Best and Worst National Champs jerseys

[Samu Cuenca]

Maybe if you're drunk...

You don't see a man with a top hat?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yea, it's like the national champions all got given a really good jersey, then they were dared to pull their shorts up to their nipples before the photoshoot or something.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

I don’t see any complaints about Tudors jerseys, especially when we live in a world that allows the atrocities of UAE’s NC jersey’s.

 

[tobydawq]

Yea, it's like the national champions all got given a really good jersey, then they were dared to pull their shorts up to their nipples before the photoshoot or something.

Those are some strangely located nipples

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Those are some strangely located nipples

How many outfits do you have where pulling shorts/pants up to your nipples would actually be physically possible?

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

The UAE Vine jersey, haven’t seen it yet and it’s not bad, it’s just average, and the best UAE has made. The Aussies were likely in their ear about it though.

 

[Netserk]

Kamp's jersey is an eye sore.

 

[Lequack]

The UAE Vine jersey, haven’t seen it yet and it’s not bad, it’s just average, and the best UAE has made. The Aussies were likely in their ear about it though.

It's not bad, but it's not good.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

classic. (although I'm a bit worried by the fade to dark blue at the bottom.)

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

also rule one of a photoshoot, get the person's face in focus.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

classic. (although I'm a bit worried by the fade to dark blue at the bottom.)

I genuinely thought that was Cadel Evans at first for some reason!?...

 

[RedheadDane]

It's not bad, but it's not good.

At least the (upper) arms makes it absolitely clear we're talking about the Aussie Champion.

 

[davidsonduke]

I dislike the plunge neckline of the UAE kit.

 

[Sciatic]

I dislike the plunge neckline of the UAE kit.

I agree that looks a bit off, but That seems to be much more common in TT kits; and since they are bent so low when on their TT bikes we only really see that at the start line and after the finish!

 

[Red Rick]

I don't mind the fade. But the GB jersey is really just a very lame Dutch jersey

 

[Lequack]

Mark van der Cavendish

 

[valentius borealis]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1616035343089778688

View: https://twitter.com/GreenEDGEteam/status/1616035343089778688

 

[theyoungest]

I don't mind the fade. But the GB jersey is really just a very lame Dutch jersey

Why is that, actually? In the average gift shop in London you can buy a whole Union Jack-themed wardrobe, but their national champions have to wear something that no casual fan would recognize as the British jersey.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Tradition

Something similar was traditional in other sports that had GB/UK teams for decades before the idea that design was commodifiable took hold.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Yeah think coe/ovett etc

 

[dick the quick]

 

[DNP-Old]

Terrible.

 

[Netserk]

Terrible.

I think that is overstating it.

 

[DNP-Old]

I think that is overstating it.

Imo it is a lesser variant of the usual white + flag kits you see teams throwing around often. EF made killer kits for Higuita and Klever when they were national champs of Colombia and Ecuador, so this one very much hurts.

 

[samhocking]

Why is that, actually? In the average gift shop in London you can buy a whole Union Jack-themed wardrobe, but their national champions have to wear something that no casual fan would recognize as the British jersey.

Because the two bands of red and blue is traditional. As you couldn't/wouldn't stitch together dozens of small pieces of coloured fabric to make a union jack jersey 50-100 years ago a simpler design suitable for manufacture has to be found. The British Olympic Teams kit was regularly the same design around the time National Cyclists Union and the British League of Racing Cyclists amalgamated into BCF so iirc that's where the design comes from.