Worst team kit ever? |
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH9/24/14 11:27 AM |
Supposedly it's actually gold colored...
...so perhaps it looks better in person.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/24/14 12:59 PM |
Do 3 of the center riders have gold makeup on their foreheads? Or am I seeing things??
I can see the point, butt ;) white shorts are worse to my eyes.
Last edited by Sparky on 9/24/14 2:58 PM; edited 1 time in total
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real9/24/14 1:19 PM |
Marketing genius. Even if they win every race they enter they won't get as much coverage as the crazy kit picture has.
Any fame is fame.
The gold on their heads is because of the overhead projector shining on them. I brief using overheads enough that I know that look and avoid it.
Last edited by ErikS on 9/24/14 2:35 PM; edited 1 time in total
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC9/24/14 1:56 PM |
Actually, the picture I saw a few days back was smaller and not as clear. In that picture, they look like they were nude in the mid-section!
The blow up picture doesn't 'suggest' nearly as much...
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA9/24/14 3:56 PM |
Maybe I'm not easily shocked but several of the Pro Tour kits aren't any better looking.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6890
Location: Maine9/24/14 4:02 PM |
Big Whoop
Not very attractive IMHO but hardly scandalous.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven9/24/14 6:50 PM |
PG-13 rated photo
I'm trying to keep things above the fray here. ;-) Like April, it was this photo view, a grainier & less in focus one, that I 1st viewed and did a double take.
The best gold colored team kit I've witnessed was by Julius Caesar incarnate, Mario Cippolini and his Cannondale sqad donned at TdF stage.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT9/24/14 7:36 PM |
I wonder
whether the "nude" shots had been massaged a little in the color range. These certainly don't look like the early pictures that were published. Not great, but eh, I've seen worse (what was the mens' team with the white shorts?)
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/24/14 7:43 PM |
"I've seen worse (what was the mens' team with the white shorts?)"
I sure do not remember, but it was worse IME.
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Matthew Currie
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 802
Location: Vermont9/25/14 8:25 PM |
For sure, I'm not crazy about the colors, but ooh la la, I'm not going to complain about anything that one on the far right wears.
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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia9/27/14 1:04 AM |
Not as bad as being on a group ride and finding yourself sitting on the wheel of a rider whose bum crack gleams at you because their semi-transparent very elderly knicks should have long since been retired.
Happens quite often. Maybe Australians are just too parsimonious when it comes to replacing their knicks...
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA9/27/14 2:40 PM |
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Not as bad as being on a group ride and finding yourself sitting on the wheel of a rider whose bum crack gleams at you because their semi-transparent very elderly knicks should have long since been retired.
Not always a bad thing. A couple of years ago, on a group ride, we got behind a good looking young lady who's shorts were also quite thin and adequately transparent. One of the guys gestured frantically that we were not to go around her.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX9/27/14 11:22 PM |
Cipo got fined big time for that as I recall..
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real9/28/14 6:20 AM |
he was fined all the time,
Cannondale and Saeco paid the fines because it was GREAT marketing.
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