Best and Worst National Champs jerseys

[jens_attacks]

So i'm not yet totally fried thank you

Aupa mikel landa

 

[BalearicBeats]

Is Van Den Broecks TT jersey at Katusha as ugly as Haller's jersey? Or do we not have any pictures yet?

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

 

[BalearicBeats]

They should have had a cross instead of a T, now they have to put little Danish flags on the shirt to show us what this design means!

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah... no wonder he looks angry...

 

[turtle420]

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And I'd say Movistar takes the price for worst, with the travesty they've given Valverde for next year...

the business movistar are a bit funny about having too much of the color red on their jerseys because their #1 competitor's color is red...

 

[hrotha]

That argument would carry a lot more weight if Abarca didn't have a loooong history of disgracing ALL national champ jerseys (with some national champions at Caisse being an exception).

 

[turtle420]

hey i agree movistar have done bad national jerseys for a long time but i have also worked for that team on staff and it is a fact that the place the money comes from are very very sensitive about the designs. this is just how they are, in their dreams the team would have no national champion jerseys.

 

[RedheadDane]

Well... if it's only because they don't want red on their jerseys, then I guess they shouldn't care too much about getting the, say, Australian champion.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Caisse had awesome champions' kits... except when Valverde had it. Even Brard's, which was a bit of an eyesore compared to the classic Purito/Rubinho/Guti one. The carbon pattern and large tricolors just went really well.

The best Movistar-era ones have been Rui Costa's and Alex Dowsett's time trial jerseys. Unless you count Costa's brief period in the rainbow stripes there, but that's only because the rules won't let them screw it up too badly.

 

[Beech Mtn]

They need to quit holding the Spanish championships in a constant hammerlock if they aren't going to do a decent job of the jersey. I get that winning it is a big deal, and I get that the sponsor might not want the colors on the jersey, but it's a bit much when the same team wins year after year because of massively superior numbers (and good talent too) - and then doesn't show the championship properly. Just once in a while, let somebody else have a chance. Or, you know, let one of the Basques on the team win. At least then it makes sense why the jersey is so muted.

Ah well, sports and sponsors. At least they're funding a team.

 

[MatParker1711]

Wonder if Sky will send there Spanish contingent to the Spanish Nats, Rapha's Vuelta jersey would be a massive upgrade:

 

[42x16ss]

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Well... if it's only because they don't want red on their jerseys, then I guess they shouldn't care too much about getting the, say, Australian champion.

How good would it be if Rory Sutherland does win Aus Nats and Abarca has to suck it up and give him a proper jersey

 

[42x16ss]

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Is Van Den Broecks TT jersey at Katusha as ugly as Haller's jersey? Or do we not have any pictures yet?

No pics as yet. Apparently there's a rumour getting around that if you mess up the Belgian Champs jersey too badly Merckx, De Vlaeminck and Museeuw make a midnight house call armed with various sharp implements

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I actually really don't like those Rapha faux-national jerseys they do as a pointless marketing exercise for Sky (what purpose do they fulfil other than show, anyway, since they'll probably redesign it if one of their Spanish contingent win the nationals anyway, and they designed some for some countries they don't even have riders from? "oh, well in theory if we could win a national jersey it might look something vaguely like this... look how cool our designs are!"), but saying that it's an improvement over Valverde's jersey is damning it with faint praise. Stevie Wonder could design a better Spanish champions' jersey than the current Movistar one, holding red and yellow crayons in his mouth and shaking a picture of a cycling jersey in front of him.

 

[BalearicBeats]

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Is Van Den Broecks TT jersey at Katusha as ugly as Haller's jersey? Or do we not have any pictures yet?

No pics as yet. Apparently there's a rumour getting around that if you mess up the Belgian Champs jersey too badly Merckx, De Vlaeminck and Museeuw make a midnight house call armed with various sharp implements

I don't know if there are also as strict rules for the TT jersey as there (luckily) are for the RR one!

 

[-bellon-]

Polish jersey by Varmarc good as always.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Nice jersey, although at a glance I'd probably have guessed Austrian rather than Polish champion. I suppose there isn't too much that can be done when national flags and colours are similar.

 

[Christian]

Not sure what happened there??! Did they change the jersey or is this just an overcoat?

 

[samhocking]

Black pre-race/training version I would think. Kennaugh uses to wear the black version if not racing.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

I wonder what Trek is gonna do with Bobridge national chamions jersey

 

[samhocking]

Best AUS Champ Kit was Henk Vogels's at Credit Agricole. Worked so well with the sponsors colours and they didn't bother with those hideous yellow shoulders I think started back with McEwen at Lotto?

 

[observer]

yeah, those yellow flashes are terrible.

is that part of the aussie jersey rules?

 

[samhocking]

I guess it's so the design matches the jersey Cycling Australia give the winner on the podium like below. Some governing bodies seem more relaxed than others in allowing pro teams to alter the design. Australia are very consistent. n fact most are pretty strict, but there are exceptions like Spain where you can go from one extreme to the other year on year.

 

[samhocking]

The yellow shoulders might be to separate National Champ from their Worlds kit too perhaps? They don't have them on the National team kits at Worlds etc.