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just some guy · « **Reply #210 on:** April 19, 2012, 12:47 »

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11669/Albasini-makes-breakthrough-with-first-spring-Classic-podium.aspx

just some guy · « **Reply #211 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:44 »

just some guy · « **Reply #212 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:45 »

Great news for a team to be getting sponsor interest, what ever you think about the set up and the way they entered the WT, they have performed and if they find a sponsor they could be around for a long time which will be good for cycling.

Now they just need to get a balanced team

DinZ · « **Reply #213 on:** April 27, 2012, 06:44 »

GreenEDGE to announce major sponsor next Tuesday

just some guy · « **Reply #214 on:** April 27, 2012, 09:50 »

Quote from: DinZ on April 27, 2012, 06:44

GreenEDGE to announce major sponsor next Tuesday

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/greenedge-to-announce-title-sponsor-next-week

Announced in Melbourne in the morning -

AG · « **Reply #215 on:** April 27, 2012, 10:48 »

oh I am so glad they seem to have got some sponsorship then

so important for the longevity of cycling as a growing sport in Australia

Tuart · « **Reply #216 on:** April 27, 2012, 11:27 »

...only if the Sponsor stays on longer than the next two seasons...

brassyn · « **Reply #217 on:** April 30, 2012, 22:59 »

Any rumours floating about as to who it might be? I know it's only a couple more hours but that's past my bedtime.

No really, it is.

Only name I've heard put out there is Huawei, the Chinese telecom company. Personally I'm hoping they'll be sponsored by Tim Tam biscuits. Tim Tam Team, anyone?

Sizzle · « **Reply #218 on:** May 01, 2012, 01:57 »

Team Tim Tam would have been wonderful.

Looks like it's Orica, though. Team to be known as Orica-GreenEDGE, at least if this Twatter page is anything to go by:
https://twitter.com/#!/_GreenEDGE_/statuses/165312741492535296

eta: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-sport/cycling-team-greenedge-snare-rich-backing-20120501-1xvzm.html

DinZ · « **Reply #219 on:** May 01, 2012, 01:59 »

Apparently

Orica is an Australian-based multinational corporation. It's the biggest mining explosives supplier in the world.

so many jokes for commentators there

more info and temp kit for Giro below

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=374888032563065

Dr. Horrible the Mad Elephant Man · « **Reply #220 on:** May 01, 2012, 02:40 »

So this is why they did not recruit climbers, they will just blow up any mountain that gets in the way.

ram · « **Reply #221 on:** May 01, 2012, 02:56 »

Quote from: DinZ on May 01, 2012, 01:59

Apparently

Orica is an Australian-based multinational corporation. It's the biggest mining explosives supplier in the world.

so many jokes for commentators there

more info and temp kit for Giro below

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=374888032563065

It's a result of too many Tim tam biscuits

Martin318is · « **Reply #222 on:** May 01, 2012, 05:13 »

Quote from: ram on May 01, 2012, 02:56

It's a result of too many Tim tam biscuits

No such thing

ram · « **Reply #223 on:** May 01, 2012, 06:31 »

Aye, rookie error in most cases, but Belinda wasn't best pleased when she learnt of this man's love of tim tams

Dr. Horrible the Mad Elephant Man · « **Reply #224 on:** May 01, 2012, 09:18 »

Quote from: Martin318is on May 01, 2012, 05:13

No such thing

I agree, unless you are down at the factory eating them straight off the production line,
EAT THEM ALL!!!

Jamsque · « **Reply #225 on:** May 01, 2012, 10:23 »

Mining explosives? You wacky Australians.

DinZ · « **Reply #226 on:** May 01, 2012, 10:56 »

Quote from: Jamsque on May 01, 2012, 10:23

Mining explosives? You wacky Australians.

Imagine what the caravan giveaways at the tour will like

mdcurly · « **Reply #227 on:** May 01, 2012, 11:15 »

'Green' and 'Orica'

DinZ · « **Reply #228 on:** May 01, 2012, 11:35 »

Quote from: mdcurly on May 01, 2012, 11:15

'Green' and 'Orica'

Pretty funny to go to the orica website to see a full screen of stories denying environmental issues

Auscyclefan · « **Reply #229 on:** May 01, 2012, 12:16 »

Quote from: DinZ on May 01, 2012, 11:35

Pretty funny to go to the orica website to see a full screen of stories denying environmental issues

What do they deny????

Tuart · « **Reply #230 on:** May 01, 2012, 13:00 »

"Memorandum of Understanding"

LOL, we can pull out when we want too.

Still, 3 years is good, that's an extra year than Ryan's sugar-daddy promise I think so might allay some people's concerns.

Nothing about whether they'll be sole naming sponsors come 2013. Not sure how the re-imaged kit will look it, the integrated one looks ok but combining blue+white and green+black? ???

Arb · « **Reply #231 on:** May 01, 2012, 13:44 »

Quote from: Tuart on May 01, 2012, 13:00

"Memorandum of Understanding"

LOL, we can pull out when we want too.

Still, 3 years is good, that's an extra year than Ryan's sugar-daddy promise I think so might allay some people's concerns.

Nothing about whether they'll be sole naming sponsors come 2013. Not sure how the re-imaged kit will look it, the integrated one looks ok but combining blue+white and green+black? ???

I don't think the kit will have much GreenEdge branding on it, just the name/logo somewhere. Remember when Columbia got in with THR, they went from white and big Highroad logo to pretty blue Columbia design.

L'arriviste · « **Reply #232 on:** May 01, 2012, 13:47 »

Happy for the team but that is a particularly ugly copy-pasting of the sponsor's logo. ;D

On the mid-season jersey changes: first an Argos fail and now GE fail. Come on, folks. Remember ONCE!

Arb · « **Reply #233 on:** May 01, 2012, 14:10 »

It's only intended to be a copy paste... the announcement came too close to the beginning of the Giro to embark on a complete overhaul. Thus they will hold the new design until the Tour in order to get maximum exposure.

DinZ · « **Reply #234 on:** May 02, 2012, 02:02 »

For those discussing the virtues of timtams thought you may like to know that there is a timtam forest just appeared outside my office in sydney

lots of small trees with timtam biscuits growing on them. shame i do not like them

ram · « **Reply #235 on:** May 02, 2012, 03:59 »

Only Anzac biscuits for thee?

Martin318is · « **Reply #236 on:** May 02, 2012, 04:22 »

Quote from: DinZ on May 02, 2012, 02:02

lots of small trees with timtam biscuits growing on them. shame i do not like them

Damn it - I'm in Melbourne.... miind you they are probably doing the same thing in the CBD here but our office is too cool to be in the CBD...

bicing · « **Reply #237 on:** May 02, 2012, 09:44 »

Great to see GE get a sponsor.
Shame it's ORICA.

What's with all the green teams being gas/oil/mining? => Argos, Liquigas, Orica

ram · « **Reply #238 on:** May 02, 2012, 09:47 »

GreenEdge sponsor unveiling transcript-
Eureka it's Orica

DinZ · « **Reply #239 on:** May 02, 2012, 09:49 »

Quote from: bicing on May 02, 2012, 09:44

Great to see GE get a sponsor.
Shame it's ORICA.

What's with all the green teams being gas/oil/mining? => Argos, Liquigas, Orica

It is like having a diet coke with you big mac.

Owning the bike team cancels out all their pollution

So in the same way that a large coke can cancel out the chips as well a green cycling team can cancel out an entire freighter ship of explosive toxic chemicals

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