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carrerabiker
12-03-08, 22:44
has our club got a team becoz i saw somwhere that it had but in the 2 years ive been a member ive neva heard any 1 talk about it
Hatchleader
12-03-08, 23:42
Nothing official!! on related note tho, got awsome idea's for race shirts that everyone has been harking on about for years... just need to draw them up!
will endevour to do so in next few days!!
There is only a selected number of the members who race, there are the odd few who have started just recently, Rob Cook for one anf i know there are others interested. There isnt a RATZ RACE TEAM as such but if you were to race we are more than happy for the competitor to put the club name/RATZ on the 'Club/Sponsor' part of entry forms.
I think jerseys would be a good idea but we'd need to have a select amount of people who are dedicated to racing and will enter! Other wise there is no point in putting money into the jerseys. Fragy had come to a final design which everyone agreed on i think but because no one put their name forward for one it went no further, so maybe this is time to get people putting a definite order in? Then we may be able to have a designated team?
Or in the mean time if you want to race with the club/website on your jersey, do as i am arranging and get it printed onto your jersey at the local printing shop. I know of one that can do them in Gainsborough if you want the contact details but i will not arrange other's to be done.
beniscool28
13-03-08, 20:52
i will join but i need some one to teach me how to ride a bike properly
carrerabiker
13-03-08, 21:12
right ben.... ya put a foot on each pedal and turn the cranks and when ya get to a tree turn
beniscool28
13-03-08, 21:17
harry shut up you pikey
Get up the hill as much as possible, everyone will lend a helping hand up there.
Get on as many different uplift weekends as you can so you get a good idea of all the different types of tracks
Achieve competitive times on the tracks.
Enter a small regional race then get onto the bigger races!
How about also putting some jerseys on the merchandise section of the forum. I'm sure that some of us crap riders would like one just too look the part... (ie me :D:D)
err does that mean i get a jersey
Pweety pwease
Yea I've just started racing after 2 years going to the hill and its awesomme! XD If people are interested just get to the hill as much as possible and also Caersws, Hamsterly or Molfre weekends! I found they help you so much and a lot more technically hard than the hill. If you are serious about a NPS or a regional/Down 'n' out/Caersws cup race you need to get plenty of practice at other places ;) Also my first two races were made a hell of a lot easier by the best line choice maker in the world (Baker) and best fireman officer/mechanic/paramedic/photographer in the world (Kenny B) giving support to me and giuding me. But non of you lot will have them to help you so ha! ;)
And we really need to sort out the jerseys! At Hamsterley there was a number of rgoups with club race jerseys and it looks well smart!!
I think having non-racers with the jerseys would be a bit pointless really? Maybe Tee Shirts for the non racers to still have the club name etc on their person.................?
I think having non-racers with the jerseys would be a bit pointless really? Maybe Tee Shirts for the non racers to still have the club name etc on their person.................?
You wear jerseys when your not racing ;)
C'mon Baker, mortals can buy the seven stanes freeride jerseys, so why cant we just have them so long as we didn't wear them at races?
Im sure people would pay for them!!
IMafizzleI
14-03-08, 20:56
Hahahah very funny, i'll come fully decked out in the pure white Animal Commencal set then ;)
I guess if jerseys were for team members only, it would be something to aspire to... But some merchandise in the form of tee's, hoodies etc would be good, just to represent!
Fo shizzle.
Ha ha check this out...
https://secure.thecyclejersey.com/store-new/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=51&zenid=70e23d76b5f9d26b9b099101a625cb15
I know where my birthday money is gonna go...
Yeah i see where you are all coming from, i just mean that there is no point paying full wack for a jersey made up for a team-like set up which shows the team site etc. and only wearing it as a weekend jersey!?
Maybe a discussion in a separate thread?
Hahahah very funny, i'll come fully decked out in the pure white Animal Commencal set then ;)
I guess if jerseys were for team members only, it would be something to aspire to... But some merchandise in the form of tee's, hoodies etc would be good, just to represent!
Fo shizzle.
At least someone understands what im on about!! Cheers dude!
I see your point Baker, and if your looking at getting jerseys made i found this...
http://www.thecyclejersey.com/
not sure what the prices are like though.
Yeah that place could be an idea but Fragy found a place nearby i think that would do them with names on the back and all the team logos etc. which seemed like a good idea, there were some real good prototypes drawn up too but the thread just petered away and we couldnt reach a conclusion. We also needed a minimum of 10 people.............
