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TECH NEWS
Tinkoff Saxo La Datcha - 3.jpgTinkoff-Saxo debuts outlandish new kit
Tinkoff-Saxo has revealed a new training kit called La Datcha that rivals for outlandishness the camouflage design that its riders wore last year.
Remember that camo kit? Of course you do; it’s not one you would forget. But here it is again anyway.
Tinkoff-Saxo first used the new kit from Sportful this week at its training camp in Gran Canaria. We’re not entirely sure what’s going on with the La Datcha design, although it’s certainly – how shall we put it? – busy.
People on Tinkoff-Saxo’s Facebook page haven’t been shy in expressing their opinions.
Here are a selection:
“Tinkoff-Saxo releases a kit that scales new heights of vomitworthiness,” Paul Woolgar.
“This is absolutely disgusting,” Jackson Rees.
And our favourite:
“What the flying fuck ????? The neon was bad enough. That kit is bad enough to make you retire from the peloton,” Louis Perry.
Harsh? What do you think?
Mind you, the La Datcha kit has got people talking, so maybe it has achieved its objective.
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. 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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This is so ballin, I need those socks....
It reminds me of the new Strava Grand fondo Challange Jerseys.
Although not my cup of tea, it is good to see teams doing something different.
Why such the strong social media reaction? It is just cyclist clothing for a team camp, nobody is getting hurt and nobody is forcing you to wear it or even look at it. Some people just need to hate something to feel better about themselves.
Oof! It's like one of those magic eye pictures - look through and past it for long enough, and the rider gets closer to you as he becomes 3d.
No idea why there's a gansta-rap-tattoo-inspired bit on the chest.
Love it!
I'm of the opinion that cycle kits should be stylish and co-ordinated or utterly god awful so bad it's good.
Go Tinkoff!!
As an off-beat traning kit for a bit of fun, looks OK to me (Shorts though should be either all black or all pattern imo)
I actually prefer their traning kits from the past couple of years to their rather bland race kit.
SMDSY
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Love a bit of Dazzle camo!
Black triangle is probably because the Sportful BodyFit shorts are engineered with a certain fabric in that part, it's been a 'feature' of the kit for years...
What's with the big black triangle in the, er, gentleman's sausage area?!?! Weird!
Damned just missed the price for worst style tip!
Am I the only one thinking Tinkof being the new Rock Racing?
Dr. Ko
Perhaps it's one of those dazzle camouflage patterns, trying to disguise the shape they're in.
It's a bit Acqua & Sapone....
Also, I'm sure it is a diservice to assosiate Saxo Bank with them no, as from 1st Januray, they will just be Tinkoff Team
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They look like they should be grazing an African savanna, with Alberto on point, looking out for lions.
Maybe that's what's been poisoning those lions recently...(either than or their V02 max is off the lion scale)
Well I like it. Good to see a bit of a humour injection again. I'd be happy for them to race in it next season Tbh.
Love it! ... mind you I'm not buying it because I'm short and round and not pro enough to wear team kit, or 'fluid enough' to update it every year. But I do like a kit that stands out.
(I loved the camo training kit from last year too - so there, na naa na naa naa!)