Best and Worst National Champs jerseys

[Alexandre B.]

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Trek’s jersey for Mullen. Not sure about this one. It’s not a bad looking garment, but an Irish champions jersey is supposed to feature the shamrock prominently.

The green band feels a bit odd.

 

[yoyokt]

not a fan of that Mullen irish kit i have say.

 

[Nirvana]

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IMHO the classiest are the withe ones with the orizontal stripes on the chest in WC style, the jerseys made by Bora for example are the best. Anyway also something that fits in the team colours like Nibali is good for me.

Nope, sorry. Some national champion jerseys are meant to be full-jersey design. Take the Scandinavian ones, looks silly to attempt to make "stripes" out of such a flag design.
And Nibali isn't a national champion.

Nibali was national champion for two years in a row, the first version of the jersey was pretty bad with only a square on the abdomen but since the start of 2015 they changed to full chest and fit well with Astana light blue.

 

[Leinster]

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Trek’s jersey for Mullen. Not sure about this one. It’s not a bad looking garment, but an Irish champions jersey is supposed to feature the shamrock prominently.

Is that written down anywhere? I know Nico had it in the past, but I don’t see any obligation to have it.

I don’t think it’s a great jersey, but I’m not sure that a shamrock or two would rescue that.

 

[Alexandre B.]

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

When the team kit is essentially the national flag, the way to make an NC jersey is apparently to omit chunks of colours from said flag (black sleeves and red cuffs)

Although I see that Mirza was also 2016 UAE NC, and didn't have (according to pictures at PCS) a distinctive jersey at all.

 

[Zaka_fan]

New Dutch jersey is very good

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Trek’s jersey for Mullen. Not sure about this one. It’s not a bad looking garment, but an Irish champions jersey is supposed to feature the shamrock prominently.

Is that written down anywhere? I know Nico had it in the past, but I don’t see any obligation to have it.

I don’t think it’s a great jersey, but I’m not sure that a shamrock or two would rescue that.

I don’t know if it’s written down in some Cycling Ireland rule book, but every champions jersey I can think of had the shamrock on the front in some form.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32428887565.html
http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/first-look-ryan-mullen-new-irish-champion-kit/
https://cycling-jersey-collection.com/browse-collection/pezula-irish-champion-santini-2008-pro-team-jersey

Etc etc

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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The shamrock is always there.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Extraordinary collection: Just how many former champions have you burgled?

 

[Leinster]

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The shamrock is always there.

That’s me told! I bow to your superior internetting.

Maybe a) Trek can add the shamrocks or b) there are shamrocks on the green band on his back, we just can’t see them.

Either way, I don’t think it’ll transform what is a fairly ok Jersey.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Extraordinary collection: Just how many former champions have you burgled?

I wish it was my collection!

 

[MagnusMagnussen]

 

[Jancouver]

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Still fugly. They just moved the stripes a bit higher ... what a disgrace!

 

[Jancouver]

When Italian stripes, at least do it like Pippo

Even this is better

Even this horrible version is better than Aru's

 

[Paul50]

Fabio ARU
Italian Champion RR 2017 - 2018 Jersey

 

[Alexandre B.]

 

[Netserk]

Too much red.

 

[Jancouver]

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Too much red.

I concur!

 

[Gigs_98]

Fabio ARU
Italian Champion RR 2017 - 2018 Jersey

Better.

That said, I'm a bit disappointed they didn't play around with their own logo. After all it has three lines and the last of it is white text with a red background. I would have taken the normal jersey, erased the UAE flag from it, made the background for the UAE green, and keep the 2nd line ("TEAM") and the 3rd line ("Emirates") as they are. You would have an italian flag on the jersey, so now you just have to extend the 3 stripes around the whole jersey and you basically have the same jersey but with the team logo incorporated in the flag. Would look a bit cooler imo.

 

[staubsauger]

Aru's new champ jersey looks even more ugly now. It's still pathetic for an Italian champ jersey and now the flag doesn't add up with the jersey design at all anymore. Absolutely atrocious. Should've stayed with Astana. And Lampre better should've folded 2 years ago. What a useless team.

 

[veji11]

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Too much red.

I concur!

Geee guys, you are pretty harsh, compared to some horrible national jerseys we have been seing lately this is classy, sober, elegant. The red on the jersey is a bit bigger to give more overall balance with the black legs when standin, but from atop with the back curving the jersey will look really good. honestly a very solid design. We could only wish for the italian jersey to have a similar problem !

 

[Netserk]

Well, except for Gilbert's red shorts, this is about as 'bad' as it can get for a Belgium champion's jersey. That's the benefit of a national federation with proper standards. Even RadioShack Leotard had to do a proper one! As such, we should have higher standards as well.

 

[veji11]

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Well, except for Gilbert's red shorts, this is about as 'bad' as it can get for a Belgium champion's jersey. That's the benefit of a national federation with proper standards. Even RadioShack Leotard had to do a proper one! As such, we should have higher standards as well.

Honestly the "bad" there.. This a really solid national champ jersey.

 

[Netserk]

Can you find another Belgian one that was worse