2012 pro team kits

Chips Lovell

Looks like Lotto are first off the blocks

Caroline_ie

Eew ... That will never look good on the average Fred -> thumbs up to Lotto people.

ROK ON

I saw that link on Twitter last night. Jersey is ok, but the shorts are pure class. More of this sort of thing.

ullu

I think the jersey and shorts are alright individually but they look rubbish together.

velo.2010

If only they were still riding Canyon for next year, I'd nearly buy this.;)

BTW anyone know which team if any rides Canyon next year?

DirkVoodoo

velo.2010 wrote: »

If only they were still riding Canyon for next year, I'd nearly buy this.;)

BTW anyone know which team if any rides Canyon next year?

Many years from now, cycling journalists will ask the former tour de foothills winner, velo.2010, what was the best bike he had ever ridden:

"Whichever one I've most recently paid to ride" would be the immortal answer.

velo.2010

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Many years from now, cycling journalists will ask the former tour de foothills winner, velo.2010, what was the best bike he had ever ridden:

"Whichever one I've most recently paid to ride" would be the immortal answer.

Have you not fecked off down under already? I bags your little black book of numbers for attractive, bored and wealthy middle-aged women in South County Dublin when you do leave.:D

DirkVoodoo

velo.2010 wrote: »

Have you not fecked off down under already? I bags your little black book of numbers for attractive, bored and wealthy middle-aged women in South County Dublin when you do leave.:D

Over 3 weeks so far! Not a little black book, more a large phallic shaped compendium.

velo.2010

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Over 3 weeks so far! Not a little black book, more a large phallic shaped compendium.

Darn, never got to say goobye! :(Send us some photos Dirk. You can email me at velo.2010willmakeabreakthroughin2012@goodlookingnorthsider.com

Now back to jerseys. If Contador is cleared I may just have to go for that Saxo look.

Chips Lovell

Vacansoleil

Morrisseeee

2012 KENDA 5 Hour Energy kit

RobFowl

New Quick Step kit....

Chips Lovell

^ That's quite nice. Bit of a retro-Bianchi feel to it.

RobFowl

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

^ That's quite nice. Bit of a retro-Bianchi feel to it.

I like it too..

Home:Ballyhoura

Quickstep looks good alright, hope it doesn't clash with Leopard Trek kit, should be ok following the merge with Nissan Trek.

AstraMonti

RobFowl

Pablo Rubio

RobFowl wrote: »

Ultimate Sports and Chain Reaction Cycles both sponsoring ?

fat bloke

I'd quite like to buy An Post kit for myself but i've not done so because.... all the other mean cyclists might laugh at me. Roadies are a fickle & shallow bunch, but is there reasonable cause for my Fred-consciousness?

moggs1972

velo.2010 wrote: »

If only they were still riding Canyon for next year, I'd nearly buy this.;)

BTW anyone know which team if any rides Canyon next year?

I have read that Katusha are on canyon next year, road bike action mag said so anyway.

niceonetom

fat bloke wrote: »

I'd quite like to buy An Post kit for myself but i've not done so because.... all the other mean cyclists might laugh at me. Roadies are a fickle & shallow bunch, but is there reasonable cause for my Fred-consciousness?

I've seen genuine An Post riders training on the roads around Dunboyne (Lavery and Cassidy both live around there somewhere I think). I'd feel a right spa bumping into them if I was in their team kit.

fat bloke

niceonetom wrote: »

I've seen genuine An Post riders training on the roads around Dunboyne (Lavery and Cassidy both live around there somewhere I think). I'd feel a right spa bumping into them if I was in their team kit.

Yeah. That's kinda what I was thinking

RobFowl

Bloody awful......

morana

Looks nice!

Not quite pro but I guess the guys who race with them still think they have a chance!!!!

manwithaplan

niceonetom wrote: »

I've seen genuine An Post riders training on the roads around Dunboyne (Lavery and Cassidy both live around there somewhere I think). I'd feel a right spa bumping into them if I was in their team kit.

