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Edited Date/Time
2/27/2019 5:56am
I don’t know Cole personally, and I am sure he means well in gist and is poking fun at himself. This is not a personal attack on him.
However, I’m going to come out and say I’m ready for this trend to die off in motocross. The first time I saw something like this in mid 00’s - it was in Racer X where a guy taped his maxed out credit card to his rear fender. It was clever and funny. Now today between the kid that raced with blue jeans to the litany of bikes with “help me/your logo/etc” it’s a signal of martyrdom and strikes me as classless.
I’ve asked for help before, so I’m not innocent of doing anything for a dollar. Yet, you don’t see guys in single A or double A ball posting photos practicing in blue jeans and bitching on social media about low payout or being treated unfairly. Sports are political, unfair, and hard. Motorsports included.
But how many riders can legitimately say “I put a help needed sign on a bike and someone wrote me a $1000 check the next week”? Wild idea- keep the cheap jokes in the pits and do something clever to raise cash. A local pro rider from my area hosts an annual trap shooting event with proceeds going to him. Where the sponsors are lacking he figures out a way to make the dream happen. Props to him for not lazily putting a tacky graphic on his bike and hoping someone just walks up with hundreds out their billfold. Let the signaling and the trend die, and the appreciation to be a pro live on.
End rant.
This graphic is absolutely not different from an objective standpoint than if it read “monster energy”. Both want your money. Both are advertising on this idea with a sticker on the shroud of a motorcycle.
If nobody is paying him and he wants paid, saying so is just fine.
For a Hand out from individuals, i took it as someone hoping by doing that , that sponsors would approach
Him , so in my mind it doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Just about everyone who lines up on the gate is marketing themselves or their sponsors in some fashion. Cole gets a lot of attention in Europe. Over here? Maybe not so much. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It served its purpose, and attracted some attention.
The only thing that I can see wrong with it though , is that maybe that space should of been taken up by his biggest sponsor he has at the moment.
The Shop
Correct me if I'm wrong but I call that "entrepreneurship"
Rant over,
Pit Row
Mission accomplished.
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