bikejournal.com Premier Club

I'd like to encourage everyone using bikejournal to join as a premier member. We are heavily utilizing the site and actively asking for enhancements. Membership is very inexpensive ($10 per year) and if 50% of our team are Premier Members, the club earns Premier Club Status. This is a terrific site and provides lots of enjoyment for everyone.

Premier membership benefits:
--supports the time and expenses incurred with development and maintenance of the site.
--further establishes your credibility with other members.
--includes advanced features, such as graphing, enhanced stats, journal upload capability, etc. that will only be available to premier members when complete.

Clubs with 50% or more members having individual premier memberships will become premier clubs automatically. This is particularly helpful for state-, country-, or world-wide clubs with no central location. Premier benefits will only apply to those individual members who have gone premier, but the club will earn the polka-dot jersey as long as the 50% or better ratio is maintained.

We currently stand at 32% Premier Membership (8 out of 25). Slantz works very hard and is very response to our requests. Let's support his unpaid efforts. Personally, I'd love to see that Polka-dot jersey next to our name showing that we recognize and appreciate the site's benefits (just equate it to shopping on TE) :) .

I love the fact that the site is free, but I'm one of those people who likes to donate to free sites that they frequent. :) So, I joined. Besides, it's only $10 and can help improvements to the site. :)

Mel

Yep, you can tell who is a member by the pretty yellow jersey next to their name. I want a yellow jersey AND a polka-dot jersey (and some red Castelli shorts and . . . ) :p

Yep - I'm more than happy to pay to support the site, but not sure how I can do this from the UK. Any suggestions? I've got a Paypal account set up for when I use ebay.

Thank you, MM!

If you go to the home page you'll see a yellow jersey icon. Click on it and it will tell you about membership. There is a PayPal link there.

There are members from an incredible number of countries, so I think this should work.

I tried to push the polkd-dot jersey on the other TE BJ thread but I think it got lost in all the exciting new members and the mileage chat! I appreciate you trying to get everyone to sign up, and I know Slantz does too. And I'm with ya Sadie: I want the polka-dot jersey next to my team name so I can look smugly around and say: "I may not be able to ride 300+ miles a day, but I have a polka-dot Jersey!!" :D

I should have a yellow jersey soon. I signed up over the weekend. :)

V.

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Originally Posted by Veronica

I should have a yellow jersey soon. I signed up over the weekend. :)

V.

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You're one of the 8 good doobies. I think we should get ourselves some red Castelli shorts to go with the jersey, don't you?

I saw those red castellis on a really slender woman at a tandem rally and they made HER look fat. Nope I'm sticking to black. I'm just too solid for any other color. Now if they had some with a red stripe on the bottom like the Amores. I'd consider those.

V.

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Originally Posted by Veronica

I should have a yellow jersey soon. I signed up over the weekend. :)

V.

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wooohoo V - wtg and tnx on behalf of slantz! I can't be sure but I thought I heard that you were getting the yellow cashmere jersey!

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Originally Posted by Veronica

I saw those red castellis on a really slender woman at a tandem rally and they made HER look fat. Nope I'm sticking to black. I'm just too solid for any other color. Now if they had some with a red stripe on the bottom like the Amores. I'd consider those.

V.

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EEEuuuuwwww, good to know. I've been lusting after them (just because they're red) and wondering if I could screw up my courage (and checkbook). Glad I didn't.

Yep, red's my favorite color too. I just ordered some new Castellis. Thought hard about red - but just couldn't do it. I'll stick to my red cashmere. As long as it's not too hot.

V.

Thanks, Sadie - it's the right thing to do!

As soon as my bike gets here (sometime tomorrow according to UPS) and I can get more miles, I'll send the man a check!

spazz

Spazz' new avatar is a pix of her waiting for her bike!! Once it gets there, Spazz won't be so spazzy anymore! ;)

I paid, I paid...now I just need to start putting in some miles. Sorry I havent contributed any miles yet (why did I choose to go back to school instead of riding???) :confused: :confused: Do they offer a Masters in Mountain biking anywhere?

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Originally Posted by snowtulip

I paid, I paid...now I just need to start putting in some miles. Sorry I havent contributed any miles yet (why did I choose to go back to school instead of riding???) :confused: :confused: Do they offer a Masters in Mountain biking anywhere?

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to make more money to support your habit in your twilight years?? :D

From the Polka-dot Jersey! Won't someone else become a premier member and support the site? Don't you want a yellow jersey next to your name? Then, we can hold our heads high amongst all those other "wanna be cool" teams! :) ;) :D :p :cool:

OK, I did it. Maybe seeing my mileage in writing (and knowing other more dedicated bikers can see it too) will keep me from slacking off as much.

Welcome to the board, welcome to BJ.com, and welcome to Team Estrogen!!...wooohoooo some major welcomes there SJ! and how much fun is it to see your mileage go up as you log in!!

