GB Team Kit whilst commuting - Don't

[MacB]

Team Kit is fine, that I don't have a problem with - my OP said "but not GB Squad Kit", especially in Manchester - you regularly see the GB squad out training up here....

I think we 'got' the OP but considered it a ludicrous premise. It had never crossed my mind to buy, or wear, team GB kit, but no unwritten rule would stop me. I prefer plain stuff but have recently purchased older stuff from Prendas, coz it's cheap. I have no idea what the teams are or what riders are associated with them. If it's for sale then:-

if you buy it to wear on a night out then it's every bit as naff as wearing a football shirt out

if you buy it to wear when cycling then good for you.

There's also the fact that the 'transgressor' you mention in your OP was probably pretty happy with what he was doing. The only embarrassing moment I can see here is yours. If some numpty is so eager to brown nose to a 'Team GB' member that he mistakes a pootling commuter for one, then he can hardly blame said commuter.

 

[fossyant]

Ohh get you........

 

[ferret fur]

Do any of the people on here who object to team kit also shave their legs?

 

[ufkacbln]

As before Team kit is cheap!

I wear some team kit, and on a recumbent which is hardly a true image

However the thing about team kit is that it dates, and the shops clear out their "last year's kit" at often bargain prices.

I may not support a particular team, but if I can get quality kit at less than half the price (or less) of "normal" clothing of the same standard then I am going to wear "team kit"

For beginners and those on a budget this is often a good way of accessing kit and equipment.

 

[MacB]

Ohh get you........

I know, bit prickly, but figured you'd hack it

 

[fossyant]

I know, bit prickly, but figured you'd hack it

 

[Goffins]

The snobery in cycling is obviously as prevelant in the Car driving community.

It's a shame really but I think trying to emulate your sporting heroes or showing respect to your national team is a good thing and not to be sneered at. Hell, I rode to work the other day in a T-mobile sponsored Chelsea away Top and I'm not sponsored by T-mobile and I hate Chelsea but the top was clean and as it was my ex's fit rather snuggly.

I'm pretty sure nobody mistook me for Frank Lampard so I think the world will continue to spin on its axis.

Maybe more people should wear team kit, that way they may feel more inclined to ride a bit faster when on their several thousand pounds worth of bikes; You know who you are.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Team kit is usually the best-made cycling gear for the job. If you use your commute as a training run (as I do) and have a shower when you get into work, then it makes sense to wear stuff that is skin-tight and fast-wicking. I have absolutely no interest in what anyone else thinks about this. I always buy end-of-line and out-of-date team kit, because it is better value than buying anything else. And I like wearing obscure stuff from continental teams - it's not as it you are advertising anything anyone here has ever heard of!*

*however, this doesn't always work out... I was slightly embarrassed to discover that my bib shorts from a few years ago were advertising a famous Swiss lap-dancing club! Not really what I would support...

 

[ianrauk]

Chelsea were never sposored by T-Mobile, do you mean Samsung?

I rode to work the other day in a T-mobile sponsored Chelsea away Top and I'm not sponsored by T-mobile and I hate Chelsea but the top was clean and as it was my ex's fit rather snuggly.

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[Goffins]

Chelsea were never sposored by T-Mobile, do you mean Samsung?

I could have sworn it was T-mobile but I just went and checked and you sir are correct.

On a side note I'm sorry for my pissy post this morning, turns out I'm a bit of a grump in the mornings.

 

[ChrisKH]

I struggle to find kit that fits me that hasn't got some form of sponsorship on it tbh. My most comfortable Bib shorts are B'Twin racing ones. I don't kid myself that I'm a member of the B'Twin racing team.

 

[MacB]

I struggle to find kit that fits me that hasn't got some form of sponsorship on it tbh. My most comfortable Bib shorts are B'Twin racing ones. I don't kid myself that I'm a member of the B'Twin racing team.

what, not even when you're posing in front of the mirror?

 

[hackbike 666]

I can't see the point in wearing all that stuff for my ten mile commute so I just wear ordinary easy to clean stuff.

 

[ChrisKH]

what, not even when you're posing in front of the mirror?

'ere, you been watchin'?

 

[Landslide]

I could have sworn it was T-mobile but I just went and checked and you sir are correct.

On a side note I'm sorry for my pissy post this morning, turns out I'm a bit of a grump in the mornings.

I'd be a grump suicidal if I'd commuted in Chelski kit!!!