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British Cycling LogoBritish Cycling to launch replica Team GB kit ahead of London 2012
British Cycling has announced that it will be releasing a range of replica kit to enable the country’s cyclists to fly the flag in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics.
Produced by Adidas, the eight-item range “will be designed using team specification, technology and styling,” says British Cycling, made from the same material and with similar performance to that worn by the country’s top riders.
Items will include short and long sleeve jerseys, the latter with a fleece inner, wind vest, bib shorts, gloves, socks and cap, together with a child’s cycling jersey.
British Cycling says that the kit “will be available from a number of well-known cycling retailers,” and there will be “sneak preview” of it at the fortchcoming Manchester Track Cycling World Cup on 18-20 February.
Full details of pricing and retailers will be released shortly, and one of the sales outlets will be Wiggle, where British Cycling members will benefit from a discount when buying items.
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- snooks 35 min 23 sec ago
I'm not a Lance fan at all but the snarky tone of this is just dumb.
- Paul J 43 min 48 sec ago
Is it just me or is there a link or embed missing for the image of the Dublin bike lane from Ola Løkken Nordrum?
- BikingBud 1 hour 32 min ago
How can anybody reject the beauty of that? It's a wonderful mix of modern tech yet absolutely functional.
- amawby 2 hours 40 min ago
Not unless theVED is made eye wateringly expensive....
- mdavidford 2 hours 51 min ago
My mum always told me I'd inherited her 'hobbit feet', though as far as I'm aware we don't have any family in New Zealand.
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Hyponatremia is a real risk even for an amateur cyclist or runner in hot weather. I've bonked from it before, and I was drinking Gatorade the whole...
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in the UK we have policing which to a greater or lesser extent relies on assistance from members of the public......
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Just wanted to share a quick thank you to everyone who helped out in this thread....
- SecretSam 5 hours 8 min ago
So...don't cycle on it. Lots of other routes around that area. Source: I used to work there.
- Steve K 5 hours 28 min ago
My photochromic specs have just turned up in the post today
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On the up side... it sends a message of support to the team, raises some money for cycling, and builds the profile of cycling in the public eye and press.
On the down side... the people wearing it weren't in the team.
Gee, let me think about that for a while.
If you don't like it then look at it in the same way as people who wear TDF leader jerseys.
Is there anything more irresistable and ultimately satisfying than chasing and catching some tosser wearing the KoM jersey as he labours up a 6% gradient.
And if you really, really don't like it then look at it like Livestrong bands, or the Daily Mail. A useful way to identify people you don't want to be around.
I can't see what the problem is... But I do get a bit edgy seeing people in the yellow, gold, pink etc jerseys. I mean would you go out with your fake olympic medal on?
Anyhoo life goes on...
I'll give it a go. I'm typically invisible on the bike anyway so nobody is going to notice the 2012 kit.
Awesomelols @Simon_MacMichael. I doff my lid to you sir.
I love it!! I would wear one because I am patriotic.
'Patriotic' isn't the first word that springs to my mind Fella
I think support for BC is all very well, and I could see even myself wearing a stylishly designed BC Supporters polo shirt on the right occasion, but the possibility of seeing cyclists pounding the roads dressed top-to-toe in this kit is as ridiculous as seeing pub soccer teams turning out on a Sunday morning up and down the land in replica England strip
...and there you are:
http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/british-cycling-and-adidas-reveal-offic...
Pass my fags, my pint and my copy of the Sun - I'm off for a bike ride - better shave off my sideburns in case I'm mistaken for Wiggo, though.
Love your work, Simon
It'll be like football soon, when any fat old chav who's fond of the beer and cigs can pull on an England shirt.
And the fans then go out and buy the replica kit with his name on the back
Sounds like Bike Radar on here all of a sudden... the old replica kit debate !
No one ever looked good in National kit unless they'd earned the right to wear it.
So so true....
If it's anything like the 2012 stuff Adidas have already put out, it'll be sh*te...