white jersey for 30+ male?
blim
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Is it bad form for a man, at an age when many pros consider retiring, to think about buying the Giro d'Italia white (youth) jersey? I've got a Dauphine yellow, and a Tour polka-dot, without ever having any pretensions to "earning" them, so what difference is there in buying a white jersey?
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Pah...if you like it. Go get it.0
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No more than its bad form to wear any of the jerseys when you wouldn't last a few mins in th ecompany of those who actally win them. That said, why? Although, wear what you want, its still a free country.0
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White is the new .......... (insert previously 'trendy' colour).0
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It's one of a long list of things to drool over at Prendas. I like their white/pink 'Gazzetta' Giro jersey too, but the pink might put me off. Enough jokes at work about lycra without fuelling them by coming in wearing pink!kop van de wedstrijd0
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It's just a jersey so buy what you like.0
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Go for it man! And what's wrong with pink? I feel I look most dapper in my pink T-Mobile jersey.
*Although some will tell me I look a tit...0 -
yehhh! go for it if you like it. Pink is great - I wear pink giro italia tops too, although I am a girl. I contemplated buying the polka dot jersey despite being the build of a huge sprinter rather than a climber. I haven't bought it yet but will do if I see a cheap one online.
Personally I wouldn't want to worry about washing a white top though.0 -
popette wrote:yehhh! go for it if you like it. Pink is great - I wear pink giro italia tops too, although I am a girl. I contemplated buying the polka dot jersey despite being the build of a huge sprinter rather than a climber. I haven't bought it yet but will do if I see a cheap one online.
Personally I wouldn't want to worry about washing a white top though.
What exactly does that look like??? :shock:0 -
well, I imagine a typical climber to look a bit wiry and a typical sprinter to be more muscular. I'm definitely not a skinny waif and some of the school mums call me she-ra when they see me carrying children on each arm. I think I would snap tom boonen in half!
Actually, I'm tall but just a normal ish size. It's just when I try on cycling clothes that I'm made to feel like a giant - they're all seem to be sized so small.0 -
Hre's th clincher just look at some football kits, and this has the class of the cyclist!!
Buy it, wear it, make a statment i'm in the 30's too.http://twitter.com/mgalex
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Go for it. I got the pink giro one from prendas as soon as it came out. There's no way you can look as bad as me in mine
. It counts as a high visibility jersey. It's so bad it made my daughter cry when she saw me in it the first time. On a side note I normally wear a large size jersey. The large size giro one was very tight around the waist :oops: . I'm not fat but I don't sport a six pack either. 0 -
Go for it, there are too many cycling fashion snobs on the internet who don't think you should wear a jersey you like.
You must earn the right to wear a Giro white jersey... They should chill out a little.0 -
I have a polka dot jersey, mainly because it was only £20 straight after the Tour, and being a poor student, you have to grab what you can when you can. I d feel a bit self concious in it sometimes, then remember its the same as a kid wearing a Man U shirt to football practice.0
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[quote="duckiciao"then remember its the same as a kid wearing a Man U shirt to football practice.[/quote]
A good point indeed. There used to be a couple of threads of RCUK about how if you bought a GB national team jersey or a trade team jersey you didnt deserve it as you didnt have the right to.
It's akin to saying if you dont have a contract with Riis Cycling you shouldn't wear Team CSC socks
But since they upgraded the software over there I haven't been able to get on the forums at work without it crashing my IE, so you will have to search for it.0
