Team kit do you wear it?

cougie

I can get up most hills faster than most people. Maybe I could wear 2/3 of a polka dot jersey ?

jgsi

come back, come back, this thread is never over!

sloppyschleckonds

JGSI wrote:

come back, come back, this thread is never over!

Always good to see a bike with the saddle lower than the handlebars

pinno

Here's a conundrum:

Boy 12, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 13, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 14, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 15, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 16, watches the Paris Roubaix...

At what point does wearing the team kit become unacceptable?

StillGoing

Veronese68 wrote:

My wife bought me a new Kask Mojito, it has world champ stripes on it. It doesn't bother me one jot. I was telling her that some people would think it wrong and she laughed like a drain. She already thinks middle aged men riding around in lycra a little sad, that did nothing to improve her opinion.

I have my piss taking stick ready.

veronese68

philthy3 wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

My wife bought me a new Kask Mojito, it has world champ stripes on it. It doesn't bother me one jot. I was telling her that some people would think it wrong and she laughed like a drain. She already thinks middle aged men riding around in lycra a little sad, that did nothing to improve her opinion.

I have my wee-wee taking stick ready.

Excellent, I should add that the Mrs takes the mick out of me for many other reasons than just the cycling thing.

jimmythecuckoo

simona75 wrote:

mudsucker wrote:

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!

I like the fact that in the US lots of the bike shops will do their own jersey (normally advertising the shop and the brands they sell). They can be quite garish but are a nice memento of your travels

I have a great bikeshop one from Catalunya.

Really nice fluro green with a dinosaur on it

debeli

I too have a US Bikestore top. Revolution Cycles, in whose Georgetown branch I bought a lovely top some years ago.

I have a son who wears Arsenal tops (current and vintage-ish). No-one accuses him of thinking he plays for the Gunners.

I have some team gear (all very old), but never wear shorts and tops that match. I would happily wear a Maillot Jaune or Maglia Rosa if bought one. I am in my fifties, overweight and ride a steel bicycle. Nobody in their right mind would think I was pretending to have won a GT.

Some cyclists get a little uppity-buppity about who they think is entitled to wear this, that or the other kit. Full-team geeks with matching bidon and frame make me gigle a little, but it seems an odd thing to get cross or uppity about.

Better that people are out on bicycles than watching the X Factor. As this view is both the correct answer to the question posed by the OP and cannot be subject to dissent, I declare the thread closed.

slowbike

The thing with those wearing Team Kit is that it provides a nicer target to scalp ... There are more points for those who wear matching kit and the most points are awarded for a scalp of a team sky kit wearing rider on a Pina also in team colours ... NB the rider will most likely have hairy arms & legs ...

cougie

pinarello001 wrote:

Here's a conundrum:

Boy 12, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 13, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 14, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 15, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 16, watches the Paris Roubaix...

At what point does wearing the team kit become unacceptable?

Team kit is always acceptable - its just n*bs who get on their high horses about it. Ignore them. And kick their arses too - its the only way they'll learn.

jgsi

cougie wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Here's a conundrum:

Boy 12, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 13, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 14, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 15, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 16, watches the Paris Roubaix...

At what point does wearing the team kit become unacceptable?

Team kit is always acceptable - its just n*bs who get on their high horses about it. Ignore them. And kick their arses too - its the only way they'll learn.

Ha Cougie, the day when some knobber in full pretend pro team kit off Ebay can kick my arse on a bike is the day when I'll throw my bike into the Trent and Mersey... I'm old school

gmb

I have a few Rock Racing jerseys which I wear with plain black bibs.

I follow the team ethos and have never been scalped due to the huge amounts of PEDs flowing through my system. I am also booked in to my local tattoo parlour to have a full face tattoo done.

mfin

pinarello001 wrote:

Here's a conundrum:

Boy 12, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 13, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 14, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 15, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 16, watches the Paris Roubaix...

At what point does wearing the team kit become unacceptable?

When any of them grow up and become adults and are still doing it?

Flâneur

Who wants to grow up

t4tomo

JGSI wrote:

cougie wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Here's a conundrum:

Boy 12, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 13, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 14, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 15, watches the Paris Roubaix in awe decides to get into cycling and wants a BMC kit. Gets a BMC kit for xmas.
Boy 16, watches the Paris Roubaix...

At what point does wearing the team kit become unacceptable?

Team kit is always acceptable - its just n*bs who get on their high horses about it. Ignore them. And kick their arses too - its the only way they'll learn.