Someone start a Ratz Race Jersey's thread or something...
IMafizzleI
14-03-08, 21:20
I'd buy one to frame it? I have a lack of trophies in my room... I actually considered buying a few :P
But Baker with the jerseys like, they should be a reward for being on the team, it takes away the "specialness" if every Joe Blogg has em ;)
Yeah, your probably right. I was just thinking that it could be a good income for the club
IMafizzleI
14-03-08, 21:25
Yeah without a doubt, it would look smashing having a couple of RATZ hoodies whizzing up and down Fort William :P With posh jerseys for the chosen ones!
If we were to get someone to make the jerseys there would be no available profit involved for the club as the buyer would be paying the company direct.
Ok I get it now, cheers people:D
Hatchleader
15-03-08, 00:26
Why not find out the price for the jerseys, people who want em pay up front with a fiver added on that goes to the club?? also this means that people can have their money back if there arn't enough to make it feasable.
as for who gets to wear them:i can see bakers point about race riders but is there any point limiting it when (as far as i know and please correct me if i'm wrong) none of the regular racers up the hill are regularly challenging for high spots. i think the majoity are just racing for fun. i dont think any rider is contending for sponsorship or anything close so why can't everyone have em?? its not like anyone is sponsored by RATz so it would just be to show your support for the club, and if its a fiver a shirt for the club the more the merrier.
sorry if i put anyones backs up i don't intend to ;)
IMafizzleI
15-03-08, 10:26
That's a few fair points there. I guess money for the club is a good idea and i have to admit it would look smart if everyone zipping round the hill had something RATz related.
Finally someone who sees my point of view. If you could order them, racers could get them at shop rate, (eg no profit) and us non racers could pay an added £10 or summat. It's more income for the club afterall!!
thecyclejersey are expensive, it's about £45 a pop.
Your best bet is to buy plain mx jerseys in bulk on ebay(some go for as little as £4 each for oneal and thor)
Then find someone who will do the printing cheap(usually the hardest part) i have managed to get cost down to as little as £10/15 per jersey in the past.
With regards to t shirts and hoodies, spreadshirt (http://www.spreadshirt.net/en) are still a good option, but if you are wanting to make a profit by adding commission to each item then their pricing may be a little high.
But as a solution to getting merchandise out there quickly, it will cost you nothing to design or sell the clothes.
You can add your own designs and even have customer personalized products, like the personalized hoodies we offer.
Heres our spreadshop...
Disfunktional Dirt Shop (http://322384.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/Index)
If you want a spreadshop setting up give me a shout and I'll sort it for you ;)
Rich
IMafizzleI
15-03-08, 18:01
Good man! ^^
Hatchleader
15-03-08, 18:45
with the cycle jersey it would be £32 for a custom shirt with a minimum order of 15! this is minus vat and add on for club but i think you'd be looking at about £40- £45 all in!
The problem we had last time was the minimum amount of shirts to be ordered was quite large and the first batch would cost more as the design side of it has to be paid for and also the ADVANCE payment has to be paid by the person who puts the order in. I will start to look into it again if we can get a list of people who would be willing to pay about £35-£40 for a original RAT'Z design freeride come race shirt. Don't think you can just have people who race having the shirts, as to race costs a great deal of money which not all members can afford but perhaps the racers could have a team number on the back? Let me have your ideas
Sounds like a good idea, I'd pay £40 if it was good. The numbers idea sound like a good one too.
i call number one!!!! :D
i really think that the team jerseys are a great idea i hope dad can fork out some money so i can have one
IMafizzleI
16-03-08, 18:42
I'll give you a fiver to clean my car. It's a state.
And my ped. It's a right state.
Also my room. It's also a right state.
That's £15 quid there. Get your bucket.
mine too so you'd best get your radioactive suits on :D
Ha Ha Ha. I've just moved room and it's nice and tidy, so no paying extortionate (I think thats how you spell it :) ) rates for people to clean it!!:devil:
Ha Ha Ha. I've just moved room and it's nice and tidy, so no paying extortionate (I think thats how you spell it :) ) rates for people to clean it!!:devil:
Put the money into teaching your school how to play hockey, we kicked will farrs ASS on wednesday ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha aha aha aha aha aha ah aha
Stupid hockey team, spend all their time nicking our tennis courts to play hockey on and then get hammmered.
