Forum search & shortcuts

Bizarre logo coinci...
 

Bizarre logo coincidence? Rich Energy and Whyte Bikes

Posts: 1892
Full Member
 

“Rich Energy Racing” is Storey’s new vehicle to carry on where he left off in the belief that he’s now off the hook.

If that's the case, though, what about the Haas sponsorship (which is LV). Being wound up too I guess.


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 11:14 am
 Sui
Posts: 3149
Full Member
 

Hold on, RER has been around since 2017, so surely still forms part of the "Rich Energy group" Also, as RE twitter account is still all about drinks, as is the website, how is it that the twitter account is still operating as RE and not LV, or at least under the control as LV as the twitter account would have formed part of the intellectual property of RE (now LV)...

oooh me head..


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 11:29 am
Posts: 106
Free Member
 

Also, as RE twitter account is still all about drinks, as is the website, how is it that the twitter account is still operating as RE and not LV,

Because Storey has the password to it...

LV is just an empty husk at this point. Presumably what he's hoping is that Haas etc who dealt with the old RE are left biting on thin air while he carries on with world domination. (There's another case in progress with a wine investment firm Vin-X who are suing old RE about an un-repaid loan and some shares.)

However in the logo case he was named as a defendant personally (not just through the company) so Whyte certainly *can* keep going after him for that.


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 11:37 am
Posts: 1892
Full Member
 

It is strange, usually using a firm like BDG Group means you can distance yourself as much as poss from the old firm and product, minimise the bad rep of a failing company. Here he's taken the product and all the PR nonsense with him?


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 11:41 am
Posts: 50252
Free Member
 

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

https://twitter.com/AuralEntropy/status/1151853380459012099?s=19


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 11:46 am
Posts: 2423
Free Member
 

Caught in a brand swipe? No escape from TM IP!


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 12:01 pm
Posts: 584
Full Member
 

Magnifico!


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 2:23 pm
 Bez
Posts: 7441
Full Member
 

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a lawsuit, no escape from a bankruptcy.

Edit: oh, I see I’m not first with a next line. Bah.


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 4:15 pm
 Pyro
Posts: 2404
Full Member
 

Caught in a brand swipe? No escape from TM IP!

Open your eyes: Look for logos you'd like to steaaaaaaaalllll....


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 4:30 pm
Posts: 5830
Full Member
 

I'm just a beardy boy, i need no sympathy


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 4:43 pm
Posts: 11386
Free Member
 

Because I’m easy come, easy go, some say I must’ve been high to steal a logo


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 4:56 pm
Posts: 10963
Full Member
 

Everyone has a lawsuit set aside for me

For meeeeee

For MEEEEEEEEEEEE


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 5:10 pm
 Bez
Posts: 7441
Full Member
 

I see a little online picture of a can
Scaramouche, scaramouche, can you find a can? Damn, no!


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 5:12 pm
Posts: 1205
Free Member
 

Stags heads and lightning, IP's not frightening


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 5:15 pm
Posts: 6290
Full Member
 

“can you find a can? Damn, no!“

Take a bow sir 😀


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 5:51 pm
Posts: 1892
Full Member
 

Good one...

https://twitter.com/RickParfittJnr/status/1152263609524850688


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 7:33 pm
 Bez
Posts: 7441
Full Member
 

Talk about kicking Rich Energy when they’re down…

…down, deeper and down.


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 9:24 pm
Posts: 1205
Free Member
 

“can you find a can? Damn, no!“

Take a bow sir

Perchy is going to shit a brick when he sees someone that wasn't him came up with that!


 
Posted : 19/07/2019 11:24 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

No stock in all over the world?


 
Posted : 20/07/2019 9:03 pm
Posts: 1892
Full Member
 

He's back. As someone said, he seems to think he's managed to move the product to a new company with the same name. Noticed a new Rich Energy Limited appeared on Companies House a couple of days ago. The old Rich Energy operations mgr is named as director?

https://twitter.com/rich_energy/status/1152647842768535554


 
Posted : 21/07/2019 11:25 am
Posts: 291
Free Member
 

God that man is an utter twunt no?


 
Posted : 22/07/2019 12:10 am
Posts: 291
Free Member
 

So here Rich Energy undergoes a name change on 16th July to Lightning Volt Ltd

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09791667

And a new entity named Rich Energy incorporated on Friday 19th July. Mental.

When will this car-crash air on Netflix then ?


 
Posted : 22/07/2019 12:17 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

When will this car-crash air on Netflix then ?

I was just thinking it would make a good spinoff series from Succession - one of the idiot children (or maybe cousin Greg) decides to leave the family nest and do their own thing so they start a bike company making the sickest bikes known to mankind, plus some tee-shirts and a tattoo parlour, then an energy drink company and motorsports sponsorship. All goes well until dad steps in and cuts off the funding, at which point angry customers want their bikes and the other companies whose IP they ripped off sue them, etc.