Ha Cougie, the day when some knobber in full pretend pro team kit off Ebay can kick my ars* on a bike is the day when I'll throw my bike into the Trent and Mersey... I'm old school

So either you have quite strong arms to reach both rivers with one bike at the same time, or your old school was a crap school as you are a bit of a nobber at geography then?

tomisitt

Or maybe he's referring to the Trent and Mersey canal, and isn't a nobber at geography at all

pinno

Even the team stuff is getting pricey:



Only £119.95 from Prendas.

bluemoon17

Is it only the Polka dot KOM jersey that we aren't allowed to wear, or is the Giro KOM jersey off limits as well? I'm hoping the plain blue is a bit less recognisable, reducing the chance of micky taking

chris_bass

I never realised people cared this much about what other people wear, well apart from in heat magazine anyway!

motogull

Veronese68 wrote:

My wife bought me a new Kask Mojito, it has world champ stripes on it.

Wish I had a wife like that.

Seriously though, would anyone get prissy over trim? I wear the Eddie Merckx Molteni Arcore rep from Prendas and if anyone gave me a bit of grief they'd get told where to go. Same outcome if out in my 2012/3? Team Venezuela jersey (which was very well priced and offers good visibility).

iron-clover

I don't have anything against anyone who wants to wear team kit if they like- as already mentioned it's not really different to wearing a football shirt. I see a fair few Sky jersey around nowerdays. I really regret not buying a team GB jersey from the Olympics when I had the chance.

I tend to find most people with Sky kit are relative beginners who have started relatively recently after the success of the recent Tours and Olympics (good on them!) and anyone in any other kit is likely to be pretty hard, especially if it's a classic kit.

However, I do find it acceptable to laugh when someone gets all the gear but doesn't have the legs to match it- the most memorable one I remember was someone in a full Team GB skinsuit (2011) walking up the small halfway hill at London to Brighton.

mcnultycop

I'd feel stupid wearing team kit, as I'm a big bloke. I'd also feel stupid wearing pro kit if I was less big.

However, I wouldn't judge anyone who was wearing whatever they want. As long as they are wearing something.

lm_trek

Just ordered this:

http://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/shop/team-sky ... duct/SCL01

Not quite team kit, but it's nice enough without too much advertising, plus I wanted a club jersey.

downhill paul

I have never seen him, but my girlfriend has on countless occasions seen a guy on a mountain bike in full team sky kit. something I have seen many other mountain bike riders do.
me personally I don't wear team kit anymore, although I did used to wear the discovery channel team kit. I stopped wearing it a while ago because I felt that I wasn't fit enough or fast enough to be seen wearing team kit.

laurentian

Motogull wrote:

. . . I wear the Eddie Merckx Molteni Arcore rep from Prendas and if anyone gave me a bit of grief they'd get told where to go.

So do I and it's the coolest thing ever! My only concern now is that we may meet and "clash". . . oh the shame!

HiCadence

What about people that have really skinny legs and nobbly knees? Is it acceptable for them to wear lycra shorts or 3 quarters? Or should they just wear trackie bottoms?

pinno

HiCadence wrote:

What about people that have really skinny legs and nobbly knees? Is it acceptable for them to wear lycra shorts or 3 quarters? Or should they just wear trackie bottoms?

Yeah, I mean Contador and Quintana should stick to Trackies.

dennisn

I wear Team gear from the local club I belong to. As do most, if not all of the other members. The club makes a few dollars on the stuff and this helps with expenses.
As for wearing Pro Team gear, NO. Unless I get a really, really, good price on it, and then only when I'm out riding by myself. Too much harassment from wearing things like that on group rides.

davidof

I have a Raphael Geminiani jersey for cooler spring days and a Super U jersey for summer but I don't go out of my way to wear team kit.

Talking of Sky kit I chatted to a bloke in Vizille last year who was in Sky gear, asked him wear he got it. "The team gave it to me" - "Which team", I asked stupidly. "Sky, I ride for them". Doh!. Another time was on the Galibier with a friend who was berating a bunch of MAMILs kitted out in Sky gear. They told us they worked for Sky (but not the cycling team) and got the kit for free or cheap and felt entitled to wear it. That told us!

d_o_g

Well my £15 eBay special Europcar jersey turned up. Very nice. Good fit, full length zip, seem fairly well made - the material is nice even if the zip is a bit cheap.

Had the added benefit of increasing my average speed by 0.4mph the first time I used it.* The spirit of Tommy pushed my on!


*This may have also been due to the favourable winds and the fact it was Friday after work, and beer o'clock chimed as soon as I got home.