MORONS:D :devil:
Ha ha ha ha ha aha aha aha aha aha ah aha
Stupid hockey team, spend all their time nicking our tennis courts to play hockey on and then get hammmered.
MORONS:D :devil:
Our hocky team doesn't even practise haha
It's just that NK is awesome.
(which i'm sure fish and ian will disagree with! well better then LSST was anyway)
Put my name in for one please
What does Hockey have to do with race jerseys? Stay on topic!
Yeah Mikey :devil: :devil:
I want one in July for my Birthday, but I might see if I can get the money earlier...
Im playing Hockey tomorrow :)
I think I would like one, though I don't have the money and I have other things I need to save for first..
I'll put my mate down for one.
Me too im playing hockey tomorrow, wednesday, friday, saturday, sunday and monday. Club tour :) over my 18th too.
Anyway back to the subject, Any designs we can see?
Or how about doing a comp to design it, so long as there were no stupid entrys??
Any thoughts?
(Hockey is great, you get to wack people with a big wooden stick!!:hammer: :D )
beniscool28
17-03-08, 18:56
yeh sounds great and put me down for one
I play girls hockey beleive it or not :p and it gets pretty violent, we've had broken noses and thumbs and once the ball hit a lass in the face and it bust her eye :(
I will try find it somewhere but i very much liked fragy's final design that he come up with..... will post it as soon as i find it
Sounds good Baker!
Ha ha ha, when we play hockey at school, we alll beat the hell out of eachother and the ones left standing turn the sticks upside down and walk round like pimp lords. So childish...:devil:
daaaaad :rolleyes: i love you
can I have a jearsey pweez *fluters eyelids*
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q240/BakerDh/RatzTboard_gif.jpg
That is a re-edited version of fragy's, his had small flags rather than the large ones i added..........?
The red kite shape represents one of the RATZ logos
What happend to the purple and orange ones tom put on?
So we have around 8 people with their name down so far.
The purple and orange ones were only tee shirts not jerseys
How about getting a prototype made up, or a sample, because no offence Baker but you diagram really confuses me!!
Will the shirt feature any sponsors logos, such as kingfisher building or anyone like that?
Dad will buy me a jearsey *fingers crossed*
ill get myself one of those puple tee shirts if you are still selling them
c2crider, print the picture off and fold it in half horizontally, then you'll see what its about............ godddd it isn't that hard to understand ;)
A prototype as such would be too hard and cost too much to produce, if it was not decided as the one to use it would be money wasted.
The Tee shirts were never for sale Zakk, they were just an idea as all of the other tees etc have been as we have never got round to production etc. yet!
Ok Ok, Baker Cut some slack for those of us who are brain dead!!!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :devil:
Thats all well and good baker, but why would people pay to have a shirt that said fraser?
i joke i joke
yes i'll have one and i no jamie will to.
Ohh so were up to about 10 now.......... FRAGY :rolleyes: YOU ABOUT ANYWHERE :D
So now we need to come to a conclusion on the members/racers jerseys, i know the regular racers/people who have raced are;
Me
Rob
Kenny B (my dad)
Ben
Fish
Fraser
Sorry if i have missed anyone out, had a mind blur when i tried to think!
What would we do on the back for the racers? Name and then ''RATZ RACER 1.........2.......3.........'' and so on?
And for members just the name across the shoulders?
Yea I tihnk numbers for the people more likely to race is fair! And everyones name across shoulders would look really smart! But i tihnk it would be a little tricky who got which numbers? I think the only person who has deserved to have number 1 is Fish.... Other people have a random number of their choice?
"Fish the King" ;)
Oyyyyy why ain't i on the list :devil:
granted i ain't raced in over a year now, but still haa
I think something like "MIKEY RATZ RACER 9" or something is abit much for shoulders, especially for us smaller folk.
What about like "MIKEY #9" or something with the RATz logo under it?
Yeah i very much agree that fish gets the number 1, i would choose 2 as its my birthday but i think if it was for people who deserve the ''ranking'' it should go to ben for the king of the hill result etc........................
Baker
RATZ RIDER #
2
Maybe something like that playing with the font and size a bit?
that will look good baker
yeh, that'd be better.
Can i bagsy 69?
Try this Baker
RATZ RIDER
#2
Yeah i'm more for the # been next to the number actually! Haha if you really want the number 69 you'll have to discuss it with the designer ;)
Trust the kid who is doing graphics GCSE Baker, you know im right :devil: :D :D lol
Graphics GCSE was silly easy! try A- level, its a bitch...
yeah, this GCSE course is pretty straight forward.
