Is wearing a team strip uncool?

kennyb3

have a euskaltel ss jersey, thinking of adding the bib shorts and a gilet to the collection. would this be way uncool?

also has anybody used ridebikeprogear.com? just they have a set of leg warmers i want

RobFowl

Yes
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2258201150
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=6007&status=True

The Kit. Your jersey must match your shorts, which must match your arm warmers, which must match your socks. But under no circumstances should a replica pro team kit or a national/world champion kit be worn unless you’ve earned it. The only acceptable team kit is your own club kit. Retro wool kits are sometimes acceptable, but even that is iffy.

To look cool if you don’t belong to a club or a team, wear a stock Castelli or Assos kit but don’t mix and match. To be Euro-cool, wear the kit of an obscure European amateur team, but only if you have a story about how you spent the winter riding with them in Majorca to go along with it. Please, no century jerseys (I’m going to take some heat on that one), nothing with cartoon characters on it and never, under any circumstances, go jersey-less. Especially if you are wearing bibs.

* And a special note for women. As much as the guys on the group ride might like it, a jog-bra is not an acceptable substitute for a jersey. Wear the bra, but please throw a jersey on over it. It’s hot. You’re hot. But shorts and a jog-bra is just not.

ednwireland

think its ok if you have a team issue bike and ride on the team, but then i have a dewsbury rams rugby shirt so what do i know

el tel

As above! The only full strip which should be worn is your club colours or very old school pro-kit (eg PDM, Tonton Tapis etc) which you have had since back in the relevant day when you personally were a force to be reckoned with.

One other exception which I would fully encourage would be wearing a pro team jersey & shorts combo topped and tailed with a $hitty helmet and big fat dirty white trainers on toe-clips and straps. Preferably on a clunker with non-aero brake/gear cables. The juxtapostion of pro-kit and crappy everything else is ****ing BRILLIANT.

blorg

It's acceptable if the team is defunct. Unfortunately with the political backing it has I doubt Euskaltel-Euskadi is going anywhere soon. Maybe hope for some sort of drug scandal. Alternatively get training and try to make the team. Hope you were born in the Basque Country and have lots of Ts and Xs in your name as otherwise you will not be getting on.

thebouldwhacker

For me its like turning up to a friendly 6 aside footie game wearing a premership team kit, jersey, shorts, socks and red/white boots... but thats just what I think, and yes I am fred...

godihatethehils

RobFowl wrote: »

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2258201150

why thankyou!

..........this whole euro thing has been baffling me ever since caroline took issue with my (excellent) usps jersey

TinyExplosions

godihatethehils wrote: »

why thankyou!

..........this whole euro thing has been baffling me ever since caroline took issue with my (excellent) usps jersey

She's just jealous... I have a USPS jersey too, and it's lovely

AstraMonti

RobFowl wrote: »

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The guy on the photo looks a bit like emty :pac:

ednwireland

i've got pdm overshoes, and a skil miko jersey (which doesnt fit anymore

Jawgap

This might answer your question!!!

I see Tiny already got to this article just after it was published......

TinyExplosions

Jawgap wrote: »

This might answer your question!!!

I see Tiny already got to this article just after it was published......

It had to be done...

Caroline_ie

I am told that you can wear a current team kit IF you have a good story about how you got the kit, for example, if you are given the AnPost team kit by Sean the man himself ( for example ) -> that's ok.

TinyExplosions

Caroline_ie wrote: »

I am told that you can wear a current team kit IF you have a good story about how you got the kit, for example, if you are given the AnPost team kit by Sean the man himself ( for example ) -> that's ok.

That's not good enough. You're not allowed wear your An Post kit you name dropper!

Caroline_ie

TinyExplosions wrote: »

That's not good enough. You're not allowed wear your An Post kit you name dropper!

I won't just because ... I think it makes my bum look big.

kona

If you do wear that, the word you will see everybody saying under their breath will be:

Fred


:P

LCD

Never acceptable

dub_skav

Would it not be perfectly acceptable to wear your team kit, just so long as you're not on the bike?

Like when you and your mates go down to the very crowded pub to watch the closing mountain stage of the TdF and you wear the kit of your favourite team as a supporter?

kona

dub_skav wrote: »

Would it not be perfectly acceptable to wear your team kit, just so long as you're not on the bike?

Like when you and your mates go down to the very crowded pub to watch the closing mountain stage of the TdF and you wear the kit of your favourite team as a supporter?

once you dont wear the spandex bottoms......you could get Lance 10 on the back:D

Jawgap

TinyExplosions wrote: »

It had to be done...

