Afgelopen weekend was de zgn. “kick of” van het internationale BMX seizoen. In Besançon Frankrijk werd de 1e ronde verreden van de E.K. De andere rondes zullen verreden worden in Duitsland, Italië, Nederland, Tsjechië en de finale zal zijn in Noorwegen. 2 weken na de eindronde in Noorwegen worden de Wereldkampioenschappen verreden in Pietermaritzburg Zuid-Afrika. Tijdens deze 1e ronde in Besançon kwamen Elis en Sam aan de start. Op het weer na, en het grote aantal deelnemers was alles goed georganiseerd en zeker niet met de “Franse Slag”. Sam kwam in de groep boys 13/14 aan de start. Hij kwam de manches goed door, maar strandde in de 1/8 finale.

Elis kwam aan de start bij de girls 15/16, met 1,1,2 plek in de manches plaatste zij zich voor een ½ finale. Door een slechte start in de ½ finale leek het even mis te gaan, maar met een 4e  plaats wist ze zich net te plaatsen voor de finale. In de finale had zij een zeer goede start en nam gelijk de 1e plek, deze gaf ze niet meer af en wist de 1e ronde van het E.K. winnend af te sluiten.

Dit weekend wacht een nieuwe uitdaging voor het team, dan zal de 1e wedstrijd voor de Nederlandse Top-Competitie in Haaksbergen verreden worden. Hier zullen alle 4 de rijders aan de start komen.

So you see Pinktober is a worldwide action and TeNo is spread all over the world as well! TeNo is supporting a lot of charity organisations just like Pinktober or the fight against AIDS!

Have you already seen the finished social spot against AIDS which TeNo supported?

Before the start:

The “bag-team”. ;-)

Here, Felix is getting interviewed on the stage:

At the award ceremony:

It was a great event with a lot of fun for everybody.

Yvette from the Netherlands sent us an information written by our new BMX team:

We are very happy that our team have a new sponsor by TeNo. We are an International BMX team, with 4 riders Sam, Roy, Gerben and Elis, 3 men and 1 girl. TeNo fits very well by a tough sport as BMX. The riders have competition  all over the world, they won national and international prices European and World championships. This year won Elis for the 7^th time in Adelaide Australia the World championships. The Team have an own internet site www.bmxteamoxalis.nl , on this site we put the pictures and the news from the competition and the riders. The riders are very happy with their new TeNo watches, because every second is important for a good result. We keep you informed about the team.

We welcome the riders in our TeNo family and wish great success! Also we’re looking forward every new information. We’re always interested in our TeNo teams and would like to hear from you as often as possible.

TeNo proudly presents: Michael Schenker, the Hard Rock Café Cologne and their awesome initiative called Pinktober (when you open this link you should turn on your sound, it’s great!)

Pinktober is a worldwide benefit-initiative from all the Hard Rock Cafés for breast cancer awareness and the fight against breast cancer.

In the TeNo store’s display window in the Rheincenter in Cologne a nice and really treasured guitar is showed.

The TeNo team is dressed in Pinktober-style and wears the pink colored Pinktober-Shirts. On the picture you can see Irina – and as if we’ve known it back then our changeable wall paint can transform to pink as well. You can see the Pinktober-Shirts match perfectly into our TeNo store.

On the 12th of October the TeNo store Cologne is doing a little promotion in the Hard Rock Café Cologne and we’ll give you more information later.

Some further links with articles about Pinktober-activities around the world:

• http://www.travel2aruba.com/228/2009-pinktober-at-hard-rock-cafe-aruba/
• http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/nerina-pallot-joins-pintober-women-of-rock-gala-gig
• http://blog.delta.com/2009/09/29/pretty-in-pink/
• http://hempnewstv.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/melissa-etheridge-%E2%80%93-cancer-changed-her-outlook-on-marijuana/
• http://dryastoast.blogspot.com/2009/10/monday-giveaway-hard-rock-pinktober.html

TeNo supports the fight aginst AIDS as well! In order of a contest with the theme “Give AIDS no chance” the actor Raphael Niebel wrote a script for a social commercial. TeNo was impressed and enthusiastic about his dedication for AIDS education and the fight against AIDS and supported him in his project. TeNo provided jewlery for the actors Raphael Niebel and playmate Janina Wissler and sponsored the production financial as well, so that Raphael could accomplish his project. The winners of the contest will be announced in two weeks! TeNo is excited to see what the commercial will look like and wishes the best of luck.

Here are some great making of pictures!

