always funny and often gross which is why I love them, this drawing definitely exists within the funny and gross categories…

To win this very fine piece of art, follow these simple instructions…

1. Like The Foot Down on Facebook
2. Like Foreign Eye on Facebook
3. Like and Share the competition poster here (make sure your share is ‘public’!)

It’s as easy as that, a winner will be chosen at random on the 9th of April. Be sure to check out the Foreign Eye blog and buy something from the shop!

Bespoked Bristol are giving away a signed copy of the UK framebuilder book Made in England on Facebook.

Entering is easy, click here to be in with a chance of winning.

Issue #14 of Fixed Mag is now available to download for just 80p which is a serious bargain, I’m not going to post the contents because you don’t need to see them, just know that it’s worth way more than 80 pence!

In this issue you can win some sweet product from bike security company Atomic22. 1 of the 3 things you need to do is answer this question…

“How many pairs of Atomic22 Guard Dogs for solid axles weigh the same as the high security d-lock in the picture below?”

…for the other two parts you’ll have to download or buy a paper copy of the magazine.

There were almost 300 entries to win the Grim messenger bag which is awesome! Both Grim and The Foot Down are super chuffed with the response not only to the competition but also the bag itself.

The Foot Down’s readership is a massive sausage fest, roughly 90% dudes so this time I decided to give the prize to one of the few girls that entered. The winner is BECKIE HEATON from Manchester. As you can see from the incredible bit of Photoshopping above the bag suits her, matches her hat and jacket and fits like a dream.

Congrats to you, e-mail or Facebook message me your address and I’ll get it in the post for you.

There are two smaller prizes from Grim which I will give away later this week so stay tuned…

Time for another one of The Foot Down’s world famous competitions! Grim Bags from Manchester have donated one of their awesome Burton messenger bags which are hand made in the UK, yes! Check out the photos below and entry details are at the bottom…

How to enter…

1. Like BOTH The Foot Down and Grim Bags on Facebook
2.  Like and Share this image

DEADLINE: Feb 28th

Dudes, I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve not been posting much through January, this is for a few reasons…

1. I’m on a bit of a downer with riding at the mo, I’ll get over it
2. I need to make some changes on here and I’m not sure what they are yet
3. I’ve been doing other stuff and not been on the computer as much as normal
4. I’m experiencing tell tale signs of ‘blogger burn out’, lolz

I’d rather not post at all than just post any old thing but I do enjoy getting on peoples nerves. Just last night I posted about the (awesome) howies sale and ‘Dr B’ (a doctor of bullshit no doubt) took offence…

I cannot be bought or sold like some sort of commodity, I turn down free stuff all the time and frequently send crappy brands that want to advertise packing.

Many many months ago Groupon contacted me, they wanted to offer a £50 voucher for my readers and I liked the idea because I used one of their offers for a physio session once and it was great. I was struggling to come up with a way of giving the code away because I don’t like to sell out and then forgot about it, until yesterday.

So, ‘Dr B’, take this post and pop it right up your bum, I’ll sell out if I want, ha! Also, even if it really doesn’t fit in with the usual blog content why shouldn’t I give one of you a chance to get fifty quids worth of free stuff?

If you want to win this £50 Groupon voucher, follow this instruction…

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CLICK HERE and in the comments type “I deserve the £50 Groupon Voucher because…” then put something witty.

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 COMPETITION CLOSES JAN 31ST 2013.

Disclaimer: I’m getting a sweet £20 voucher for this, hot dang!

I hate Christmas, I really do, so don’t for a second think that this is in any way a ‘Christmas Spirit’ thing, I just like to give stuff away sometimes.

The prize fund consists of…
1 The Foot Down Vortex t-shirt
1 The Foot Down Doodle Logo t-shirt
1 Full Windsor Mudguard (you choose the colour)
1 FGLDN Lockwhip Tool
3 Issues of Fixed Mag

All you have to do to enter is finish this sentence: “The Foot Down is…” in one of the following ways…
1. In the comments below
2. In the comments on this Facebook image
3. on Twitter and hashtag it with #tfdcomp

Be creative and funny/tragic/pathetic/whatever just put some effort in for fucks sake.

COMPETITION ENDS DEC 31ST 2012

Urban Cyclery are giving away a Mission Workshop Sanction backpack worth £150!

The Sanction is an awesome bag, I’m actually waiting on one myself and if I want one they must be good, right?

For instructions on how to enter go to urbancyclery.co.uk/win