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Crave giveaway: Hipster-friendly fixie bike from Critical Cycles

Roll up your pant leg and get ready to hop on a free fixie bike, the prize in this week's ultrahip Crave giveaway.

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You've got your flannel shirt, your facial hair and your man bun. What's missing from your hipster ensemble? A fixie bike, that's what. Luckily for you, there's the Crave giveaway.

This week, we have a Critical Harper fixie bike worth $330 from Critical Cycles, a bicycle maker based in Los Angeles. Critical recently tweaked its manufacturing and packaging processes, and its bikes now arrive to your door 95 percent assembled. It should only take you about 15 minutes to get your new ride from the box to the streets of the hippest urban neighborhoods around.

So how do you go about winning a Critical Harper single-speed, fixed-gear bike with a hand-built track frame? There are a few rules, so roll up your pant leg, turn down your vinyl records and read on.

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  • Register as a CNET user. Go to the top of this page and hit the "Join CNET" link to start the registration process. If you're already registered, there's no need to register again.
  • Leave a comment below. You can leave whatever comment you want. If it's funny or insightful, it won't help you win, but we're trying to have fun here, so anything entertaining is appreciated.
  • Leave only one comment. You may enter for this specific giveaway only once. If you enter more than one comment, you will be automatically disqualified.
  • The winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) Critical Cycles Critical Harper bike, with a total retail value of $330.
  • If you are chosen, you will be notified via email. The winner must respond within three days of the end of the sweepstakes. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
  • Entries can be submitted until May 16, 12 p.m. ET.

And here's the disclaimer that our legal department said we had to include (all caps for extra legality):

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. DATA RATES MAY APPLY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. YOU HAVE NOT YET WON. MUST BE LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OLD OR AGE OF MAJORITY, WHICHEVER IS OLDER IN YOUR STATE OF RESIDENCE AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO SWEEPSTAKES. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS, AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Sweepstakes ends at 12 p.m. ET on Monday, May 16, 2016. See official rules for details.

(And be sure to follow Crave on Twitter at @crave; some of our giveaways are now Twitter-based.)

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