Lavery rolled up to the start of the Obelisk Christmas Race last Sunday in his An Post kit. I didn't know who he was so I said to the guy beside me that I hoped he had bought the kit rather than earned it. I was soon put right. Thankfully he went easy enough on us in the race itself.

Chips Lovell

Green Edge spotted:

fat bloke

Coming to a club league near you.. [IMG][/img]

ednwireland

fat bloke wrote: »

Coming to a club league near you..

what are they called

niceonetom

ednwireland wrote: »

what are they called

IRC. It must say it there somewhere, right? Right?

fat bloke

Think it's printed in black on the ... erm... black bits. And of course it's inscribed on our DNA

Chips Lovell

Is that a second version of the new kit?

fat bloke

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Is that a second version of the new kit?

Yeah it went back for a re print -better sizing and quality, and some slight design changes. It's nice kit on I think, though I really like the old blue too.

Chips Lovell

fat bloke wrote: »

Yeah it went back for a re print -better sizing and quality, and some slight design changes. It's nice kit on I think, though I really like the old blue too.

I like it too.

Do you mind me asking if there was any upset at having to get a second new kit in a year? Or did the sponsors subsidise the design change?

fat bloke

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

I like it too.

Do you mind me asking if there was any upset at having to get a second new kit in a year? Or did the sponsors subsidise the design change?

No idea to be honest. Nice to have it done though. And it does say Irish Road Club on the front breast - I had to check! :rolleyes:

bcmf

niceonetom wrote: »

I've seen genuine An Post riders training on the roads around Dunboyne (Lavery and Cassidy both live around there somewhere I think). I'd feel a right spa bumping into them if I was in their team kit.

/Mental Note:
When wearing An Post kit dont go anywhere near Dunboyne. Even if it was a team issue kit.
Mental Note Made/

RobFowl

bcmf wrote: »

/Mental Note:
When wearing An Post kit dont go anywhere near Dunboyne. Even if it was a team issue kit.
Mental Note Made/

Unless they sign you bcmf.....

And they have a rider the same age as me..........

Chips Lovell

RamboFowl

bcmf

RobFowl wrote: »

Unless they sign you bcmf.....

Jaysus they would have to scrape thru the bottom of the barrrel and into the sodden soil underneath.

Plastik

fat bloke wrote: »

Coming to a club league near you..

Jaaaysus Lynch, you're pimping yourself online again!?! You'll be rolling out that picture of you from The Examiner next!

leftism

RobFowl wrote: »

New Quick Step kit....

So now that this sponsorship merger is official, are we supposed to call this team "OmegaPharmaQuickstep" or just "Quickstep"??? What are the commentators going to refer to them as?

This is confusing the hell out of me....

ROK ON

leftism wrote: »

So now that this sponsorship merger is official, are we supposed to call this team "OmegaPharmaQuickstep" or just "Quickstep"??? What are the commentators going to refer to them as?

This is confusing the hell out of me....

The team that is going to have far fewer podium places in 2012, as opposed to 2011.

leftism

ROK ON wrote: »

The team that is going to have far fewer podium places in 2012, as opposed to 2011.

Almost as many syllables as OmegapharmaQuickstep...

fat bloke

Plastik wrote: »

Jaaaysus Lynch, you're pimping yourself online again!?! You'll be rolling out that picture of you from The Examiner next!

Hey. You had your chance Bray Boy

Eamonnator

How many times is "Usher" printed on that kit???

manwithaplan

Eamonnator wrote: »

How many times is "Usher" printed on that kit???

Same as the amount of zeroes in the annual sponsorship cheque?

Quite like the (ellemen) OPQ kit, although that light blue/black combination is not exactly novel.

AstraMonti

ednwireland

that saxobank kit is nice

morana

I like the South Dublin CC kit as well.

Junior

Brammeier's racing kit is a lot nicer than his training kit..



Training Kit

velo.2010

Saxo gear looks nice. I do get the impression though that somone threw a pair of blue socks and tops in with the white gear from last year and liked the resulting colour run!

goldencleric

Junior wrote: »

Brammeier's racing kit is a lot nicer than his training kit..

Good to see Varmarc recycling Nico's early-2010 jersey, much prefer it to the crap one he had at Highroad.