# Brand My Bike

> Brand My Bike is a bilingual marketplace for auctioning finite physical sponsor areas on a specific, not-yet-funded bicycle. English is canonical; German uses `/de`.

Sponsors do not donate. They bid for twelve months of physical advertising on the exact bike. The auction succeeds only when current leading bid principals reach the verified dealer price. The bike is procured only after every required winner payment succeeds. Placements start after mounted stickers are approved and then run for exactly 365 days.

## Canonical product facts

- Riders choose a 3-, 7- or 14-day auction; bids in the final ten minutes may extend it by ten minutes, at most six times.
- A bid charges a 20% deposit, at least €25 and never more than the bid. Outbid deposits and deposits in an unfunded auction are refunded.
- Winners pay remaining principal plus a 12% sponsor service fee, disclosed print cost and applicable tax. Winner deadline is 48 hours; a runner-up may receive 24 hours.
- Only winning bid principal counts toward the bike goal. Fees, print and taxes do not. There is no partial funding and no rider-funded gap.
- Procurement is controlled dealer payment or verified invoice reimbursement. Unrestricted advance payout is not offered.
- Sponsor products appear only for fully paid, active, installation-verified placements; maximum three products per placement.
- Reporting uses server-processed FIT/GPX Ride Proofs and first-party click/QR events. It never promises mileage, impressions, reach, sales or ROI.
- Raw routes remain private. Public routes require rider consent and preview, remove at least the first and last kilometre and reduce precision.
- Strava is not a public or sponsor reporting source. No integration may be described as active without separate written commercial approval.
- Stripe Connect uses separate charges/transfers. Brand My Bike is not an escrow service.

## Data status and routes

- Public routes contain only verified real data. Empty live directories stay empty; they never fall back to invented profiles.
- Fictional riders, brands, bids and metrics exist only below `/demo/...`, are `noindex`, and are excluded from the sitemap and live map.
- [Homepage](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/) · [German](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/de)
- [Discover verified auctions](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/discover)
- [Verified sponsors](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/sponsors)
- [Privacy-safe world](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/world)
- [Private auction builder](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/create)
- Verified rider Markdown: `https://brandmybike.vercel.app/@{handle}/content.md`
- Verified sponsor Markdown: `https://brandmybike.vercel.app/sponsors/{slug}/content.md`
- [Full product, privacy and launch context](https://brandmybike.vercel.app/llms-full.txt)

## Launch status

Money movement remains fail-closed until the operator company, approved EN/DE contracts, VAT/invoicing and DAC7 model, country policy, Stripe Connect approval, email/auth controls, print partner, route-data privacy assessment, insurance and operations runbooks are complete. Code or a UI does not prove that these gates are live.