[Closed] Gnarpoon T-shirts

cb – the minimum order is 20-tees, so if I see enough ‘bugger, missed this’ posts, I’ll open the shop again for some more orders. But for now, I’ve got my hands full getting these 141 out.

I would have expected, given the inspiration for this t-shirt, that you would happily take pre-orders on 972 different t-shirt designs made from at least 7 different materials from 6 suppliers, charging at least £100 each for them, and then get busy deleting negative comments from your insta feed?

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Update: Tees will be with me 10th April

How dare you communicate that to us. Logging a Paypal dispute 😉

I've ordered 2, took a punt that they'd be ready in a timely and professional manner and set them for UK delivery!
I'll be in Blighty till the 14th, any chance of a 'priority' distribution so I can fly home with mine?
Pretty please and thanks 🙂

teethgrinder - thanks for the offer but unless these are 'on the small side' I'd need a L rather than XL.

Good job AlexSimon, hopefully 19 others have been as inept as me and still want shirts!

What about granting people as-needed permission to use your artwork on the proviso they make a contribution to the fund? There are places around that will do direct inkjet printing for small runs (some will do 1) at a not unreasonable cost. They probably arent quite as good as a "proper" run

Update: Tees will be with me 10th April 2023

FTFY

Long update!

Most tees and packing boxes arrived on Friday, so the weekend was spent making boxes, doing a mail merge (never done before), sticking labels, folding t-shirts and taping them up, then slicing them open because we had 4 missing tees at the end, then resealing them all, then panicking because we had one tee left over, etc, etc.

There was an error in the supplied numbers affecting 9 orders, which I've emailed those 9 directly about.

First, I got a minion to help fold up all the boxes:

I didn't want to use plastic bags and wanted to guarantee Large Letter sizing, so went with boxes, but I think if I were to do it again, I'd use some kind of biodegradable plastic because it was a pretty painful part of the job - making and taping them up.

This is only about 30 of the 140!

Then we mail merged, printed the labels and stuck them on boxes

Then I got a minion to help fold up all the tees

See the typical STW size distribution! S top 2XL bottom

140 boxes times 4 of these per box means the house has got 560 of these on the floor

Then we boxed and taped all the packages

They are now with the local postie for processing and being sent today Second Class (2nd = more money for Mountain Rescue).

Apologies again to the 9 delayed orders - I've contacted the t-shirt printers this morning to inform them of their error and will update as soon as I know more.

Enjoy!

Impressive work!

Some job!

I still have no clue what this is all about but I'm looking forward to my new t shirt.

Excellent effort!

I see Dan at No48 has one! That’s upped the fashion stakes in the village.

Nice work BTW 👍🏼

Brilliant work, thanks! Can't wait for mine to arrive (it's the top box in the third photo!).

Thats fantastic! big thanls to the minion too 🙂

Will they now sit in a distribution centre hub for 6 months awaiting dispatch?

Great work!

I see the minion has dexterous hands, what with the completed Rubik’s cube...

I can't even imagine trying to explain this to my other half if that lot turned up in our house 😀 !
Top work.

Makes me wonder what outfit Sick have got going..

Enough with the excuses already!
Where’s my shirt?
Ha,;-)

Brilliant work btw.

awesome work!

Top stuff, looking forward to it arriving!

Excellent work! Once I've taken my picture for Instagram where do I return it to?

benpinnick
Excellent work! Once I’ve taken my picture for Instagram where do I return it to?

Surely that's your tenner's worth right there!

I see the minion has dexterous hands, what with the completed Rubik’s cube…

Yep, he's the only one in the house that can do that.

I can’t even imagine trying to explain this to my other half if that lot turned up in our house 😀 !

I'm always doing stupid things like this. I'm hoping she still finds it charming 🙂

And to think all you need to do now is send your frame design to Mario in Peru and you have a bike company.

Right, what's next for the Sickstarter campaign?
How about a Vajazzled seatpost to match their stem?

