Team Columbia Goes Blue

fashion disaster. Oh well. It won’t slow them down. Though they may be banned from events in Milan.

Big fan of darker blue, and it’s more understated than some of the Nascar jerseys out there. I’m for it.

If it is, it might be a bit much. But that’s really a personal thing, as that shade if blue isn’t one of my favorites. Then again, a lot of times, kits look just so so in a photo or illustration and not half bad when really on a person. I do like the suns on the shoulders and the black trim.

Has left the building. The assault on my eyes has been lifted from that fugly white/black Fat Albert goes to the races jerseys they were wearing at the start of the year.

Then they will truly realize their goal of transforming their team into a band of marauding Smurfs with Cavendish leading the charge as Vanity Smurf.

My vote: blech.

than the bazooka joe/subway white…

http://www.velo-club.net/article?sid=46103

but how do I use it in a comment?

and I’m again okay with this one. The pack got so overloaded with white that at this point I am so okay with almost anything not. I think this will look good on the riders and we should be able to pick them out pretty easy. :-)

maybe they opted for something simple. So, hopefully this just hastily assembled for the Tour with plans of revamping it for next season.

I bet it will look much better in action.

it’s not gerolsteiner sky+aqua blue, nor Astana aqua with rising sun yelow. Milram blue is very close, but with white. It’s definitely not quickstep blue/white. but, gee… isn’t that an awful lot of blue?

Were we not complaining about too much blue BEFORE we were complaining about black & white?

Makes me appreciate navigare—you can spot them a mile away in the fog.

And, of course, there’s the (since partially discredited) research saying that red, not blue, correlates with winning teams in one-on-one sports:
here
(BTW Don’t pay good money to read past the abstract…there’s not much more to it. And if that were true, one shudders to think what Cofidis would ride like in blue.)

Bring back the chest stripe. Bring back two contrasting primary colors. Bring back one big contrasting diamond. Kids nowadays. Keep off my lawn. Wipe your feet.

of course, blue is my fav color, and this is a nice shade….

not busy busy (which would freak my eyes)

simple, clean, understated…

imho

I don’t love the yellow, but overall it looks good. My favorite all time kit was Fassa Bortola circa 2004-2005.

they would go with bibs made out of rip-stop nylon with leg/knee warmers that zipped off. D-Ring strap closure cargo pockets on the side. Available in Heather, Ash, Sand and Dark Camel.

But, I guess it’s ok that they sorta match the jersey.

Rabo – ugly. Cofidis – ugly. Leakygas – very cool. Euska-skadi – sweet orange and black shorts with the stealth black Orca. The old Disco – triple boring. I was watching an old ‘Chasing Lance’ this week and that team might have been able to shred but they had no style. LA with the long shorts, tall socks, black shoes. Metallic blue Trek might have been the ugliest way ever to spend $5k on bike. Lugged round tubes and not a curve in sight. The bottom bracket and head tube… neither ever looked right. The large sizes seemed to have a top tube slope that went UP from the head tube to the seat.

I am glad it doesn’t having the Milram style racy stripes. Ugh. Milram’s jersey reminds me of a referee’s stripes. The yellow sunny spots are going to make it much easier to pick out the boys in a peloton.

I do agree there is too much blue in the pro peloton though. I ran the numbers. Out of 18 pro tour teams 11 have blue as the main color or a main color. Black and red come in at #2. It doesn’t make sense if the purpose is to get noticed for the sponsor why not have a more distinct jersey? Maybe the blue ribbon is the winner psychological aspect comes into play? Who knows.

Blue as main color or one of the main colors:

1. AG2R – white and blue
2. Astana – blue with yellow
3. Bouyges Telecom – blue and white
4. Columbia/High Road – blue with yellow
5. Française Des Jeux – white with blue
6. Gerolsteiner – blue and white
7. Lampre – blue and pink
8. Liquigas – green with blue
9. Quick Step – white and blue
10. Rabobank – orange with blue
11. Milram – blue with white

No blue

1. Caisse d’Epargne – black and red
2. Cofidis – red with yellow
3. Crédit Agricole – white and green
4. Euskaltel-Euskadi – orange
5. Saunier Duval-Scott – yellow
6. Silence Lotto – black and red
7. CSC Saxo Bank – white, red and black

Why does beautiful purple get shunned? It is Donny Osmond’s favorite color. [I used to be his biggest fan and I had purple socks just like his.]