Will I look a fool wearing team branded kit??

ste_

I don't have an issue with what anyone wears be they riding a bike, going down the pub, walking around the shops... whatever

This doesn't mean some people don't look silly. I guess that by wearing full team kit you're opening yourself up for ridicule.

I went out with a club yesterday and there was a chap in full Saxo Bank livery - all the kit, the correct bike, helmet, sunglasses etc all matched. In the meeting place before hand he talked a great game and discussed all the best kit he had. The problem was for the rest of the ride waiting for him to catch up after every single climb.

So wear what you want, but just be aware you'll look slightly silly in it all being passed by fatties on mountain bikes as the rest of your ride stand waiting for you at every junction.

BBH

wear what the heck you like!!

I saw LOADS of people at a sportive over the w/end in full team kit and not all of them were riding like a pro!! At the end of the day its just clothing and it really does not matter as long as it fits and looks good to you!!

smithy21

ste_ wrote:

I don't have an issue with what anyone wears be they riding a bike, going down the pub, walking around the shops... whatever

This doesn't mean some people don't look silly. I guess that by wearing full team kit you're opening yourself up for ridicule.

I went out with a club yesterday and there was a chap in full Saxo Bank livery - all the kit, the correct bike, helmet, sunglasses etc all matched. In the meeting place before hand he talked a great game and discussed all the best kit he had. The problem was for the rest of the ride waiting for him to catch up after every single climb.

So wear what you want, but just be aware you'll look slightly silly in it all being passed by fatties on mountain bikes as the rest of your ride stand waiting for you at every junction.

Still failing to see the problem here. It would have been ok if he had turned up in non team kit, talked a great game and you had all had to wait for him then??

Zoomer37

We are gentlemen who shave our legs FFS. Wearing team kit is the last of our worries.

ste_

smithy21 wrote:

Still failing to see the problem here. It would have been ok if he had turned up in non team kit, talked a great game and you had all had to wait for him then??

There isn't a problem - you just expose yourself to ridicule.

David V Goliath isn't it. If you have all the kit you become a target for the fatty on the mountain bike to blow past you and snigger while doing so.

ollyridesfirst

To be honest, if you need to find a fault with other cyclists and what they are wearing to snigger at and cheer yourself up, then i think you have serious problems with your self image.

You wear what you want and let them wear what they want.....does it effect the way anyone rides? No...

Raphapimp

Oh man this again.

Can we please just all agree to wear what you like and just get on with it.

Doesn’t matter what sport you like, there will always be ‘tools’ who come up with ‘rules’. These are usually the same guys who think they are a bit special and like to laugh at other people who they believe are not, while all the time exalting their own flawless virtue. That's just life, some people are nice and some are not.

Clubs by their nature seem to attract these types, I guess when people organise this happens, but cycling clubs seem to really harbour these types and have a much larger share of tools than you would think based on the small size of the UK.

But hey if you don’t like officious bum holes then don’t join a club, just get out with your pals and enjoy the ride.

ste_

OllyRidesFirst wrote:

To be honest, if you need to find a fault with other cyclists and what they are wearing to snigger at and cheer yourself up, then i think you have serious problems with your self image. .

Nope, I'm fine thanks. 8)

ste_

Raphapimp wrote:

Oh man this again.

Can we please just all agree to wear what you like and just get on with it.

Doesn’t matter what sport you like, there will always be ‘tools’ who come up with ‘rules’. These are usually the same guys who think they are a bit special and like to laugh at other people who they believe are not, while all the time exalting their own flawless virtue. That's just life, some people are nice and some are not.

Clubs by their nature seem to attract these types, I guess when people organise this happens, but cycling clubs seem to really harbour these types and have a much larger share of tools than you would think based on the small size of the UK.

But hey if you don’t like officious bum holes then don’t join a club, just get out with your pals and enjoy the ride.

