0091paddy who are their competitors? Offer to ride for them for the loan of a bike and shirt.

Last year i rode in a team for a local bike shop, they gave nothing to the team but were more than happy to have a write up in the local papers letting our efforts promote them.

They asked me again this year, they got told……

You tell them!

Why didn't you ask after the first time it happened what they deal would include if you rode for them? If you weren't happy the first time your daft for letting it happen again.

Me I'd be happy if they paid for my entry and provided a few beers and maybe a T-shirt.

and if there's a last-minute problem with their team bikes

… then they are obviously incompetent 🙁

Last time I rode for a team – they supplied bike, kit, transport and food. This lot are trying to tell you something.

they are obviously incompetent

I love how you can tell that, as someone who purports to have never even entered a race. 🙂

as someone who purports to have never even entered a race

but I have ridden a bike, and if a company that make bikes cannot get a few that work then they are hopeless, surely ? How complicated can it be ?

A bit more complicated than taking a load of people for a ride along a footpath and pushing some of them into a river. 🙂

A bit more complicated than taking a load of people for a ride along a footpath and pushing some of them into a river

is it ? One might have imagined that people who make bikes would be able to do it whenever they liked

This thread stinks of

"podium rider coming through"

Smee – Member

Last time I rode for a team – they supplied bike, kit, transport and food. This lot are trying to tell you something.

No, sounds like they are literally trying to wing free publicity. Thats rank.