The shop assistants welcomed us friendly as always and were happy, even if they couldn´t be at the run of colors. But someone has to hold the position. ;-)

Then we set out for the Tanzbrunnen. We took the advice of store chef Adriane Friedrich, and left our car at Weiden and the train to the city, because not only was there the run of colors that day but also the gamescom. Finding a parking space would have been impossible.  In the commuter train i received a SMS from Jürgen, who said that they are at the Tanzbrunnen and that we have to go across the bridge. If  he didn´t send me that message, we would have searched for along time on the big area. I thought we just have to follow the TeNo commercials – TeNo was sponsor of the run of colors – but then we could have gone in every direction, since TeNo was everywhere. Even outside of the area – people, people, people and each of them with TeNo bags. :-)

Thanks to the SMS we found the TeNo group right away in tat the center of the Tanzbrunnen:

In the team and racing for TeNo Jürgen Milski, on the picture below with Jürgen Heinz and Adriane Friedrich:

Notice: TeNo goes both ways. Or something like that. ;-) Which should mean that TeNo design jewelry is not only unisex and for men and women, but also the TeNo banners are versatile and can be seen from the back and form the front:

And now some impressions of the TeNo Team before the start. Runners of the TeNo store cologne:

TeNo – a family business with tradition and with jewelry for generations. Here is a nice pictures with the titel: Old and young, or: forever blond. :-) It shows the lovely mother of Adriane Friedrich, with 77 years still healthy and the young Lucy from the TeNo store cologne.

And here is a picture with great symbolic. I think its great when people -not only the TeNo team, but also on the hole area – old and young, men and women, hetero and homosexual, democratic and republican voters, how 1000 people gathered together, to demonstrate solidarity with HIV-infected people, show tolerance and support the Aids foundation cologne, Oh yes, not only humans but also dogs were there, Here you can see Felix and ByRoN.

Only hald an hour left until the race starts. That means stretching, stretching and warming up…

Here you can see everyone who was recing at the run of colors for TeNo. Only Jürgen, didn´t run since he had to sell bananas this day. But somehow he managed to sneak into the picture. ;-)

And here all active runners, shortly before the race started.

And  with lots of positive energy:

The proof that there were A LOT of people there that day:

Pictures from the start with many yellow ballons, which were set free into the sky to show solidarity and give the sign to start the run:

While the runners had a 5-10 km run ahead of them, those who didn´t take part started to prepare the banana stand, since at the finish line all the runners got drinks and fruits, like  kiwis and in this case TeNo bananas – a very special culture! *g*

Plus all the women got a sunflower from TeNo at the finish line.

Then they arrived – the runners crossed the finishing line.

Jürgen Milski finished first, however we don´t have picture of him crossing the finishing line, since we didn´t have our cameras ready that fast. :-) Or maybe she was first?

Felix and Patrick – happily running the last few meters:

They also made it:

Matching the motto run of colors, some poeple were wearing colorful costumes. And I was wondering how they could run 5 km in that. Respect! Must be the training from carnecal.

At the TeNo bananastand everyone was welcomed and admired. Everybody made it and some very exhausted. But all in all most of the runners were still pretty fit. Here are some impressions of our runners.

Cathrin , selecting a refreshment

And finally Jürgen Milski and Jürgen Heinz signed the TeNo jersey. This jersey will be purchased by auction. The money will also go to the aids foundation of cologne.

It was a truly beautiful day. This way, charity and marketing are fun. Thanks to all, who took part, we are really proud of you! And also thanks that we could be there. And here you can see who the most beautiful town at the Rhine presents itself on our way back to the Deutzer trainstation:

This only a selection of pictures. You can see all of them and in higher resolution here at on FlickR, where you can watch them if you like.

Currently, Yvette is so active in the Netherlands, that it’s hard to keep up blogging about what she achieves. Now, she realized a new marketing option: TeNo is “biking” again. And literally, we are biking, when the new Team TeNo  is starting off. The guys will take part in the most challenging one-day cyclosporive event in the world. On the website of our new team you can see the tour and we are also introduced as their sponsor.

Member of the team are Yvettes husband and Pierre Janssen. Pierre Janssen is the son of that man who is very famous among biker fans: Jan Janssen, a professional biker, who was the first one from the Netherlands to win the Tour de France. At the URL http://www.janjanssen.nl/ you can find professional equipment for all bikers.

TeNo equiped the racing team with biking outfits and watches, which they present on the pictures.

The sponsoring cooperation is still young, but there are already a report about the biking team and TeNo (in dutch).

We are very excited, how the cooperation will develop and are looking forward to an exciting tour, exciting results and a lot of good results.

“Don’t get the wrong idea”, but for the next time, please wear a YuKoN steel collier. That will boost the look of your medals and is also waterproofed. ;-)

But it’s a cool thing that our sponsored TeNo sports have many-sidet talents and therefore are a perfect match to our collection. Emanuele is not only a successful billard player but has also won 2 times the second and once the third place in a swimming cup.