Morning,

A beautiful anonymous donor by the name of Marion from Winchelsea* has donated an amazing sum of money to go towards our quest to raise awareness and end sarcoma. I have been emailed by countless people asking if there would be wristbands, T-shirts, frame/car stickers or other merchandise available in support of Bullheart/Sarcoma UK. So we have decided, in collaboration with Al from SpokeShirts.co.uk, to produce a run of T-shirts initially to gauge interest, with the profits from each shirt going to two charities; Sarcoma UK, and the Bristol Childrens Hospital.

Now we need your suggestions for catchy slogans. The standard tag line for Team Bullheart is;

“Because we don’t give up. Ever”

But I like them a little edgier;

“Kicking Sarcoma in the nuts since 2009”

“Know your limits. Then exceed them”

Hey! Sarcoma! F*&# you!

Please post your suggestions and we’ll go from there. Many thanks!

(*This is not his/her real name or location. Thanks Marion)

I like the “Know your limits” idea.

Reason? I think people will like a shirt that doesn’t specifically refer to one cancer although of course the sarcoma logo will be prevalent. plus of course, it has a ‘mtb’ feel to it 🙂

I’ll buy one.

Sarcoma Sucks
Bullheart 1 Sarcoma 0
I came, I saw, I kicked Sarcomas ass

Excellent choice!

Just trawling through some of my emails, and found these;

At what point do you give in? You don’t

Beating cancer through strength, courage and lunacy

Outnumbered, not out-gunned

i liked the “i’ve been diagnosed with bullheart and i’m really scared” that someone posted on the other thread.

What about this one?

Because I will not yield to cancer

“it’s not what you say, it’s what you do”

Tony, that’s the shnizzle amma talking about!

Have a boop-dog for your work.

Owning Sarcoma with a pair of bombers since 2009.

‘i wee’d in sarcomas shoes’

not now cancer, I’m busy

Use the rhythm of a dancer to beat Sarcoma Cancer.

Do you reckon they’ll be ready in time for the TransProvence at the end of September?

Personally, I like the standard tagline. Just enough gravitas (and truth) in it.

You could put the Bullheart cycling events achieved to date on the back, perhaps?

Happy to take some off your hands when you get them done.

S – uddenly
A – all
R – ational
C – onstraints
O – bligingly
M – ove
A – way

or something like dat..

“Bullheart: Making cancer his tiny little b**** since ’09”

Maybe use this as a base?

when fighting a bear, you don’t stop when you’re tired, you stop when the bear is tired

change tired for want to?

“Half man. Half Cow*. All biker.”

“Mark defeated terminal cancer and all I got was this crappy shirt”

“Never let cancer interfere with a busy race schedule”

not now cancer, I’m busy

^- I like this one!

Get busy living, or get busy dying?

bovine inside?

rip off the intel logo a bit 🙂 (not too much though, dont want you living through this then getting a fat lawsuit slapped on you)

I once killed a cancer inside of me, just to watch it die.

I like

“Know your limits. Then exceed them”

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Are you doing cycling shirts too? I’ll have one if they aren’t too minging. 😉

Beating my meat since 2009!

Flippant (sorry).

Keep Calm and cancer gone

Harry_the_Spider – Member
I like

“Know your limits. Then exceed them”

Are you doing cycling shirts too? I’ll have one if they aren’t too minging.

+2 (1 for me and 1 for mrs nbt if they can be done in girly cycling shirts)

“Mark defeated terminal cancer and all I got was this crappy shirt”

lol! liking this one

Oi Cancer!

Your dinner’s ready

Bullheart- Putting Down Cancer since 2009

Here’s my contribution matey – if you need anymore ideas drop me a line/mail.

I’ll be kicking the Romster t-shirts back up very soon so I am in busy design mode at the moment, I had to put it all on hold to move house and get settled, 2 and half year olds need a lot of persuading so time to run it all just evaporated!

Anyway dude take a look – if Al needs any help give him my mail.

Hope your keeping well. Andy

i like the because we dont give up ever one and the know your limits one …

some of them are too in your face and i wouldnt want to wear it unless i had actually suffered sarcoma.

here cancer, have some fist pie.

Probably a bit to much print but…

Bullheart Logo on the front. Centre left – just where it should be!

On the back, like a bands ‘tour date’ schedule only it’s significant events – perhaps including personal stuff

xx xx 09 Diagnosed
xx xx xx Bullhearted
xx xx xx Joggle
xx xx xx Discovered Singlespeeding
xx xx xx Created baby bullheart…
xx xx xx MM
xx xx xx Confounded the consultants
xx xx xx All Clear
xx xx xx SSUK
xx xx 11 – Still touring – We Don’t Give Up – Ever

“Mark defeated terminal cancer and all I got was this crappy shirt”

This is definitely the best one 😆

terminal is open to interpretation

Idave has a winner ! I REALLY like that ….

Keep Calm and cancer gone

Liking that a lot…..
Replace the crown in the usual ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ posters with the Bullheart logo et-voila!

Harry_the_Spider – Member
I like
“Know your limits. Then exceed them”

Are you doing cycling shirts too? I’ll have one if they aren’t too minging.

+2 (1 for me and 1 for mrs nbt if they can be done in girly cycling shirts)
+1 for me, too.

Being all grown up and ‘markety’, people see/hear so many empty platitudes these days that stuff like ‘Know your limits. Then exceed them’ rarely mean anything. Anything that suggests that anyone can beat ‘terminal’ cancer is out too, as Marks story only proves that Mark can beat it. I’d wear a t-shirt that just said petesgaff – then you get to tell the story to people who ask what it means. But I’m weird.

Not really relevant to this thread, but you should consider making your original thread into a book. I’ll bet there are plenty of people in the non-MTB community who would welcome such a positive message and extraordinary story.

I’ll have a shirt too when they go on general release. 🙂

not now cancer, I’m busy

I like this, there are too many up there ^^^^^^^that are either too wordy or just trying too hard to be witty with a serious message, and fail on both counts.
I like the idea of the “tour dates”, branding bullheart as a rock band could work, except you wouldn’t get any support from TJ. 🙁
Maybe something more abstract, more image and less wordy would raise more interest and questions.

just my two penneth.

+1 on the book, can’t see why Macmillan wouldn’t want to be involved? my dad had super rare cancer too, only person alive with the diagnosis in the world that the docs are aware of, set up a charity for all bladder cancers after finding out there isnt a bladder cancer charity in the UK with his consultant and other members from his team and support groups around the country, he wrote a load of blogs from diagnosis, through to treatment and setting up the charity… fallen out the habit now but a lot of the macmillan crew (other blog writers, forum users) kept telling him to make a small book out of it.

always nice to read a positive story of recovery when you’re facing an uncertain future and your worlds been turned upsidedown!

anyway, back to t-shirts. ‘hey cancer, i’m gunna boop you on the head… BOOP… lol’

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