New Columbia co-sponsor
The team currently called Columbia-Highroad, and known in 2008 and 2009 as the team with the most victories in professional cycling, will compete as "Team Columbia-HTC" and will present the new team uniform in Monaco on July 3, the day before the start of the 96th Tour de France.
Chris here... The team will add green accents to the kit as a result of the new sponsor's incorporation. Just a tad auspicious as they line Cavendish up for his first full Tour, no?
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Wonder if they'll no longer be the ugliest kit in pro peloton.
will present the new team uniform in Monaco
The day after the team presentation
Maybe they are having casual thursdays.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Jun 29, 2009 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
What
only one new title sponsor? What does a team have to do…win every race?
"Never swing a small stick. " Andy Hampsten
Darn...I was so hoping they would put a picture of Cav's face on the jersey w/ him on a cell phone...
saying, “It’s never nice when the winner has sat on all day”.
New kit
Translated from italian: “the team will address the Grand Boucle with a special jersey that will be changed several times during the season”. Cool
"several times"
are they trying to imitate Rock Racing? Should I watch out for Cavendish raising his arms in victory only to reveal an anarchy slogan on his chest?
Heh
I think they just mean that the clothes will get a good washing now and then. You know, after rainy stages they get pretty messy.
Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,
Roll on Columbia, Roll on!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 29, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Minor changes
Maybe it’s just minor details changed or added like they did in the Giro, adding a bit of pink and small italian flags.
if it sits poorly, then
someone needs to take up the cause of changing the rules. The effect of kit on competition = nil. The effect of kit on sponsor brand and marketing = possibly great. Go for it.
Heh, they're going back to their telecommunication roots.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
There's going to be green on the kit?!
In addition to yellow, white and black? I’m getting nasty images of this. It can’t end well.
Adrenalina Italiana!
Think of a bumblebee alighting upon a daisy
See? Not so bad.
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
Doesn't look like a bumblebee to me
OTOH, my knowledge when it comes to insects is almost zero.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Jun 30, 2009 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Okay, a bee. I wrote "bumblebee" before I went looking for the picture.
My deepest apologies. No, really.
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
On behalf of all the bumblebees (and bees) in the world
Apology accepted.
Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.
by TheFigurehead on Jun 30, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions
That's either a wasp
or a hornet. Not too sure if that’s a daisy either. I thought they were smaller.
Now you're just being silly.
I can’t vouch for the insect, although it looks rather like a honey bee to me, but that is most definitely a daisy (specifically, an ox-eye daisy).
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
Wait...
Now that I look at the picture again, I’m not sure what any of you were talking about.
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
I've opened this post twice
and it has shown two different pics. Are you sure you are not the frinkster, majope? This has frinking written all over it.
Different picture, you say?
No screen shot, no proof.
(Er…you don’t have a screen shot, right? I mean, even if you did, everybody knows how easy it is to fake them.)
I can't understand why people cheat--Mark Cavendish
Ok this is agood a time as any to announce that I am an ass
I tried the screenshot thing. Printscreen, paste into paint, cut it down to size,……….. then what the heck do I do? I tried copy/paste unsuccessfully.
What are you trying to do?
It looks like you’re pretty much all the way there apart from pressing the big Save button.
I can mark an area in Paint
and Copy but when I return to IE to paste it’s as if there wasn’t anything to paste in. Copy/paste works from Word to IE so why not from Paint to IE?
Pasting into IE wouldn't help
cos you cant upload photos here that way. What you have to do is save it, upload it to somewhere like tinypic.com then copy the address they give you and paste it into the little box that appears when you click on the picture button.
For me daisies are always the little things
that grow on grass and that you children pick to make daisy chains, and grannies pick to make smelly camomile tea.
HA!
I swear that wasn’t the first thing that went through my head when I heard this news.
"Never swing a small stick. " Andy Hampsten
so wrong
if there’s an anti-cycling drug, that has to be it.
Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,
Roll on Columbia, Roll on!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jun 30, 2009 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Perhaps
we should save ourselves all a lot of trouble and just give them the ‘nickname’ THC.
Hold on…Columbia…THC….is there an award for trying hard to distance oneself from doping while associating your self with dope award? If so, Stapleton is a guaranteed winner.
"Never swing a small stick. " Andy Hampsten
Hey...
Perhaps the Green accents are really to match the Green Jersey that Cavendish will be wearing.
Mon coeur appartient à les forçats de la route.
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