Team Giant-Shimano

[ANAO]

New team, new kit.

Are the racing stripes racey, or do we have referees in the peloton?

As Jeremy Clarkson once said on Top Gear, "Go Fast stripes don't actually make you go fast..."

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Taken from their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/teamgiantshimano?ref=hl

[cfox]

wow, that kit is awful. Team JC Penney presented by TJ Maxx. 2014 is shaping up to be year of the bad kit (see Trek pinstripes)

[Shortsocks]

Wow. That's horrible. Looks like I would find that in the return bin/discount box in the back of a Performance Bikes shop next to the restrooms....yes I know that box exists because I always find Michelin Pro Race 3 tires there for extremely cheap. :banana:

[Hawker]

Hmm, doesn't look that awful to me. And, easy to identify.

[MattTuck]

I think it is easy to hate on new kit designs. And this isn't helping.

Still, I sometimes wonder if Molteni had never existed, and a team today created kit like Molteni of yesteryear, if the collective internet would lambast it as being too simple, uninspired and orange.

[David Tollefson]

Some pro team needs to resurrect the Brooklyn kit.

[Uncle Jam's Army]

I don't like this kit, or the new Trek kit, or the new IAM kit. Just seems to lack creativity, seemingly copying Rapha's less-is-more style. Or maybe I'm just becoming curmudgeonly in my advancing age.

[54ny77]

leg hair is the new black (and white).

[Idris Icabod]

I'm not adverse to it and it beats the heck out of the past decades kits with a million sponsors on them, simple is better than a rolling billboard IMHO.

[Hawker]

Hmm, with Giant taking over as title sponsor, wonder if they have the dollars to sign Horner? This is a Cat 1 team correct?

[thegunner]

there seems to be a huge departure from tri-banded horizontal stripes to vertical. not sure why, i liked the belkin and leopard trek jerseys of old...

[veggieburger]

IMO, Ag2R is the worst. Brown shorts? Blech!

Belkin isn't bad...I wouldn't say there are any design superstars this year.