andyrm
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andyrm edspratt's article
Oct 26, 2023 at 11:13
Oct 26, 2023
Video: The Biggest Crashes from the 2023 DH World Cup Season
Because PB comments is full of the equivalent of "record store guy", desperate to prove they are so core, so cool, so edgy that they'd never watch something for the masses.
andyrm alicialeggett's article
Oct 17, 2023 at 15:23
Oct 17, 2023
UCI Announces 2024 World Cup Calendar
Someone at Whistler to submit a successful tender?
andyrm alicialeggett's article
Oct 17, 2023 at 11:48
Oct 17, 2023
UCI Announces 2024 World Cup Calendar
All the people complaining about locations, have you asked your preferred location and national federation if they submitted a bid to the UCI?
andyrm MarsMagicshine's article
Oct 12, 2023 at 11:22
Oct 12, 2023
Magicshine Introduces the Monteer 12000 Bike Light
@DeepDickens: I've got Outbound on bars and helmet - almost 2 years on and working great. Been really impressed
andyrm edspratt's article
Oct 7, 2023 at 13:08
Oct 7, 2023
Elite Finals Results from the Mont-Sainte-Anne DH World Cup 2023
As others have said, it's the new organisation using the correct name so the tourist board/local government who fund the hosting get the correct branding and so value. It's a good thing. If more people know a region's name rather than just the track, the odds of increased tourism awareness increase = ROI for the host region. End of the day, pretty much all sport event hosting is regional marketing.
andyrm edspratt's article
Sep 17, 2023 at 11:56
Sep 17, 2023
Who Can Still Win the 2023 EDR World Cup Overall Title in Châtel?
@mark-88: literally all those things are on the UCI World Series youtube channel's Enduro stream:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5W-TcQwJltJMDXEQDdHeeqyQiAycA_7x&si=LABliZBVoCkqWM6T
andyrm edspratt's article
Sep 17, 2023 at 3:38
Sep 17, 2023
Who Can Still Win the 2023 EDR World Cup Overall Title in Châtel?
@Twenty6ers4life: it's wierd, there's as much contrnt on the youtube channel (previews, raw, interviews, highlight show etc) but a: lots less sharing of it by core mtb media, and also less of those media doing their own content. Is it they don't want to share content now its Discovery, so a rival media company? And is the decline in original content (Dave Trumpire photo epics have been rad, but feels like way less across the usual outlets) down to tighter budgets at the media companies, making it harder to pay people to travel to events?
UCI MTB enduro playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5W-TcQwJltJMDXEQDdHeeqyQiAycA_7x&si=Yts5ukPOm7C52jxb
andyrm edspratt's article
Sep 16, 2023 at 11:09
Sep 16, 2023
Devinci Global Racing Steps Away from Enduro World Cups
@Fix-the-Spade: Enduro coverage is free to watch still. Its on the UCI MTB World Series channel, and also GMBN Racing too.
Enduro playlist here with previews, raw, rider features and highlights shows:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5W-TcQwJltJMDXEQDdHeeqyQiAycA_7x&si=2beNKdqbkSL4Y6G8
Not sure why the MTB websites/magazines seem to have covered it less this year, only thing I can think is the increase of travel costs etc post COVID, and reduced ad incomes?
andyrm edspratt's article
Sep 15, 2023 at 4:41
Sep 15, 2023
Ibis Enduro Team Pulls Out of World Cup Racing
What needs to happen is team managers getting better at selling sponsorship to outside of the industry brands, just like in pro road cycling. Look at the Rockrider Ford XC team - reportedly doubled their annual budget, just from Ford France.
Not many pro tour teams are owned & operated by a bike brand - there's a team owner, a headline sponsor (or 2) from outside the industry (cars, construction material, supermarkets, betting etc etc), then down the sponsorship tiers, a bike partner, then components. That's where MTB needs to go, it's just a bit behind the curve.
andyrm edspratt's article
Sep 15, 2023 at 2:17
Sep 15, 2023
Katy Winton Reveals Uncertain Future as a Full-Time Racer
@Sweatypants: IOM TT media is part government grant funded, offsetting sone of the production costs (cited in SportsPro as upwards of £10M) and then they sell over 200k streaming passes at £19 or so.
So yeah, great coverage - but with government funding and around £4M of subscription income (even before dponsorship & syndication rights).
https://www.iomttraces.com/latest/news/rapid-audience-growth-for-tt/
TT fans seem happy to pay. Why are MTB fans different?