You're fired........:p

lyders

Jawgap wrote: »

This might answer your question!!!

I see Tiny already got to this article just after it was published......

DAMN...i was gonna that one....completely turned off now!!

Jawgap

lyders wrote: »

DAMN...i was gonna that one....completely turned off now!!

The bike or the strip

I like the idea of blowing the guts of 20 grand so you can one bike in each of your homes - that's just God's way of telling you that you've got too much money!

L'Enfer du Nord

TinyExplosions wrote: »

It had to be done...

Lol, just read your comment.

With regard to wearing pro-team jerseys.
Personally I think that almost without exception they look terrible. They are designed to sell a product or several products by standing out on T.V. As a result they seldom look good ‘in the flesh’. Having said that euskaltel’s jersey doesn’t look that bad.

lyders

Jawgap wrote: »

The bike or the strip

I like the idea of blowing the guts of 20 grand so you can one bike in each of your homes - that's just God's way of telling you that you've got too much money!

Ehh...think I can only afford the strip! But maybe I can sweet talk Sir Lord Alan to give me a bike! Anyone know where I can find him?!!

But his bike completely clashes with that strip...not cool!

thebouldwhacker

Rival riders: Sebastian on the road with Sir Alan


Sebastian is breaking so many euro rules it aint funny (almost as bad as me)

Is he riding a stratos bike from lidl?

LastGasp

never mind all this Pro Kit - Get your orders in now for the Kit you are ENCOURAGED to wear - your very own Boards Kit !

blorg

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Is he riding a stratos bike from lidl?

I thought that myself with just a glance but no, it's a Trek.

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Personally I think that almost without exception they look terrible. They are designed to sell a product or several products by standing out on T.V. As a result they seldom look good ‘in the flesh’. Having said that euskaltel’s jersey doesn’t look that bad.

La Vie Claire is a notable exception. I have the 1985 version of their jersey. Looks great but modern fabrics are frankly better... Prendas have it now in modern fabric.

Chips Lovell

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Personally I think that almost without exception they look terrible. They are designed to sell a product or several products by standing out on T.V. As a result they seldom look good ‘in the flesh’. Having said that euskaltel’s jersey doesn’t look that bad.

Some are pure class:

lukester

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

With regard to wearing pro-team jerseys.
Personally I think that almost without exception they look terrible. They are designed to sell a product or several products by standing out on T.V. As a result they seldom look good ‘in the flesh’.

I think a lot of the current pro jerseys are well designed, and look good up close. Not a huge fan of wearing advertising, but most of the jerseys have ads for companies no-one's heard of here anyway.

I grant, some are minging, and only work if you have a tan and matching bike, and even then at a push.

DirkVoodoo

I like my slipstream one, although it could do with being shorter. I would also consider a liquigas one, but a lot of team kits look pretty naff.

kincsem

The short sleeve La Vie Claire looks good, or at least different. The long sleeve version looks weird - the long yellow sleeve making it look unbalanced.

theo4130

what about this vintage jersey?
personally, i wear club jerseys but i havent been a member for the last 2 years because of college so i feel guilty wearing the gear, i do plan on re joining so i suppose it might be okay.
are cycling caps a different debate? i like them, i have a cofidis sunshine one and i like it!

http://img01.static-nextag.com/image/Adidas-Vintage-Cycling-

Caroline_ie

el tonto wrote: »

Some are pure class:

I am really worried about you Tonto ...

ROK ON

el tonto wrote: »

Some are pure class:

Have I seen that jersey on you?

ROK ON

I really like the Aqua Sapone Cafe Mokambo kit, but I have seen way too many of them.

Does anyone have a site where one could look at the team kit for all the 2nd tier teams etc?

Jawgap

Surely a pro-kit only works if you're tanned (and toned)

If you've a typical pasty Irish freckly complexion they just look a bit ridiculous?


As for the earlier article on the soon-to-be Lord Sugar - I bet the reporter had to try hard not to out distance him and I love his assertion that he's only hairy on his face as a means of explaining his curiously follically depleted calves!

Chips Lovell

Caroline_ie wrote: »

I am really worried about you Tonto ...

I had it long before Bruno

ROK ON wrote: »

Have I seen that jersey on you?

You have. And the shorts.

Zipp101

dub_skav wrote: »

Like when you and your mates go down to the very crowded pub to watch the closing mountain stage of the TdF and you wear the kit of your favourite team as a supporter?

Crowd + Pub + Ireland = Tour de France? :eek: