2013 Gear

frenchfighter

Sojasun

frenchfighter

As usual, pretentious Team Sky are fashionably last to show their new kit off.......

Coach H

frenchfighter wrote:

As usual, pretentious Team Sky are fashionably last to show their new kit off.......

But they are not allowed to are they due to changing to Rapha?
Jan 1st launch?

Richmond Racer

Coach H wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

As usual, pretentious Team Sky are fashionably last to show their new kit off.......

But they are not allowed to are they due to changing to Rapha?
Jan 1st launch?

Please dont apply common sense - it only gets in the way of Frenchie having a pop

greasedscotsman

frenchfighter wrote:

Boonen's kit is amazing.

How so? Isn't it just a Belgian champs jersey with some black shorts. Am I missing something?

frenchfighter

A sense of style maybe?

greasedscotsman

frenchfighter wrote:

A sense of style maybe?

Nope, still don't get what you mean. How is it any different from this...

rick_chasey

greasedscotsman wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Boonen's kit is amazing.

How so? Isn't it just a Belgian champs jersey with some black shorts. Am I missing something?

Erm. It's a champ kit.


And Boonen is in it.

What else d'ya want?

Richmond Racer

Rick Chasey wrote:

greasedscotsman wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Boonen's kit is amazing.

How so? Isn't it just a Belgian champs jersey with some black shorts. Am I missing something?

Erm. It's a champ kit.


And Boonen is in it.

What else d'ya want?

I'm just pleased Boonen's not pulling a double-denim look..AGAIN...

frenchfighter

Because you can have a champ kit that looks amazing and a champ kit that looks bad. I think this one is a quality design (and they are desinged). I'm not sure what you want me to say to you.

Richmond Racer

Actually the Belgian champs kit is pretty smart*

*but could do without OPQS bolloxing it up with this twitter handle business

greasedscotsman

frenchfighter wrote:

Because you can have a champ kit that looks amazing and a champ kit that looks bad. I think this one is a quality design (and they are desinged). I'm not sure what you want me to say to you.

I was hoping you could expand a bit on what makes that one quality. I just don't get it, just looks like a Belgian champs kit to me (even if it doesn't have Boonen wearing it, Rick!). Doesn't even look as though he has a matching spangly bike from that photo. But don't worry about it, it's not that important...

ddraver

Rick Chasey wrote:

greasedscotsman wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

Boonen's kit is amazing.

How so? Isn't it just a Belgian champs jersey with some black shorts. Am I missing something?

Erm. It's a champ kit.


And Boonen is in it.

What else d'ya want?

Boonen out of it?

frenchfighter

Here is a hi-res:



It flows very well and the additional colour detail as well as the socks make it look great. I also love the OPQS kit generally so that makes this particular kit a +.

Just search googleimages 'for Gilbert Belgian Nationa Champion' or something. You can see he has about 4 different kits which are in turn different to Boonen's one above which is in turn different to other Belgian Boonen kits. Some are better than others.

lostboysaint

Richmond Racer wrote:

Coach H wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

As usual, pretentious Team Sky are fashionably last to show their new kit off.......

But they are not allowed to are they due to changing to Rapha?
Jan 1st launch?

That


Please dont apply common sense - it only gets in the way of Frenchie having a pop

greasedscotsman

frenchfighter wrote:

Here is a hi-res:

It flows very well and the additional colour detail as well as the socks make it look great. I also love the OPQS kit generally so that makes this particular kit a +.

Just search googleimages 'for Gilbert Belgian Nationa Champion' or something. You can see he has about 4 different kits which are in turn different to Boonen's one above which is in turn different to other Belgian Boonen kits. Some are better than others.

There you go, not so difficult was it. Can see it much better when it's a higher res photo, looks OK to me. And I quite liked Gilbert's kit when he was with Omega...



But not so much when he was with BMC...



Oh and Boonen's socks are to long!

Pross

frenchfighter wrote:

It flows very well and the additional colour detail as well as the socks make it look great. I also love the OPQS kit generally so that makes this particular kit a +.

Just search googleimages 'for Gilbert Belgian Nationa Champion' or something. You can see he has about 4 different kits which are in turn different to Boonen's one above which is in turn different to other Belgian Boonen kits. Some are better than others.

I like the skinsuit (or is it ultra tight jersey and shorts?). The socks are a bit too much though, it's starting to look like a rugby kit with hooped jersey and socks. Not sure about the yellow stripe on the sleeve either, I reckon they should have matched the black band with the sleeve length and left it plain other than the WC bands. However, I'm with Greased here, it looks almost the same as every other Belgian champs jersey - it is just one of those things where the national colours look 'right' as opposed to many of those eastern bloc countries where their colours always look like 80s disco kit.

inkyfingers

As somebody who spends a lot of time looking at digitally enhanced images i'd say Boonen has been photoshopped to look skinnier in that picture in the new national champs kit.

I like it, but then the belgian champs kit usually looks pretty cool.

I also think that despite looking a bit '80s, the new GB kit is a huge improvement on the old one, which was frankly hideous.

rebs

I must be the only one that liked the old GB kit. Thought it was bold unique and basically looked good!

alihisgreat

frenchfighter wrote:

Here is a hi-res:

Not sure about the socks to be honest, he needs them to match the shoes not the kit:




What Boonen has is a half and half sock which doesn't suit.

greasedscotsman

rebs wrote:

I must be the only one that liked the old GB kit. Thought it was bold unique and basically looked good!

I liked it. Think it's time for a change though, it's been around for a while. Not sure about the new one, looks like it's faded in the wash. Best one was the old BCF one, like this...

cal_stewart

Think the Belgian national team colours with the light blue are better, are we really getting into how much better one top is over a slightly different one each year is. Think the Olympic GB top was very nice.

Also the Sojasun bike suffers from the 'I must put red on every bike part problem' wheels.

Pross

greasedscotsman wrote:

rebs wrote:

I must be the only one that liked the old GB kit. Thought it was bold unique and basically looked good!

I liked it. Think it's time for a change though, it's been around for a while. Not sure about the new one, looks like it's faded in the wash. Best one was the old BCF one, like this...

Yep, that was my favourite too. I had a genuine one (given to me by a clubmate who rode junior worlds to apologise for riding into the back of me in a club 10 ) and wore it pretty much every ride until it finally fell apart - it was still probably the most comfortable jersey I have worn.

EDIT The one I had didn't have quite such big writing on it, think mine was from '90 or '91.

frenchfighter

sonny73

Another view of the Astana kit:

g00se

Sonny73 wrote:

Another view of the Astana kit:

Eyes forward at the back there....

greasedscotsman

Sonny73 wrote:

Another view of the Astana kit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRa8Ft5gcr8

greasedscotsman

Have Lotto been done yet, apologies if they already have...

frenchfighter

I wouldnt want JVB as my leader...

That yellow is Fail.

Crozza

frenchfighter wrote:

I wouldnt want JVB as my leader...

pretty sure he wouldn't want you in his team either - launching doomed solo attacks from 200km out all the time like a HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION