Cool Casual Cycling T-Shirts

sarajoy
sarajoy Posts: 1,675
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
I think this is a valid thread for threads :D

Been looking up a few lately - not bought any as I'm a bit poor, but there's some very nice designs out there!

http://teepay.com/ has some nice ones, e.g:

http://teepay.com/frontend/showtee/709
http://teepay.com/frontend/showtee/91
http://teepay.com/frontend/showtee/311
http://teepay.com/frontend/showtee/595
http://teepay.com/frontend/showtee/679 <-- very cute!:

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For the ladies: http://flirtees.ca/ <-- Canadian, mind

Some nice links here (but mostly American): http://www.goclipless.com/2006/06/cycling_tshirts.html

Little eco-friendly Bristol-based jobber: http://www.t-cycle.co.uk/

Any more for any more?
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Comments

  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    I really like the one you've pictured - slightly unwilling to pay £25 for one though!
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    You occasionally get good ones popping up at Threadless too, but I don't look often enough to catch them before they go out of print...

    http://www.threadless.com/product/1540/ ... ple_Stupid
    http://www.threadless.com/product/546/Nature_Call
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  • Soul Boy
    Soul Boy Posts: 359
    theres alway http://www.howies.co.uk/

    http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/1780/7/
    http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/1886/7/
    http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/1792/7/

    Current fav http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/1804/7/

    They haven't got my "Hows my riding?" anymore though :cry:

    All organic cotton :lol:

    Oh and from Howies Tee-pay was born.
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    For a £25 T-shirt :shock: ! After a little searching on their site it appears only £2.50 (10%) goes to the creator of the image. A plain white cotton T-shirt sans image would be about £3 so one hell of a mark up and very little going to the creator of the pic :roll: . I suspect for every shirt sold this company makes a whacking profit. I thought places like John Lewis sold T-shirts for silly money but this place seems to be at it as well. Once you've registered your image/design the Company can do with your design/image that which they wish. I should imagine some one like SrAlan would approve of the deal this company has cut providing of course it makes money on these figures. Still seems very expensive for a T-shirt.
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  • Soul Boy
    Soul Boy Posts: 359
    Oh dilemna, you cinic.

    What I will say is the t-shirts are organic cotton and great quality (guessing they're using Howies blanks, which retail at £20). They don't use far eastern based factories (their supplier is in Turkey) and are very fussy with who they deal with.

    They are giving budding designers somewhere to sell their product and if it sells well, they get a decent commission.

    Having said that, there are plenty of T-shirts out there cheaper, but then child labour don't cost that much :wink:
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Just received this :D

    http://www.threadless.com/product/562/Infinity_MPG

    (the reflective version) :D:D:D

    BTW, their sizes are crazy, I'm about a 12 up top, yet a 2XL fits fine! An XL may just have been fine too, but an L would have started to get stretched across the bewbies...
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    sarajoy wrote:
    Just received this :D

    http://www.threadless.com/product/562/Infinity_MPG

    (the reflective version) :D:D:D

    BTW, their sizes are crazy, I'm about a 12 up top, yet a 2XL fits fine! An XL may just have been fine too, but an L would have started to get stretched across the bewbies...

    You just said that last bit to get the fanboys panting, admit it...

    I'd like that t-shirt more if the model they used wasn't Charles Manson's slightly less be-swastikad younger brother.
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    You can click across (arrows at the bottom of the image) and find a nice girl wearing the tee instead ;)

    Aye, I admit it, but also for the benefit of anyone else fancying buying from threadless - the sizes are WEIRD.
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    I found spokeshirts the other day.

    Bought the "I do all my own stunts" one. Wearing it now, in fact :)
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I think you meant to type "st***s"
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I ordered one from teepay when this thread first appeared... Still hasn't arrived.
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    biondino wrote:
    I think you meant to type "st***s"

    starts?
    stones?
    steeds?
    steaks?
    stilts?
    stages?
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,953
    Holy cow, £25 for a T-Shirt!

    The spokeshirts ones are already on my birthday list :D

    Dan
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  • MrChuck
    MrChuck Posts: 1,663
    Is £25 really that bad for a T-shirt? You can argue whether it's 'worth' it but they're hardly way out there with their pricing. Not everybody buys them in packs of 3 with their shopping :D
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    MrChuck wrote:
    Is £25 really that bad for a T-shirt? You can argue whether it's 'worth' it but they're hardly way out there with their pricing. Not everybody buys them in packs of 3 with their shopping :D

    this, I've paid a damn sight more than £25 for a tshirt before and will do again
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    biondino wrote:
    sarajoy wrote:
    Just received this :D

    http://www.threadless.com/product/562/Infinity_MPG

    (the reflective version) :D:D:D

    BTW, their sizes are crazy, I'm about a 12 up top, yet a 2XL fits fine! An XL may just have been fine too, but an L would have started to get stretched across the bewbies...

    You just said that last bit to get the fanboys panting, admit it...

    .

    It worked :oops:
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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,953
    I guess everything is relative to what weight, or worth someone puts on an item.

    I'm more than happy/prepared to spend £40 on a jersey, and £60 or more on bibshorts, but a T-Shirt is a T-Shirt to me, £10/£15 is what I would generally think it's worth.

    I did spend £20 on a Marin T-Shirt once, but then I am a Marin afficionado, so...... 8)

    Dan
    Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Well, I ordered 3 shirts from Threadless - ones on sale, mind - came to $36 dollars with P&P from the US all in, what's that, about £25?
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  • Now you too can have a full-sus BSO emblazoned accross your chest:

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    http://www.ex-boyfriendcollection.com/shop/tshirt-d-4-p-0-Bike_Love_-_Aqua_Ink_Tshirt.htm

    (Apologies if that is actually anyone's bike, but that definitely looks like a 1-inch headset to me...)
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    sarajoy wrote:
    Well, I ordered 3 shirts from Threadless - ones on sale, mind - came to $36 dollars with P&P from the US all in, what's that, about £25?

    Just under in real terms but it will depend when the CC company complete the transaction.

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  • sirmy
    sirmy Posts: 67
    The other day I found my almost 20 year old Mint Sauce T shirt - it's not a crash it's a bike, earth, gravity interface incompatibility problem situation. Classic!

    Note to self - clear out draws more often

    Like these - http://www.cafepress.com/yehudamoon.362708818

    http://www.cafepress.com/yehudamoon.372118418