Interesting / strange sponsors

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Rewatched some old races recently to realise our sport has had more variety of sponsors compared to today. What are your notables?

Let me start:

  • the whole series sponsored by EA
  • Mastercard (MyPlash) sponsoring the Star Yamaha team
  • a range of CBD companies that came and went
  • TLD sponsors like Atari
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Sobe. That No Fear Suzuki team was way cool looking. I know it's just another beverage company so it's not necessarily strange, but it's alittle different!

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A few weeks ago I remembered that Star was sponsored by MyPlash and I went to check it out and it seems like mastercard killed that brand a while ago? What even was it?

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TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

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APLMAN99 wrote:
TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

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I was a rep for TLD during this. They gave us a few sample packs of these to sell to dealers.  I can sell anything. I did not sell any. 

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The first unusual sponsorship I remember was in 1983 when Bob Hannah went to Honda and had TDK cassette tapes as a sponsor.

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Cole Davies current personal sponsor, Komatsu. 

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These were sick


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Factory Yamaha brought on "Knich" as a sponsor, never really knew what they did but the company disappeared not long after. I think Davi had some stake in it, can't really remember though.

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mavrick121 wrote:
Sobe. That No Fear Suzuki team was way cool looking. I know it's just another beverage company so it's not necessarily strange, but it's alittle different!
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Sobe. That No Fear Suzuki team was way cool looking. I know it's just another beverage company so it's not necessarily strange, but it's alittle different!

Awesome look here Travis!  That gear, colour way and bike looks top knotch

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vdrsnk04 wrote:

Cole Davies current personal sponsor, Komatsu. 

Minear also has that fake science bracelet deal. It’s a helmet sticker under the visor. 

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There was a privateer sponsored by Nintendo a while back. 

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Blimpie Subs


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vdrsnk04 wrote:

Cole Davies current personal sponsor, Komatsu. 

The only real evidence I can't find of this is a page on his website. Kinda a weird partnership. It seems the partnership is specifically with the part of the brand that builds Forestry equipment. I would say get him on a skiddy, but that branch of the company doesn't even make those... Head scratcher. 

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Jeff Glass Surf detergent

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DKNY Husqvarna lol I love hearing JT$ stories about that team 

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Onlyfans??

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Didn't Tommy Hilfiger sponsor One Punch?

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APLMAN99 wrote:
TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

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MX Culture wrote:
I was a rep for TLD during this. They gave us a few sample packs of these to sell to dealers.  I can sell anything. I...

I was a rep for TLD during this. They gave us a few sample packs of these to sell to dealers.  I can sell anything. I did not sell any. 

So they sponsored you guys and also wanted you guys to become salesmen for them too?

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Onlyfans??

Not MX, but Onlyfans is Joe Robert’s title sponsor

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APLMAN99 wrote:
TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

TLD Honda sponsor list from 2010….

IMG 8877
MX Culture wrote:
I was a rep for TLD during this. They gave us a few sample packs of these to sell to dealers.  I can sell anything. I...

I was a rep for TLD during this. They gave us a few sample packs of these to sell to dealers.  I can sell anything. I did not sell any. 

Sillybandz were the shit when I was like 7

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Can't remember the team name but I think it was a Honda team was sponsored by some film company, I think there's a picture of Ernie's? Bike with 'The Mummy' graphics

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mavrick121 wrote:
Sobe. That No Fear Suzuki team was way cool looking. I know it's just another beverage company so it's not necessarily strange, but it's alittle different!
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Sobe. That No Fear Suzuki team was way cool looking. I know it's just another beverage company so it's not necessarily strange, but it's alittle different!

On a similar note, Volcom isn't an unusual sponsor but the gear they had with Thor and RV was so sick. Honestly my favourite gear sets of all time. Wish they'd come back. 

Or even DC is now getting back into the sport, would be cool to see collab gear sets with them, even though I don't think there ever was any when they were more involved, there was collab shoes with riders though. Reason I bring them up is because DC is owned by the same parent company as Volcom

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Jack in the Box sponsored the old FC team with Larocco, and there was a Blimpie Suzuki team too for a while

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AZ35 wrote:

Jack in the Box sponsored the old FC team with Larocco, and there was a Blimpie Suzuki team too for a while

I had heard that Jack in the Box wasn’t even a sponsor of Laroccos team when it started, they had just put the logo there to try and attract a bigger sponsor or to make it seem like they had a bigger sponser. I forget what podcast platform I heard it from, but I remember one of the team onwers (?) saying that they didn’t get any money Jack in the Box for that. 

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Cigarette companies 

Camel sx series sponsor for years

Gp's had team Chesterfield 

The cbd oil fad of 2019. 

That crypto currency thing from a couple years ago 23? 24? 

Wrangler jeans back in the early 80's 

Dkny on the fast by ferraci husky team 

Team Pepsi honda (gp's)

Pit bierer team skittles yz from 01

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1994 Noleen Sizzler Yamaha ad with Larry Ward and Larry Br… | Flickr

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Tyler D wrote:

1994 Noleen Sizzler Yamaha ad with Larry Ward and Larry Br… | Flickr

Changing a plug on this bike would have taken longer than getting a well done porterhouse at Sizzler. 

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