Mark Burton

CVFR & Stockport Harrier Runner

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@Goldie147 Looking good

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@SimonBurney That Craigy on the left 😜

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@SimonBurney Should of handed out copies of your book Simon 😇

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@Watts_Occurring @GeraintThomas86 Top ride G, there was a loud “fu#k” when you crossed the line. You boy’s going to launch when Primoz is on the champers?

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@shitscaredmum Sorry for your tremendous loss.

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@fellrunningguid Looks great around there

[NorthRoadCycles 🚴‍♂️ @NorthRoadCycles]

It's really tough being an independent business in the UK. We watch huge corporations with massive marketing budgets gobble up customers and then paying almost zero tax.

This morning for example, we went into a beautiful coffee shop and had amazing coffee and food, but the place was really quiet. Walked past two famous chain coffee shops, with poor food and average coffee, and they were rammed.

What chance do us small indies have? We can't undercut the big boys, we can't match their marketing spend. So we do what we can, we offer personal service, good quality and we chip away as best we can. This takes time, sadly time is also our enemy as we have to pay ourselves, pay our staff and pay the bills to simply exist.

A massive thank you to all who choose to buy a bike or use us for a service, to those who choose an independent coffee shop or clothes shop or deli etc etc.

Let's not accept homogeneous shopping and leisure experiences. Choose alternatives. When you do you're helping individuals to eat and pay bills rather than lining the pockets of people who don't even care about the products they sell, they simply want returns on investments.

The bigger independents like us get the more people we employ, the more tax we pay and the more we contribute to society, your society.

We work incredibly hard to simply be noticed. So please spend a few minutes thinking about choosing an independent brand above the ones who have the massive advantages over us.

Sorry for the long ramble but it needs to be said.

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@ozDanJones is the @DeTourPod coming back? Could spot Iffy behind @blingmatthews after today’s great stage 👌👏👏👏👏👏

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@socialdistpod1 Jonseys mum wrote that 😁

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@itspaulactually @OTESportsGB

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@EilishMccolgan @MJGold @mturner1961 @jgault13 How do the Nike runners get around that? Is it as there are more than them. An athlete has to stick with sponsors that look after them all year, not one event.
Leader’s jerseys in cycling races compromise. Why not London?

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@EilishMccolgan Bad times make the good ones better, you’ll be back. Rest and return 😇

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

Look at the “blades”

[Ben Mounsey @El_CapitanoCVFR]

Big thanks to David Lund for my new profile pic!
My arms & legs are now completely numb after standing for 12 hours straight in ‘Stabbed Rat’ position!

Amazing to finally join the great still life models of our generation, like Kate Winslet in Titanic & @1973MLB

#fameatlast

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@retsof1973 Memories of Long Mynd?

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

Coach at my lads ex club could take heed of this.

[Andrew Brownhill @AndrewBrownhil]

Roy Hodgson’s advice to grassroots coaches 👇
🗣️”Make certain that every kid at your training sessions finds some enjoyment and doesn’t want to give the game up because of what you’ve done as a coach. Don’t coach 12, 13 or 14 year olds as if you’re Manchester United preparing for a Champions League game.”

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@soudalquickstep Super Mercado

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@larrywarbasse @ehitzulia Nobody stealing those brown shorts 😇

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@FieldyCX @Spragg_Perform Grasping at opportunity 🤣

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@MrsBongo84 @mralibongo Congratulations!!!!!!

[Mark Burton @1973MLB]

@andrewrheyes Good luck mate