Sponsorship

Here at FMFT we have often been looking for ways to get free kit and sponsorship. However much we would love some free sunglasses from our favourite manufacturer beginning with O, I’m not sure that we’ll be up for spending too long underground in order to score a pair. However some people in Chile will go to any extreme!

Talking of sponsored athletes it was refreshing to see that even at the top level of cycling, workplaces can offer opportunities for mild practical jokes. David Millar’s Scotland teammates scribbled messages of support for his rival in the Commonwealth Games, Mark “The Manx Missile, Cav” Cavendish. This encouraged him to ride faster, it seems, and he was able to get a bronze medal. Perhaps he should ask for more vandalism of his bike before every race, and eventually he will be riding a bike reminiscent of a Gritty East London fixie rider. Perhaps he can leave the pro-peloton at that point and start to rip up courier races and playing bike polo.

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