Vote for the Rabobank women's team jersey for 2012!

by Sarah Connolly on Oct 20, 2011 2:38 PM EDT

Hopefully by now you know that Rabobank will be taking over the sponsorship of Nederland Bloeit, the hugely successful team of all-round superstar Marianne Vos and winner of the Ronde van Vlaanderen and the 2011 Road World Cup, Annemiek van Vleuten. It's great news on a load of fronts - and it looks like they're already wanting to engage fans in new ways, this time by letting us vote for the jersey design for 2012!

Here are the choices: (below the fold thingy!)

via a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net

Vote for your choice on the Rabosport facebook page - so far, orange & white is winning! Remember this will also need to be combined with Marianne Vos's Dutch National Champion colours, and probably every jersey for every race!

(And yes, I AM mourning the teenytiny cows and vegetables that adorned the Nederland Bloeit kit.... I still think there's space on this one for little tractors, broccoli and cows...)

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How can anyone design a Rabo jersey with so little Orange?

by Monty. on Oct 20, 2011 3:03 PM EDT reply actions

Yes

Needs more orange. :D

~ Gavia ~

by Jen See on Oct 20, 2011 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions

ooops

I was going to vote for the less orangey one

moo

by Willj on Oct 20, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Because the other one has a white collar?

And those are notoriously hard to clean.

"Beer helps." -- Ant1.

by tedvdw on Oct 20, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Powder, machine, button, sorted

Well I doubt that the pros clean their own kit any more, but which century are you living in? I n what part of the Netherlands do you sit on the river bank bashing a wet chamois against rocks to clean it?

by Monty. on Oct 20, 2011 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Wet chamois against rocks

I do it all the time.

"Beer helps." -- Ant1.

by tedvdw on Oct 20, 2011 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions

+1

very weak colouring here. Oranje FTW.

by Uphill on Oct 20, 2011 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Yep, lots more orange.

by Veloki on Oct 20, 2011 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Ha!

HOw did I know you’d agree :D

I mean, if the Cafe has more Orange than the team? This seems wrong. Or maybe right.

~ Gavia ~

by Jen See on Oct 20, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions

I defer to design experts :)

moo

by Willj on Oct 20, 2011 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I'll say it again, because it's never enough

More orange please!

by pmrlo on Oct 20, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions

I was wondering

if, on the road, the “white” version might even show more orange, due to the side panels.

"Beer helps." -- Ant1.

by tedvdw on Oct 20, 2011 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Possibly.

But in the unlikely event of our getting more video, the back tends to be quite important. But still, needs more orange all round. I kind of feel both of these are sort of “girly” Rabo kit lite.

"I’m hoping for the Mortirolo-Gavia combination, then we can ride down to Bormio for ice cream." Emma Pooley on the Giro Donne

by civetta on Oct 20, 2011 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Don't give them ideas

or the next version will add a bit of pink too. (Actually I still miss the pink of Leontien – maybe the change of colour was where it started to go wrong for them this year)

by Monty. on Oct 20, 2011 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Leontien was so girly

it was kind of cool. I was never exactly tempted to buy a jersey or anything, mind.

"I’m hoping for the Mortirolo-Gavia combination, then we can ride down to Bormio for ice cream." Emma Pooley on the Giro Donne

by civetta on Oct 20, 2011 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions

You prefer black?

(And white. And green.)

"Beer helps." -- Ant1.

by tedvdw on Oct 20, 2011 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions

oooh

Jail can’t be that bad after all

moo

by Willj on Oct 20, 2011 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

+1 sign me up for cell mate

by JustJoshinYa on Oct 20, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions

sign up?

pee on a policeman’s motorcycle or throw a stone through the windows of a big mac shop after hours. That will do the job.

by Uphill on Oct 20, 2011 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions

i confess officer,

i stole some stuff when i was a kid. Take me away.

by yeehoo on Oct 21, 2011 6:30 AM EDT up reply actions

a Cipo derivative.

Much better than the two proposed bland corp Rabo designs.

by Uphill on Oct 20, 2011 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Or Saeco/Cannondale

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...

by TheFigurehead on Oct 21, 2011 3:28 AM EDT up reply actions

The horizontal stripes around the crotch

point inwards in a very odd way

I am ready to hug the world - Tony Martin.

by tgsgirl on Oct 20, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions

V for Victory...

cough

by JustJoshinYa on Oct 20, 2011 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions

This is where Frinking is supposed to insert an inappropriate Lebowski line

by Jens on Oct 20, 2011 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions

"Beer helps." -- Ant1.

by tedvdw on Oct 20, 2011 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions

"Do you know how hard it is"

to search for that picture?

"Beer helps." -- Ant1.

by tedvdw on Oct 20, 2011 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions

haha

1-10 of 8billion results.

by Uphill on Oct 20, 2011 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions

ha

google vagina + little girl, enter a world of jail.

"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."

by ant1 on Oct 24, 2011 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions