Kit Crit: Vacansoleil DCM!
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 4, 2012 6:57 PM EST
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The Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 2012 (via vacansoleildcm)
The Good: Here's the basic version. More white in the chest, arms and sides than last year's mostly blue effort. It's a more balanced look than before, and a nice change, especially compared to the unbalanced look they achieved in 2011 when the all blue jersey was paired with white armbands. Another +1 to how subtle the yellow looks next to all the white. Dutch champs kit looks very stylish on Pim Ligthart, in part because his shorts apparently won't have the tire track, or suspension bridge treads, or whatever that yellow swoop is.
The Bad: Too busy. Five sponsors on the front alone? Couldn't they have given exclusive real estate and spread the names around more?
The Ugly: Sergey Lagutin's Uzbek Champs kit. The fault likes with the national flag of Ubeki-beki-bekistan, but the end result is still a toxic brew of dark, bright and neon. Incidentally, what Uzbekistan lacks in flag fashions, it makes up for in national emblem awesomeness. Had they found a way to work that in to Lagutin's kit, I'd be handing out Buy recommendations.
Overall, things are looking up for Vacansoleil in 2012, at least on the fashion front. And that's a start.
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i don't see anything ugly about lagutin's kit
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
To each their own
but I’m not a fan of the blue/green/red/yellow mix. Too much!
De cross gaat out that door.
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 4, 2012 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
You're definitely right about that uzbek national emblem.
lf they had just printed that big crazy thing on the front or back, l would have ordered it promptly
Jersey is ok. What is ugly is his haircut!
But hey! He spent November and December in New Mexico! They have no fashion sense there!
:)
" I like that Cav got his wins…"
JJY 10/20/11
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Ubeki' Nat'l Jersey would really fit in on Quickstep uni.....
…nice haircut…that way a guy can ‘comb his hair with a pillow every mornin’ – and look sharp.
Soli Deo Gloria
The only thing wrong with Sergey's jersey is that I couldn't get one for me yet..!
Strava...? Mission accomplished.TOP 10..? I am not pushing it.. But....
I have one.
But you will have to lose more then your goal ( 19 kg) to fit in that one.
" I like that Cav got his wins…"
JJY 10/20/11
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I know you do....
Don’t play with your luck I just might loose more….
Strava...? Mission accomplished.TOP 10..? I am not pushing it.. But....
Nice little viddy presentation of the team.
Won’t make up for the jersey shortcomings however.
Prediction: less barbwire, but continued aggressive racing.
They should have put the barbed wire on the jersey.
"These are my principles and if you don't like them....well I have others." Groucho Marx
I dare you to find a more Russian looking guy than Nikita Novikov.
Straight out of a Sergei Eisenstein movie.
I don't think there's too much wrong with Lagutin's jersey
But oh dear do they manage to screw up the rider pics. I believe every rider on the team have had at least one part of their bodies removed, a lot of them have no hands. Gustav has one, but they cut off his left arm by the elbow.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
It gives the riders a certain glow
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Jan 5, 2012 6:16 AM EST up reply actions
Yuck.
I hate that color combination at the best of times—those of us who lived through the ’70s once have no desire to repeat the experience. Somehow it looks even worse on the helmet.
On the plus side, even in dull conditions that blue chinstrap is going to be distinctive.
Luxembourg is very close to Belgium--Frank Schleck
that
may require its own post.
De cross gaat out that door.
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 5, 2012 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
i like the color combo
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
At least it's distinctive
Half the time last year I couldn’t tell whether I was watching Sky or Leopard-Trek.
"These are my principles and if you don't like them....well I have others." Groucho Marx
I also like it well enough
I wouldn’t pick the chocolate on my own, but it is distinctive especially with the straps and that means a lot to me when I am watching a race
by uninformed consent on Jan 6, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
2 things about that video
1) It’s funny to watch the guys try to scamper away in their cleats after that group shot by the car. Walking awkwardly in cycling shoes is universal. and
b) I like how Bianchi keeps the Celeste green despite the teams kit.
The problem is that the Uzbek kit is actually the wrong colour of blue!
I like Lagutin’s jersey, but it would be even better if they didn’t use the Vacansoleil blue within it, and went for a full-on flag-shirt:
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