Team kit do you wear it?

feelgoodlost

These days I tend to buy 2nd hand vintage jerseys off eBay. I don't think I've ever bought a pair of pro team bib shorts to match. I think wearing a team jersey is fine, just don't try and go all out with the full kit. I would probably have a little chuckle to myself if I saw someone wearing a polka dot jersey or whatever... looks a bit daft.

iPete

I'm not going to play golf in a green jacket nor wear a leaders jersey but if someone wants to, that's up to them.

On the flip side, I'm tempted to pick up a full sky kit, a halfords bike and rock up and down box hill upsetting those who do get wound up..

marcusjb

Moonbiker wrote:

Will have to ride faster now coz would be embarrasing to get overtaken while wearing a team jersey. Iv'e not being over taken once so far this year (cycled 1000 miles since start of yr according to strava). Think in cycled about 3000 mies last year & got overtaking less than 5 times.

You keep track of how many times you have been overtaken each year?

It is a good job you are so fast and have only been overtaken 5 times last year. I would lose track pretty quickly.

If you are only being overtaken 5 times a year, it sounds like you are fast enough to turn pro and ride for a team. So I would say it is fine for you to wear a trade jersey.

mfin

iPete wrote:

I'm not going to play golf in a green jacket nor wear a leaders jersey but if someone wants to, that's up to them.

On the flip side, I'm tempted to pick up a full sky kit, a halfords bike and rock up and down box hill upsetting those who do get wound up..

I don't think most people against full pro kit invest any anger in it, they just see people wearing it and heartwarmingly think 'what a cóck'. It's actually quite entertaining to see people dressed up like this, the slower they ride the better, personally I find it really funny and there seems to be a growing list of people doing it in this country at least, in the main I think it's a bit of thing done by newbies.

Anonymous

jp1970 wrote:

Been on a ride with a few guys who have full sky kit riding a yellow & black Carrera TDF !!!.
Think rule#17 needs to be followed

Can you take a picture next time as I will not believe that until I see it (unless they were having a laugh).

Can you get TDF's in any other colour?
Why would people buy the yellow/black one if you could
They look like a fork lift truck and nearly weigh as much.

Saw a Triban 3 (white one) for the first time yesterday and that was nearly as heavy. It had a seat post clamp on the steerer tube :shock:

iPete

mfin wrote:

iPete wrote:

I'm not going to play golf in a green jacket nor wear a leaders jersey but if someone wants to, that's up to them.

On the flip side, I'm tempted to pick up a full sky kit, a halfords bike and rock up and down box hill upsetting those who do get wound up..

I don't think most people against full pro kit invest any anger in it, they just see people wearing it and heartwarmingly think 'what a cóck'. It's actually quite entertaining to see people dressed up like this, the slower they ride the better, personally I find it really funny and there seems to be a growing list of people doing it in this country at least, in the main I think it's a bit of thing done by newbies.

Why yes, the sudden popularity gained by team Sky winning the TdF is certainly something new riders are buying into. The novice full sky team kitted stereotype certainly exists!

It would just be heartwarming to poke some fun back, 'what a coc... *pant* oh he's quick *pant* ..k'..

Steve236

iPete wrote:

mfin wrote:

iPete wrote:

I'm not going to play golf in a green jacket nor wear a leaders jersey but if someone wants to, that's up to them.

On the flip side, I'm tempted to pick up a full sky kit, a halfords bike and rock up and down box hill upsetting those who do get wound up..

I don't think most people against full pro kit invest any anger in it, they just see people wearing it and heartwarmingly think 'what a cóck'. It's actually quite entertaining to see people dressed up like this, the slower they ride the better, personally I find it really funny and there seems to be a growing list of people doing it in this country at least, in the main I think it's a bit of thing done by newbies.

Why yes, the sudden popularity gained by team Sky winning the TdF is certainly something new riders are buying into. The novice full sky team kitted stereotype certainly exists!

It would just be heartwarming to poke some fun back, 'what a coc... *pant* oh he's quick *pant* ..k'..

This very thing happened to me yesterday! I try not to judge people on what they wear so I didn't think "coc.....k" but I did register that a guy was wearing full team sky kit as a passed him. Anyway he came rocketing past and blew me away on a hill a bit further up the road.

Moonbiker

If you are only being overtaken 5 times a year, it sounds like you are fast enough to turn pro and ride for a team. So I would say it is fine for you to wear a trade jersey.

Im not fast its just that I cycle in a place that other cyclist on road bikes are a rare sight. They are getting slighlty more common this year though.

I sometimes do a 60 miles ride & see zero other cyclists, or maybe see 1 or 2 others at most, & as often as not there riding a mtb with huge nobbly tyres, or some kid in bmx riding along pavement.

Joeblack

Why would this anger anyone? Do you get offended because they are pretending to be something they are not? Because I'm sure that's not what they do....

I'd have more of a chuckle at someone who's going slow on a really expensive bike (all the gear) but tbh you never know someone's circumstances, they may be on a cool down or they may just have the money and spend it on the things they like (shock horror)

wardieboy

zcapp96 wrote:

However, the other day I say someone wearing a replica of Mark Cavendish's Sky rainbow jersey and that just felt wrong. The pro's have to earn the right to wear that.

This. For me it is all about respect for the jersey, some things just have to be earned. That and the fact that amateurs look like nobs in team kit.

Do these guys also have spiderman pyjamas I wonder?

slowbike

Did see a guy on a pina & full sky kit on a sportive. Don't know how fast. He was though as we started before him and never saw him...

Full team kit is not something I'd do - unless I was in that team. Team bike as well - well, it's amusing, but only in a nice way ...
I do have a team top - handed to me by my brother as he didn't want it - but it's not a major team and it fits me nicely so I do wear it

mattsaw

wardieboy wrote:

That and the fact that amateurs look like nobs in team kit.

That's twice you've said that in this thread. Care to explain why?

ednino

Mattsaw wrote:

wardieboy wrote:

That and the fact that amateurs look like nobs in team kit.

That's twice you've said that in this thread. Care to explain why?

Probably because they normally have a beer belly

KevChallis

I don't see anything wrong with a jersey, if you follow cycling, then it's only like supporting your favourite football team and wearing a shirt from them (as has been said), if you follow Movistar, Team Sky, BMC etc... Then why not buy a jersey from them??

pinno

I have no idea what this bollox is about.

There isn't a local club here anymore, so I can't wear club kit.
I cannot for a moment justify spending a fortune on Rapha/Assos when I find the kit I have is just fine.
You can get team kit at knockdown prices at end of season.
I have been riding for 27 years plus so I don't count as a newbie.

I couldn't give a flying f*ck for some of the golf 'clubhouse' snobbery showed here. If newbies want to wear team kit, so what? Everybody moaned about Cycling in the UK cast as a backwater minority sport, now it's gone big and newbies have to conform to some idiotic clique ideas about what to wear an what not to wear!!
TBH, at some of the sportives I have been to, with so many wearing black shorts and blue/pink/black/red tops etc etc, they all look like clones.
Cycling is advertised by trade teams sporting trade kit and if kids want to aspire to racing for a team, then something has got lost if they are not allowed to wear trade kit...

johngti

pinarello001 wrote:

I have no idea what this bollox is about.

There isn't a local club here anymore, so I can't wear club kit.
I cannot for a moment justify spending a fortune on Rapha/Assos when I find the kit I have is just fine.
You can get team kit at knockdown prices at end of season.
I have been riding for 27 years plus so I don't count as a newbie.

I couldn't give a flying f*ck for some of the golf 'clubhouse' snobbery showed here. If newbies want to wear team kit, so what? Everybody moaned about Cycling in the UK cast as a backwater minority sport, now it's gone big and newbies have to conform to some idiotic clique ideas about what to wear an what not to wear!!
TBH, at some of the sportives I have been to, with so many wearing black shorts and blue/pink/black/red tops etc etc, they all look like clones.
Cycling is advertised by trade teams sporting trade kit and if kids want to aspire to racing for a team, then something has got lost if they are not allowed to wear trade kit...

Well said! Who cares what you wear? Surely the point is to get out on your bike and make it home again feeling happy with yourself for being bothered to get up off your rear end and enjoy the exercise. There is an awful lot of snobbery (speaking as still a relative newbie) and none of its helpful - even to the point of those of us who don't know it all feeling like you're putting more experienced folk out by not knowing it all...

What an awful ramble that was!! Sorry!

mattsaw

pinarello001 wrote:

I have no idea what this bollox is about.

There isn't a local club here anymore, so I can't wear club kit.
I cannot for a moment justify spending a fortune on Rapha/Assos when I find the kit I have is just fine.
You can get team kit at knockdown prices at end of season.
I have been riding for 27 years plus so I don't count as a newbie.

I couldn't give a flying f*ck for some of the golf 'clubhouse' snobbery showed here. If newbies want to wear team kit, so what? Everybody moaned about Cycling in the UK cast as a backwater minority sport, now it's gone big and newbies have to conform to some idiotic clique ideas about what to wear an what not to wear!!
TBH, at some of the sportives I have been to, with so many wearing black shorts and blue/pink/black/red tops etc etc, they all look like clones.
Cycling is advertised by trade teams sporting trade kit and if kids want to aspire to racing for a team, then something has got lost if they are not allowed to wear trade kit...

Couldn't have put it better myself.

The whole think seems to stem from some kind of cliquey snobbery, it's almost always a justification aimed at people that are considered 'new' to cycling.

