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Team Leopard Trek reveal race kit

New ProTour squad go for subtle styling

New ProTour outfit Team Leopard Trek, home to Fabian Cancellara and the Schleck brothers, have passed up the opportunity to deck themselves out in full animal print and gone for a race strip that’s altogether classier.

The Craft-made kit is black and white with a blue band around the chest. Here in the road.cc office, we can’t decide whether it’s Cambridge blue or duck egg blue. Oli has gone leftfield by claiming it’s teal – but he’s wrong.

Team Leopard Trek have eschewed the traditional ‘mobile billboard’ approach too, and the sponsors’ logos are, shockingly, fairly subtle… from the front, at least. That said, you won’t be left in any doubt who the title sponsor and bike suppliers are when it comes to side-on shots. Each rider gets his name printed on the neck too.

It looks pretty cool to us. We’re giving it a thumbs up for style.

 

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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miffed | 13 years ago
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leopard trek, garmin-cervelo and sky all in very similar jerseys. I dont envy being Phil Liggett trying to pick 2nd place and down at all the major sprint finishes this year.

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bikeandy61 | 13 years ago
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While I am a big fan of subtlety is this not just that little bit too subtle? And at a distance is not a million miles from Sky, especially if riders are shown from head on and they are in the drops. You'll mostly see the shoulders (black) and maybe some of the blue band. Ah well,let's see what 2012 brings.

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The _Kaner | 13 years ago
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Jury is out on this one. Not sure I'm too fond of it..any rear shots of it?

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chrisc | 13 years ago
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I ride Bianchi and have never given much thought to Trek...

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James Warrener replied to chrisc | 13 years ago
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Chrisc wrote:

I ride Bianchi and have never given much thought to Trek...

+1

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CliveDS | 13 years ago
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Bianchi would have been a million times cooler than Trek.

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simonmb replied to CliveDS | 13 years ago
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CliveDS wrote:

Bianchi would have been a million times cooler than Trek.

ANYTHING is cooler than Trek. They may produce brilliant and effective bikes, but a cool bike? Not that I've ever seen! I ride Trek, and ALWAYS wish it were Bianchi!  105

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Mat Brett | 13 years ago
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Now you mention it, it is a bit celeste. Quite a lot, in fact.

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Tony Farrelly | 13 years ago
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Rapha clone? Looks more like Shutt VR to me  39

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Miggers replied to Tony Farrelly | 13 years ago
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tony_farrelly wrote:

Rapha clone? Looks more like Shutt VR to me  39

I thought so too..  3

Pete

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chrisc replied to Miggers | 13 years ago
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So not one of yours Pete?

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andylul | 13 years ago
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All the grief that Sky got last year, and now Leopard come up with this Rapha clone.

Was interesting to see Frank in the equally understated Lux national champs shirt - will Andy have a primrose stripe as maillot jaune come July?

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Simon_MacMichael | 13 years ago
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Nothing wrong with animal print, I love my red Vuelta leader's jersey* (which has more spots than the version sported during the race by Nibali etc). Although it was worrying to see a remarkably similar print on a blouse in the window of a local shop that caters for the fashion needs of ladies of a certain age  13

" Confession - no, I've never led the Vuelta on GC, apologies to traditionalists who don't think I should be wearing it  3

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chrisc | 13 years ago
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Looks like Celeste to me. Are they on the wrong bikes in that case?

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