Rumor has it that they will close their doors soon:
Translated with google:
Just a year ago, the until then unknown Belgian news site, "Rocky Roads" entered grossmundig as title sponsor of the UCI World Cup. Now the project seems already to be back on the brink of. The key staff already jumped.
Even with the announcement of the partnership between the UCI and Rocky Roads was warned that the Belgians are working with unrealistic numbers. The site was at the time that registration page over 221'000 visitors daily. All signs pointed to the fact that Rocky Roads coiffed traffic and UCI with Rocky Roads-founder Sietse Schelpe should mount a foam bat. There are now signs that this scenario could come true.
Rocky Roads had then with Erhard Goller can win the most renowned German bike journalist for themselves. Now that, well, according to reliable information, but wages stayed away and with the operators of the website, no contact has been established, Goller has quit his job at the Belgians immediately. To get the news flow upright, he called with short notice "Acrossthecountry 'own intelligence to life. The English-speaking staff have suspended their service, and the final report on Rocky Roads dated to the 11th November. Even older is the last entry on the Dutch version of Rocky Roads, on the German-he is after all, still on 8 December.
Rocky Roads that already seems to be on the international stage at the end of one year, also an oblique light on the Weltradverband UCI. That the operator of the website operated at the time of contract negotiations with apparently doctored traffic, even a layperson should have noticed. At least that seemed the UCI details of Rocky Roads to question nor to verify. However: The financial sponsorship amount from Belgium was then received with full benefits from the UCI. Currently the UCI announces that with Rocky Roads'm still in negotiations.
Also, the link is dead:
www.rockyroadsnetwork.com
Looks like the UCI has to find a new headsponsor soon.
Translated with google:
Just a year ago, the until then unknown Belgian news site, "Rocky Roads" entered grossmundig as title sponsor of the UCI World Cup. Now the project seems already to be back on the brink of. The key staff already jumped.
Even with the announcement of the partnership between the UCI and Rocky Roads was warned that the Belgians are working with unrealistic numbers. The site was at the time that registration page over 221'000 visitors daily. All signs pointed to the fact that Rocky Roads coiffed traffic and UCI with Rocky Roads-founder Sietse Schelpe should mount a foam bat. There are now signs that this scenario could come true.
Rocky Roads had then with Erhard Goller can win the most renowned German bike journalist for themselves. Now that, well, according to reliable information, but wages stayed away and with the operators of the website, no contact has been established, Goller has quit his job at the Belgians immediately. To get the news flow upright, he called with short notice "Acrossthecountry 'own intelligence to life. The English-speaking staff have suspended their service, and the final report on Rocky Roads dated to the 11th November. Even older is the last entry on the Dutch version of Rocky Roads, on the German-he is after all, still on 8 December.
Rocky Roads that already seems to be on the international stage at the end of one year, also an oblique light on the Weltradverband UCI. That the operator of the website operated at the time of contract negotiations with apparently doctored traffic, even a layperson should have noticed. At least that seemed the UCI details of Rocky Roads to question nor to verify. However: The financial sponsorship amount from Belgium was then received with full benefits from the UCI. Currently the UCI announces that with Rocky Roads'm still in negotiations.
Also, the link is dead:
www.rockyroadsnetwork.com
Looks like the UCI has to find a new headsponsor soon.