the name for team luxembourg ..

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    bradleyt-wiggins-dave-brailsford.jpg

    Just because the Sky, Garmin and Leopard kits have a band across them and use blues, blacks, whites, it doesn't make them the same - they are actually quite different, especially when you consider the backs.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    Another scarf and jacket combo - add that to the list!!
    Cannondale Synapse 105, Giant Defy 3, Giant Omnium, Giant Trance X2, EMC R1.0, Ridgeback Platinum, On One Il Pompino...
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    TommyEss wrote:
    Another scarf and jacket combo - add that to the list!!

    Leopard have no chance if they start off by taking their fashion cues from Brad Wiggins!
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • pedro118118
    pedro118118 Posts: 1,102
    I like the jersey and as for the bikes.............well........................they're Treks. What do you expect? Lack of sponsors a concern though?!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    pedro118118 wrote:
    I like the jersey and as for the bikes.............well........................they're Treks. What do you expect? Lack of sponsors a concern though?!

    A sponsor will come.

    Judging by the quality of the team, they'll be winning a lot.
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    pedro118118 wrote:
    I like the jersey and as for the bikes.............well........................they're Treks. What do you expect? Lack of sponsors a concern though?!

    A sponsor will come.

    Judging by the quality of the team, they'll be winning a lot.

    Don't you think it's a bit weird that they haven't got any yet? It's been in the works since June.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    afx237vi wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    pedro118118 wrote:
    I like the jersey and as for the bikes.............well........................they're Treks. What do you expect? Lack of sponsors a concern though?!

    A sponsor will come.

    Judging by the quality of the team, they'll be winning a lot.

    Don't you think it's a bit weird that they haven't got any yet? It's been in the works since June.

    S'abit like highroad isn't it?
    _
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Don't you think it's a bit weird that they haven't got any yet? It's been in the works since June.

    S'abit like highroad isn't it?

    High Road was a bit of a rush-job when T-Mobile bailed out, though. Bob Stapleton didn't have X amount of months to plan before he started his team, but he still found lots of smaller sponsors to contribute before finding Columbia.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    I understood that T-Mobile paid up their sponsorship in full, so High Road was fully funded even after the sponsor withdrew.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Sideshow Bob is also a billionaire, having sold VoiceStream to T-Mobile for $25 billion.
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    afx237vi wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Don't you think it's a bit weird that they haven't got any yet? It's been in the works since June.

    S'abit like highroad isn't it?

    High Road was a bit of a rush-job when T-Mobile bailed out, though. Bob Stapleton didn't have X amount of months to plan before he started his team, but he still found lots of smaller sponsors to contribute before finding Columbia.

    In the same year as Garmin came on board with Slipstream I believe. Both found their sponsors just before the tour. I expect the same from Leopard.

    So far I'm unconvinced about the branding of Leopard as a team. It's like Team Sky (dare I say it...) without the substance. Sky was a big media type launch and they tried to differentiate themselves as being more innovative than the other teams with a demonstrable (if you ignore the DS) line against doping. This backfired a bit on both counts but at least they had something to say.

    Leopard seem to be talking a lot about being different without actually telling us in what way they're different. It's all just empty words so far. I mean, watch this video...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSQTwl8x ... r_embedded

    It's not surprising that they brought something like this out given that they hired the Cervelo marketing guy. But it misses the mark when compared to "Beginnings" the first Cervelo episode. All this talk of family and friendship about a sponsor that they've been working with for just a few months. It is just so flimsy and empty.

    We knew we were being sold to by the Cervelo flims, but we got content so we didn't mind. This attempt is rather sad if you ask me. They'll undoubtedly win lots but as a team they are already beginning to annoy me. I hope that changes.
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    The difference between leopard and sky, is that leopard have the best GT rider, and probably the 3rd or 4th too, argubly the best rider of the 2010 season who is a serial winner of big races, and support riders who are almost good enough to lead a pro-continental team on their own right.

    They're easily the strongest team on paper, by a LONG way.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Races aren't won on paper though.

    There's a possibility of too many chiefs and not enough indians if you ask me. Who's going to do the dirty work?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    andyp wrote:
    Races aren't won on paper though.

    There's a possibility of too many chiefs and not enough indians if you ask me. Who's going to do the dirty work?

    Guys like Wegeman who realise they'll never win anything that matters.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Some interesting speculation on title sponsors here;

    http://bicycling.com/blogs/boulderrepor ... n-leopard/
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    edited January 2011
    is everyone ok with the transfer of lots of money to Fuentes by Frankie leopard some years ago?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Dave_1 wrote:
    is everyone ok with the the transfer of lots of money to Fuentes by Frankie leopard some years ago?

    I am.
    _
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Dave_1 wrote:
    is everyone ok with the the transfer of lots of money to Fuentes by Frankie leopard some years ago?

    I am.

    I'm not.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Dave_1 wrote:
    is everyone ok with the transfer of lots of money to Fuentes by Frankie leopard some years ago?

    Nope. Nor am I happy with how the Luxembourg authorities brushed it under the carpet. Why the UCI and WADA didn't challenge that decision puzzles me.
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    Am I being super dumb?
    Why name the team leopard and then not put the riders in leopard skin lycra? Just imagine how edible Fabian and Linus would look in leopard time trial suits.
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    Oh dear...
    http://www.cyclesportmag.com/news-and-c ... pard-trek/

    Team Leopard is quickly disappearing up its own backside.
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    Wow! Must say, I like their draft response - I hope they send it.

    They even want to pronounce Leopard as "lay-oh-pard" - why, who's going to pronounce it like that?

    Please welcome LAYOPARD TREK?

    Bog off - long live team-leppud-trek!
    Cannondale Synapse 105, Giant Defy 3, Giant Omnium, Giant Trance X2, EMC R1.0, Ridgeback Platinum, On One Il Pompino...
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Tusher wrote:
    Just imagine how edible Fabian and Linus would look in leopard time trial suits.

    To you maybe :lol:
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    A bad judgment call to try and dictate to the media in that way. My only sympathy lies with their objection to the prefix "Team". There seems to be a modern day obsession with Team this Team that. Where did it all start and why?
    @JaunePeril

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