Anyone fancy buying into a female pro team?

[Celtic Dragon]

This came out on twitter earlier, Specialized Lululemon have lauched their 2015 team on crowdfunding of all places. Don't know if this is going to be a good or bad thing for them, but certainly wish them well. Currently trying to raise 1/2 their budget of $700K.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/project-x--13

Seems to have gone down well on twitter and getting support from other lesser teams from what I've seen on messages getting recirculated.

Is this the way of less publicised sport getting funding for participants to go "pro"? I don't mean for this to read like an advert, but it struck me as bizarre for a team with 2 huge names as current sponsors to go down this route.

[Some Gump]

Cheeky fkers.

If it was a grass roots job, then yeah sure. But fund Specialised, one of the worlda largest bike brands to advertise their bikes? Lol.

[yellowjack]

Some Gump said:

Cheeky fkers.

If it was a grass roots job, then yeah sure. But fund Specialised, one of the worlds largest bike brands to advertise their bikes? Lol.

You won't be funding Specialized

They (and lululemon) are the sponsors with whom the team's sponsorship contract ends at the close of this year's season. Hence why they are trying a new way to raise their team budget for next season. Velocio Sports is the team owner, and if the sponsorship changes, then it won't be "Team Specialized-lululemon" that you are buying into...

Indiegogo article said:

The team began as T-Mobile in 2005, created by Bob Stapleton and included riders such as Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Kristen Armstrong. It morphed into Highroad/HTC-Highroad in 2008 until 2012 when it became Specialized-lululemon under Velocio Sports.