Cav's Sky top with World bands?

[subaqua]

Absolute codswollop, wear what you want.

Ignore anyone who tries to tell you what to do or wear without being invited to comment.

exactly. cycle snobbery gets right under my skin

 

[mr Mag00]

The other day I thought I was stood behind Wayne Rooney in Aldi and he was wearing his team shirt. Then the guy turned around and I could see that he was fat and ugly... I still wasn't sure!

you owe me a keyboard and a cup o' tea

 

[Dayvo]

Reminds me of the time I met a fellow CC forummer at a track meeting and he commented "who is the poser in the Rainbow jersey?"..."err, that's the current world champion"...

Yeah, there's some real tossers around, Noods!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

depends where you are, i suppose. around my part of the world you will regularly see team gb and team sky training, and one of my clubmates is the paracycling world tt champion, not to mention a certain mr cavendish once he starts pounding the lanes of south manchester…

for any joe to wear those jerseys (team sky regular kit aside) is to dishonour the achievement. think of the difference between a regular man utd shirt and one which was specially made for a champions' league final…

 

[rich p]

I know that we like to have an argument over anything on CC but the truth of the matter is that no-one has found anywhere the OP could buy one anyway!

 

[subaqua]

depends where you are, i suppose. around my part of the world you will regularly see team gb and team sky training, and one of my clubmates is the paracycling world tt champion, not to mention a certain mr cavendish once he starts pounding the lanes of south manchester…

for any joe to wear those jerseys (team sky regular kit aside) is to dishonour the achievement. think of the difference between a regular man utd shirt and one which was specially made for a champions' league final…

you haven't quite got the point about REPLICA jerseys have you. the jerseys being sold in cycle shops are NOT the real jersey awarded , just the same as the jersey the redhsite have made for the champions leauge final are NOT the jerseys for sale in JJB sports.

 

[bennydorano]

I would draw the line at a KOTM top myself, it would leave me open to a serious slagging as I'm shaped more like Cancellara's fatter brother than Contador.

Some people take it a little too seriously by the looks of things. Dishounouring the jersey

 

[Crackle]

Absolute codswollop, wear what you want.

Ignore anyone who tries to tell you what to do or wear without being invited to comment.

Trust Noodley on this. He knows a lot about being walloped by a cod.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i beg to differ. you are entitled to wear the rainbow jersey for a year upon winning the world championship, in much the same way as you get to keep the fa cup in your trophy cabinet.

 

[PpPete]

At he cafe on a club run two of decided that of all the possible jerseys available both of us would go for the KoM shirt because we cant climb

KOM worn as an ironic reference to one's own inability to climb quickly is OK in my book.

 

[zizou]

depends where you are, i suppose. around my part of the world you will regularly see team gb and team sky training, and one of my clubmates is the paracycling world tt champion, not to mention a certain mr cavendish once he starts pounding the lanes of south manchester…

for any joe to wear those jerseys (team sky regular kit aside) is to dishonour the achievement. think of the difference between a regular man utd shirt and one which was specially made for a champions' league final…

How does it dishonour the achievement?

Someone wanting to wear a rainbow banded sky jersey as a way to support Cav is doing so to honour the achievement and show their support rather than the opposite. It is not like they are trying to pretend to be world champion themselves nor wearing the rainbow bands in competition.

These shirts are available to be buy unlike the Team GB Olympic kit - the designs the athletes and cyclists wear is only available to those who are at the Olympics, it is different to the Team GB gear that can be purchased. If cycling wants to keep jerseys only for 'official' use then the UCI should follow a similar policy, but they don't.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i've messaged a current world champion to see what they think of the matter in hand…

 

[I am Spartacus]

Go on then, so what are you going to say to me in Waitescobury when you see me sporting the HTC version of his jersey, If I actually had the £60 to piddle away on it?

No, I wouldnt compete or club ride wearing it, I am happy enough to use my club jersey.

(I dont actually think I could wear the Sky version, but thats another argument.)

 

[I am Spartacus]

i've messaged a current world champion to see what they think of the matter in hand…

He's happy to sell it apparently

 

[beastie]

IMO wearing a team jersey or even a national team jersey is fine, that's like any other sport where the fan is showing their support, maybe a bit tribal but why not. I have a Scotland rugby top, but I don't pretend tto play for the national side.

The world champions jersey, the tour jersey's and national champs jerseys are a trophy - the reward as it were in place of a silver cup. I think they are best left to them what earned them.