Best and Worst National Champs jerseys

[classicomano]

Its perfect imo, dont see how it could be any better.

 

[PeterB]

Re:

Its perfect imo, dont see how it could be any better.

Nice and visible, the Turkish flag on the polish champ jersey is however a little bit in addition.

 

[RedheadDane]

Re: Re:

Its perfect imo, dont see how it could be any better.

Nice and visible, the Turkish flag on the polish champ jersey is however a little bit in addition.

Yeah! Hate it when teams put the team's nationality flag on the kits. Like how it appears as if Tinkoff is an entire team of former Russian champions.

 

[aarnold517]

Somebody please make the bad national champion jerseys stop!!

 

[Kwibus]

Somebody please make the bad national champion jerseys stop!!

This is not good indeed!
Allthough from a heli shot he will have a clear Norwegian flag on his back, but besides that you just can't see he's the norwegian champion from the front. Ridiculous.

 

[classicomano]

Oh my god, its hideous.

 

[RedheadDane]

We don't really know if there's also a flag on the front.
But love the fact that his facial expression doesn't exactly scream overly-pleased with this.

 

[neineinei]

The Police considering confiscating EBH's passport.

 

[Popchu]

Not good.

 

[Wallenquist]

That's really bad. Looks like the have just switched the black and white stripes for Norwegian flag and that's all.


And their Meintjes jersey from last year was really great:

 

[Vasilis]

Somebody please make the bad national champion jerseys stop!!

This is not good indeed!
Allthough from a heli shot he will have a clear Norwegian flag on his back, but besides that you just can't see he's the norwegian champion from the front. Ridiculous.

Yeah, I think this one was much better.

 

[Wallenquist]

BMC good as always

 

[BigMac]

@MTN

When you thought it couldn't get worse, someone shapes the flag into a smal box.

 

[aarnold517]

There's definitely a two-headed problem with regards to all of these jerseys.

First, the sponsor wants its riders (especially its top riders such as nibali or boasson hagen) in its sponsors colors no matter what. Set aside the fact that the rider would get a ton of attention for having a massive flag as a jersey, and this attention would get extra attention to the team, and thus the sponsor.

But also, the national federations are really lax with regards to what the design looks like, with the notable exceptions such as belgium and the UK, and thus there's no real check on the power of the sponsors concerning the design.

 

[Wallenquist]

 

[Parrulo]

I really like it.

The world champ bands give it a very nice touch

 

[Broth3r]

Yeeeeees.

 

[Jancouver]

Somebody please make the bad national champion jerseys stop!!

Oh boy! Just when you think that you have seen it all.

Please tell me this is not for real because otherwise I have to vomit

If this isnt the fugliest national jersey in history of cycling, I'm not sure what else can even come close.

 

[TMP402]

Here's a jersey question some posters might be able to help me with:

Roger de Vlaeminck used to wear the rainbow of a former world champion on his kit during road races:

Yet de Vlaeminck was never a road world champion: he was a cyclocross world champion in 1975, and was only the runner-up (to Hennie Kuiper) in the 1975 world road race. Google doesn't show any photos of him wearing the rainbow jersey on the road in 1975/6, only (correctly) of him wearing it for cyclocross...

...but I'm wondering if the UCi rules were different back then and world champions of any discipline were able to wear the rainbow stripes after their win. Obviously rules now are that you can only wear rainbow either as the reigning or former world champion in the discipline you won it in. A track sprint WC doesn't wear rainbow for a BMX race, etc.

Personally I wouldn't mind people doing what de Vlaeminck did. Off the top of my head, Stybar, Boom, Bos, Henderson, Wiggins, Swift, Thomas, Kennaugh, Cummings, Coquard, Meyer, Kung, Phinney, Hepburn, Dennis and Kiryenka would all have rainbow bands if that was the case.

 

[Alexandre B.]

More yellow...

 

[Netserk]

It's just like the version he used in Cali, no?

 

[BigMac]

Re:

Behold!

I really like it.

The world champ bands give it a very nice touch

Agree.

 

[postmanhat]

Somebody please make the bad national champion jerseys stop!!

Lol. EBH becomes the new Panini

 

[Guybrush]

you know what? *** you MTN!, *** you too Saxo...

Kudos to BMC & Lampre

 

[MikeTichondrius]

Honest question I can't figure out the answer to: When was the last time the Portuguese road champion did the TdF before this year? Looking at the list of past winners it might even go back to Agostinho in the 70's.

EDIT: And that is how you do the jersey right. MTN isn't even the worst this year, I want to see the front. Sagan's though...What a total mess of colors.