Advise needed: Requesting Sponsership

[Young Un]

no, but dont expect to much from the big companys, i would allways try local bike shops aswell... some of them may allready have a team etc set up...

My LBS does have a team set up, I just keep forgetting to ask I can join/how to join. Although the thought of being sponsered by Cycle Chat is quite appealing, I shall talk ot admin and the parents.

 

[mr-marty-martin]

planet x sponser a a cat youth rider i no that...so maybe contact them aswell then...

 

[Young Un]

planet x sponser a a cat youth rider i no that...so maybe contact them aswell then...

Could do, cheers!

 

[Joe24]

Cycle chat people sponsering?

Can i have some money. Ill have your name on a jersey which i will write on in perminant marker, so wherever i ride your name will be seen.
I would like money to buy new chains, front wheel for the normal fixed and a few other things for my bike.
Oh, and id love a skin suit which said something along the lines of, "**** Gears"

 

[mr-marty-martin]

if they did joe i think they'de only be intrested in sponsering riders, not t**ts... to put it frank

 

[Joe24]

if they did joe i think they'de only be intrested in sponsering riders, not t**ts... to put it frank

Sponser me, i ride fixed and im a ****

 

[Young Un]

Lads, can I just request that we keep this thread on topic here please!

 

[Joe24]

HA!

 

[HeartAttack]

Can I ask what you have done and plan to do with cycling? PB's results etc.

 

[Young Un]

Can I ask what you have done and plan to do with cycling? PB's results etc.

What have I done: Well I started a year ago, on my dads old mountain bike with the main intention to loose weight, but I then joined the local club, and realised that I am kinda good at this. For the rest of that year I got used to riding on the road and in a group, and my everages rode steadily until september, when I started to enter the West Mids cyclo-cross league, with not a lot of success, but it was my first experience of racing, and I wasn't on a cross bike.

This year, I have been taking my cycling much more seriously with the hope to just get as fast as my body will allow me too, how far this gets me in the world of cycling I don't really mind, but obviously the higher the better. I now this year, enter in two TT's a month, and enter four track league meetings every month in which I am in the top three most meetings - creating lots of oppurtunities for a sponsers name to be voiced. By PB for this year, set on the K46 course, which still isn't flat, was 24-53, which I think is very good considering it is my first seaso, and also that I am only 14, and I am still on a road bike (SCR2 so long head tube, so not very aero) but with clip-ons. I ahve also done some circuit races, but these were at the beginning of the year, and my fitness was not very high, resulting in dissapointing results, but again it is still only my first season.

Hope this is the information you are after.
Steve

 

[mr-marty-martin]

tell people how much you train aswell etc, like a gd few of the adult teams around my area dont go to sponer's and say, look you'll get this amount of coverage in these races etc, they say more about them training as a group, as with a team of say 7-9 riders all together riding through the high streets etc most people will straight away think, pro team there...

if its possible up the amount of events you do, i race 4 sometimes 5 times a week...

 

[dellzeqq]

Where are you going with this? Are you seriously suggesting that you are going to be so good that people will think 'if he rides that bike then it must be good'.

If you are then stick together a kind of brochure - a letter incorporating (good) photographs, with your achievements and your targets bullet pointed. Use words like 'success' and 'exposure' (but not in company with 'indecent'). Write that you're seeking sponsorship for 2010.

The spelling must be perfect. And send it to anybody you can think of - not just cycling concerns, but construction companies, internet gambling companies, whatever. If you're writing to a non-cycling concern then make the offer - you want assistance with travelling expenses and spares, but you will wear a jersey designed around their company name.

Plowman Craven is a really boring firm that does surveys. Likewise Sportingbet has no obvious connection with cycling, but the TRAT gets a fortune from them. Somebody, somewhere must have tapped a cycling nerve. You might just get lucky.

 

[bonj2]

not just cycling concerns, but construction companies, internet gambling companies, whatever

better still, pimp yourself out to a company that builds casinos.

Better still, just wear a jersey with their logo on it anyway and then send them an invoice with some photos. With a bit of luck some desk clerk will assume it's already been agreed by some head honcho and just pay it anyway as long as it isn't for too much.

 

[mr-marty-martin]

yeah you've got to sit down and think is it worth the hassel???

i reckon the top 10 ranked youth riders in the country arnt even sponsered personly, only a select few...

the best way to go is get on a team...look for a team with a develepment programs to junior cycling...

 

[mr-marty-martin]

also, contact your local councils, whever its the area you live in or the area your club is part of, they can offer funding for up and coming sports people, ( swimmers get alot of funding for instance...)