Anyway back to the topic, Are these shirts going to feature any sponsors of our freeride park or not?
[QUOTE=Fwogddy]Oyyyyy why ain't i on the list :devil:
granted i ain't raced in over a year now, but still haa
QUOTE]
Because you're an embarresment :') :P haha joking mickey ;)
I don't think people should be ranked :confused:
I think just pic a number. 00 for me.
I dont know who exactly there would be to put on there now, possibly Rasen Bikes if ben allows it but i dont know the sutuation we are in with other club sponsors!?
haha, just wait, this time next year when i can drive i should be racing whenever i can afford it, hopefully :devil:
I was just thinking of the ones on the main page. You know Kingfisher building, imp sport and all them...
IMafizzleI
17-03-08, 22:50
Don't forget Elite Meats ;)
Don't forget Elite Meats ;)
Maybe that as an optional one?(or an opt out one) i for one would find that actually pretty offensive to have to have on the jersey if i were to get one.
some sort of DE JA VU voodoo shizzle going on :D any way moving on :D i'll dispence with the no1 thang and go for ..... inspired by a t-shirt i got in NYC on the front in a circle say's "Market Fucking Rasen" with the hamilton hill thingy in the middle and "Mr Fish" on the back.....simple ....nice ;)
the "meat" logo issue ? :D mmmm do we open a seperate thread ;)
the meat issue ? :D
Yeah, it just feels somewhat hypocritical advertising a butchers whilst thinking that eating meat is vile, though i'm pretty sure i'm the only one on the forum that thinks that :D
IMafizzleI
18-03-08, 07:47
Yeah, it just feels somewhat hypocritical advertising a butchers whilst thinking that eating meat is vile, though i'm pretty sure i'm the only one on the forum that thinks that :D
My stepdad owns a butchers shop, i can take you for a tour if you like?
May include free entrails. ;)
swifty15uk
18-03-08, 13:33
now thats enough to make anyone go off meat
swifty15uk
25-03-08, 22:26
1st prototype design
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee146/swifty15uk/?action=view¤t=Racejersy.jpg
carrerabiker
25-03-08, 22:44
needs the linconshire flag on it somwhere
why does it need the lincolnshire flag? It's a good design :)
carrerabiker
26-03-08, 19:52
because were from linconshire , just like an emblem on the sleve or something , not a massive pic .
IMafizzleI
26-03-08, 20:30
I like the splattering effect.
Nice one.
I like the look of that, I think the ratz should be in capitals RATz with the small 'z' becuase thats how it been done in the past.
swifty15uk
26-03-08, 20:55
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee146/swifty15uk/?action=view¤t=Racejersy-1.jpg
sorted the RATz out
playing with gbr flag and/or lincs flag
Try one like that but a black shirt with purple splats
I think using purple splats would be straying from the club colours too much....?
Rick Brown
03-04-08, 14:58
its got nothing to do with colours thats personal preference were not Hells Angels,pink, green, blue, red you can have whatever you want so it can match your bike/shorts/helmet whatever.
Hmm i'm not sure, i think that the idea is to get a batch of one design, all identical other than the name on the back obviously. Having personal colours for each different design wouldnt be possible as the cost that Fragy put forward was for one off design cost and then the cost per jersey.
If it was a team jersey to match each person's bike colour it'd be better off not bothering, just getting a transfer of the club logo onto your current jersey, this will then rule out the ''i dont want my jersey covered in sponsors'' etc... sorry to only use your quote rick, but it backed up what i was saying easily off the top of my head.
Hope that makes sense!
At the request of MR Fish....
RATZ Clothing Shop (https://350558.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/Index/index)
The current designs are very basic, i haven't had time to make up any designs to use so feel free to send me some over and I'll pick through them.
Vector images are better as they can be used on any color and type of clothing available.
Standard high quality images(jpeg, gif or png) are fine but they can only be applied to white t shirts and hoods, not really ideal for rides, but make good casual wear!
Send any designs you have to: rich@disfunktional-dirt.org.uk
I'll pick the ones that work best and add them to the shop.
Oh, and that race jersey was just a bit of fun, i doubt you would want to use it ;)
Rich
Good work rich! Thanks for the effort dude!! Recon i will be buying a hoody soon :D!
Thats brilliant, I'm going to get one of those jerseys when I next have some cash!
Can't wait till july, Thanks for doing that Disfunkti.
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