New SAXO sponsor: TINKOFF

frenchfighter
frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
edited June 2012 in Pro race
For the rest of this season and 2013. Saxo on until end of 2013.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/saxo-b ... 2012-06-25
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Oleg Tinkoff back in cycling? Oh good.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Good to see a team being able to secure sponsorship rather than all the recent merging we have seen.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,689
    Does anyone else think of Pavel Brut in a week one Giro break when they think of Tinkoff?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,153
    edited June 2012
    I'm bit sure about the new blue and yellow kit.

    Also, Garmin are now Garmin-Sharp. I haven't heard on them since they sponsored Manchester United in the 90s. I assumed they'd gone bust.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Jersey: https://twitter.com/olegtinkov/status/2 ... 32/photo/1

    Yeeeeeeeuch.
  • rebs
    rebs Posts: 891
    I quite like it. It's how a cycling jersey should look imo :P

    Load colours and logos into a cannon then fire at the jersey and hope for the best! :P
  • --Darren--
    --Darren-- Posts: 70
    RichN95 wrote:
    Also, Garmin are now Garmin-Sharp. I haven't heard on them since they sponsored Manchester United in the 80s. I assumed they'd gone bust.

    592.jpg
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,689
    RichN95 wrote:
    I'm bit sure about the new blue and yellow kit.

    Also, Garmin are now Garmin-Sharp. I haven't heard on them since they sponsored Manchester United in the 90s. I assumed they'd gone bust.

    Been sponsoring rapha (as above) and the UK cycling scene TV coverage for a while.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,153
    --Darren-- wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Also, Garmin are now Garmin-Sharp. I haven't heard on them since they sponsored Manchester United in the 80s. I assumed they'd gone bust.

    592.jpg
    That just shows how little attention I pay to domestic cycling.
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  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    I quite like that jersey
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,689
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    I quite like that jersey

    Which? The rapha?

    They have a bad rep but their stuff is nice....
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  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    RichN95 wrote:
    Also, Garmin are now Garmin-Sharp. I haven't heard on them since they sponsored Manchester United in the 90s. I assumed they'd gone bust.

    Eh? You haven't heard of Rapha Condor Sharp then? :P

    *Edit* Beaten like a ginger stepchild. That'll teach me to go to the gym :(
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,535
    Will they be able to wear that jersey at the Tour? Of all the teams to get an extra sponsor I would have had Saxo very low down the list.
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    I quite like that jersey

    Which? The rapha?

    They have a bad rep but their stuff is nice....

    No the new Saxo one. Will stand out nicely in the peleton
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    Pross wrote:
    Will they be able to wear that jersey at the Tour?

    I don't see why not. It's distinct enough from the maillot jaune IMHO.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    afx237vi wrote:
    Jersey: https://twitter.com/olegtinkov/status/2 ... 32/photo/1

    Yeeeeeeeuch.

    Ahh. Hmm. This could be tricky.
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    afx237vi wrote:
    Jersey: https://twitter.com/olegtinkov/status/2 ... 32/photo/1

    Yeeeeeeeuch.

    Must be one of the few photos of Bjarne Riis where he's not the biggest gangster in the picture.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • TMR
    TMR Posts: 3,986
    LangerDan wrote:
    Must be one of the few photos of Bjarne Riis where he's not the biggest gangster in the picture.

    Quality :)
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Sky and Cervelo have had special tour kits so don't see any problem in Saxo wearing that. As long as they get UCI approval unlike Radioshack did with their Livestrong kit
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,535
    Cogidubnus wrote:
    Sky and Cervelo have had special tour kits so don't see any problem in Saxo wearing that. As long as they get UCI approval unlike Radioshack did with their Livestrong kit

    I was thinking more in terms of the amount of yellow on it.
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    didn't ONCE used to have a yellow jersey in the 80s90s and the tour made them wear pink?
    "I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
    --Jens Voight
  • cogidubnus
    cogidubnus Posts: 860
    Ah fair enough.

    Would that mean if ever Farnese Vini got a Tour invite they would need new gear?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,153
    I think ONCE didn't have to change - they did it voluntarily.

    More recently, Saunier Duval had far more yellow than that Saxo kit.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • kim10
    kim10 Posts: 186
    Another picture of the jercey.

    http://i.imgur.com/C1LpB.jpg

    I quite like it. :D
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I know Oleg is dodgy, but I quite like him.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,100
    RichN95 wrote:
    More recently, Saunier Duval had far more yellow than that Saxo kit.
    Yep. Taken at the prologue in London...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,689
    iainf72 wrote:
    I know Oleg is dodgy, but I quite like him.

    How come?
    _
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    I know Oleg is dodgy, but I quite like him.

    How come?

    Dunno. He seems less gangster than the guys running Katusha, and he used to interview pretty well.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,689
    He obviously is a big cycling fan.

    You have to be a bit unscrupulous to have made a lot of money in Russia, judging by my recent interactions with a rather large Russian firm.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,848
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    He obviously is a big cycling fan.

    You have to be a bit unscrupulous to have made a lot of money anywhere, judging by my recent interactions with a rather large firm.

    fixed that for you
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm

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