Well today is the big day...
I'll be turning the Big FIVE-OH!
So to take my mind off of (🎂50 years old 😬) I thought it might be fun to put together a gift for all of you too.
I've created a huge limited time discount code that can be used on anything in the Inspired to Ride webstore.
I understand many of you have already purchased the Inspired to Ride film (thank you) so this might be a great time to pick up that newly designed t-shirt, movie posters or Behind-The-Scenes Extras Download you've been thinking about.
You could also use this code and send a great gift to the cyclist or adventurer in your life. It may not be their birthday but I'm sure they would really appreciate an inspiring gift from you anyway. Just enter their shipping address when you checkout and let them know it's a birthday gift from Mike Dion and you ; )
*You can also forward this email to others.
I'm still grappling with the fact that I've been on this earth now for 50 years...
It's been a pretty amazing ride so far and I feel blessed to have crossed paths with many of you during various film screenings and events across the country.
I hope you can take advantage of my Big 50 gift to you...🎁
Cheers
Mike Dion
To use your discount, click to the Store, add any item you want to your shopping cart, then go to the checkout page where you will enter and apply this discount code: BDAY50
*This code stops working when the countdown reaches zero.
So apparently the internet broke yesterday (10/21)
Many popular websites were part of a DDoS services attack including Shopify.
The Inspired to Ride website is created on the Shopify platform and was down for most of the day yesterday. We apologize to our customers who were not able to complete orders that were in process.
Those orders have now been updated and everything seems to be functioning normal.
To make things right we are offering 30% off all products on our Shopify platform for the next 3 days.
Click Here: http://watch.inspiredtoride.it/collections/all
Thank you for your continued support!
**UPDATE - Just to reiterate, no databases were compromised during the internet outage. All customer information remains completely safe. The DDoS attack on popular websites only blocked internet access preventing customers from accessing the content on the websites.
Here is a CNN report: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2016/10/21/ddos-attack-twitter-netflix-reddit.cnnmoney?iid=EL
]]>I totally understand this will not be for everyone, and that’s OKAY!
Stay awesome!
Cheers,
Mike
P.S. Here are the details, in case you got here by mistake:
Wow - I got some fun replies yesterday! Some of you were hoping that a new race or film might be in the works:
The possibility of a new film was part of our conversation however, I’m nowhere near ready to talk about any of that just yet. Some of you offered up support no matter what it was about - which is totally freakin' amazing!
Some of you mentioned being inspired by Billy in the past:
And this is actually more to the point of our brainstorm.
We get asked a lot about gear choices, best training practices, how do you handle certain situations while racing…
We thought it would be cool to take all of our experiences (well mostly Billy’s) and create some kind of bikepacking workshop.
A sharing of our secrets - a passing on of knowledge - a gathering of our tribe kind of workshop.
This would be an immersive experience where the outcome will give you total confidence to enter the Tour Divide Race, the Trans Am Race, the upcoming Route 66 Race, or even take on your first weekend bikepacking trip.
Yesterday I was asking for some advice but rather than go into all the details I think it would be best to first see who would actually want to learn more about this gathering.
Please click on one of the following links to let me know whether what we’ve thought up is of interest to you.
YES! This sounds very interesting! I’d like to learn more!
Or…
Meh. I have no interest in being a part of this bikepacking thing.
* If you are not interested but know someone who might be, please forward them this email.
Thats it for now.
Thanks for being part of my world and wanting to stay in touch with news and upcoming projects via this newsletter.
All the best,
Mike
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Right on - Good to know you are interested in learning more.
Please leave me your email so I can create a separate list of folks who are interested in taking on a more adventurous life!
* after you click subscribe check your email to confirm
In a few days I'll be reaching out to everyone on this new list with more information and to get your feedback I was asking about earlier.
Cheers, Mike
P.S. Here are the details, in case you got here by mistake:
Wow - I got some fun replies yesterday! Some of you were hoping that a new race or film might be in the works:
The possibility of a new film was part of our conversation however, I’m nowhere near ready to talk about any of that just yet. Some of you offered up support no matter what it was about - which is totally freakin' amazing!
Some of you mentioned being inspired by Billy in the past:
And this is actually more to the point of our brainstorm.
We get asked a lot about gear choices, best training practices, how do you handle certain situations while racing…
We thought it would be cool to take all of our experiences (well mostly Billy’s) and create some kind of bikepacking workshop.
A sharing of our secrets - a passing on of knowledge - a gathering of our tribe kind of workshop.
This would be an immersive experience where the outcome will give you total confidence to enter the Tour Divide Race, the Trans Am Race, the upcoming Route 66 Race, or even take on your first weekend bikepacking trip.
Yesterday I was asking for some advice but rather than go into all the details I think it would be best to first see who would actually want to learn more about this gathering.
Please click on one of the following links to let me know whether what we’ve thought up is of interest to you.
YES! This sounds very interesting! I’d like to learn more!
Or…
Meh. I have no interest in being a part of this bikepacking thing.
* If you are not interested but know someone who might be, please forward them this email.
Thats it for now.
Thanks for being part of my world and wanting to stay in touch with news and upcoming projects via this newsletter.
All the best,
Mike
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