This has nothing to do with 'rules' or at least what I'm attempting to get at. I'm not saying 'Thou shalt not wear the KoM top' or similar - I'm saying if you turn up with all the kit and you're rubbish you look silly.

I race cars too and it's even more apparent there. There's always some chump in his fully branded Nomex overalls, gloves and matching racing boots, often climbing into a very nice car. That's great, but they're the brunt of the jokes in the pit lane if they're being lapped by folk in £1,000 MX5s.

Essentially, if you come wearing fully liveried kit and clobber and don't perform you can look silly. I'm not probing into deep psychological realms nor do I care to. If you want to wear the kit good on you, enjoy it. However, I always respect the stealthy assassin who you'd least expect from his apparel blowing everyone away.

Herbie The Dog

ste_ wrote:

Raphapimp wrote:

Oh man this again.

Can we please just all agree to wear what you like and just get on with it.

Doesn’t matter what sport you like, there will always be ‘tools’ who come up with ‘rules’. These are usually the same guys who think they are a bit special and like to laugh at other people who they believe are not, while all the time exalting their own flawless virtue. That's just life, some people are nice and some are not.

Clubs by their nature seem to attract these types, I guess when people organise this happens, but cycling clubs seem to really harbour these types and have a much larger share of tools than you would think based on the small size of the UK.

But hey if you don’t like officious bum holes then don’t join a club, just get out with your pals and enjoy the ride.

This has nothing to do with 'rules' or at least what I'm attempting to get at. I'm not saying 'Thou shalt not wear the KoM top' or similar - I'm saying if you turn up with all the kit and you're rubbish you look silly.

I race cars too and it's even more apparent there. There's always some chump in his fully branded Nomex overalls, gloves and matching racing boots, often climbing into a very nice car. That's great, but they're the brunt of the jokes in the pit lane if they're being lapped by folk in £1,000 MX5s.
Essentially, if you come wearing fully liveried kit and clobber and don't perform you can look silly. I'm not probing into deep psychological realms nor do I care to. If you want to wear the kit good on you, enjoy it. However, I always respect the stealthy assassin who you'd least expect from his apparel blowing everyone away.

I think you'll probably find that's some deep rooted jealousy. You'll also probably find he doesn't give a shoot he's being laughed at as he knows he wears better kit than you and has a better car.

For cycling just change 'car' for bike'.

Why do these pathetic cycling 'rules' not appear in MTB?

garryc

Team kit is great, I've got a couple of jerseys as well as my clubs jersey.

The best thing with team jerseys is that they are (mostly) loud and bright, this helps you to be seen. Unlike the 'cool' people with thier plain black tops that can just fade into the background.

wobblerthe1st

Team Spandex Rules!!!!

I've got about 6 team kits, and one on the way (Astana 2010 if you're interested) I like them because they're brightly coloured so you can be seen easily and they are well made and aren't too much more expensive than non-branded stuff by the same manufactures, especially if you get them towards the end of the season for nearly 40% off in most cases (sometimes more)

As has been said on here previously though, if you are going to wear it don't mix and match bibs + tops, that looks silly. But in general if you like it wear it, and if some jumped up club/race rider doesn't like it they can go hang!

rodgers73

OllyRidesFirst wrote:

rodgers73 wrote:

If you wear it because you think you're a pro when you're just an ordinary bloke on a bike then that pretension deserves to be laughed at.

Do you honestly think that any leisure/amateur who wears a team kit honestly thinks they are a pro? People aren't that deluded....i wear a Kuota team kit as i like the colour/style and it goes with my bike. I also have a 2006 yellow jersey that i sometimes wear too.....i am under no illusion that i could win the TdF, but i like the jersey....

What is the problem?

No, I dont think that. I was giving it as an example - because it WOULD be ridiculous to think like that and so you would deserve the ridicule.

But if you're wearing it because you think it's a nice top then that doesnt seem worthy of ridicule. To me at least.

ste_

Herbie The Dog wrote:

I think you'll probably find that's some deep rooted jealousy. You'll also probably find he doesn't give a shoot he's being laughed at as he knows he wears better kit than you and has a better car.

