Team Sky will part with their traditional black jerseys, and will debut the new white colourway at the Tour de France next month.
The new design still features “all of the elements which have made Team Sky riders so recognisable in the peloton” according to Team Sky themselves, but with the black jerseys swapped for a new, white design. The jersey will continue to carry the distinctive data pattern featured on the 2017 Team Sky kit.
Sky’s head honcho Dave Brailsford said of the new design: “Castelli looked at different colours during the design process last year, and we all loved the white. We are always up for doing things differently and decided the best time to unveil it would be at the Tour – the world’s biggest bike race. We can’t wait to get racing wearing it.”
What’s more, Team Sky are offering fans the chance to be “right behind them” at Le Tour, revealing they will print your name on the back of the very jerseys that the riders will wear at the team presentation – winners will be announced at the event in Dusseldorf on Thursday 29th June, you can enter here. It’s quite a unique comp for sure, and we can only assume you will get one of your own to keep if you happen to be the lucky winner…
21 thoughts on “Castelli release limited edition Tour de France Jersey”
Nope, nowt special there.
Nope, nowt special there. Only one I wish I’d got was the Rainforest edition.
The Tour only has four jersey
The Tour only has four jersey colours to denote the leaders of the four main competitions. Is it too much to ask teams to avoid those?
handlebarcam wrote:
As if Sky aren’t hated enough already…
handlebarcam wrote:
My first thought, too. But the blue stripe down the back will help distinguish it from the best young rider’s jersey.
Presumably they’ve cleared it with ASO? Be a bit embarrassing to rock up at the start line only for Monsieur Prudhomme to say ‘non’.
Bloody hell! I’ve just
Bloody hell! I’ve just completed the full set of Sky replica kit for my Strava rides, at quite a considerable cost I might say (fortunately I can afford it) And now I’ve got to start all over again.
Please, please, please don’t change the colours of the bikes! I’m not sure that the Mrs will accept another cruise to balance the cost of new bikes.
don simon wrote:
That’s the thing with pro kit. No sooner have you got it than it’s out of date. I never bother now.
don simon wrote:
This is an attempt at irony, right?
surly_by_name wrote:
No, it was out and out piss taking. Why?
How much Sky kit have you got?
don simon wrote:
Would you like to purchase an even more limited edition pair of ‘Dura Ace’ gloves in sky colours, used once, should easily get it past the missus.lol
A shame they didn’t take the
A shame they didn’t take the opportunity to swap to white shorts too.
Check out the video where
Check out the video where they used a free song for the launch of their white jumper
Well at least it’ll be one
Well at least it’ll be one less team wearing black/navy kit, it’s getting a bit too similar in the peloton at the moment, bring back some of the garish 90s italian inspired kits.
Let’s hope no one chucks any
Let’s hope no one chucks any piss over them this time, if only for the dry cleaning bills.
Let’s hope no one chucks any
Double
Sky finally admit that black
Sky finally admit that black kit in the middle of the Mediterranean summer is and always was a ridiculous idea
Nick T wrote:
Or perhaps sales of the black kit were under what they expected after years of the same design, so they switched it up for the novelty purchase.
No one ‘admitted’ to anything. Jeez; what do some many people on this site jump to such dumb conclusions.
Nick T wrote:
At modest wind speeds/or moving speed of 3m/s (roughly 7mph) white is worse than black in sunny/hot conditions.
In basic terminology white will reflect heat back toward the body as much as it reflects the heat from the sun. Convection of heat away from the body due to wind speed (or physically moving) negates any downside to the heat absorbancy of darker colours over white, add in that white will reflect heat back to your body more than black and overall black is better in anything above wind speeds or moving at the figure given above.
HTH
Aren’t you a charmer
Aren’t you a charmer. You’re right though, a cynical cash grab is much more respectable a possibility
Cash grab it is. Every self
Cash grab it is. Every self respecting Mamil already has at least one black Castelli jersey. A white Sky one increases the possibility of repeat sales to all but the Ninja Mamil.
Movistar and Quickstep have
Movistar and Quickstep have worn dark blue for ages, maybe the heat / colour thing just isn’t really an issue?
Ah BTBS typed faster and more
Ah BTBS typed faster and more knowledgeably than me 🙂