Is the Brit' Champions Jersey the lamest in cycling?

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    esafosfina1 wrote:
    1990/1991 National RR Champs jersey... rare photo, taken a few years later when I was on the wee-wee at Uni!

    FFS! Can't seem to add the poxy photo... this is the only bloody forum I have this problem with... GRRRRR!

    Always liked the early 90s BCF jersey with the Union Jack done like wheels. When I try to find it on the web the only example I can find is of you wearing one in the pursuit! I had a genuine one off a mate who rode the 1990 junior worlds (a gift to say sorry after he rode into the back of me on a TT!) but I've lost it. Gutted as it was the best cycling top I've ever owned.
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ^Well that's not yet been through the wash. So, so bright. My eyes. My eyes! :shock: 8)
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    nic_77 wrote:
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    Looks good. Stripes could be bigger though...

    *runs for cover*
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Love it, Cav, rocking it well
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Let me present the dutch champion, Mark Cavendish!

    It's hard to describe how poor those stripes look.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Why don't the WC bands go completely around his arms? Bah, rubbish!
  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Why don't the WC bands go completely around his arms? Bah, rubbish!


    Its that chuffing OPQS business of riders' twitter handles printed down the side, innit
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Why don't the WC bands go completely around his arms? Bah, rubbish!


    Its that chuffing OPQS business of riders' twitter handles printed down the side, innit

    No, the world champs bands around his arms, not the national champs bands around his torso. Looks like they haven't quite finished it.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Why don't the WC bands go completely around his arms? Bah, rubbish!


    Its that chuffing OPQS business of riders' twitter handles printed down the side, innit

    No, the world champs bands around his arms, not the national champs bands around his torso. Looks like they haven't quite finished it.


    oh right....bah too!
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    ThomThom wrote:
    Let me present the dutch champion, Mark Cavendish!

    It's hard to describe how poor those stripes look.
    I agree. That's so wrong. The British jersey is a great classic, but the stripes need to go all the way round. This is the Dutch flag! FAIL!
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    FJS wrote:
    ThomThom wrote:
    Let me present the dutch champion, Mark Cavendish!

    It's hard to describe how poor those stripes look.
    I agree. That's so wrong. The British jersey is a great classic, but the stripes need to go all the way round. This is the Dutch flag! FAIL!

    No no it's not a fail, look at it this way, the Netherlands has inherited a former world champion and will actually, most probably now win at least one stage of the Tour :D

    Kom op Cav!
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  • esafosfina1
    esafosfina1 Posts: 153
    Like it! Agree the WC bands could/should go all the way... but otherwise neat!

    (Waiting for Vermarc to have it on their website at about £150...)
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    I love it. Revel in a GB RR champs jersey also displaying the rainbow stripes of the former World RR champ. Priceless!
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,556
    ThomThom wrote:
    Let me present the dutch champion, Mark Cavendish!

    It's hard to describe how poor those stripes look.

    Not sure how young you are ThomThom :D , but look back at what athletes representing GB used to wear back in the 60s and 70s - it was these red white & blue bands.

    I like it, although the WC bands should go all the way round.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    I'm undecided about the bands - I personally think they look a little better like that, but can't put my finger on why (perhaps because they look a little less like they were sewn on by his mum for school sports day) - but when my daughter asked me about the rainbow bands it did strike me that he's the first person to be allowed that combination. Had to resist the urge to lecture her on how lucky she is that she hasn't had to wait a lifetime for GB riders to be so evident at the highest level; after all, she's only four - she thinks Cavendish winning so frequently is perfectly normal...

    Edit - the national bands look better. I agree the rainbows should have gone the whole way around...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Dorset Boy wrote:

    Not sure how young you are ThomThom :D , but look back at what athletes representing GB used to wear back in the 60s and 70s - it was these red white & blue bands.
    It's been around a lot longer than that.

    This is Harold Whitlock at the 1936 Olympics

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    RichN95 wrote:
    Dorset Boy wrote:

    Not sure how young you are ThomThom :D , but look back at what athletes representing GB used to wear back in the 60s and 70s - it was these red white & blue bands.
    It's been around a lot longer than that.

    This is Harold Whitlock at the 1936 Olympics

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    Has that photo been taken at the very moment he realised he'd forgotten his bike?
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,556
    :lol::lol::lol:
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95 wrote:
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    Those shorts don't look very 'marginal gains' friendly.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    I think the Brit Champs jersey is brilliant in its simplicity. Classy and understated. However if it were not for Wiggo hijacking the RAF roundel I would quite like to see a the jersey as RAF pale blue with the roundel in middle. ie
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    It was hijacked a long time before Sir Wiggo.

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    It was hijacked by Sir Wiggo because the mods hijacked it way back when....
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    ddraver wrote:
    It was hijacked by Sir Wiggo because the mods hijacked it way back when....


    Sir Bradley of Wiggins didnt hijack it from the mods - cos he is one, innit

    Mods 'adopted' it



    OH GOD, I WANT THE TOUR TO START NOW
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    HERE'S JOHNNY!!

    This is a seriously nice nat champ/team combo (much better than the plain vacansoleil colours):

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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Edit - the national bands look better. I agree the rainbows should have gone the whole way around...
    National Bands ??
    No that can't be right, as has been pointed out :- it's the Dutch flag.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Just saw it side on. The national bands are round his stomach on the front and nearly his shoulders on the back. That's very poor.
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  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    That side shot of cavendish looks as if he's had a few fish suppers and too much Irn Bru in Glasgow last week 8) ....dont think i will buy a white jersey as it def makes you look fat.
  • TheCoo'sTail
    TheCoo'sTail Posts: 113
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Just saw it side on. The national bands are round his stomach on the front and nearly his shoulders on the back. That's very poor.

    Agreed. They have made a proper @rse of it!
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