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Most of the guys that ride for the team don't really have time to look at or care too much about other peoples political views, rightly or wrongly. More take their own judgement from real life meetings. We'd prefer to spend our time riding, racing, working full time jobs and being as nice to everyone we can be.
This is, and sorry to say this as you seem a nice enough bunch, a cop-out.
He clearly holds strong views - whether he saves them exclusively for Twitter and keeps them to himself in the pub is academic. It's in the public arena and you're choosing to turn a blind eye. Is any of this what you are about as a team? I suspect not. Is there anyway of seeing that as an outsider? No. The assumption has to be that you endorse, by association, Thom's Alt-right views, as do the other brands on your site.
To be clear - I'm not intending on having a pop at you here, I suspect you are not a bunch of Tommy Robinson enthusiasts, but by taking no action you risk positioning yourself with them.
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Neil here, one of Kibosh.
Sorry that you've interpreted a collaboration as sponsorship or that doing so with a brand has meant we are interpreted to have the same views as their personal views. Not here to defend Thom, he's more than capable of doing that himself, although he's always been a very decent chap when I've shared a pint with him.
We are a small team, we make some of our own merch to try and raise money for kit etc. Mamnick is a collab not sponsorship, we chose to do something with him to help earn a very small amount of money to contribute to the coffers. Insinuating that because we chose to do this, pulls Donhou in to equation is wrong on so many levels. Most of the guys that ride for the team don't really have time to look at or care too much about other peoples political views, rightly or wrongly. More take their own judgement from real life meetings. We'd prefer to spend our time riding, racing, working full time jobs and being as nice to everyone we can be.