Awesomz, now will it arrive the right colour and with stitching done by a blind detoxing alcoholic........👍😁

Top work 🙂

For you ..

And for the minions..

Excellent - This will be worn down the pub at the weekend
cheers

Excellent work. Using cardboard instead of plastic may have been hassle but you have my appreciation for that for one. Thanks.

That's brilliant... Thanks to the Minions too 🙂

Is there a chance of a second run of the t shirts stupidly missed this.

darksideby182
Is there a chance of a second run of the t shirts stupidly missed this.

There's a chance, but a minimum order of 20 tees I think. So far I think I've only counted one other person posting. Let me get these all out the door first 🙂

I really hope those tools at Sick! read this .
Puts their T shirt business to shame, and they are in the T shirt business.
I will wear mine with pride in Majorca at the end of the month

Excellent effort - thanks to all involved.

For next time, the Team Cortado t-shirt (Injured Rider thread on front page) was delivered in high quality paper bag 🙂

Thanks for letting me know Alex.

This is brilliant.

Cheers for all the effort.

Shall be wearing mine with pride as i drive to the local trail centre in search of Gnar, with my Gnarpoon attached to my over priced German estate wagon.

Do we know the final figure that is being donated to the mountain rescue?

Thanks again.

you both so rock, excellent work

Do we know the final figure that is being donated to the mountain rescue?

Well we're not fully there yet - still 10 packages to post including abroad, but it should be in excess of £400, which I keep having to double-check because it sounds too good to be true.

Thanks AlexSimon. Looking forward to receiving mine. Hopefully it has different arms or the wrong neck hole. Only then will it be a true sickalike!

£400!!
I will pay you actual money if you send one out to Sick!
Dont put enough postage on it though so they have to pay 50p to get it

FMP.- I think you will find the arm holes are at the bottom , by the big hole .Your welcome.

Edit..you would tell us if they have ordered one though, wouldn't you?

I ordered two, what shall I do if I prefer one colour to the other? Be a shame for it to go to waste...😈

Amazing effort Alex and minions 👍

If only Sick sold T's first then they would have half an idea of the logistics involved... oh

And people moan about this forum some times!?

Thanks for all the hard work Simon.... and minion!

Genuinely can't wait to get my 2 tees!

I ordered 2 different sizes. So one will fit in the Summer....and the bigger one will fit during my... erm....Winter hibernation/chocolate fest.😆

Outstanding work!

Hats off to the minion too 🙂

Si

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I see Dan at No48 has one! That’s upped the fashion stakes in the village.

It has indeed 😉

👍🏼

But you still lose points for having a white front door.

I'm still holding out for run two! Would buy two so we're up to 3 tees out of 20!

Hmmm - I wonder if I could get on the back of the black reprints with some more orders.
dunno - they haven't got back to me about the lost tees yet!

I wonder if the best thing to do is just open the order page again and state that it's an indefinite delivery time and may only go ahead subject to a minimum order number. If, in the end, I have to refund a few orders, PayPal wont penalise me will they?

Mr Postman has just delivered my T shirt
Thanks go out to you and the minions.
Good quality tee , with the standard annoying itchy scratchy washing instructions in the collar , but I can scapel them out .
Sunny Hampshire btw

I ordered 2 different sizes. So one will fit in the Summer….and the bigger one will fit during my… erm….Winter hibernation/chocolate fest.

Good thinking!

I guess in theory we might have some in people's hands today. Assuming 2nd class can sometimes arrive in 2 days.

Edit:Oooh - crossed post. Good stuff!
Selfies need to be taken next to your bike with the forks turned upside down obvs

Having just skim read this thread I'm in for a large, how do we order #lazybastid

Wow! Only just seen the update and before I could read the replies the box landed on my doormat
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Top effort and a good amount of money raised 🙂

Now if only there was a company out there that you could contact who might benefit for this fine example of concept through delivery including regular updates.......

