Cease and desist; "Stop using 'Gerro' on your website".

[Captain Serious]

For real? WTF?
It's going around Twitter

https://twitter.com/SockHeight/status/473947231582560256

 

[Afrank]

And the reasons to dislike Gerrans increase.

 

[Bar Tally]

No cease and desist on "Wheelsucker" though!!!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

the sig on the doc has surname McQuaid


Quick solution
Just change any reference to "Gerro" on the site to "Monumental Wheelsucker"

 

[Dazed and Confused]

lol, you gotta be kidding me.

 

[observer]

I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with that.

Sockheight seems to be gearing up to selling products, products which probably compete against Gerrans' current sponsors.

If he doesn't condone the product, why would they use his name. It would be the same as trying to sell a jacket, and you call it the Michael Jackson jacket. You'd suspect that their legal department would be on it.

To avoid this thing happening, just don't be a cowboy when setting up a business and website.

 

[LaFlorecita]

If that's really his lawyer surely he'd know it's - Gerrans' and not - Gerran's.

 

[One Eyed Aussie]

If that's really his lawyer surely he'd know it's - Gerrans' and not - Gerran's.

Never overestimate any native English speaker's knowledge of orthographical minutiae.

 

[rainman]

Does this mean I'm not allowed to use the word




GERRO

 

[kenk09]

Does this mean I'm not allowed to use the word




GERRO

No it doesn't.

 

[Vino's Mum]

It's a wind-up.

Firstly, the use of Gerro doesn't infringe upon "Mr Gerran's intellectual property". Secondly, as suggested by La Flo, there's just no way a lawyer would write "Gerran's".

 

[mr. tibbs]

It's a wind-up.

Firstly, the use of Gerro doesn't infringe upon "Mr Gerran's intellectual property". Secondly, as suggested by La Flo, there's just no way a lawyer would write "Gerran's".

I've met a lot of law/business/high-caliber mover-and-shaker types who can't spell "toast" and malapropriate "would of" for "would've" and "right" for "write." I wouldn't be surprised if this was a licensed and practicing lawyer.

...Grumbles the unemployed cyclist with an MA in English. (CN wouldn't even hire me for that online editor position a few months ago, and check out how well the person they did hire is doing on the front page stories. Protip: They're not doing very well.)

 

[scholar]

Secondly, as suggested by La Flo, there's just no way a lawyer would write "Gerran's".

I don't dispute that it's probably a wind-up, but I've frequently seen similar kinds of mistakes made by lawyers in their professional documents.

 

[Captain Serious]

oops, I only just found the bigger pic of the letter and put it in the first post

 

[christopherrowe]

Trinity Sports Management appears to be legit. To go by the landing page of their website Taylor Phinney is among their clients. The attorney who signed the letter is apparently director of the company (and who knows, it may be a one man shop) and has quite a cycling pedigree.

PS Gerro. Gerro. Gerro.

 

[GuyIncognito]

For the record, 99% of non-native english speakers find the british/australian way of nicknaming people (Gerro/Wiggo/Robbo/Crompo, etc) hilariously moronic and do nothing but point and laugh at the massive stupidity of it

 

[search]

I don't dispute that it's probably a wind-up, but I've frequently seen similar kinds of mistakes made by lawyers in their professional documents.

the CAS has Sinkewitz' name misspelt in all of its documents regarding the 12 year ban...

 

[movingtarget]

For the record, 99% of non-native english speakers find the british/australian way of nicknaming people (Gerro/Wiggo/Robbo/Crompo, etc) hilariously moronic and do nothing but point and laugh at the massive stupidity of it

Do they ? It's always been part of the language at least in Australia to shorten words. Football footy, breakfast brekkie etc..... So it's not just the names of people. I know some visitors to Australia actually like it.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I thought a gerro was a castrated dingo.

 

[Parrulo]

Do they ? It's always been part of the language at least in Australia to shorten words. Football footy, breakfast brekkie etc..... So it's not just the names of people. I know some visitors to Australia actually like it.

Yup, it's extremely unoriginal

 

[Captain Serious]

For the record, 99% of non-native english speakers find the british/australian way of nicknaming people (Gerro/Wiggo/Robbo/Crompo, etc) hilariously moronic and do nothing but point and laugh at the massive stupidity of it

Ha! That's funny, and a bit embarrassing. I didn't know that. It can be a bit much if ya listen to a lot of footy radio over a weekend., Ugh!!

 

[Pricey_sky]

For the record, 99% of non-native english speakers find the british/australian way of nicknaming people (Gerro/Wiggo/Robbo/Crompo, etc) hilariously moronic and do nothing but point and laugh at the massive stupidity of it

Don't have a problem with nicknames to be honest, and your reference to just British/Australian people using nicknames is laughable, I've heard many foreign people call each other by nicknames in both cycling and football. Even my Polish mate at work uses nicknames! More stereotypical waffle.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Don't have a problem with nicknames to be honest, and your reference to just British/Australian people using nicknames is laughable, I've heard many foreign people call each other by nicknames in both cycling and football. Even my Polish mate at work uses nicknames! More stereotypical waffle.

Honest question, are you joking? If so that was hilarious!

If not, I'm afraid you completely failed to understand what I said. Would you like me to explain?

 

[mariposa]

I think that you will find most English speaking people also find the nicknames Wiggo ,Gerro etc etc really embarrassing as well. It's the O that does it!!! I like Orica but almost all their riders nicknames seem to end with an O so perhaps Wiggo would be a good signing?

 

[jaylew]

I thought Aussie nicknames mostly ended with a long 'e' sound like Gossy.