Sponsors...Appreciation, Integrity, Accountability

Strange title for a blog post sure....

But over the last year... I've been perusing websites, blogs, etc....and that's just something I've seen really vary (the very good and the very bad), at least as it comes to cycling and sponsorships etc.

I've seen the dedicated like FuzzyJohn, the extreme and funny, like the TeamDicky website. Rich is good at putting himself at the center of a joke, but does a great job of getting his new sponsors names out there, constantly in fact, but his "website" isn't about this post.

It's in fact another more specifically, and it will go unnamed. But I've seen it here and there by others as well but not nearly as a common theme. I'm guessing there's more than meets the eye, but really, consider you're getting crap for free and put a sock in it. It just amazes me how a company can give someone product(s), travel money, race support. and that person can turn on them the first time the small company says, sorry we can't do any more for you. Especially when the person hasn't exactly been knocking down the podium either. I mean really have some integrity, not to mention, realize the fact the bike industry is a no margin venture and the economy has stunk it up for the last 18 months.

Sorry for a semi rant, but this has been gnawing at me for most of the last year and I read another passive aggressive post by the same person and I thought REALLY still?

Sooner or later stuff like that seems to catch up to people and we can only treat others how we ourselves want to be treated. I sleep well at night, but I wonder if those people in question do.

On a separate note, if you haven't visited Global Biorhytm's website, please do. I've enjoyed the regular posts by Dez, Jenn, Dawn, and Sean. Dez mostly, love reading his training misadventures. The latest on a big loop into the Sierra's should only be done with plenty of daylight and the kids out there doing it in January. Nutty kid! Great stuff.