 
Posted : 22/07/2019 1:53 am
Posts: 1892
Full Member
 

When will this car-crash air on Netflix then ?

Well, Drive To Survive is next year they say. They are filming this season 🙂

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula-1-drive-to-survive-to-return-to-netflix-next-year.2FTTMwLiLTxiMAmlQ7k8dE.html


 
Posted : 24/07/2019 3:43 pm
Posts: 3351
Free Member
 

I think that it's safe to say that Mr Storey is a complete and utter weapon, I strongly suspect that the unraveling saga of ****tery has more in store for us.


 
Posted : 24/07/2019 5:00 pm
Posts: 46114
Full Member
 

At what point does the impending Whyte payment / asset owed, the multiple other folk in the background of Rich Energy / Haas manage to wrestle off the man his Twitter account?

I think that is the sum all of his worth.

That, or it still is performance art...


 
Posted : 24/07/2019 5:15 pm
Posts: 13282
Free Member
 

It’s just a Jordan in a wig distracting us from Sick!’s crimes.


 
Posted : 24/07/2019 5:18 pm
Posts: 3351
Free Member
 

Eddie Jordan has previous syrup related form.


 
Posted : 24/07/2019 5:34 pm
Posts: 50252
Free Member
 

The hair/beard is interesting. It's a part of his identity in such a way that removing it would render him largely anonymous.

Deliberate? Who knows.


 
Posted : 24/07/2019 5:59 pm
Posts: 10341
Free Member
 

Great summary of it all posted on Pinkbike:
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/whyte-bikes-vs-rich-energy-what-happened-next.html


 
Posted : 26/07/2019 10:41 am
Posts: 6758
Free Member
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Anyone want to split an order of cheap energy drinks? Impressive discount if you order 5000 tonnes.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ENERGY-DRINKS-FRUIT-JUICE-MANUFACTURER-S_62008158344.html?spm=a2700.details.maylikehoz.4.4ede257eZ7SwZU


 
Posted : 26/07/2019 12:51 pm
 Bez
Posts: 7441
Full Member
 

The hair/beard is interesting. It’s a part of his identity in such a way that removing it would render him largely anonymous.

Leaving the hair constant but swapping his daily environment for a piss-stained sleeping bag in a subway would also mean he'd blend in perfectly and unnoticeably.

Both of these alternatives seem like broadly plausible future scenarios, to be honest 🙂


 
Posted : 26/07/2019 1:11 pm
Posts: 13643
Free Member
 

Great summary of it all posted on Pinkbike:
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/whyte-bikes-vs-rich-energy-what-happened-next.html:

That was a great read!


 
Posted : 26/07/2019 9:11 pm
Posts: 1014
Free Member
 

For some reason I’m thinking...


 
Posted : 26/07/2019 11:11 pm
Posts: 3225
Free Member
 

I think Whyte should start an energy drink brand

Say RE actually send Whyte the product or empty cans, are Whyte allowed to sell it and make money from it?
Even canned water sent to the 3rd world would be super.


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 1:52 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

The bit I don't understand: can someone explain to me how Storey got the initial sponsorship money to pay Haus the first installment (must be a few million?) or the money to make a supposedly credible 30m offer for Force India - based upon the fact he seems to have no money? Was he bullsh*tting investors, or trying to scam F1 teams? Or both?


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 3:27 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

can someone explain to me how Storey got the initial sponsorship money

He has a mate who made a fortune selling pictures of naked ladies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sullivan_(businessman)


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 4:26 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Out in Newcastle last night...

http://imgur.com/a/y0VXOmZ


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 7:48 am
Posts: 1892
Full Member
 

Thought this was interesting, not the first time there's been a bike company/energy drink issue with logos.

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2010/11/05/Sponsorships-Advertising-Marketing/Bicycle-Company-Wants-Robby-Gordon-Energy-Drink-Logo-Changed.aspx


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 9:28 am
Posts: 46114
Full Member
 

🤔


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 10:57 am
Posts: 50252
Free Member
 

2010, though


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 1:52 pm
Posts: 6816
Full Member
 

Don't know if it's been posted as I'm not about to read 11 pages but the Pawn shop on that Channel 4 program (Post Pawn?) was called Prestige and used the exact font as the 1992/3 Orange Prestige.


 
Posted : 27/07/2019 3:12 pm
Posts: 584
Full Member
 

Didn't the judgement against RE state that all product with the stolen Whyte logo had to be removed from sale before today? It is still on Amazon UK


 
Posted : 01/08/2019 2:31 pm
Posts: 919
Free Member
 

Well it may well have been removed, it couldnt have taken more than a few seconds to remove all of zero cans that are for sale 🙂


 
Posted : 01/08/2019 2:34 pm
Page 9 / 15