Best and Worst National Champs jerseys

[Afrank]

This is nice to see, Radioshack has an actual national jersey. I only have screenshots from a Sporza video, so please forgive me for the quality of the pictures.

Very nice, I was fearing the worst. And thank you Belgian federation! I wish ever country had rules for what their jerseys need to look like, like Belgium do.

Impey's jersey also look good.

 

[RedheadDane]

it's because the belgian federation insisted on it, Radioshack did their usual national jersey design first

National federations should be more insisting!

 

[spalco]

Most national jerseys don't carry the prestige the Belgian one does, and if the federations insisted on rules like that the country's top riders might not even start in the national championships (which they often don't anyway).

 

[Michele]

National federations should be more insisting!

Agree with that, especially by keeping in mind those fans who are not following everyday cycling and so can recognize the national champions more easily.

 

[Pippo_San]

100% agree. If the team doesn't commit to the specific design it should be fined big time.
Let's give back some respect for the national champs FFS.

 

[RedheadDane]

Agree with that, especially by keeping in mind those fans who are not following everyday cycling and so can recognize the national champions more easily.

I'd say the best/worst example is the Cannondale style jersey where you can basically only see that a rider is national champion if you're flying over the peloton...

But I really dislike the Cannondale style jersey, so I might be slightly biased...

 

[Michele]

I can understand that main sponsors want their top riders wearing their own colors, but you have to remind that sports like cycling have casual viewers (the ones who follow just when Giro or Tour are on tv) so a proper national jersey could attract more attention and more easy to spot.

 

[search]

I can understand that main sponsors want their top riders wearing their own colors

yes, of course, but who started this?! Leopard, didn't they? And they did not even have a sponsor

 

[Michele]

How about Movistar and their spanish jersey 2 years ago?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

More like Banesto with the Spanish jersey 20 years ago.

And Radioshack's bad jerseys and Movistar's were about the same time if we take Leopard into account. Cannondale's and GreenEdge's came later.

 

[Parrulo]

I wonder what Costa's national champ skinsuit will look like, It would be cool if it was like his short lived 2010 one.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yea, but that was when they were Caisse d'Epargne. They always had great champion's kits as Caisse.

 

[caricas]

 

[BigMac]

Its damn gorgeous. Like parrulo said: ''You can't go wrong with the classic''.

 

[caricas]

Its damn gorgeous. Like parrulo said: ''You can't go wrong with the classic''.

i want to see the full kit , but from this view looks great

 

[VeloGirl]

Rui Costa has one of the best national jerseys I have ever seen in my life.
I love it.

 

[Parrulo]

I think they did the same they did with Dowsett and the bottom part of the skinsuit will be typical Movistar colours

Still it could be much worse considering what they did with the spanish and italian road champ jerseys . . .

 

[Christian]

I feel like there are a lot of these plain white kits with a flag across it, it is getting a bit repetitive

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yea, but plain white with the flag across it is the classic Portuguese jersey, and that's how the Portuguese jersey SHOULD look. As a rough indicator:

Giant tricolors: France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Estonia, Spain (if applicable), Hungary
White with flag bands: Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland (+national emblem), Lithuania, Latvia
Either/or: Italy, Russia
White with national colours but not flag: UK, Australia, South Africa, Ireland
National colours full jersey: Slovenia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Canada
Full jersey flag: Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, USA

 

[BigMac]

Would look nice if the shorts were white. That blue will look quite ugly when comparing to the jersey colours.

 

[Christian]

Thanks, Libertine - it's probably just because we've been seeing a lot of Greipel, Cavendish and Kwiatkowski lately

 

[Jensen]

Vandborg was a bit of a surprise at the TT championships... but this is still sad..

http://instagram.com/p/blJR0FFeKa/#

 

[classicomano]

Vandborg was a bit of a surprise at the TT championships... but this is still sad..

http://instagram.com/p/blJR0FFeKa/#

Ugh....

 

[The Principal Sheep]

Vandborg was a bit of a surprise at the TT championships... but this is still sad..

http://instagram.com/p/blJR0FFeKa/#

No Cannondale no! that's just abysmal.

 

[Netserk]

Cannondale should be banned