Team strips for specific dates?

[ufkacbln]

There may even be a heirarchy of the events that occur during the Tour?

Something like the Battle of the Boyne would be specific to a few and is not a Formal Public Holiday - so could easily be refused

Bastille Day is a formal Public Holiday, but unique to the French - and again easily refused

Mandela Day is however an International Day decreed by the UN and would have a better provenance for being allowed.

But if you do that, what about the others that occur?

If a team wanted to celebrate the other days occurring during the 2015 Tour - "World Population Day", "World Youth Skills Day" or the "International Day of Cooperatives" would the same status as UN International Days be sufficient to argue strip exemptions on these dates?

It sets a precedent

 

[themosquitoking]

WTF are we all supposed to do on World Population Day?

 

[iLB]

From the UCI rules and regs...

General observations
1.3.035 Each team may have only a single design for clothing (colours and layout) which may
not be altered for the duration of the calendar year. Any permanent change to clothing
must be duly justified and submitted for approval to the President of the Professional
Cycling Council for UCI WorldTeams, or the President of the Road Commission for
other UCI-registered teams.
Each team may use different clothing for one full event each year. The clothing must be
submitted for approval to the President of the Professional Cycling Council for UCI
WorldTeams, or the President of the Road Commission for other UCI-registered teams,
at least 21 days before the event in question. The application may be rejected for
reasons considered valid for the case in question, in particular any similarity to the
clothing of another team.

 

[oldroadman]

From the UCI rules and regs...

Which says it all, and covers the ONCE and Sky variations. MTN might be able to get approval for the entire TdF, not one day. So long as we don't get another spectacle like the one I have already mentioned.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Never mind "one off" options, every MTN-Qhubeka rider will have a personalised jersey:
http://www.teammtnqhubeka.com/?p=6552

 

[ufkacbln]

The personalised letters should make it easier to spot where your favourite MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung riders are in the peloton this year.

... and in my naivety I though that race numbers did that?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

... and in my naivety I though that race numbers did that?

You certainly cannae rely on the commentators

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

A whole team of Songezo Jims

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KwIhqOC3bQ&feature=youtu.be

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Haven't IAM Cycling been told by the UCI they can't put riders' names so prominently on the back of their jerseys? MTN Qhubeka's idea is kinda the same thing.

 

[shadow master]

MTN-Qhubeka has been given a wild card entry into the Tour de France, they are the first African team to gain an entry

They have stated that they wish to wear a special jersey on "Mandela Day" (18th July)

Should this be something that is allowed?

Who cares, they'll be so far behind they will get virtually none of the biased tour coverage anyway!Lampre merida as a new team had stage victories on events last year,and weren't even mentioned or interviewed!

 

[Louch]

Haven't IAM Cycling been told by the UCI they can't put riders' names so prominently on the back of their jerseys? MTN Qhubeka's idea is kinda the same thing.

They have been told to move names position on rear of jersey