Bid Now - Sam Hill's Fundraiser to Combat Cancer
Continuing his fundraising to combat cancer, Team Chain Reaction Cycles's Sam Hill will be wearing pink instead of the usual Team kit in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Action Cancer at this year's Val Di Sol World Cup. The 5-time World Champion will ride a one off pink 2013 Nukeproof Pulse frame and 2013 Troy Lee Designs custom kit as he aims for the win in Italy on June 16th. Following the event Sam is kindly auctioning off his race gear (Jersey, Pants, Gloves) as well as his custom painted pink 2013 Nukeproof Pulse frame – the only one of its kind in the world! Hill is pleased to continue playing his part towards cancer awareness.
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Auction Links:
Custom Nukeproof Pulse frame
Custom Troy Lee Designs race kit
All proceeds go to benefit Belfast, NI based Action Cancer (www.actioncancer.org).
 | I'm really excited to get the 2013 season going with my new team and sponsors and continuing the annual 'Pink' auction. This year I'm delighted to auction off my frame and race kit in aid of Chain Reaction Cycles' nominated charity Action Cancer. I hope as many of the fans as possible get behind this and raise plenty of cash for this great cause. - Sam Hill |
Auction Links:
Custom Nukeproof Pulse frame
Custom Troy Lee Designs race kit
All proceeds go to benefit Belfast, NI based Action Cancer (www.actioncancer.org).
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Pinkbike is criticism central so you're deffo in the right place to have a worldcup rant.
I see what you're saying with the raffle idea though; since Sam Hill's Facebook fanpage has a fan count of 142k, technically if they marketed the idea sooner, that would be £1 per ticket, random winner gets the bike and well over a 100K towards charity.
BUT, you just gotta respect that's not they way they wanna do things and at least it's a good dead, breast cancer is no joke after all. It don't matter if you're not in a position to match the effort, that's life, we can't all be the same.
The statistics are right 7-10% of men are red-green colorblind!
Well anyway that's good for him
With an auction one fat rich guy gets to pay maybe 15,000 tops for a frame and feel good about himself and everyone else goes home empty handed. Anyone who doesn't have that kind of money to pay for a frame can just switch off and ignore the entire event - INCLUDING THE CHARITY!
With a raffle everyone has as much of a chance as each other knowing that there is a sane amount of money to put into the 'chance' of winning something - as opposed to knowing that their elite buying power will see them through. Everyone engages. Everyone thinks about the charity. Everyone appreciates the gesture of Sam Hill and CRC. Ultimately the charity makes a metric f*ckton more moneys.
TL;DR: "I hope as many of the fans as possible get behind this and raise plenty of cash for this great cause. - Sam Hill" This is bullshit
rant over - how do you close bold?
@Quesadilla34 Hmm way to miss the point. I'm not 'upset' THAT he is doing something charitable: I'm a bit annoyed that he is doing something that only the top echelon of society will actually be able to engage with and that ultimately will not do the charity as big a favour as doing a raffle. But then I'm just repeating myself.
Hmmm I see your point, but equally saying I'm pissed off is a bit strong (and suggesting I'm trolling - not you, someone else - is also missing the point). I just don't understand why they wouldn't want to try and make more money for the charity and why they wouldn't want to allow more people to be involved. So far no one has given me a coherent arguement why I'm wrong - just that it's not OK to criticise the way he chooses to do his charity - which I still disagree with.
Everyone seems to think that Sam Hill is completely beyond any type of criticism just because he is doing this under the name of charity and everyone is super quick to damn my opinion despite not knowing what I do for charity - I'm not going to say because that's not why I do it.
It's not that big a sacrifice to give away a bike which he didn't pay for and will be replaced tomorrow by someone else - that's not say I don't approve of him doing it - it's a great gesture but it's not that loaded.
However, those pink Ford Ka's that I see every now and again being driven by semi-obese greasy fat chicks - they have no place on this earth. x2 if they have 'powered by fairydust' stickers attached.
"OMG Gwin LOL what a shit c*nt" - after one bad race.
and
"Sam's Bike is red not pink" - after the photographer explained it's likely the filter causing it.
Raising money for any charity (as long as they are allocating funds properly) is awesome though so +1 to CRC and Sam for doing this!
The pink ribbon represents fear of breast cancer, hope for the future, and the charitable goodness of people and businesses who publicly support the breast cancer movement.[7] It is intended to evoke solidarity with women who currently have breast cancer.
Breast cancer organizations use the pink ribbon to associate themselves with breast cancer, to promote breast cancer awareness, and to support fundraising.[8] Some breast cancer-related organizations, such as Pink Ribbon International,[9] use the pink ribbon as their primary symbol. Susan G. Komen for the Cure uses a stylized "running ribbon" as their logo.[10]
While specifically representing breast cancer awareness, the pink ribbon is also a symbol and a proxy of goodwill towards women in general.[11] Buying, wearing, displaying, or sponsoring pink ribbons signals that the person or business cares about women. The pink ribbon is a marketing brand for businesses that allows them to promote themselves with women and identify themselves as being socially aware.[12] Compared to other women's issues, promoting breast cancer awareness is politically safe.[13]
A: it's a muddy as hell race
B: Sam smokes the field
C: the frame and kit sell for bucket load.
I'm all emotional thinking about it!!