Cycling sponsorship has no influence on me...

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    Ah, so you watch a lot of kickball ;)


    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,330
    ddraver said:

    Ah, so you watch a lot of kickball ;)


    I took one look at that and resolved not to get a VW. Kids whinge enough about legroom as it is
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435

    I don't tend to notice cars. I did see a pink ferrari the other day which stood out. Definitely not a stealth car. Google tells me the driver (an attractive women in her 20s) mistook a bus lane for a parking spot.




    Surely knowing that Citroen make cars is pretty base level knowledge? Even if you wouldn't recognise a Citroen in the street.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    If we are talking about cycling kit - isn't it more or less impossible to be a cyclist and not have something from one team or other...
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,854

    I don't tend to notice cars. I did see a pink ferrari the other day which stood out. Definitely not a stealth car. Google tells me the driver (an attractive women in her 20s) mistook a bus lane for a parking spot.




    Surely knowing that Citroen make cars is pretty base level knowledge? Even if you wouldn't recognise a Citroen in the street.
    I did know that, but... I didn't know they sponsored AG2R!
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,965
    edited July 2023

    If we are talking about cycling kit - isn't it more or less impossible to be a cyclist and not have something from one team or other...

    I have a fair amount of ex pro Mitchelton Scott kit - does that count?
    Oh and the Mavic team whose name slips my mind, JLT Condor.....?
    Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    When choosing who to use for my pension when I changed jobs and no longer had a company scheme I got got some recommendations on Cake Stop and eventually went with AJ Bell partly as it was the easiest to set up and partly because I was aware of them through their ToB sponsorship.
  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678
    Nothing to do with cycling sponsorship but we did have some Quickstep flooring briefly. When I opened the first box we realised it was going to be way too dark so it went back and we had to swallow a restocking fee :/ The perils of choosing stuff in a brightly illuminated showroom...

    Used Mapei tile adhesives and grout several times, but again not a conscious choice - it was just what the tile place was stocking at the time
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,330
    edited July 2023
    Pretty sure sponsorship / advertising works the other way around too. I can't be the only person whose reaction to Transitions lenses is "hell no"
  • It's only by chance that I find out the products / services offered by cycling sponsors that aren't already high profile. Most of them are just names. Only by reading the posts above did I discover that Mapei is a grouting manufacturer.

    The one that really sticks in the memory is "Leakygas" for obvious reasons.

    I still don't know what La Vie Claire, Z, Mercatone Uno and ADR do / did, and it was by informed guesswork that I found out that Banesto was a financial services company.

    I was somewhat disappointed to find out that "Wanty" and "Gobert" were separate organisations, rather than just being "Wanty Gobert". I obviously have no idea what either of them do.

    Thankfully, some sponsors give a helping hand, such as Saxo Bank, and Total Energies. Lidl Trek is obviously the most helpfully named team.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,541

    It's only by chance that I find out the products / services offered by cycling sponsors that aren't already high profile. Most of them are just names. Only by reading the posts above did I discover that Mapei is a grouting manufacturer.

    The one that really sticks in the memory is "Leakygas" for obvious reasons.

    I still don't know what La Vie Claire, Z, Mercatone Uno and ADR do / did, and it was by informed guesswork that I found out that Banesto was a financial services company.

    I was somewhat disappointed to find out that "Wanty" and "Gobert" were separate organisations, rather than just being "Wanty Gobert". I obviously have no idea what either of them do.

    Thankfully, some sponsors give a helping hand, such as Saxo Bank, and Total Energies. Lidl Trek is obviously the most helpfully named team.

    La Vie Claire - French health food chain
    Z - French kids clothing chain
    Mercatone Uno - Italian supermarket chain
    ADR - AD Renting, but I can't remember what they rented, might have been TVs
  • crescent
    crescent Posts: 1,201
    Silence-lotto, who was a team sponsor about 15 years ago, was an anti-snoring medication.

    I think DSM make Vitamin C, only because they have a manufacturing plant near me that I used to work in, and that was previously owned by Roche (no, not Stephen). They make the effervescent "Beroca" style lozenges.
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  • flite
    flite Posts: 226
    Several years ago Cycling Weekly listed what the team sponsors did in a pre tour article. Surprisingly interesting ( anorak mode).
    Easy to tell this is a rest day!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,645
    edited July 2023
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    Went camping through Vacansoleil a few years back in Brittany. It was partly their sponsorship that led to me them booking with them. We'd stayed at th site a few years before through Eurocamp but when we'd tried to book again there was nothing available. I remembered seeing the next row on the site had been run by Vacansoleil which I only remembered because they were sponsors at the time so went to their website and they had what we wanted.

