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Pro Team kit – Naff or not

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  • August 4, 2013 at 8:48 pm #19537
    Sensible

    Having got back iinto cycling after years away my vintage (2002) Italian team jersey and winter jacket seem pretty cool.

    I have a plain Loius Garneau top but still like the look of the Pro kit.

    Now wanting to buy some new stuff, I would feel a bit silly in Sky kit because it is so well known but not sure whether to buy some 2013 Pro Team jerseys (quite like tge 2013 Radioshack Trek jersey) or get some Retro old designs.

    Whats your thoughts on wearing recent Pro Team kit. Is it naff.

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  • August 5, 2013 at 10:30 pm #750875
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    zzgavin

    I’ve got the Prendas San
    I’ve got the Prendas San Pellegrino jersey, wore it at the dunwich dynamo and got a few good comments and no-one else wearing the same top =)
    Saw a fair number of sky tops and even quite a few morvelo a bloc matching sets, so if it is a unique look you want then old / repro team kit can be fun.
    Plus ORANGE!

    August 5, 2013 at 9:40 pm #750873
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    bashthebox

    Yellow/Pink/Rainbow etc
    Yellow/Pink/Rainbow etc jerseys aside, of course you can wear what you want on the bike. But just like if you were to wear an orange and pink t-shirt down the pub plastered with logos, don’t expect not to get judged for it.
    “Oh but what sort of dick is so shallow that they judge people for what they wear?”
    It’s the sort of dick who has eyes. And a sense of aesthetics.

    It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. It just means you are lacking in sartorial taste. That’s absolutely fine.

    If you care enough to ask, you care enough that you ought not to wear it.

    August 5, 2013 at 8:50 pm #750871
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    Leviathan

    3cylinder wrote:Personally, I

    3cylinder wrote:
    Personally, I think current team kit is similar – if you made the team you get the kit, if not, you don’t deserve it. But although I wouldn’t do it*, ….

    Old/retro kit is fair game. Old being anything that isn’t the current kit (once the pros offload it on ebay you can fill your boots). Retro is better

    See this is the sort of attitude that most people find so perplexing. Most teams have a similar kit for a couple of years, they might tweek the design but the colours are the same. So when are you supposed to buy the kit? Once the team has disbanded? So you can’t buy it in shops at the time and show your support, you have to wait a couple of years and buy it on ebay. So who is supposed to buy it in shops and list it for you to buy on the cheap? Or are you supposed to buy the cheap chinese knock offs if you can’t tell the difference. Maybe people WANT to go to a shop and buy the real thing WHEN its available, WHEN the team is racing.
    I will stoop to insults on this occasion and say that people who say this kind of thing are muppets and shouldn’t go to any large public cycling or spectator event or their heads will spin.

    PS:

    Most of it is ‘replica’ and at best is no different to a top-end jersey from the same manufacturer simply because the real team kit wouldn’t fit most non-racers anyway

    If it fitted Jan Ullrich or Miguel Indurain it will fit me.

    August 5, 2013 at 4:35 pm #750869
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    SideBurn

    msw wrote:Giro a couple of

    msw wrote:
    Giro a couple of years ago I believe. Don’t think he’s well-known except for the inevitable internet fame that followed this photo.

    I realised afterwards that the billboards suggest the Giro! Looking at his legs makes me think ex-sprinter?

    August 5, 2013 at 4:09 pm #750867
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    3cylinder

    I think it’s a no-brainer
    I think it’s a no-brainer that you shouldn’t wear anything that is awarded (World/national champions, yellow/green/pink jerseys etc) unless you are one of the rare individuals who earned it. (if you think that it’s OK to do so, why don’t you put a F1 championship, World cup winners medal, and a Nobel prize on your mantelpiece too?)

    Personally, I think current team kit is similar – if you made the team you get the kit, if not, you don’t deserve it. But although I wouldn’t do it*, I can live with team kit, and clearly the football world view of “I get the latest team kit ‘cos I’m a supporter” mentality is becoming more and more common, obviously encouraged by the manufacturers. Fair play to them. *The Belkin kit would be my choice if I wasn’t such a ar$e about it.

