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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

You look like no one loves you


Fatty has posted the winners of his ugly jersey contest (that's it over there to the right, you can read the gory details here) -- an awesome idea that we wish we'd thought of--but we're shameless enough to appropriate.

'Cept for here at Pinch Flat News, we're going to make it easy for you and just predetermine the ugliest jerseys ever, which are available to the general public, and regularly seen on bike paths across the country:




Make them stop. Please don't encourage bad design by wearing their jerseys in public. (OK to wear if you train alone in your basement, or if you do most of your riding in coal mines.)


Incidentally, we blame Performance Bike for the ubiquity of these heinous duds. Which also necessitates this remark: the more ubiquitous the jersey, the uglier it gets. We've now pretty much had it with Cofidis, Quick-Step, Discovery, and Euskatel jerseys too, with so many paunchy Tom Dick and Harrys sporting 'em on American byways.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

yuck! totally agree... aside from the seen-everywhere Wheaties and Quisp jerseys, those primal ones are just gross. the gecko/lizard ones, the strained humor ("organ grinder" har har har)... the USA-hemed ones, these jerseys just scream "LOSER" and "I ride my Cannondale on Sunday afternoons during the Tour De France."

Anonymous said...

yup. or "i trained for this citizen's mountain bke race for three weeks this Spring... but I forgot my helmet back at the Holiday Inn. Nuts!"