For cycling just change 'car' for bike'.

Why do these pathetic cycling 'rules' not appear in MTB?

Fail on the pop psychology. I have very nice kit and some great cars. I can also pedal my cars just great thanks.

Any more Freud's want to attempt a character assassination on me based on the fact I find fattys puffing away in full pro team kit humorous?



Imagine you were having a kick-about in the park with your mates and someone turned up in a full England Kit with shin-pads, top spec boots etc but on his first and only touch toe-bunged the ball into a tree. Would you stand stoney faced as to laugh exposes that you are jealous of his kit?

wobblerthe1st

Well I hope Ste_ is a very accomplished rider otherwise we'd all have to laugh when we trundle past him on his colour co-ordinated weekend bike

ste_

You'll spot me from miles away, I'll have on my full Liquigas kit and my colour coordinated team car will be following.

wobblerthe1st

ste_ wrote:

You'll spot me from miles away, I'll have on my full Liquigas kit and my colour coordinated team car will be following.

Green and White kit on a red and white bike, no no no that'll never do, you'll have to get a new bike

mog1404

i have just got myself a new bianchi nirone road bike after years on mtbs and can only think the idiots saying you cant wear pro team kit coz your not a pro are the same people who me and my mates used to give a wave and nod to on the road to or from the mountain and they would blank us coz they are roadies and we were on mtbs i also ride motorbikes and anyone on two wheels get a biker nod be it on a r1 or a scooter its a two wheel thing for christ sake after reading this thread i am now getting bianchi world champ shorts and top and a tdf yellow jersey just to p#ss them off you cant wear pro kit if your not a pro does that meen coz im a farmer i have to ride in jeans tshirt and wellies get a grip you sad sad people

ste_

Will you laugh if I don't?

Will be cheaper than replacing the team car and back up crew's team shirts I suppose.

ollyridesfirst

mog1404 wrote:

after reading this thread i am now getting bianchi world champ shorts and top and a tdf yellow jersey just to p#ss them off

+1 for that....


by the way....If you have a support car decked out in team colours (is this allowed also), are you then allowed to wear said team kit?

This is getting confusing!

CyclingBantam

Personally, I wouldn't wear a FULL team kit. I would feel I looked a muppet in exactly the same way I wouldn't go to play football wearing my Bradford City Shirt, shorts and socks.

I would however not think twice about having a particular teams shirt alone. The only thing that would stop me is deciding which teams kit to wear. If I am walking round proclaiming support to them I would want to make sure they were a team I was comfortable with.

Personally, I like the idea of the leaders jersey's and World champions kits being 'earned' so I wouldn't wear them.

If other people want to wear whatever they wan't I couldn't care less.

You must accept though, if you wear a King of the Mountains jersey and can't climb, you might get someone taking the mick, in exactly the same way as if you wear a T-Shirt that say's, "I'm the best looking man in the world", on a night out.

smithy21

Fat blokes in KOM kit may be trying to be ironic!

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... &start=180

Scroll down to NapD's post on the TdSuisse thread in pro race- link above.

sampras38

wobblerthe1st wrote:

Team Spandex Rules!!!!

I've got about 6 team kits, and one on the way (Astana 2010 if you're interested) I like them because they're brightly coloured so you can be seen easily and they are well made and aren't too much more expensive than non-branded stuff by the same manufactures, especially if you get them towards the end of the season for nearly 40% off in most cases (sometimes more)

As has been said on here previously though, if you are going to wear it don't mix and match bibs + tops, that looks silly. But in general if you like it wear it, and if some jumped up club/race rider doesn't like it they can go hang!

Each to their own and all that, but Astana's kit is pretty hideous and looks like an explosion in a paint factory.

IMO of course..;-)

ollyridesfirst

smithy21 wrote:

Fat blokes in KOM kit may be trying to be ironic!

