Gilbert's Fashion Sense

ginsterdrz

No wonder he crashed. If you watch in slo-mo, you can just see several pixies sent by the fashion police pushing his front wheel sideways.

Explosion in a paint factory.

Cav looked classier in the jersey.

bigmat

Like the helmet. Needs black shorts.

alihisgreat

Pics?

greasedscotsman

Looks fine to me, apart from the shoes. But I'm sure DMT will have some World Champ shoes sorted for next season.

And let's not forget, Cavendish turned up at Paris Tours in 2011 in this kit.



I mean come on, bands really should go all the way round!

RichN95.

greasedscotsman wrote:

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Looks fine to me, apart from the shoes. But I'm sure DMT will have some World Champ shoes sorted for next season.

And let's not forget, Cavendish turned up at Paris Tours in 2011 in this kit.

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I mean come on, bands really should go all the way round!

A minor error for Cav there. To be fair to him, all this year he has looked very well turned out. Nothing in the gimmick department - just the retro cap.

Gilbert seems to have gone big early and I doubt it'll get toned down too much.

thomthom

Gilbert can wear anything he wants as long as he keeps the stripes on his bike. Looks well cool.

greasedscotsman

RichN95 wrote:

just the retro cap.

Just reminds me of this...

inkyfingers

Forget his WC jersey, I think the fashion police should have arrested Gilbert for his wedding suit.

cal_stewart

and his missus new haircut

thomthom

Cal_Stewart wrote:

and his missus new haircut

Can I be the one to frisk her?

polocini

Gilbert tweeted out a pic of some WC shoes on Friday and Hincapie sportswear tweeted out a pic of Gilbert in white shorts so I'm not sure why he didn't wear them. Perhaps the kit was knocked up quickly for pics and wasn't actually useable. The kit is made in Columbia so the four day lead time was probably too short to make race spec kit.

AL

Herbsman

Have you considered the fact that it was raining?

Pozzi

Cal_Stewart wrote:

and his missus new haircut

She was a beautiful woman, but I can't understand how any human being could want to look like she does now. Much worse than a drag queen!

From this classy look:



To this poor look


Now it is getting scary

thomthom

Nah, she's still hot. Roxette or no Roxette.

Yellow Peril

It all looks a bit brother and sistery in that middle pic.

frenchfighter

Pozzi

Yellow Peril wrote:

It all looks a bit brother and sistery in that middle pic.

Exactly what I was thinking too, although Gilbert may be the prettier of the two

nolance

If she was my sister I think I might give incest a try!

Richmond Racer

frenchfighter wrote:

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David Brent is alive and well and living in Monaco...

esafosfina

God I wish I'd had access to graphics like that (on the bike) in 89/90! Best I could do was a Union Jack sticker and a piece of Bike Ribbon tape with the rainbow bands!

esafosfina

Something just dawned on me... as PG crashed out, he should therefore either have gone into the ambulance, the 'soigneur's' car, or the broom-wagon... someone is bound to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty certain a rider isn't allowed into the team-car at any stage during the race... anyone care to delve into the UCI regulations?

inkyfingers

Richmond Racer wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

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David Brent is alive and well and living in Monaco...

The down side of becoming WC, a hatful of promotional appearances, mostly in what has to be said are rather gay, euro poses.

frenchfighter

esafosfina wrote:

God I wish I'd had access to graphics like that (on the bike) in 89/90! Best I could do was a Union Jack sticker and a piece of Bike Ribbon tape with the rainbow bands!

What was it you won that merited those stripes?

frenchfighter

Duplicate

Mad_Malx

frenchfighter wrote:

esafosfina wrote:

God I wish I'd had access to graphics like that (on the bike) in 89/90! Best I could do was a Union Jack sticker and a piece of Bike Ribbon tape with the rainbow bands!

What was it you won that merited those stripes?

Thought that we had been given enough clues last time round - even I managed to find him with a bit of googling.

tailwindhome

frenchfighter wrote:

esafosfina wrote:

God I wish I'd had access to graphics like that (on the bike) in 89/90! Best I could do was a Union Jack sticker and a piece of Bike Ribbon tape with the rainbow bands!

What was it you won that merited those stripes?

A World track title.
....

I had a pair of gloves at that time with the Rainbow colours on....wore them riding the Raleigh Scorpio bought with my first wage packet from my first summer job.

Little did I know I'd be judged so harshly by cyclists who had achieved nothing.

RichN95.

frenchfighter wrote:

esafosfina wrote:

God I wish I'd had access to graphics like that (on the bike) in 89/90! Best I could do was a Union Jack sticker and a piece of Bike Ribbon tape with the rainbow bands!

What was it you won that merited those stripes?

He was World Pursuit Champion. Are you the only one who doesn't know who he is? I realise you are too young to remember it first hand.

frenchfighter

Well only knew something about it when that thread 'esafosfina..' was started. Google'd a little and think I worked out the name. It has slipped my mind though and didn't check the palmares at the time.

esafosfina

RichN95 wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

esafosfina wrote:

God I wish I'd had access to graphics like that (on the bike) in 89/90! Best I could do was a Union Jack sticker and a piece of Bike Ribbon tape with the rainbow bands!

What was it you won that merited those stripes?

He was World Pursuit Champion. Are you the only one who doesn't know who he is?

I realise you are too young to remember it first hand

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Oh God! Now I really do feel old! (I'm only 43 btw! )

graeme_s-2

esafosfina wrote:

Something just dawned on me... as PG crashed out, he should therefore either have gone into the ambulance, the 'soigneur's' car, or the broom-wagon... someone is bound to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty certain a rider isn't allowed into the team-car at any stage during the race... anyone care to delve into the UCI regulations?

Don't know what the official regulations say, but it's fairly common even in GTs to see riders climbing off into the team car. If it is still on the books then I'm sure we'll suddenly see the UCI decide to randomly enforce it and penalise a team with a GC contender when one of their domestiques climbs off into the team car during a GT!.

greasedscotsman

esafosfina wrote:

Oh God! Now I really do feel old! (I'm only 43 btw! )

It's OK, FF is only 7 years old.