The New Garmin-Chipotle Kit
by rocketpress on Jul 3, 2008 11:04 AM EDT
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Hilarious
I was just formulating this exact post, when our lame laptop was struggling to upload a simple picture. I zapped the post, then went to see if maybe, just maybe, someone else had done it. Thanks!
As for the kit… meh.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 3, 2008 11:11 AM EDT reply actions
Wohoo! Three weeks of sunshine in France
Surely JV must have good intel on the weather in the upcoming weeks, ‘cause surely he wouldn’t go with white bibs if he thought there was any risk of rain?
Other than that : meh
White bottoms?
Someone please tell me they’re kidding?
Have we not gotten through to them about how wrong white bottoms are?
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
lol, yeah
white bibs = no bueno
someone better hang a sign up in the bus: pull down that undershirt before all podium appearances ;-)
It'll be
easy to spot.
I think that may be it for new kits this year, and I can heartily say that Rock Racing wins best new kit for ‘08. For a fashion company, that’s kind of a layup, but still…
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 3, 2008 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
easy to spot???
more white in the peloton????
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
With argyle
Easily distinguished from, say, FDJ or Agritubel. And High Road is now royal blue or something.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 3, 2008 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
i'll wait for a helicopter shot....
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
+1
Go Team Zoe!
Cavendish, Di Gregorio, Fothen, Kirchen
, Kreuziger, Lowe, Siutsou
, Ten Dam
, Y.Trofimov and Vandevelde
Really? I disagree.
I think JV always looks pretty smart. I’m not a big fan of the white collar / different collar shirt, but the tie, pocket square, pin stripe suit all look good. Note that his tie ends perfectly at the middle of his belt buckle.
Maybe I’d quibble about wearing a darker shade of brown when wearing a navy suit. But I far prefer a brown belt a bit too light over the more American-style black shoes/belt with a blue suit.
Speaking of belt buckles -
was he wearing the shiney new Clif Bar Belt Buckle that the team wil be sporting? According to the team website, Clif Bar says:
"…let’s face it, all bike racers know that when it comes right down to it looking good is approx 73.4% of the battle. And as we all know, a sharp après-race outfit is only as good as its buckle. So play hard, play fair, and always play with oodles of style
he does always look quite sharp
which is why I thought this was just horrible. That shirt and jacket combo? Ack. Add the wrong shade of brown (hush with that black/blue thing, lest you give anyone any ideas) and it just gets worse.
looks like
a coked-up I-bank guy. Probably not the look he wants to be going for. There are many better ways to look sharp.
Viva la Lactique
But
his manscaping is top shelf.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 3, 2008 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Hope?
It looks like there is some black on the bibs. You can just see a sliver of it on David’s hip…
Oh no....
Here is the video of the press conference.
I think the top is sharp and hopefully will be easy to pull from the pack on tv but the white shorts. Just umm.. yeah… not thrilled on that… at all. And the video does not help change my mind.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
My eyes are bleeding.
I just looked at the video. White short should be outllawed. What the hell were they thinking?
by The Team Chef on Jul 3, 2008 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Let's face it, both Garmin and Columbia were bound to be dull
There’s really not much to work with in the logos and colours of the sponsors. Take a look at the pictures of the Columbia-bus. It’s so dull it’s sad. Now magenta for all it’s flaws, that was a colour you could work with and make something cool with.
i liked much more the High Road jersey.
this blue from Columbia takes the brightness of the team. Unlike Team Garmin that now have this brightness, seems they switch…
by semprenaroda on Jul 3, 2008 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
watching the Team presentation live
the white bibs are bad, otherwise the kit is ok.
SD has also a lot more white in their kit, but thankfully they still have black in their bibs…
here is the entire kit
Courtesy of the team site
A little better than the above images suggest. But still, that white on the groinal area…
Why could they not carry the blue down
from the argyle pattern above. That would’ve been okay.
The highlighted crotch is just not appealing. Dark people… that area needs to be DARK.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Did you consider
that maybe they are proud of their groinal region? Maybe they have chosen to draw attention to it? Maybe those shorts are saying “look at my crotch, go ahead, it’s OK”. The new Garmen are dope free and proud of their groinal regions. They should be celebrated, not mocked…
Well in that case, pull out the bells, whistles, and bows.
