A Funked Up fixie on Grafton Street, Dublin 2
Funked Up Bike Company was founded in the Liberties, Dublin 8 in 2010 and specialise in custom made Fixed Gear (Fixies) and Single Speed bikes for the Urban Cyclist.
Funked Up founder Olaf O’Moore writes:
We are taking a stand against the overly hyped and commercialised Black Friday sales.
We have teamed up with the Dublin Simon Community and help them make a difference to the 5,000+ individuals and families who receive their support and services on an annual basis.
If you place an order on Funkedup.com, you will receive a 10% discount and Funked Up will match your 10% discount and donate that amount to the Simon Community on your behalf.
So if you order a bike worth €500, you will receive a €50 discount and the Simon Community will also receive a €50 donation from you.
Funked Up have made it really simple to use, all you have to do to make your donation is enter your preferred promo code on the checkout page… 10-For-Simon or 20-For-Simon
It gets even better, this offer is open from Black Friday 24th November right up until midnight on New Year’s Eve Sunday 31st of December….
In fairness.
Pic: Stephen Scully
Black Friday consumerist orgy is yet another Americanisation of Irish culture. Our radio and television programmers grab the latest trends from New York, and op-ed feature writers follow suit in the national newspapers. We are mentally, emotionally and linguistically becoming a virtual-reality 51st state of the U. S. of almighty A. – with a little help from British culture mediated through London.
You don’t like bargains?
It could be a Faustian bargain. What doth it profit a man if he gaineth a whole world of bargains and loseth his own soul? Beware of satanic internet scams.
i just love that comment – and i agree
I personally hate sales just before Christmas that can greatly help the stress of picking up presents for friends and family.
Down with this sort of thing.
And jesus it wrecks my head that you can do it all from the comfort of home/office. It’s a disgrace and all the cyclists fault.
Me too, Black Friday always seem like a grubby money grabbing farce! Its nice to see at least one Irish company taking some stand against it and helping a charity that does actual good for the homeless too!
Nice lookin’ bike :)
They’d better have a strong U-lock to ensure it doesn’t ‘disappear’.
These days you need more than 1 strong lock, unfortunately most locks are easy prey for the thieves, if you put more than 1, at least it might give them pause and they might move on to the bike beside yours that only has 1 lock
They should design a U-lock that ten seconds after being tampered with releases a stink bomb with psychedelic smoke.
I remember a “Great Trigger Happy TV” sketch when they did just that!
Haha ‘Skunk Lock’ was successfully funded on Indigogo last christmas… they exist :)
“We are taking a stand against the overly hyped and commercialised Black Friday sales.” by using it to shamelessly self promote ourselves!!! LOOK AT US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha i suppose you are somewhat correct Weldoninho… but all businesses need to promote themselves and sell their products/services or else risk liquidation. As a consumer you have the choice and power to speak with your wallet…
You can spend your money on quality made products, from a local company with sound ethics, that strives to good today and into the future,
or
Spend your hard earned cash on some disposable planned obsolescence crap from some globo-corp where the CEO might earn a €10million salary and company pays little or even zero tax in the country,
or
Choose not spend your money on anything, and reduce the amount of stuff in the world… maybe give some of your savings directly to the charities/causes that you admire.
or
something else!… after all it’s Your Life, so Make it For You.
I think the shops NEED Black Friday as they’re facing down another crappy Christmas sales season. It’s not Amazon and online sales that are causing the problem it’s the fact that folk ain’t got the money.
Folks “ain’t got the money” to splurge on luxury consumer goods. That’s a First World problem, isn’t it? They should send missionaries from Africa and Asia to evangelize on the topic of Having and Being.
Well that’s just factually inaccurate.
Amazing fixie, the best way to cycle..
We are taking a stand against Black Friday.
BUY OUR STUFF!
haha…
haha i think you are somewhat correct John, as in most businesses do need to promote themselves in order to sell their products &/or services so that they can earn revenue to pay their employees wages and other overheads.
Similarly, many humans need to promote themselves (at interview) in order to get a job, that earns them some money in order to pay their rent, entertainment and other living expenses.
Many companies (and many people) are ethical in the way they operate, and promoting themselves, while others are not. As consumers we all have the choice whether to spend our hard earned money with ethically driven brands or non-ethically driven brands. At the end of the day, the brands that sell the most will likely be the ones that survive and thrive and will have some influence to shape the future market place and society. So would you like that to be an ethical marketplace/society or a non-ethical one? Spend wisely this Christmas ;) or Not! It’s Your Life!
Thank you broadsheet.ie for choosing to share Funked Up Bike Co.’s campaign. We salute you.
People actually pay for fixies?!? I though they were just dredged from the canals and spraypainted
“Rebranded”
Buy a real bike and take a stand agains the hipster/tech gentrification set in Dublin.