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The Road Cycling World Championships are on our doorstep. The USA is hosting, which makes me nervous immediately. How can we fuck this up? Ask Taylor Phinney for starters. This event has not been hosted by the USA since Moreno Argentin won in Colorado almost thirty years ago. We just don’t have the experience to pull off cycling events of this importance. The police are used to impeding cyclists, not protecting them.
But the Americans can’t win either the women’s or men’s road races simply because of the awful kit they have to wear. All V will be drained by the lameness of the jersey. The Rainbow Jersey would refuse to even slip on over such an abomination. Back in the day, Greg LeMan wore the Captain America jersey and won the World Championship at age 22. Going into the worlds as Captain America is a lot more powerful than whatever the hell this new design is. FFS, give these riders a chance. Representing your country in the World Championship should be a highlight of any cyclist’s career.
The Belgians, the Aussies, the Italians, The French: they all have jerseys that say we are here as a select, badass team and we are going to fuck you up. The American’s look like a trade team for a car dealership. It hurts. The Spanish might be in trouble too by the look of last year’s design and the fact they generally refuse to work at crunch time.
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Wait - I thought the USA kits were the Captain America kits again? I'm confused, do we suck or do we rule? Is this just a retro replica kit with the 2015 logo being sold in Richmond? I have a headache.
The Captain America kit was so awesome, and can I please also note that back then they also wore their regular team bibs, which was such a cool mis-matched look. For reference:
Also, that Spanish kit is a fucking nightmare. Worse than the US, I'd say.
After seeing LeMan's WC's, I always thought said kit would be the Status Quo for USA;
@Harminator
Gerro has just finished the Vuelta, so I don't understand what is going on there.
PhilG looks very lean.
Re: the British Kit and Rapha - does anyone else remember the terrible Adidas cycling they ran in magazines? Guys who looked like they'd never been on a bike, with hairy legs.
@Gianni
The Belgian kit today and for the last years have been like the Merckx one. Brilliant. But in 1996 when Museeuw won the World Championship in Lugano the Belgian kit looked like this:
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He kind of made up for the ugly jersey by riding a Mapei Colnago C-40 with Lightweight wheels though...
Do I note correctly that the USA kits look to be the only kit w/o a sponsor name slapped on them?
@wilburrox
never mind... I think I see sponsors on 'em
I saw that, and went 'Oooooof'. Not good. And as an aside, I think the Spanish kit could indeed do with a bit of work. Red with a yellow band? Simple and effective?
@Harminator
Outside of Belgium, it's always summer.
@sthilzy
Rebecca Twigg, the focus of my first pant-busting crush.