ContestDumonde TechYou know the rest.So you wanted a winner, right?Well, remember this bike?A real beauty and a true contender, though some of you felt it was a bit too clean.But I doubt youd feel that way now:Heres what happened:The fire broke out in a neighboring house and spread to the owners home. Thankfully he and his family (including two small children) were not harmed. However, they lost not only their house, but a staggering array of bicycles:Ugh.Okay, please turn off your computer or close your laptop or put your phone in your pocket or fold up the piece of paper you printed this out on in the library and observe a moment of silence for one hell of a clowder.Okay. In a way it feels like an insult to award the prize to this contestant. Frankly, if all my bikes burned up and someone handed me a bottle of chain lube Id tell them to go fuck themselves. At the same time, he was already on the short list, and talk about playing the sympathy card! So what Id really like to do is award him the win symbolially and somehow sweeten the pot. Like, I would happily award him my own Meh-roica Bike as a grand prize, assuming shipping to Japan (he lives in Japan if you havent figured that out) isnt completely and wildly prohibitive:Then maybe award some of the lubes and T-shirts and stuff that Dumonde sent to some of the other competitors.Anyway, Im still figuring it out, and I havent even mentioned awarding the Meh-roica bike to this unfortunate contestant, who for all I know may not want the bike at all, since maybe going from 15 dream bikes to one (1) Chris Huber is even more insulting than losing them all in a fire and receiving a bottle of lube.But in the meantime Ill see, and since Ive been shamelessly dragging this contest out I figured I owed everyone an update.So there you go!If nothing else, the contest just got interesting.Count your blessings and all that stuff,Tan Tenovo