Worst 2012 jersey- Pro Tour

[El Pistolero]

They obviously wanted to stress the Luxembourgian character of the team, but they could have done that with a subtle lion or something as well. The current jersey is just the worst parts of the respective Leopard and Shack jerseys combined, with a Lux flag to uglify things up a little.

I'd wear that. Flemish lion jersey would look better though, I'd love to see it in the peloton one day.

Luxembourgish flag sucks, looks to much like the Dutch one.

 

[Fatclimber]

Lampre might be eye-bleeding but it is at least distinctive. Too many boring jerseys that we can't tell apart from the helicam as soon as there's a touch of cloud cover or a few drops of rain. You always know where Lampre guys are. Always.

As long as you know where the autobus is, you know where Lampre is. Rainjackets or not. . Actually I agree, distinctiveness is nice.

 

[TheEnoculator]

My problem with RadioShack jersey is it's so boring. The American version was way better, and I was hoping the merger means the design would carry over somewhat. The result? They just added a red stripe to the original Leopard design. Yuck!

At least Busche's national champ jersey still looks good, instead of slapping the country flag across your mid-section like the other designs.

 

[Angliru]

I really don't get the hate for the Shack jerseys. Are they great? No, but they aren't horrible like people are making them out to be. They are a nice, simple, classic design. Of course I also don't get the love for Saxobank. The blue is an odd shade, the eagle is awful and the giant saxo on the back is awful, it looks like some old 80's t-shirt design.

I think some of the hate for Shack is how they (and Leopard-whatever last year) showed no respect for the national champ jersey's in their designs. Plus the fact that they took the Rapha retro look to another level of ridiculous. Add to that all the drama that came with them last year and now this year and you have a built in reflex to dislike anything that relates to them (that is dependent upon whose camp you're in: the LA/Andy lovers camp or the Fed-up-with-being-forcefed-news-on-their-every-bowel-movement camp).

They Shack-Nissan-Trek take the minimalist design concept to a new low.

Now let it be said that I really liked the Shack jersey design from last year partially because it was such a vast improvement over the previous year's horrid kit.

So my worst kits are:

1.RANT (blah)
2.Katusha (maybe it's a cultural thing that is over my head)
3.Greenedge (black, green w/yellow & white aren't complimentary, at all)

Edit: AG2R's use of brown shorts should be outlawed. I neglected to include them in my original post where if I had they would be neck and neck with Katusha simply for the use of the brown shorts.

 

[Panda Claws]

The worst jersey is defintely Philbert's national championships one. With radioshack's being a close second.

 

[BroDeal]

That lion has a small unit. You would think that they could draw something a bit more impressive to uphold the national honor.

 

[42x16ss]

That lion has a small unit. You would think that they could draw something a bit more impressive to uphold the national honor.

Then there's the whole argument over what's honorable and what's juvenile

This could open a real can of worms!