bikejournal.com Premier Club

[SadieKate]

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) .

[Melody]

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

[SadieKate]

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 . . . )

[MightyMitre]

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.

[SadieKate]

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.

[CorsairMac]

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!!"

[Veronica]

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

V.

[SadieKate]

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

V.

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?

[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.

[CorsairMac]

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

V.

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!

[SadieKate]

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.

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.

[Veronica]

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.

[nuthatch]

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

[spazzdog]

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

[CorsairMac]

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