Pro Team kit - Naff or not

I dont care, it is just good to see people on bikes but I think it is especially nice when I see people in club kit. Its good to see who someone rides for, or where they are from. It often is a good conversation starter too.

+1 for club kit.

I don't really care, wearing pro team kit seems a bit odd to me. Club kit is absolutely fine, of course, otherwise wear what you want.
Now, baggies and peaked helmets on road bikes are another thing altogether..........

No different to wearing the team strip of your favourite soccer or rugby team.

i sort of like this, not sure how you would go about getting club kits from other countries though.

Basically if you like it wear it, but be prepared for someone to complain, it is the British way.

Who cares? I rode up and around the the Pym Chair/Lamaload roads (Peak District) today and was so banjaxed that i could have moonwalked home to Sale quicker. I cant remember what I was wearing never mind everyone else. Although there was some vision in Pink. Marvelous.

I am sure I saw him riding round Devon with a whole bunch of others all in team kit last September... Talk about taking it too far, they even had replica team cars following them and presumably fake Police outriders!!!!
Talk about taking things too far..
And you can tell by the look on his face that he is sitting on a Chinarello

Same as any other sporting team gear really:

- watching the sport, supporting 'your' team: ok to wear

- actual member of team participating the sport: ok to wear

-attending fancy dress party with theme "my favourite sporting hero": ok to wear

- practicing for same sport but at grassroots level and you are not a member of the team and not a kid: NAFF

- competing in same sport and you are not a member of team: NAFF. Also confusing and probably against the rules of the sport (but I have seen it)

-any other time: NAFF. And just plain unfashionable in the most basic sense.

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Nothing wrong with wool, or at least a wool mix -of my Jerseys the retro style wool mix one is the most comfortable.

It also suits the style well

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This one was made in Italy by Santini using 'Microsense' fabric, whatever that is.

It's made with a tiny bit of sense. One up from their 'nonsense' range.

Nice.

Agreed retro tops have some style and class lacking from the very modern team gear around today

Prendas ciclismo are great for the more unusual and retro tops, I highly recommend them.

Wearing my giro d'italia Maglia Nera top today, bit controversial but a lovely look, fit and feel as it's partly made from wool.

This one's been done to death already! Ref the Sky kit topic

See this is the sort of attitude that most people find so perplexing....

I think tradition is perplexing! A bit like not crossing the path of a black cat, passing port to the left, not passing salt hand to hand, buying a round of drinks for a hole in one, not wheel-sucking etc. You cannot expect a sport that has been around for over a century to not have traditions.
I think people are getting 'wrong' mixed up with 'un-cool'. Most cyclists seem to say wearing champions jerseys is wrong or un-cool, this was made clear to me from day one of entering a club, but so is wearing Man U kit when you are not a 'true fan' whatever that means. But what about wearing a yellow jersey on the day a countryman or favoured rider of yours wins the yellow jersey? Do not take 'the rules' too seriously, but ignore them at your peril!
The transient nature of cycling teams means that wearing an up to date jersey makes you look like you are jumping on the bandwagon of success and/or are a newbie. I bought a La vie Claire top in Hinault's day I now wear it with pride but did not wear it at the time! Tradition...
Be safe out there and do not walk under any ladders!

This thread has been done to death, dear road.cc make some sticky threads, perhaps a tire one a wheel one a kit one a what new bike one a show us your bikes one; there are probably more that should be included but they have slipped my mind.

Yellow/Pink/Rainbow etc jerseys aside, of course you can wear what you want on the bike. But just like if you were to wear an orange and pink t-shirt down the pub plastered with logos, don't expect not to get judged for it.
"Oh but what sort of dick is so shallow that they judge people for what they wear?"
It's the sort of dick who has eyes. And a sense of aesthetics.

It doesn't mean you're a bad person. It just means you are lacking in sartorial taste. That's absolutely fine.

If you care enough to ask, you care enough that you ought not to wear it.

I think it's a no-brainer that you shouldn't wear anything that is awarded (World/national champions, yellow/green/pink jerseys etc) unless you are one of the rare individuals who earned it. (if you think that it's OK to do so, why don't you put a F1 championship, World cup winners medal, and a Nobel prize on your mantelpiece too?)

Personally, I think current team kit is similar - if you made the team you get the kit, if not, you don't deserve it. But although I wouldn't do it*, I can live with team kit, and clearly the football world view of "I get the latest team kit 'cos I'm a supporter" mentality is becoming more and more common, obviously encouraged by the manufacturers. Fair play to them. *The Belkin kit would be my choice if I wasn't such a ar$e about it.

Old/retro kit is fair game. Old being anything that isn't the current kit (once the pros offload it on ebay you can fill your boots). Retro is better

The argument that Team kit is better in someway is bogus. Most of it is 'replica' and at best is no different to a top-end jersey from the same manufacturer simply because the real team kit wouldn't fit most non-racers anyway (I think it is fair to say that if you race, you have your own team kit that you probably value more than someone else's). The really esoteric stuff you can't buy anyway, and probably wouldn't want to - would you really wear the Sky ultra tight mesh stuff Froome and Porte were rocking in the tour? Really?