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... &start=180

Scroll down to NapD's post on the TdSuisse thread in pro race- link above.

What's to say she couldn't climb like a mountain goat? Albeit a very big mountain goat...

amd-sco

I'm amazed... I played competitive footie for years at a reasonable level and club rugby in my teens and it was the norm for people to wear replica jerseys and be proud of having top notch kit, and enjoy others cool kit too. In 7 years playing both for my hospital team and as a 'ringer' for my mates works 1st team training and playing a couple of times a week I never encountered any of this snobbery about 'earning' jerseys or whatever - generally you saw someone wearing the Peru strip as excellent especially if they couldn't even point to it on a map!

If you turned up for training with a trick new pair of £100 boots or whatever people would be cooing over them and positive about your purchase - turn up at a cycling club with the equivalent and they'll slate you.

They seem to be full of inverse snobbery and bitterness, Cycling clubs seem to be full of these officous prigs, in a way that football and rugby don't, wear what you want & F*ck them off.

Proud wearer of a vetements Z and a motorpoint marshalls pasta replica jersey (latter won in a compo)

Herbie The Dog

ste_ wrote:

Herbie The Dog wrote:

I think you'll probably find that's some deep rooted jealousy. You'll also probably find he doesn't give a shoot he's being laughed at as he knows he wears better kit than you and has a better car.

For cycling just change 'car' for bike'.

Why do these pathetic cycling 'rules' not appear in MTB?

Fail on the pop psychology. I have very nice kit and some great cars. I can also pedal my cars just great thanks.

Any more Freud's want to attempt a character assassination on me based on the fact I find fattys puffing away in full pro team kit humorous?



Imagine you were having a kick-about in the park with your mates and someone turned up in a full England Kit with shin-pads, top spec boots etc but on his first and only touch toe-bunged the ball into a tree. Would you stand stoney faced as to laugh exposes that you are jealous of his kit?

No psychology needed. I was just pointing out that it's you that has the issue and not the people with better bikes/kit/cars/whatever.

As for character assassination...you don't need any help from me based on your posts.

greasedscotsman

amd-sco wrote:

I'm amazed... I played competitive footie for years at a reasonable level and club rugby in my teens and it was the norm for people to wear replica jerseys and be proud of having top notch kit, and enjoy others cool kit too. In 7 years playing both for my hospital team and as a 'ringer' for my mates works 1st team training and playing a couple of times a week I never encountered any of this snobbery about 'earning' jerseys or whatever - generally you saw someone wearing the Peru strip as excellent especially if they couldn't even point to it on a map!

If you turned up for training with a trick new pair of £100 boots or whatever people would be cooing over them and positive about your purchase - turn up at a cycling club with the equivalent and they'll slate you.

They seem to be full of inverse snobbery and bitterness, Cycling clubs seem to be full of these officous prigs, in a way that football and rugby don't, wear what you want & F*ck them off.

Proud wearer of a vetements Z and a motorpoint marshalls pasta replica jersey (latter won in a compo)

I think your exaggerating a bit there. I've been riding with various cycling clubs for over 20 years and I've never encountered any of the snobbery you mention. The only place I've ever encountered it is on this forum!

richard205

i wear team kits, (my favourite being Team CSC from 2007) but frankly im wearing it, i feel comfortable in it and to me thats all that matters.

Agree with the comments about most of them being brightly coloured, hence why i was out in 90% team kit yesterday morning in the hope that i wouldnt be hit and thrown into a field or stomped over by someone who's been enjoying a the bbq a bit too much the night before when on the country lanes.

If someone else is paying for my kit then maybe i'll be a bit more bothered about what they think.

Only shirts i wouldnt feel so comfortable wearing (though would like) are the KoM, the maillot jaune and the british champion.

Personal opinion though of course

P_Tucker

Not read the thread, but the answer to the OP is yes.

ShutUpLegs

P_Tucker wrote:

Not read the thread, but the answer to the OP is yes.

Good post, Its 6 pages of twatwaffle