    That's how marketing works, I doubt many of is consciously buy something because they sponsor a sports team but we've ended up with brand awareness that can influence a decision. Bad advertising / association can definitely lead me to not using a product though and I suspect that's why sponsors run a mile when a team gets into some controversy.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    daniel_b said:

    If we are talking about cycling kit - isn't it more or less impossible to be a cyclist and not have something from one team or other...

    I have a fair amount of ex pro Mitchelton Scott kit - does that count?
    Oh and the Mavic team whose name slips my mind, JLT Condor.....?
    I meant kit by companies who sponsor teams - Garmin, Wahoo, Shimano, SRAM, Giant, Specialized etc etc etc. It would be hard to get far as a cyclist without buying anything from a company that sponsors a team!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460

    daniel_b said:

    If we are talking about cycling kit - isn't it more or less impossible to be a cyclist and not have something from one team or other...

    I have a fair amount of ex pro Mitchelton Scott kit - does that count?
    Oh and the Mavic team whose name slips my mind, JLT Condor.....?
    I meant kit by companies who sponsor teams - Garmin, Wahoo, Shimano, SRAM, Giant, Specialized etc etc etc. It would be hard to get far as a cyclist without buying anything from a company that sponsors a team!
    Very few of them are title sponsors these days though. Trek are the only one in the men's World Tour, a couple of others in the women's.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,819
    When I lived in France I specifically got my bank account with Caisse d'Epargne because they sponsored the cycling team
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,108
    edited July 2023
    I’ve taken EPO*, does that count?


    *TUE o:)
  • edward.s
    edward.s Posts: 230
    I drive a Skoda Superb, but so far my request for t'missus to drive me around while I stand out of the sunroof and direct cyclists has fallen on deaf ears.

    I also shop in Lidl but that is because I am a tightarse not because of sponsorship.
  • me-109
    me-109 Posts: 1,915

    I’ve taken EPO*, does that count?


    *TUE o:)

    Only if that was as a result of Pharma's sponsorship rather than emulating Festina*.

    *other shady teams were/are available.
  • tonybanham
    tonybanham Posts: 64
    I have a Festina watch bought off the back of watching a dodgy team in the Tour, does it make me a bad person B)
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,061
    Pross said:

    Prior to this thread, I think the only sponsors who I actually knew what they sold were Ineos Grenadiers (from this forum, not sure I have ever seen the car itself) and Alpecin (from the relentless advertising on Eurosport).

    Prior to this thread, I think the only sponsors who I actually knew what they sold were Ineos Grenadiers (from this forum, not sure I have ever seen the car itself) and Alpecin (from the relentless advertising on Eurosport).

    You didn't know Lidl was a supermarket chain, Citroen a car manufacturer, UAE was a country and Trek make bikes?
    Bahrain is more self explanatory than you might initially think as well.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691

    I have a Festina watch bought off the back of watching a dodgy team in the Tour, does it make me a bad person B)

    I don't wear watches outside of my very old garmin but if I ever buy one it will be festina or rhodania (ba ba ba baaaah)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460

    Pross said:

    Prior to this thread, I think the only sponsors who I actually knew what they sold were Ineos Grenadiers (from this forum, not sure I have ever seen the car itself) and Alpecin (from the relentless advertising on Eurosport).

    Prior to this thread, I think the only sponsors who I actually knew what they sold were Ineos Grenadiers (from this forum, not sure I have ever seen the car itself) and Alpecin (from the relentless advertising on Eurosport).

    You didn't know Lidl was a supermarket chain, Citroen a car manufacturer, UAE was a country and Trek make bikes?
    Bahrain is more self explanatory than you might initially think as well.
    False advertising though, what has the country ever won to be called victorious?
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    I have watched a Kraftwerk video after hearing the ITV 4 theme tune.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,809
    I'm desperate for a piss(ei)
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 579
    Unfortunately I have never had any use for the great products of the Agritubel team sponsors.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    I've never drunk Cinzano due to the disgraceful incident with the pump in Breaking Away
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