2SD, while I personally have no problem with such a series being a huge advertisement, Warren did state explicitly that the sponsors they did get were not even biking related. Or did you choose to skip over the posts that does not suit your bashing agenda?
They are using their own bikes. They have banks sponsoring them. They certainly even have the right to state, on each episode, "Brought to you by Absa", ala noot-vir-noot.
You are the one seeing the big BMW advert in this, purely because they ride BMW's.
If they rode Yamahas, it would still be a good series for me to watch, because I am not watching to see what bikes they ride, but rather where and how they are riding.
You started this anti-BMW thing. Don't throw the ball in my court because I'm simply calling you out on your anti-BMW crusade.
And now I think Warren's thread has been spoiled (or is that soiled?) enough. Tell you what, why don't you start an anti-BMW thread somewhere, instead of injecting your constant negativity on other threads? That way we can choose to ignore your posts.
Thanks OomD, and I also said the following:
"Currently though, of all the folks assisting us, none have anything to do with the motorcycle game. We never stop working on that though."
And we never do, in fact we have a couple of people who's sole purpose in life is to make sure we can finish the series without going into abject poverty or needing to take a second bond (which I am also prepared to do). They are however managing to keep us trickling along at this stage.
When we started this journey a few years ago, we thought because its a program based around motorcycles, it would be a good idea to partner with a motorcycle brand, as surely it would it would be easier to secure some help with funding from a company who's primary business is motorcycles. This type of thing does not happen without funding help, simple as that.
So we put forward fairly comprehensive proposals to a couple of motorcycle company's that we thought would be interested. All of the feedback except for two companies was in the negative.
The companies who said no obviously looked at our proposal (or didn't) and made a decision. We respect those decisions because we realize we are nobody's, unknowns, and I can see why any company would think it a massive gamble to get involved with us as a major backer. I also know that all motorcycle companies get hundreds of requests along the lines of "Give us some money and bikes and we will make a TV show / movie", probably why most of these proposals go straight to file 13.
So we started on our own bikes with our own money and will probably finish on our own bikes and hopefully with not too much of our own money. And I am not going to apologize for the bike I ride or what my close friends who have been helping us ride. I am also not going to apologize for holding onto the hope that one day we will end up with a major backer, motorcycle related or not.
Fact is though, even if Motomia came to us and said they would help us with enough funding to get this thing on air, we would need to seriously consider it. We keep hearing that how today's modern world works, well then, what are we to do.
Our next hurdle is to pay the deposit on the R156K needed to broadcast the series. But I am not here asking for money from anyone, that is our problem entirely and we will make a plan, and this series will happen. We are merely asking you to watch it one day, and trying to drum up a little support to keep us motivated in the meantime.
On the other hand, if you don't want to watch it, or feel offended by it, just make sure you have new batteries in your TV remote, because it's takes a simple push on a button to turn us off and you can rather watch Honey Boo Boo or what ever else appeals to you.
Topic: “Look What You’re Missing" - Series 2 starts this Saturday (Read 25031 times)