I guess it's playground politics where feeling like you're part of the clique is reinforced by sneering at other people. If laughing at slow people on bikes makes you feel more secure I guess not much anyone says is going to change that. I just tend to think 'fair play' for getting on a bike and trying to get fit.

Father Faff

Live and let live I say, it's a multicultural society these days you know, so wear what you fancy. Non-cyclists probably think all roadies look ridiculous anyway in their lycra and mushrooms on their heads and some even stick a silly cap underneath and have ridiculous arm and leg warmers not to mention bloody great overshoes on their feet. And the really fast ones aren't even very friendly, rarely do they smile or wave because they are too busy going fast and trying to outpsych the "opposition".

rolf_f

johngti wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

I have no idea what this bollox is about.

There isn't a local club here anymore, so I can't wear club kit.
I cannot for a moment justify spending a fortune on Rapha/Assos when I find the kit I have is just fine.
You can get team kit at knockdown prices at end of season.
I have been riding for 27 years plus so I don't count as a newbie.

I couldn't give a flying f*ck for some of the golf 'clubhouse' snobbery showed here. If newbies want to wear team kit, so what? Everybody moaned about Cycling in the UK cast as a backwater minority sport, now it's gone big and newbies have to conform to some idiotic clique ideas about what to wear an what not to wear!!
TBH, at some of the sportives I have been to, with so many wearing black shorts and blue/pink/black/red tops etc etc, they all look like clones.
Cycling is advertised by trade teams sporting trade kit and if kids want to aspire to racing for a team, then something has got lost if they are not allowed to wear trade kit...

Well said! Who cares what you wear?

Well wardieboy does. He thinks you look like a nob. Of course, you might not give a FF what the likes of wardieboy thinks. I know I wouldn't!

And another +1 to the well saids directed at pinarello001!

chris_bass

as long as it covers the bit of them I don't want to see I don't even really notice or care what they wear

kingstonian

I don't wear it

Am about to place an order with Torm for two of their jerseys, so for those of you that don't want team kit and don't want or can't afford Rapha or Assos then they may fit the bill for you too.

johngti

Rolf F wrote:

johngti wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

I have no idea what this bollox is about.

There isn't a local club here anymore, so I can't wear club kit.
I cannot for a moment justify spending a fortune on Rapha/Assos when I find the kit I have is just fine.
You can get team kit at knockdown prices at end of season.
I have been riding for 27 years plus so I don't count as a newbie.

I couldn't give a flying f*ck for some of the golf 'clubhouse' snobbery showed here. If newbies want to wear team kit, so what? Everybody moaned about Cycling in the UK cast as a backwater minority sport, now it's gone big and newbies have to conform to some idiotic clique ideas about what to wear an what not to wear!!
TBH, at some of the sportives I have been to, with so many wearing black shorts and blue/pink/black/red tops etc etc, they all look like clones.
Cycling is advertised by trade teams sporting trade kit and if kids want to aspire to racing for a team, then something has got lost if they are not allowed to wear trade kit...

Well said! Who cares what you wear?

Well wardieboy does. He thinks you look like a doorknob.

I might look like a doorknob but its not because I wear team kit - 'cos I don't! Wouldn't catch me dead wearing that crap (NOT SERIOUS!!)

Closest I have to team kit is the Continental shorts I have (which are seriously comfortable) and the ovarian cancer charity jersey I've just been sent

ednino

Even my local shop has its own kit & its cheap. Why not support your LBS and wear their kit?

Bozman

A lot of folk will buy a jersey and bibs for performance and you generally find that replica team kit is'nt the best for performance.
I'd guess that the Garmin kit that you buy from your LBS isn't made from the same material as the team kit.

Last year I saw a guy wearing white Assos from head to toe and this was topped off with a white bandana and gleaming white shoes, I found that funnier than seeing a guy carrying a bit of timber wearing Sky kit.

mudsucker

I have a club top and a "Great divide" brewery top I bought in Colorado.Anyone wearing a yellow, green, polka dot top are obviously so far up themselves I wouldn't bother speaking to them!

kev77

Just club and discreetly plain branded stuff for me ta

bomb_d

i just ordered a black white and green cannondale get up just simply because i liked it and it matched my bike.. i think the only thing that actually makes me laugh is when i see folks wearing yellow jerseys, kinda makes them a target.

if you feel good you perform well. simple as that

sub55

I certainly don't give two hoots what people choose to wear , its entirely your choice . But please be aware ,if you`re going out wearing full team kit and you`re over 12 years old , you do look like a right prat. This is compounded even further if you`re still in trainers with clips and straps .

sloppyschleckonds

Bomb_D wrote:

and it matched my bike..

Oh god…..

mattsaw

I'm tempted to buy a polka-dot jersey and go and push my bike up Box Hill this weekend. Filming the reactions could be fairly amusing