I thought I’d knock out some T-shirts to raise some cash for Cyclists’ Defence Fund, who exist to provide a sound legal defence against such things as spurious prosecutions or loss of access rights, and in some cases even to bring private prosecutions where the CPS does not act. I used TBoom for some Le Jour de France t-shirts earlier in the year and the quality was pretty decent so I’m using them again.

The shirts are £12 each with a fat £5 going to CDF for each one sold. (I get nothing, by the way.) You can also add a donation on top of that if you like*.

So far they’ve been selling better than expected, so I’m wondering if we can raise a grand by the end of the month (after which the shirts will no longer be for sale… get ’em while you can). They’re available in universal, women’s and children’s fits. One colour, one design (love it or hate it). A stocking filler for the cyclist who has everything, perhaps?

Buy T-shirts here! -> https://www.tboom.co.uk/upset-the-idiots

Obviously feel free to pimp it on Facebook etc as well 😉

* note that additional donations are subject to a 5% fee

Don’t like that design? Fair enough. Try the Road.cc ones, with a retro-reflective print of the “cyclists: stay awesome” sticker on the rear. £25 each with a quid to CDF for each one sold.

I will buy one of yours sir!

Hurrah! 🙂

Bought!

there we go. That’ll wind up my mate in the pub 🙂

Shared on the Hamsterley Trailblazers’ Facebook page..

bookmarked!

i will ask Santa for one
Cheers for all the work you do Bez

Ive bought one now that ive booted my laptop up, bloomin’ phone didn’t like the website!

And thank you for introducing me to the term “commentard”

Thanks all. Going well so far 🙂

done, donation made too. x

Good work, sir 🙂

For those who are interested, I’m keeping track of the fundraising in relation to the levels of fines awarded for killing and injuring people on bikes:

https://twitter.com/beztweets/status/664025934677299200

(Earlier comparisons upthread from that tweet.)

Cheeky bump: the next purchase takes us over the £500 mark 🙂

Bump. Just had the e-mail telling me my shirt is on its way 🙂

*coughbumpcough*

😉

Oh, and I broke the previous tweet link. Try this one.

3rd party bump no prob
great tee great cause

Good show 😉

I made a little chart of the fines I was tweeting about, too:
(click to embiggerize)

At the point of writing, people buying T-shirts have raised £131 more than the fines for killing three cyclists and putting a fourth on life support, but £181 less than the fine for killing a swan.

COME ON, LET’S RAISE ENOUGH TO KILL A SWAN

SHAMELESS BUMP

We’re at £865, which is good for one dead swan and the best part of a using-a-phone-at-the-wheel FPN.

How soon can we get to a grand?

I wore mine to the pub the other night when the bloke on the next table (who definitely hadn’t seen my tshirt) loudly proclaimed that he’d never seen a cyclist stop at a traffic light. He was in his late 50s.

I got up to go to the bar and his mates sat facing me creased up laughing 😀

Well that’s made my day 🙂

I’m in for a t-shirt and donation. That chart ^^^ 😐

You’re a persuasive bastard Bez.

And Scaled, top story. 🙂

I’m in. How do they size up? I’m a generous medium or a diminutive large (small mediums look painted on and big large tend to bellow like a sail)

You’re a persuasive bastard Bez.

Never underestimate the fundraising power of crowdsourced cygnicide 😉

How do they size up?

They’re Fruit of The Loom, if that’s any use. I *think* I’m about a 39″ chest and M is snug on me, L is loose without being too big. (I prefer the latter.) They’re on the long side.

Another shameless bump!

Ten more shirts will get the total to the arbitrarily magical grand (and then I might STFU for a bit). We can reach that today 🙂

Also, road.cc are now giving £5 to CDF for each of their shirts, too. Wahey!

From an email this morning and as a small bump.
“Upset the idiots!
Ride a bike

Raised so far
£1109.10
Sold 150 T-Shirts”

Further than that grand.
Anyone else found the label a bit itchy on the back of the neck? May be better after the first wash.

I cut the label off. That sorted it. Top job Bez on sorting this out. Like the t-shirts as well.

Sat in mine at work typing this whilst at work on a forum at work…………I say work, last day for a month and a bit then new job who won’t let me wear said t-shirt or go on forums…….what was I thinking!:D
It has a couple of comments already 8)

Today is your LAST OPPORTUNITY to get one of these shirts!

They’re on sale for a whole five hours. Get ’em while you can!