Road Bike Racing - Sponsorship BS - confused!

So try and make sense of this sponsorship crud for me?

Read from the first email at the bottom.

TIA,
Brendon



Hi Brendon

Sponsorship is only if you are sponsored by the company. There is nothing to
stop you wearing Orca gear to any race apart from Auckland champs and the
Nationals.
I am not certain about the distance for the champs but think it is 40k you
can check with me on Saturday and I will have confirmation of that
Cheers Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendon England [mailto:porsche@vectorstar.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:54 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Emailing: National License form 2004.cycling


Hi ,

So in effect, If I wear say Orca clothing even though I have bought it
myself, I just write it on the form? ORCA? I am able to get a good price for
this brand so I may just get some for racing at least.

I am looking on the website at the results for the U19 TT last year, and I
am guessing that it was 20km? Why the change? I will try and get to the
racing on Saturday at Ardmore and enter a race.

Regards,
Brendon
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: "Brendon England" <porsche@vectorstar.net>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: RE: Emailing: National License form 2004.cycling


> HI Brendon
> You need to fill in a sponsorship form so it can be noted on your licence
if
> you wear named clothing at open races etc
> Under 19 grade races in open Mainly the races are handicapped. for mass
> starts the handicapper will put you in which ever grade he thinks is
> appropriate.
> time trial champs distance is 40 km
>
> Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brendon England [mailto:porsche@vectorstar.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 11:37 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: Emailing: National License form 2004.cycling
>
>
> Thank you for the form, I shall send it to you soon.
>
> Just a few questions, I am currently in the process of trying to get a
small
> sponsorship from an apparel dealer (just small donation of gear, no extra
> labelling at this point) will I need to put anything on my aplication
under
> sponsors?
>
> Also, I will be racing U19. Would this put me in the Over 40 and others
> category, or C Grade category? What happens when there is just Open and no
A
> B C grades?
>
> Also I will be participating in the CMC TT champs, what is the distance of
> the U19 TT?
>
> Regards,
> Brendon
>

I think what she is trying to say is that if you are wearing clothing with a manufacturer's logo on the outside and are receiving money for that, then that is a sopnsorship. If you are wearing a blank jersey with maybe a small logo on the front but are not getting paid to do so (nobody can really see it) than that would fall outside...as I recall, in the US there are giudelines on the allowable size of a logo...but most of our amateur teams ride with logos plastered all over their jerseys to ad sponsors that give them money.