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Steve Cummings wins national road championship 2017 (picture SWPix.com via Britishcycling.org_.uk).jpgNew British champion Steve Cummings asks Twitter: Black or white shorts?
It's a dilemma that many a new national - or even world - champion cyclist is faced with - where the national colours, or the rainbow bands, are set on a predominantly white jersey, should it be teamed with white shorts or black ones?
Now, white can look very smart when set against tanned skin on a sunny day, but when the weather turns, it doesn't leave much to the imagination.
So what did Steve Cummings, winner of the time trial and the road race at the British national championships on the Isle of Man last week do when he couldn't make his mind up?
He asked Twitter, of course.
So?
— Steve Cummings (@StevoCummings) June 25, 2017
With the 36-year-old from the Wirral lining up for the start of the Tour de France in Dusseldorf on Saturday, time was of the essence, and the results are now in - with Twitter users overwhelmingly going for black, by a margin of more than six to one.
Black shorts it is. https://t.co/jnpFw45sa4
— Steve Cummings (@StevoCummings) June 27, 2017
That's the same choice his Dimension Data team mate Mark Cavendish has opted for, both as world and British champion.
Peter Sagan, winner of the last two world road championships, raised eyebrows when publicity shots after his 2015 win suggested he was going the white route - but when he raced in the kit, black won the day.
Outgoing British champion Adam Blythe of Aqua Blue went the white route this year, however.
With rain forecast in Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium for the opening days of the Tour de France
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Damn. Finally we could have seen where the pros really do stop shaving...
We alrealy know that for the vast majority of them, the answer's "at the bathroom door."
Tom Dumoulin. Still in doubt?
Boaty McBoatface
Be different: forego the shorts all together.
He's a brave man to put this to a popular vote. The wisdom of crowds hasn't had a very good couple of years. He could have ended up wearing something with a big smile and a pair of eyes printed on the rear, called a Shorty McShortface, or been forced to ride in the buff by people who want to be able to see that his banana isn't bendy.
Not really - the choice in the vote was either black or white. Just a simple binary choice, with no complexity or nuance. Y'know, like the EU referendum.
indeed. So will he be wearing a soft black or hard black. Or maybe an open black pair of shorts
Adam Blythe's kit made the mistake of actually looking cool. They should do Steve up a lycra version of Austin Powers' suit.
What i can't understand is what were the 16% who voted for white were thinking!!
Thank god the majority thought of the Children.
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He's British. Only a cad would wear a loud sock. So, mid calf grey wollen Woolsey with descrete dark red elasticated banding at the top. Obviously.
Yes. Union Jack socks please.
This is a given, but what socks should he wear?
Any size with the Saint George's cross.
British champion
Any colour as long as they finish just below the calf.