    Old/retro kit is fair game. Old being anything that isn’t the current kit (once the pros offload it on ebay you can fill your boots). Retro is better

    The argument that Team kit is better in someway is bogus. Most of it is ‘replica’ and at best is no different to a top-end jersey from the same manufacturer simply because the real team kit wouldn’t fit most non-racers anyway (I think it is fair to say that if you race, you have your own team kit that you probably value more than someone else’s). The really esoteric stuff you can’t buy anyway, and probably wouldn’t want to – would you really wear the Sky ultra tight mesh stuff Froome and Porte were rocking in the tour? Really?

    August 5, 2013 at 2:55 pm #750865
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    morethansonglyrics

    I’ve got this years
    I’ve got this years radioshack jersey. Wouldn’t wear full kit, wouldn’t wear anything sky related – too poseur.

    August 5, 2013 at 2:24 pm #750863
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    msw

    Giro a couple of years ago I
    Giro a couple of years ago I believe. Don’t think he’s well-known except for the inevitable internet fame that followed this photo.

    August 5, 2013 at 12:59 pm #750861
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    Leviathan

    Don’t know, I couldn’t tell
    Don’t know, I couldn’t tell how ironic it was whilst he was laughing and talking to his mates. I could tell it was a chinese knock off not a Nike original (how I know this is for another thread.) It was certainly stretchy enough as he was quite large, but no belly was visible above the bibs. I laugh when I see the kit on ebay and wonder who is still buying them? Armstrong impacting the Chinese Ecomony, will he never stop!?

    August 5, 2013 at 12:39 pm #750859
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    The Rumpo Kid

    USPS kit had me wondering
    USPS kit had me wondering too. Someone who has taken “wear what you like” to the limit? The last Fanboy? Or an overdeveloped sense of irony?

    August 5, 2013 at 12:11 pm #750857
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    farrell

    I regularly trawl ebay to see
    I regularly trawl ebay to see if I can find a cheap 1998 Festina jersey.

    August 5, 2013 at 12:00 pm #750855
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    Anonymous

    Out of interest – how old
    Out of interest – how old does pro kit have to be, to be considered retro?
    Last year? – so a Cavendish Sky WC jersey would be allowed?
    5, 10 years? – Rabobank?
    Team no longer exists? – Blanco is wearable already?

    I love the 90s LaVieClaire ‘Mondrian’ jerseys 😀

    August 5, 2013 at 11:53 am #750853
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    SideBurn

    Where does that photo come
    Where does that photo come from msw? That looks like the TdFrance (red commissaries car). With the crowds still behind the barriers he could be an ex-pro? I have a distinct feeling that his best days as a cyclist are behind him but I am still interested if he was a name.

    Many years ago I was at the Perfs this chap turned up on an Alan carbon fibre bike, the first carbon I had seen and the most expensive bike on the market then. Many were drooling. He was similarly shaped to the ‘rider’ above. As he in-expertly got on the bike he slipped and landed on the crossbar to a ripple of stifled laughter.

    The subject of pro kit has been done to death = classic or obscure kit normally OK. US Postal kit 😕

    August 5, 2013 at 11:39 am #750851
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    Yorkshie Whippet

    Because Sky stuff is so god
    Because Sky stuff is so god damm expensive and often screams “I’ve got more money than sense”.

    That said, I do have a couple of Katusha shirts from last year that were half price.

    Ultimately where what you want. Next year nobody will care.

    August 5, 2013 at 11:28 am #750849
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    The Rumpo Kid

    Haven’t we done this one? Oh
    Haven’t we done this one? Oh well here goes…
    In 2009 I was in Bedoin, and the most beautiful Woman I have ever seen (I’m not kidding, it was like the story abut the ferry in Citizen Kane) had stopped for a breather in the little square before the final ascent of the Mont. She was wearing white Fdj kit, and didn’t look naff at all.

    August 5, 2013 at 10:46 am #750847
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    Leviathan

    OH NO, not this again.
    There
    OH NO, not this again.
    There are no rules and anyone who tells you there is or they wouldn’t wear this or that is a…
    Tell it to the 80 strong BMC team, 50 Skyboys, 2 World Champions, one King of the Mountains, one Scottish champion, dozen British Para/Olympians (including me), one guy in full fluro yellow and one with pink shorts, and one in full USPS kit; all seen yesterday. And everyone else.
    If there are rules they are stomped on smashed into pieces, like the scene in Family Guy when Stewie gets Peter’s copy of Surfin’ Bird.

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