Orange Crush
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| 10/01/2020 03:35 PM |
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| Hahaha someone from bike club mentioned TT helmets. I just had to look. This is awesome. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 10/01/2020 04:07 PM |
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The back....LOL!
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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Orange Crush
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| 10/01/2020 04:49 PM |
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| This was a logical step. You can only market morbidly overpriced solid colour jerseys and black bibs for so long while being cross-associated with Walmart. |
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Dale
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| 10/01/2020 05:11 PM |
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That is awful beyond description.
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Cosmic Kid
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| 10/01/2020 05:31 PM |
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The TT lid mentioned earlier....
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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Orange Crush
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| 10/01/2020 05:41 PM |
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| For your next tri-a-tri CK. Perfect! Don't forget to put the training wheels on TT bike LOL. |
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Orange Crush
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| 10/01/2020 07:15 PM |
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| Just reading about Einer Augusto Rubio. Maybe Ben will have anew favourite rider. He is leading Movistar. |
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eurochien
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| 10/02/2020 09:04 AM |
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| This kit is borderline humiliating. I'd hate to be on that team. |
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Orange Crush
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| 10/02/2020 11:18 AM |
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Marketing wise this had been absolutely brilliant. This jersey has travelled the world faster than news about 45s positive and everyone now know who Rapha and Palace are.
This is not about marketing to the retro grouches. That segment has been milked to death with milk toast jerseys. It’s about the younger crowd and perhaps the alternative crowd in gravel scene where some eclectic tastes reside. Just from a quick poll in club the reactions vary from moaning of the older members to enthusiastic responses from younger segments who had already been seen riding around in cat jerseys. |
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longslowdistance
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| 10/02/2020 11:59 AM |
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| Good points. A bit like the Zed jerseys in the LeMond era. But that duck TT helmet - is that for real? |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 10/02/2020 12:04 PM |
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But that duck TT helmet - is that for real?
Yup....and I kinda dig it (although I absolutely hate that particular helmet design / shape).
The more I look at the jersey / kit, the more I actually like it. Will be instantly visible in the peloton and really, it is all about exposure. |
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79pmooney
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| 10/02/2020 01:35 PM |
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Actually that jersey is a reflection that what is going on inside a rider's head is all important. The prime objective of a pro team and hence its employees is to showcase the sponsor's product. Best way to do that is the be one of the featured riders in the peloton. Best way to be one of those featured riders? Easy. Wear one of the unique jerseys, GC, mountain, points, young rider.
Now back to thin incentive part - make and force your riders to wear a jersey so hideous that they will go above and beyond to get out of it! |
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Orange Crush
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| 10/03/2020 09:05 PM |
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| Sounds like every rider got a 500 fine from UCI for an outfit unbecoming. |
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79pmooney
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| 10/03/2020 10:08 PM |
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Posted By Orange Crush on 10/03/2020 09:05 PM
Sounds like every rider got a 500 fine from UCI for an outfit unbecoming.
This needs to be covered by the team. If it isn't, CPA should step up fast. No way should a rider be forced to wear those jerseys AND have to pay the fine! (But again, more incentive to ride fast and well enough to trade jerseys for one of the good ones at stage end.  I can envision several riders vying for GC, points, anything!)
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79pmooney
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| 10/05/2020 10:43 AM |
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| Living proof that those hideous EF jerseys work. Jonathan Caicedo. Not only got early word and won his country's championships (and bagged a seriously cool jersey), he now gets a couple more of those treasured Italian ones. |
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