US Postal dilemma

Any way to date my selection?

So... wanna buy my USPS kit? (for real)

Wear it. It won't make you look like a Lance fanboy; it'll make you look like a bad-ass.

I think it would be funny and you should definitely wear it! Keep meaning to get round to building up my old steel Peugeot Festina frame with Richard Virenque's name emblazoned along the top tube! will be after a Festina kit on ebay as soon as it's on the road too!!

you don't want to wear it - send it to me!!
seriously though i like to see retro kit being worn, wouldn't bother me mate

Go the whole hog and get the yellow version!

Am now thinking of getting some 'retro' USPS for the f* you factor, which somehow makes it cool, IMO!

Just get it worn ! I think that due to the notoriety of LA his kit is kind of cool.

The bad guys always wore the nicest threads - PDM, Telekom, TVM, Mapei, USPS.

I've got a similar stash. I have the advantage that I buy and sell vintage jerseys so come across quite a few. I've still got the first jersey I ever bought a Panasonic Isostar back in the late eighties and still can squeeze into it.

I always give the nod to anyone else on a bike regardless of what they are riding or wearing and have struck up some great conversations in the past.

Each to their own.

ride safe,

Paul

Interesting where people draw the line differently on these things. I really liked the USPS kit and if I had some I'd probably still wear it, and if I see anyone else out and about in it I don't assume they're condoning doping.
OTOH Livestrong stuff is more strongly associated (for me) with Armstrong's disgrace so I wouldn't wear that, and I might even wonder why anyone else would choose to now.

As for avoiding Trek or Nike stuff- that's going waaaay overboard for me!

Wow, that is taking kit collecting to an obsessive degree! I'm full of both admiration and revulsion.

I love it when I see people out in a USPS kit, and I'm one of those people who's just not a fan of team kit at all. But wearing the kit of the baddest doper there ever was... that's an awesome 'fuck you' to the world, with a massive smile on your face.

You must have more cycling kit than I have normal clothes!

If you're going to buy pro team kit for a sport where doping has been endemic since before replica kit was sold you have to be able to just wear it no matter what. You could probably never buy another jersey, looking at that pic!

Wear it. Hate the sin, love the sinner. As others have said, we all know now that Lance was a total t*t. But he also entertained us all.

Plus, USPS was the best looking kit he ever got to wear. (Lance was never on a team with really cool kit).

That kit shelf is amazing! I have one (enormous) drawer which is stuffed with lycra, but that is something else.

That's a serious hoard! Is that JUST your USPS kit? And you've got more from other teams?! Awesome effort sir.

F*** it, wear it. Most people don't know Lance's history, he's just a cheat to them. Cyclists know, but ah what the hell.

A clubmate has the old PDM kit, I'm quite jealous of that.

I nearly got it more wrong than you, anyway. Late 2011, Lance was in the past and I couldn't care less anymore. I saw a cut-price on, IMHO, one of the best-looking kits around; the black & yellow Livestrong. It lacked the gaudy graphics of most pro kits too and I nearly bought it. Dodged a bullet there!

Wear it. But I do hate it. I will think you are some deluded LA loving chump, misguided by the syrupy lies he wove. I will think about the destruction to the sport of cycling that he wrought....that is right up to the point where you charmingly introduce yourself and all your other commendable attributes which recommend you as a person of the human race come out, at which point I will bury my prejudices.

It will have connotations for people. You have to think why you want to wear it, and whether those meanings are sufficiently good to outweigh the negative connotations. Even if it does have negative meanings for the wider population I doubt that most people will do much more than think negatively. I'm not a fan of the Sky kit wearing brigade either, I don't say anything to anyone about it (except the occasional comment here for which I receive much love) and beyond making pointed barbs amongst friends (who don't want to look like Brad/Froome) as I don't expect my comments to be happily received. At the end of the day if you want to wear it, then who can stop you?

As a post script I cycled up the Col d'Aspin this summer and clocked a guy wearing the old Mapei kit. I gave him a thumbs up and 'bon journée', he turned out to be English and we got talking about his epic ride on his old aluminium framed steed. My point is, maybe just give it time - and when you do pull it out of the cupboard 5-10 years hence you'll get a thumbs up from a dolt like myself whose appreciation for it has changed (the Mapei kit is actually hideous and looks like a box of crayons vomited on it).

I don't really mind that people have just got in to cycling, but the people that don't say 'hi' back. Seeing old kit mainly just gives me a warm nostalgic feeling. Occasionally one can have a chat about old races etc.

That is an unbelievable hoard. I have a bag thaf has to live in airing cupboard. Wear it. Will bring qry smile to everyone faces. Full usps team kit. Id find that that mildly amusing and f**k I mean everyone knows Armstrong was a complete t***. Bravo for your collection

Wow, that's a lot of kit! Who else has pictures of piles of kit? I've only recently expanded to a second jersey after many a year! On topic. Wear it. I rarely even notice what others are wearing unless its a polka dot jersey!

I for one do not care what you wear, I also know you don't like me too much. However there is no point letting it rot away and you might as well use it.

You are obviously not Armstrong and if anyone wants to hurl abuse at you because of what you are wearing they really need to get out more.

Though if anyone started lobbing syringes at you I would perhaps have a rethink.

Regards

freespirit1

I'd use the "care factor" as in, Do I really care what others think??

I wouldn't personally wear it, because I was always a Jan Ullrich man, but I still wear my Team Telekom jersey out and about sometimes.

I'd wave/nod/say 'Hello' if I saw you. As said before, it is nice to see some retro kit about on the roads, lets you know that there are still some people who didn't just jump on the bandwagon a year or so ago. I'd only tut if you weren't friendly back.

I still have a pristine 2003 USPS team shirt and Nike cycling mitts, which I was wearing before it all properly blew up. Won't wear them out of principal now as they are a sign to me of following cycling more passionately during those years and turning into a bit of a fanboy of Armstrong. I'm also thankful now that I never bought the Trek 5200/5500 that I had my eye on at the time.

I personally wouldn't hurl abuse or tut at another cyclist in USPS kit though, but would smirk privately to myself. Besides, should be dead give away of their age/time on a bike and probably less likely to result in young kids shouting Wiggo if they see a cyclist in USPS kit, compared to one wearing Team Sky, which I can imagine is probably far more annoying than being called a doper or liar by another cyclist over 30.

I like to see a bit of retro kit and I don't suppose anyone will mistake you for LA.

So I'd wave, but judging by your comment on the 'grumpy git' thread you'd ignore me