Shame about Voeckler

[Geoff Lock[_2_]]

I reckon he defended the yellow jersey really well.

Apparently, Europcar has the second smallest budget of all the teams!
Well, they got their money'sworth, eh?

[K.A. Moylan]

In article <>, Geoff Lock <glock@home> wrote:

> I reckon he defended the yellow jersey really well.
>
> Apparently, Europcar has the second smallest budget of all the teams!
> Well, they got their money'sworth, eh?

And, unlike most team sponsors, they have a commercial presence in
Australia. The next time I hire a car I will be thinking about that when
I'm comparing the deals.

--
K.A. Moylan
Canberra, Australia
Ski Club: http://www.cccsc.asn.au
kamoylan at netspeed dot com dot au

[Geoff Lock[_2_]]

On 24/07/2011 1:32 PM, K.A. Moylan wrote:
> In article<>, Geoff Lock<glock@home> wrote:
>
>> I reckon he defended the yellow jersey really well.
>>
>> Apparently, Europcar has the second smallest budget of all the teams!
>> Well, they got their money'sworth, eh?
>
> And, unlike most team sponsors, they have a commercial presence in
> Australia. The next time I hire a car I will be thinking about that when
> I'm comparing the deals.
>

Looks like proof that Europcar has got their money's worth :)

There are other team sponsors who have a commercial presence in
Australia but I suspect their local profiles are subtle/insidious(?) or
are just in segments of industry which we do not really notice, until
and unless a dumb post like mine brings it up :) Liquide (pronounced
leaky, I am told) Gas is probably one which I had in mind.

[Moike]

On 24/07/2011 2:06 PM, Geoff Lock wrote:
> On 24/07/2011 1:32 PM, K.A. Moylan wrote:
>> In article<>, Geoff Lock<glock@home> wrote:
>>
>>> I reckon he defended the yellow jersey really well.
>>>
>>> Apparently, Europcar has the second smallest budget of all the teams!
>>> Well, they got their money'sworth, eh?
>>
>> And, unlike most team sponsors, they have a commercial presence in
>> Australia. The next time I hire a car I will be thinking about that when
>> I'm comparing the deals.
>>
>
> Looks like proof that Europcar has got their money's worth :)
>
> There are other team sponsors who have a commercial presence in
> Australia but I suspect their local profiles are subtle/insidious(?) or
> are just in segments of industry which we do not really notice, until
> and unless a dumb post like mine brings it up :) Liquide (pronounced
> leaky, I am told) Gas is probably one which I had in mind.
I've just paid off a mortgage with Rabobank. Excellent service.
If you have to deal with a bank, they're the sort of people you'd want
to deal with.

Moike

[terryc]

Moike wrote:

> I've just paid off a mortgage with Rabobank. Excellent service.
> If you have to deal with a bank, they're the sort of people you'd want
> to deal with.

I'll pass. Both their adds do not enspire confidence.

[tomasso]

"terryc" > wrote in message
...
> Moike wrote:
>
>> I've just paid off a mortgage with Rabobank. Excellent service.
>> If you have to deal with a bank, they're the sort of people you'd want to deal with.
>
> I'll pass. Both their adds do not enspire confidence.

I once had a teddy bear called Rabo (named after a character in a
book by Kurt Vonnegut).

Rabo didn't know anything about banking.

T.

[Peter Howard[_3_]]

Geoff Lock wrote:
> On 24/07/2011 1:32 PM, K.A. Moylan wrote:
>> In article<>, Geoff Lock<glock@home> wrote:
>>
>>> I reckon he defended the yellow jersey really well.
>>>
>>> Apparently, Europcar has the second smallest budget of all the
>>> teams! Well, they got their money'sworth, eh?
>>
>> And, unlike most team sponsors, they have a commercial presence in
>> Australia. The next time I hire a car I will be thinking about that
>> when I'm comparing the deals.
>>
>
> Looks like proof that Europcar has got their money's worth :)
>
> There are other team sponsors who have a commercial presence in
> Australia but I suspect their local profiles are subtle/insidious(?)
> or are just in segments of industry which we do not really notice,
> until and unless a dumb post like mine brings it up :) Liquide
> (pronounced leaky, I am told) Gas is probably one which I had in mind.

Well I'm almost tempted to buy a HTC smartphone for no other reason than Mark
Cavendish advertising it on his chest.
Or maybe I'd invest the money instead with the Rabobank firm of merchant bankers
who have a branch even in my little provincial city in Queensland.
I do have a Garmin GPS that I use as both a bike computer and also for
bushwalking. Excellent.
Trek, BMC, Cannondale and Cervelo bikes are sold by opposing bike shops in my
city.
I was thinking that those Skoda motor cars (owned by VW I think) look like damn
fine vehicles considering the thrashing they take both as team cars and official
cars at the Tour. But alas the nearest dealers are located 400km north and south
of me which is a long way to go for warrnaty service.
And though they didn't get invited to the Tour this year every cyclist and every
home handyman has heard of Ski-Shimano.
The Euro Pro team sponsors are better represented in Oz than you think.
But I do agree that Europcar got their moneysworth out of Thomas Voeckler. I
like him for his indomitable courage, riding ability and resemblance to Popeye
the Sailorman.
PH