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I really fancy buying one of these
http://m.boutique.letour.fr/stores/letour/mobile/en/c/shop-by-team/lotto-soudal
but not sure whether I'll be seen as a t@@t.
Minor teams are OK though, aren't they?
I think you need full kit to be properly looked down upon.
If I get the kids matching jerseys it would look like a mini pro team riding along the canal on the way to swimming.
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I really fancy buying one of these
If that's the case I can't believe you're even asking, buy it now!
Get a top bonk jersey instead, the only acceptable minor team jersey
Lotto-Soudal are hardly a minor team!
It's something to be careful about. Some obscure Belgian team = acceptable.
Top Bonk is a good shout. Always good to support the efforts of a rider that was 19th in the prologue at the 1996 Tour of Morocco.
Current team jerseys are always a bit risky as there's always the possibility of them being implicated in a massive doping scandal and rendering thier jersey deeply uncool.
For reasons I can't quite fathom, teams of a certain minimum vintage are not affected by this rule regardless of how much their riders' urine used to glow in the dark.
Case in point:
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Are Lotto Soudal a minor team? 🙁
No, Lotto Soudal are a major world tour team. A minor team would be Morvelo Basso.
I quite like some of the mad Italian pro-conti teams - Nippo Fantini or Bardiani-CSF.
All4cycling is good for some of the minor ones:
[url= https://www.all4cycling.com/shop/teams-clothing-c-757.html ]https://www.all4cycling.com/shop/teams-clothing-c-757.html[/url]
P.S. Wear what you want.
How about a 1998 Festina team top?
If you like it, buy it, whilst I wouldn't wear it, it's is about the best of th current pro team jerseys.
Alternatively, get thee to Prendas and feast on some lovely retro kit.
This one
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In place of Hatter's recommendation.
but not sure whether I'll be seen as a t@@t.
Only by internet bell ends who probably don't ride as much as you anyway.
Crack on.
I know lotto Soudall are in the equivalent as the premier league but thought they're more bottom third.
Thanks for the link beej
That's right. They are in the WorldTour.
Since when are Lotto Soudal a minor team?
Have a look at this link then decide...
https://twitter.com/fullprokitw?lang=en
Re original question. I wouldn't.
The more obscure the better IMO, I've got a junior Italian team jersey but that's all of my pro kit (other than hats obvs, they don't count) and that one is many many years out of date.
If you don't ride for them, don't wear the kit.
If that makes me an 'internet bell end", fair enough. Rather be a bell end on the intranet than look a bell end chopper in real life with someone else's kit on.
I like it it. Do it.
I bought a Lotto team jersey from a British Heart Foundation shop last year for a princely £4. Garish to the point of actually being quite cool. Bloody love it.
For reasons I can't quite fathom, teams of a certain minimum vintage are not affected by this rule regardless of how much their riders' urine used to glow in the dark.
I had a Colnago in Mapei colours. Only something Italian could be so visually offensive and yet so cool in one object.
I wear a similar lotto/soudal jersey a lot, although I paid £10 from china for it (moral justification: the sponsors pay for their logos to be on the jersey so it's ok, it's not a fake nike/castelli/etc). As jersey's go I think it's interesting and well designed enough to be a decent top in it's own right beyond just a pro team top (as opposed to Discovery, Sky etc).
Adam Hansen rides for them so Lotto-Soudal is OK.
He'll win nothing with kids.
wot vdubber67 said
If you like a jersey, get it and wear it.
Wear what you like.
Anyone basing their judgement of you on the clothes you wear to ride a bike is being a bellend on the internet and in real life.
Wearing a pro cycling jersey?
Bit like wearing the shirt of a PL football team IMHO....
Wear a Lotto jersey round my way and you run the risk of being made to look a prat when an actual Lotto rider turns up to the same ride as you.
If you're an adult then team kits are for team riders (weapons-grade internet bellend here).
I bought a (knock-off) Direct-Energie kit purely for the colours - it matches my bike!
Which is a good a reason as any for wearing it I suppose.
Daft thing came about one evening as myself (on black/yellow bike & wearing the DE kit) and another rider (full red/black BMC kit & matching bike) were attempting to 'race' each other along the Rossendale valley - even I started to laugh at myself at that point!
Its also frowned upon to be a member of your local club, buy all the kit, leave the club, but continue to wear the kit. If you aint a member you shouldn`t wear the kit. Applies to local club, right through to pro team.
My employer supplied everyone who wanted one with company cycling tops, with the company name and logo emblazoned across it.
(Well, actually the California side of the company had a load left over from the previous year with an out-of-date design which were either going to be binned or shipped over to the UK).
They then let me and everyone else go.
I still wear the top. I'm wearing it right now, having just got in from a ride. Is that OK or am I a t@@t ?
Who cares what you wear, I don't get this whole "you can't ride in team kit" bollox
Applies to local club, right through to pro team.
Then why do pro teams sell their kits to members of the public? It's almost like they want people to wear it...
Wear what you like. Out of 100 people you pass on a ride, 80 won't give two hoots,20 might think "look at that w[s]i[/s]ally in his lycra" and once every ten rides you'll pass a [i]serious cyclist[/i] who'll tut to himself because you're wearing a team kit. Who gives a F...?
As for the sneering at people in football shirts, if I was playing football or going to a football match, I might wear a football shirt. It seems like an appropriate thing to do. Like wearing a cycling kit to go cycling.