… and we’re coming to town, beep beep!
The RadioShack kit is ugly. Team Sky’s is atrocious. But my nominee for Ugly Ass Kit of 2010 is Footon-Servetto-Fuji. These dudes look like they took a dip in Willy Wonka’s septic tank.
We are the goon squad …
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May not be able to tell when they shit themselves!
I think they all did. These guys only hope for dignity would be to win a rainbow jersey. Then, you could custom design your own less putrid kit.
RS is awful. I like the SKY kit. These guy’s look like their nekkid.
What a motivating kit … motivating the team to win a nat championship so they can wear their country’s colors instead!
Metaphor-hunting … footprint on your team’s chest … sort of implies someone walked all over you, right?
Will inspire a whole bunch of Lt Howard Hunter quotes, though. “Frank, I’m not going to wear the brown trousers on this one!”
One can only hope this kit somehow looks better in person than the photo, otherwise how can one explain it? Designed by the Braille Institute perhaps? At first glance it looks like these guys are naked with the logos tatooed on their bodies. I’m often amazed at cycling kit designs, quite often it seems nobody thought about how the stuff will look when it’s on a rider while he/she is riding a bike! You’ve seen them, upside-down logos, logos barely readable, etc. But at least nobody will forget this team once they’ve gagged at their kit.
When I saw this on Cyclingnews.com yesterday I tried to find out what in the hell “Footon” is. I have a cheap couch that converts to a bed in my living room that’s called something like that, but I doubt that’s it. Any ideas?
Footon would be a a Danish foot-bed company. It seems to be a messy material to use.
“‘cuse me, while I whip this out!” Man, oh man, those have got to be the fugliest kits since, well, ever.
Skin color with black swatches, logos and tattoo-like logos just screams … well I sure hope they aren’t planning to ride through certain parts of California with that kit. Some parts could get you propositions, while others can get you killed. Best of luck with those codpiece kits, guys.
Just won’t be able to ride my Fuji while this kit is in the wild. Sigh.
Dudes,
Having overseen years of cycling uniform design, I can say that they could have done a better job, but I’m hesitant to brand them the way Patrick does. They sure do look bad in the photo, but they might be better in Graham Watson’s photo’s taken on the Alpe D’Huez next July. And keep in mind what they are supposed to do, which is to stand out. Maybe they stand out in a bad way to those of us that have seen the best and the worst over the years, but the “in a bad way” part may be absent in the eyese of their target market.
Having said that, I don’t think I’ll be going out and buying one of those for my own use.
Well, as my man Joe Lindsay notes over at the Boulder Report, nothing will ever out-ugly the old Castorama kit. Peeeee-yewwwww. Laurent Brochard looks like a transsexual zucchini farmer in that kit.