TransAm 2016 - www.transambikerace.com

I've typed a lot of shit all the time to be fair. I certainly don't have to be drunk to be an arsehole :)

Weight Watchers might be willing to sponsor your racing Kaftan and there are probably bouncy-castle manufacturers who could see valuable tie-ins.
You've got to think outside the box. Since you're too obese to fit in it.

The fingers you have used to dial are too fat to obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm now

Biggest arse logo in the business should 'hold some sway' so to speak.

I think scherrit would consider it a slur on his professional reputation to hear about your arse swaying while riding. :)

Gotta keep the fans happy.

Just watched the film. Looks like a good race - good scenery and seemed like not too many cars.

It's a touring route so I'd imagine it would prefer quiet roads but you can still read about many riders complaining about drivers and lack of shoulder in the eastern states so there's still some issues with traffic.

I keep swaying between "yeah, wanna smash it" and "you suck, just don't bother". I've run out of races to do anything decent at so I've ended the season on a low so now I'll be pissing and moaning for months and leave all the planning too late...

1. und 2. Juli
   
   

http://www.elbspitze.de/registration.php

Last years times:

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What's this? No good to me now is it?

This years results. Pretty much all crap ;-)

Read about this event a few years ago in Tour, sounded good. This is next year 1 and 2 July. I posted the registration link ^^.

But what's the event? It's too close to TransAm and TCR but I've missed the window to register for TCR it seems and one silly event a year is probably enough but it'd be interesting to ride both.

Maybe this should be in Ultracycling thread. @Velocio when can I move posts?

You can already move whole conversations... just not the comments within.

That will come soon.

Yeah, I just mean in cases like this where a part of the conversation is better suited to another thread.

Delete their posts!

Half-kidding. You can do that by viewing individual posts.

But yeah, not possible through the tools today.

Brian McEntire finishing up his blog series..
http://mcentire.me/2016/01/

Just read your approach on sponsorship and I disagree.

As an introvert myself I totally agree on what you and @skinny say. Plus sponsorships are two way exchanges.

Given what you are capable I think you should push a little outside your mental comfort zone to ask for sponsorship. I mainly say that because it aches me how the interweb 'teams' and 'athletes' get away with it and I think you deserve better.

If you need any help (visual, as I am a crayons kind of guy) I will.

It is mainly content creation (jesus wept buzzword etc) and you have to be a bit of an open book. You can be clever about it.

I'm not afraid of asking for help - I got sponsors and observers on board for my LEJOG attempt a couple of years ago.

There's enough to worry about and plan without me having to deal with sending out requests for sponsorship letters and wondering if I'll get any help, etc. That's why I've put LEJOG on hold until someone else steps in and manages it. I'm not doing it again unless someone else sorts out all the other people that need to be involved. You can't organise AND ride - I tried and had a meltdown.

There's logistical issues with sponsorship as well. If it's equipment sponsorship, say a bike, then I ask around and someone says 'yes, we'd love you to ride our bike'. Great, but then what? If it's a large company, it might take them a month or more for the various departments to approve it and then actually get me the bike. That's a month I should've been riding and tweaking.

If I use a sponsors kit and then find something much better, I can't just drop their stuff and use the better option.

Anyway, racing as a "Privateer" is better than saying "Sponsored by..." in a self-supported bikepacking race. It's like riding fixed and passing people riding gears ;)

racing as a "Privateer"

Racing as a privateer mean you get to shout "Arrrrrrr!!!" and dress up as a pirate.

Fair. Your lunacy is playing slight part in this approach ;) But you get my point.

If I was in your shoes (probably not midfoot) I'd favour a little admin over self-sponsoring. You might even be able to take time off work without having to sacrifice mortgage payments with sponsorship.

See? It's totally full of win!

Yeah, someone willing to throw large sums of cash at me would be nice, but see previous comments about asking for help. You need to be able to help the company in question before they'll part with dosh and I'm not sure I want to spend my leadup bigging up products, though it's about time Specialized gave me a bike, since I've spent enough time and money on riding theirs around the planet..

Also, "a little admin"? I can barely get paperwork sorted to pay myself, let alone maintain the household bills and you should know by now where I stand with navigational and logistical planning...

The missus can maintain the mortgage while I fanny about on bikes. :)

You can't organise AND ride - I tried and had a meltdown.

If anyone wants convincing of this, read Hutch's hour book.

I am shit at content creation and being an open book. I keeps myself to myself and do my own thing. Not really in hand with being sponsored, not giving a shit about your outside image.

link?