jerseys of the Tour de France
oblongomaculatus
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22 teams, 22 sets of team colours... Some are smart, some are horrible. Which one would you wear?
I quite like the dark and light green of Europcar, but like most it's cluttered with logos and sponsor names. Sky is less so, perhaps because with Sky Broadcasting on the front of the jerseys, they don't need any other sponsors on there. The black and turquoise looks pretty smart. The dark blue with the big green M of Movistar also works well. MTM Qhubeka is OK, except it looks like Newcastle United have somehow managed to gatecrash the tour. The worst? Tinkoff-Saxo, by a mile. Horrible, just horrible.
I quite like the dark and light green of Europcar, but like most it's cluttered with logos and sponsor names. Sky is less so, perhaps because with Sky Broadcasting on the front of the jerseys, they don't need any other sponsors on there. The black and turquoise looks pretty smart. The dark blue with the big green M of Movistar also works well. MTM Qhubeka is OK, except it looks like Newcastle United have somehow managed to gatecrash the tour. The worst? Tinkoff-Saxo, by a mile. Horrible, just horrible.
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Aesthetically, I like the yellow jersey. It's more or less devoid of logos, with a nicely understated Arc de Triumphe if you catch it at the right angle. But you could never actually wear one, or you'd look like some deluded plonker who thinks he's leading the Tour, as he huffs and puffs his way up the breathtaking 4% gradient that is Priory Hill...
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Now that's out of the way,
Favourite kit by far is IAM Cycling's followed by Cannondale and then Moviestar. I agree TS cammo kit is horrible as is the Notts county rip off MTN, special mention to AG2LR For trying brown.......and failing.
Thanks. I thought there was probably a thread about this somewhere. There's a fair few posts there, I've only looked at a few so far, but am beginning to see what you're getting at.
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Not liked a team jersey since HTC-Highroad.
My kit is better than your kit. Na na na na na.
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but I save it for days when I go out to draft strangers for miles, without introducing myself, and out sprinting them to the village signpost, sometimes nutting them as I pass for good measure. It's handy for that.
However...I like the following of this year's kits: Europcar, Movistar, AG2R, Astana, Katusha, FDJ, Cofidis, Lampre.
I dislike too much yellow, for reasons given above. Yellow is somehow sacred in the TdF. Europcar get away with their green, because it is a very singular green.
I dislike Sky because I just dislike Sky. To paraphrase James Stewart in his train speech in Shenandoah, "It's not the sort of team I favour". I am anti-Murdoch and anti-Sky and just a reactionary old git. And the colours are wrong and why do they use Jaguars? Such horrid, sneering, would-be BMWs built by Tata. Why?
I dislike the kit of the team from RSA (MTN Qubeka?) because it really does look like a footie kit. But... I've been saying for years that as soon as a cycling culture is matured in East Africa, the same thing might happen to the pro-peloton as happened in distance running. Is this the dawn? Silly kit, though.
Best kit ever? In my lifetime it's La Vie Claire (any iteration). I disliked the team at the time, for being too 'pro', for pumping too much money in, for taking it all too seriously, for introducing technologies and costs that I thought inappropriate... How times change! But I always loved the team kit. I still do.
I have spoken. All other opinions are flawed and probably immoral. All dissent is absurd and unwarranted. Thread ends.
My current favourite would be Moviestar but it is too dark for riding in IMO.
Lampre is a maybe.
On the other hand, I won't be buying any as I have more than I need and they last for ever.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Cannondale CAAD8
I've got a long-sleeve Scott one too, which tends to get worn on the winter bike, sensibly. However, that's not a Scott so it always feels so wrong :oops: .
I like the Astana one but preferred it a few year back when it included the sun, corn and eagle from the national flag as well.
Check out bobshop.de if you want to buy any
Giant CRS 2.0
For the record, I like the Lotto Bellisol kit this year. MTN Qubeka is hideous, as is Tinkoff Saxo, they should have kept their blue kit from a couple of years ago which was very classy IMO.
Also on the jersey front saw my first rider at the weekend with a Strava jersey, never thought I'd see the day.
Easty commuter
Tripster AT
You could say the same about football jersey's. My Brasil top has 5 stars on it but I've never won the world cup. I've got a jersey with a Premier League champion even though I've never won that either.
If it gets someone into cycling as they want to emulate the KOM or Froome then I have no problem with that
IAM
Sky (though I dislike it because it has sky as a logo it does look good)
Movie
OGE (I suspect that is because I like them more than a kit thing tho)
Dislike
Giant
Saxo
AG2R
MTN
FDJ
EQS
Crudder
CX
Toy
I do like their kit too, but I also love the team way more. Ill take backstage pass over any cycling show.
Giant CRS 2.0
But I can't remember Boy George cycling for them
Giant CRS 2.0
MTN and Saxo are hideous. I like the AG2R jersey but brown shorts?!
I have a Liquigas jersey from a few years ago: very good for gloomy autumn evenings. My favourite from recent years was a green jersey worn by a team about three years ago but I can't remember who; one of the ProContis I think.
The team jerseys from history that I like and wear out are La Vie Claire and St Raphael.
I'm tempted by the Cima Coppi jersey, looks very classy.