You're using the word "designer" quite liberally.
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Having met him in person, I can assure you he is weirder than even his website will admit to.
i hope you enjoy his feminine side, he like playing oboe, and watching deep movies.
He has worked in grocery stores, hotel receptions, injection molding start ups, and theme park promotion? huh what?
and now he owns the most popular biking website ever...? makes total sense.
He has worked in grocery stores, hotel receptions, injection molding start ups, and theme park promotion? huh what?
and now he owns the most popular biking website ever...? makes total sense.
so how much ballpark are we talking for uci title sponsorship?
I don't know if you guys know this, but I have the most popular dad in the world.
Somebody should tell those guys this is not Scott Beaumont
Please don't. It'll make this season even funnier.
plus according to their website it is better to use "Gravity" instead of "Downhill".
Thats what I call good advertising
Thats what I call good advertising
also.... trials... racing? i've heard of speed trials, but that's not something recognized by the UCI....
Im so blown away by why we need a bunch of dickheads in suits to fund racing. It seems like all the companies in the industry should come together to create and fund a new series. Give free caster total access to film, let all videographers/photographers have course access.
what difference does it make, there's a bunch of dickheads governing racing...
I simply mean, why do we need people that have no connection to the sport determining its future.
The amount of grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes and general look of that site makes me want to stab a baby.
I would be extremely embarrassed to have my name on a site like that.
I would be extremely embarrassed to have my name on a site like that.
Im just going to say this without any evidence, but this reminds me of a common practice amongst Mexico's public health institutes, where its manager/CEO grants a contract to a company he is related to, providing a ****ty service/product with fake prices so the supplier have enough cash to pay the manager's bribe.
It's a Belgian (Flemmish) website that has lackeys who translate into 4 languages. What do you expect?
No, his personal site.
Dooooo iitttttt
now that i've seen his website, i'm picturing him as a combination of david bowie, liberacce, and tony ellesworth
night man from It's always Sunny, minus the make-up.
I just like the fact that between March and October 2011, they got 21 million unique visitors from Germany (that means one in four Germans visited the site), and 3.8 million UVs from Switzerland (one in 2 Swiss visited the site), and 8.6 million UVs from Belgium... which means 80% of the Belgian population visited the site during that time.
Seems realistic!
this explains a LOT.hilarious isn't it?
Even funnier is that they can claim those numbers, yet in the same breathe claim their demographics to be 75 male, most between 14-45.
Those are hard averages to achieve when your site attracts 80% of Belgium, 1/2 of Switzerland, 1/4 of Germany. Essentially every single male between 14-45 in all of those countries would have to visit the site for the rest to even make sense.
Why try to package and sell such a huge lie? What company (besides UCI) would actually fall for an advertising scam like the one in that power point that was posted.
the alexa statistics i posted directly contradict this. not the gender breakdown, but most definitely the age statistics.
Dear lord, those numbers are amazing. Way to put it in perspective.
Also, I love that every single person at the UCI is too ****ing stupid to figure this out. Such an absolute disgrace.
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But where is RR getting money?? I mean I assume UCI made sure his check cleared right?
Based on the internet mining I dug up a while back located in this thread, I'd theorize that these are white collar criminals/hustlers that pulled one over on the UCI or they are in bed with the UCI and fall somewhere under their umbrella as a means of controlling internet media access and funneling internet add/media revenues back to the UCI....
haha, yeah, there followers on Twitter are quite funny... https://twitter.com/rockyroadsntwrk/#/followers
Looks like an online Ponzi scheme, except with people!
Seems far fetched IMO, but possible I suppose.
Just like the rest of his operation. People in charge are the UCI are being taken for a ride. Amazing. The scammers get scammed!
When they got all sorts of publicity at worlds, they still hadn't shown the UCI one penny. So even if they default on the deal and never pay up, they got ridiculous amounts of word of mouth, links (crucial for advertising) and temporary traffic boost. Genius.
or if they don't default and do pay up, the money will most definitely not be coming from that website, that is for sure.
me thinks that whatever revenue stream they may have, it can only be from borderline legit "businesses"... i.e. SPAM
should provide some comic relief as the season plays out
This is my guess as well, and has been since day 1, actually. They clearly run some sort of direct mailing business, based on their massive, unrelated, email lists. I will say that if I receive any unsolicited email from RR, they will get forwarded directly to a few people at the UCI. Every single time.
be neat to see a 'santorum' scenario - ie, googling rockyroads results in link(s) to scam discussion / expose thread(s) such as these, above, or near, the site link. poetic justice of sorts. this thread is on the second page currently; adding 'scam' to the thread tile would help...
now now.... innocent until proven guilty.
