Shimano XT

Sarah Burl from Essex!

At the end August (doesn’t that seem a lifetime away?!) we launched a competition for the chance to win a Full 2007 Shimano XT groupset worth around £500 – includes front and rear mech, crank, cassette, v-brakes, levers, shifters and chain.
To enter you needed to answer the following question:

Why do you think you deserve to win this groupset?

We had literally thousands of entrants and we picked Sarah to be our winner. She was one of the very few that didn’t actually want the prize for herself. Coupled together with a great story and some nice photos I thought Sarah and her freinds are very worthy winners.

Here’s Sarah’s entry:

I think I deserve to win the Shimano XT Comp set because I would like to donate it to one of the Gambian Cycling team that we are trying to support in a country that does not support sports and makes it very difficult to both race and acquire new gear. My husband and I try our best to support a time trial every two months and try to put bikes together to help these guys, but most of the time these guys are riding bikes that can not be repaired as they can not get the spare parts. This Shimano XT groupset will go a long way in helping one of the team perform better and hopefully do better in the next Commonwealth games.

I enclose some photos of the team.

Sarah

 

 

so again congratulations to Sarah who has kindly offered to do a small write-up for the bloggle when the team receive the parts out in Gambia. Hopefully there will be more of these great photos as well!