Wait, folk are getting what they ordered? This is not what I signed up for at all!

This thread (and @AlexSimon and all his hard work) are the perfect example of exactly why this forum - and the people thereon - is awesome. Can't wait to see mine in the flesh (though it's a birthday present for a riding buddy, so hopefully not TOO much flesh).

Top work sir, top work.

Wearing mine now. The Large comes up big against other large tees in the draw ( floordrobe)
sleeves to near elbow, hem down to the danglies . I am 5,11 and at winter weight so 76kg, drop 2kg through summer normally.
I was expecting a bike and all I got was this cracking tee shirt

My Gnarpoon tishirt was delivered today.

Not going to lie, I am a bit disappointed, I was hoping for a 12 month wait 🙁

Wait, folk are getting what they ordered? This is not what I signed up for at all!

Chill, a few have gone out to the fanbois that's all.  You'll not be seeing yours, apparently you are a timewasting **** (in the nicest possible way) 🙂

Aw man. Mine arrived exactly as ordered. Does that make me a hipster fanboi 🙁 I want to jump on some sort of bandwagon but I need to know what to be offended about 😀

Wait, folk are getting what they ordered? This is not what I signed up for at all!

Well to be honest, I am expecting an error as we were short of one XL blue and had a spare XL grey. However, we opened all the XL blue and grey packages and there was no error, so god knows what that means!

I hope you have your long letter already prepared, blaming all sorts of circumstances completely out of you control. Maybe it was global warming?

jonesyboy
Having just skim read this thread I’m in for a large, how do we order #lazybastid

You can't at the moment. I'm considering options for a second run.

DanW

Aw man. Mine arrived exactly as ordered. Does that make me a hipster fanboi 🙁 I want to jump on some sort of bandwagon but I need to know what to be offended about 😀

1 of mine arrived this morning. The other one, for a mate, is one that's at the printers. So 50% Sickcess rate.

My t-shirt has arrived. AlexSimon is rad. All you haters moaning about not receiving your t-shirts yet don't deserve them. Bet you all post on STW and don't even ride bikes. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to wear my t-shirt and take photos of me doing rad things in it and post them to Instagram and give abuse to anyone who says bad things about AlexSimon on the internet. I am his subject now.

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Excellent work sir, and thank you. Mine landed today. Good wedge of $$$ for a good cause too.

Got mine too! Took a few selfies for my Insta now I need to return it...

No chance. It's a cracking T, better quality than I was expecting too. Thanks AlexSimon for doing all this and donating some of the cash. Top work. I'll be wearing mine at GT next week.

Mine arrived too. #fanboi

Thanks Alex and Minion for all the work.

Mines arrived- spot on!
There was demand for some of the other designs.. why not add them to the shop and see how many people go for it with the same caveat as the re-order number.

Disappointing at the amount of tape used. There was enough there to turn a wheel tubeless 😉

Mine arrived today...in rural N Wales.

Its fab, thank you very much.

No free haribo 🙁

#fanboi

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danposs86
No free haribo 🙁

No, but the free Mint Sauce Key Ring was a nice touch though, no?

Mines arrived 😁😁

No, but the free Mint Sauce Key Ring was a nice touch though, no?

Mine didn’t arrive in the packaging. Can you lend me one?

Got mine... .Lovely 🙂 Glad i never went XL though, could arguably have gone for an M.

Mine have arrived.  Ontime, correct sizes and correct colours, Im outraged at the efficiency of it all!

Interesting - in the past people have reported the Gildan sizes to be spot-on. One of the reasons I went with them.
It's possible I'll have some black M and S sizes left over (due to the size mix up at the printers), but I'm not going to offer them until everyone who ordered has been sorted.

My 2 arrived today! Not tried them on yet as I want to complain about sizing in a long and exhaustive thread later today.😉

Thanks Alex and Minions.👍

You guys should start a bike company I reckon!

If we can do t-shirts, then bikes are a no-brainer right?