craigtrilivas wrote:
I love the fact that our boys are unknown before these events and blow up to make a name for themselves.
Yesman!
Yeah it's pretty good aye Craig! The talent is there, no doubt about it. It's just getting the Saffa lads actually competing over here so we can get to see their (magnificent) form. Each county's mags tends to feature only riders form their own country - Sixty40 to this point has been one of the better ones for putting a variety of riders apart from Saffa in there. Reciprocally , Riptide is starting to do feature shots on Jerry and there is a massive photo spread this issue of Dre. The Aussie mags are generally notorious for featuring primarily Aussie riders so in that sense we get exposed to very few overseas riders, apart from the likes of PLC, Hubb etc. normally.
The breakthrough potential is the online community, in this sense i personally think the 6040 forum is an under utilised resource by the readers, the site itself is an awesome set-up and it's (potentially) a great place to give a heads up on who's ripping and why - the links then can be easily distributed on the internet and blokes like me can spot this gear and get riders on our radar.
chatter about riders gets them noticed, especially for sponsors, as it indicates they are in the mind of the everyday rider.
Just a thought.
Also Trevor Ross from
http://www.surfphotos.com.au (who hosted Aden's interview) and posts most of the pics from DKS just sent me this pic through with the instruction:
"hey Doc...
Post this one on the 60/40 site..... yewwww"
so here it is. There is a game here for kids called "Where's Wally" where you have to spot him in the crowd.
This one we'll call "Where's Aden?" hahaha