Go ahead… tie a bow on it already. (I so prefer somethings in life to be left for the imagination and not right out there for all…)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
I consider that they want "buzz"
Whatever that buzz might be. Parents demanding their kids take team posters off bedroom walls? Worked for Elvis. So, buzz buzz buzz.
When I lived in Seattle, a highlight of the Freemont street fair’s parade was the decorated, naked cyclists who would suddenly dash through. Everyone, kids (and parents) included, thought it was a blast. (and what do you know, there IS a link!) Of course, that was optional for the riders. And it just wouldn’t play the same way in Pittsburgh, I’m afraid.
So long as the GARmen don’t mind presenting their yayas to the world, it’s all good. If they are shy… maybe we should take up a collection to send them little “Garmin / Chipotle / PodiumCafe” wrap-towels for interview and podium time.
They are all about transparency, haven't you heard
Also they want to prove to the world that they are not among those athletes who use Viagra as a PED.
by Jens on Jul 3, 2008 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's just so not right.
The video was how did TTC put it… eye bleeding. So bad.
Do they not have cups or something?
I like the kit but that area so just needs to be dark. Be transparent somewhere else. I enjoy looking at the guys of the peloton but not when somethings coming out at the camera… LOL!
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Oh my
is that for real? The DZ quote is priceless, with the highlighted “taint” in the “maintaintanance” (you need to see it in color to get the full effect ).
Love his quote from an interview on done on Road Mag.
“Everyone was making coffee, and I was like, I’m gonna make ass cream! – Dave Zabriskie
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
You know
that’s actually not half bad…
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 3, 2008 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Except
the white groin
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Jul 3, 2008 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Just looked at the video.
The blazing white groin area is actually framed by the black! Lest you miss it. Let’s just hope they don’t podium often. Or at all.
Perhaps there’s a penalty for indecency that could be invoked beforehand? Although my guess is that nobody has veto power over the team kits—look at SD showing up in the unearned maillots jaunes.
But this—thinking back on Vaughters’s stubborn allegiance to the argyle in the face of ridicule and disbelief, I wonder if it’s deliberate.
What’s the rear view? That’ll tell us something. And perhaps more than we want to know.
Backside
The team site has the design of the rear here…
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
now, that's just stupid
Think of the expense in bib replacement…It’ll be impossible to keep the seat-contact area and the “back stripe” white-white, and even the implication of skid-marks will be distasteful. I guess they want something that’ll look good on the team bobbleheads.
Maybe they could put the burrito
on the front too.
Give thanks that it's not a german one
they eat theirs sans bun.
So busting up!!! I almost have tears....
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
British Champ
Millar is brit champ so his kit will look a bit different, probably whiter bibs than he has now. White is the new black. Just look at Cervelo R3’s and few other brands bikes.
Of course
FDJ has ridden in white for years with no outcry. But nobody looks at them. And Paolo.
Tom Boonen a few years ago was wearing the Rainbow striipes,
I wish I could remember exactly which race it was but he made some serious doodsmak in his shorts. It’s hard to keep a secret in white shorts.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - G. Marx
paris-roubaix
but the shorts were blue . . .
although brown shows up pretty well against blue too . . .
la-la-la-la-la
pluging my ears and covering my eyes! I don’t want to know what they do in their shorts. I prefer to be ignorant.
Go Team Zoe!
Cavendish, Di Gregorio, Fothen, Kirchen
, Kreuziger, Lowe, Siutsou
, Ten Dam
, Y.Trofimov and Vandevelde
oh, it warms my heart
when people click on my links.
Even better? I looked just like Jay, not so many years ago.
~
Here’s some weekend music, for the masses.
You can really see that?
Did we know each other in high school?
~
But really, thanks for the kind words, folks. Not a political forum, blah blah, but it’s always encouraging to see that you’re my people.
Milram = Columbia
The chaps and the dirty white crotch are the only way that we will be able to pick out the Lost Boys of Garmin from the Lactose Lads of Milram and the also all-blue Fashion Victim Columbia boys (whose kit looks like some cheap knockoff club kit)
uggghhh
Garmin-Chipotle seems determined to earn the Tonton-Tapis or Castorama award for worst Tour kit.
Did they have separate design teams for the shorts and jersey?
Who worked on separate continents? WIthout e-mail or skype?
Because the shorts and jersey DON”T MATCH.
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