Thanks to CJCzar we are now at 50% and have earned the Polka-Dot jersey!!!!! :D :D :D :D

We now have 28, count 'em, 28 members on bikejournal.

As a side note, CJ, don't worry about how your miles compare to others. Ride for you! Not everyone rides the same stuff so their miles won't stack up the same. A mtbiker rides fewer miles than a road biker but sure puts in the same time and effort. A roadie who lives in the mtns does tons of climbing but fewer miles than someone on the flats. Miles are not the only indicator of a "dedicated" biker. Ride for your own goals and, most of all, have fun. Welcome aboard!

I signed up and paid yesterday. Sorry for being dumb, but where exactly is this yellow jersey. I understand the thing about TE getting the polka dots for having 50% being premier, but not the other.
I am using a different "name" at the bikejournal site.

If you have joined as a premier member, a yellow jersey icon appears next to your name. On the home page of the journal, on the right hand side, you'll see both the yellow jersey and the polka dot jersey icons. If you click on these it will explain the benefits and give you a link to pay.

Is that what you were asking? Or did you pay and don't see the icon next to your name? It takes Slantz a day or so to process the payment and "award" the jersey.

Sorry if my response makes assumptions it shouldn't. :o

What's your bikejournal name or are you going incognito?

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Originally Posted by Robyn Maislin

I signed up and paid yesterday. Sorry for being dumb, but where exactly is this yellow jersey. I understand the thing about TE getting the polka dots for having 50% being premier, but not the other.
I am using a different "name" at the bikejournal site.

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what name are you using?.....if you're crankin...you got your yellow jersey coz I just saw it about 2 hrs ago.

<----me heading over to see the polka-dot jersey!!

I'm thinking ALL of us get to wear the She-Ra Tiara today!!!!

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Originally Posted by CorsairMac

I'm thinking ALL of us get to wear the She-Ra Tiara today!!!!

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Woohoo! Thank you everyone!!! It's so fun to see those miles rack up - vertical, horizontal, rocky, smooth, skinny tire, fat tire, they're all fun (I'm starting to hum the Armour hotdog song...Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks, tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox love hotdogs, Armour hot dogs, the dogs kids love to bite!!!) See ya'll over at BJ!

Yes, I'm Crankin, part of the unoriginal screen name I use on IM. I will have to go back to the bj site to look. I didn't ride yesterday, so I didn't look.

and Today our esteemed captains photo was up in the random shots!.......The lil nuthatch sure looks good on ya cap'n!!

I still don't see the polka-dot jersey but I'm wondering if it's coz we have 28 members and exactly 14 premier members??.....maybe we'll get the PD jersey when we have 15??

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Originally Posted by CorsairMac

I still don't see the polka-dot jersey but I'm wondering if it's coz we have 28 members and exactly 14 premier members??.....maybe we'll get the PD jersey when we have 15??

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You see the jersey if you look at lists of clubs. View clubs, change ALL fields to ALL, submit the query and you'll see it. You won't see it if you go to the club home through "view my clubs" or whatever it is.

got it - I see the lil PD jersey by the teams names on the postings in the forums, but I don't see it by our team name! :( maybe it takes awhile to get sorted out??

Corsair, I would swear I saw it when I looked yesterday. Now it's not there. Does it come and go as your ratio varies (total members/premier members)?

I think this merits a question of Slantz. Amici Veloci is 66% premier members and I don't see PD jerseys next to our names in the threads either.

I think Team Estrogen is 50% so we're wavering on the cusp but we're there.

STRIKE THAT - Someone new joined (welcome whoever you are :) ) and we're down to 48%.

Sadie, I just saw Amici's PD jersey in the big list of clubs, but didn't see TE's.

See edit above. :(

Still doesn't explain why the PD jersey is not next to my name. AV is my primary club.

the wandering Polka-Dot Jersey?? :confused: :confused:

well, you know how those "dots" can be :rolleyes:
-- they're so... round.

Just received an email from Slantz:

Ah, thanks for the information. It looks like I have a bug in the forum code that calculates the premier clubs. I'll try to fix it by this weekend.

And yes, I am going to add a club selection box to the edit journal page as well as the capability to move all previous rides to a different team in the club management area. I've got that at the top of the todo list, so I hope to get to it soon.

However, Team Estrogen has (temporarily?) lost it's premier status so . . . .

somebody send that boy some of them thar Monster Cookies!

Slantz just emailed me - the dots have been rounded up or connected or something . . . :p

Poor Slantz...that website is complicated and I feel for him (I'm a webmaster when I'm not riding). I hope he's not doing all this by himself. :eek:

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Poor Slantz...that website is complicated and I feel for him (I'm a webmaster when I'm not riding). I hope he's not doing all this by himself. :eek:

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Yes ma'am he is! that's why I keep trying to Not-be-pushy but.....about the $10. He did have some help when he did the upgrade and some of us finally convinced him that he might need some more moderators after a very sad incident involving one of the members during a weekend when Slantz was busy trying to have a home life and wasn't able to be there.