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TECH NEWS
2022 Rapha EF team kits 5Rapha and EF Education unveil men’s and women’s team kits - is this the best 2022 design?
EF Education-EasyPost and EF Education TIBCO-SVB men’s and women’s WorldTour teams have revealed their 2022 kits which have been designed in collaboration with Rapha, and it’s as stunning as ever.
There may be lots of sponsor title changes and bike/equipment swap overs each season but one thing you can be certain of is that whoever Rapha and EF Education are sponsoring they will take the team kit to new levels to unveil, arguably, the coolest kit of the season.
This year’s 2022 design has been “executed through creative coding and image/pattern manipulation” and presents a modern interpretation of the Argyle pattern.
An Argyle pattern is made of diamonds or lozenges, and these have been warped and splattered across the pink base. It looks great, right? Well, we'd certainly say so, Argyle has been the pattern of choice on our jerseys for years, we can see where EF took inspiration from.
The men’s and women’s EF 2022 kits will be available to buy this spring on rapha.cc, but you can get yourself one of our Argyle patterned jerseys right now over here.
Both the men’s and women’s teams will be competing in a kit with this design, but with a subtle colour variation.
This season is the first time the EF Education-TIBCO-SVB women’s team will line up wearing Rapha, as EF Education First join TIBCO and Silicon Valley Bank as co-title sponsors of the North American women’s team.
Rapha and the EF Education men’s team started their journey together back in 2019. The one-off collaboration between Rapha and Palace Skate for EF Pro Cycling at 2020’s Giro d’Italia produced one of the most striking kits we’ve seen in the pro peloton, that’s for sure.
The duck vanished for EF Education-Nippo’s 2021 team kit, but it kept within the UCI guidelines, quite literally…
If, like us, you’ve pored over UCI rules on kit design, you’ll know that regulations are tight over issues such as how much space should be given to sponsors’ logos, and where they should be placed.
And, taking a close look at the EF Education-Nippo jersey, from Rapha, you can see that they have kept within those parameters … and incorporated the guidelines into the design.
Let’s hear what you think of the new 2022 kit below.
Anna has been hooked on bikes ever since her youthful beginnings at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit. As an avid road and track racer, she reached the heady heights of a ProCyclingStats profile before leaving for university. Having now completed an MA in Multimedia Journalism, she’s hoping to add some (more successful) results. Although her greatest wish is for the broader acceptance of wearing funky cycling socks over the top of leg warmers.
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- Pot00000000 1 sec ago
Cool, I'll keep an eye open for one of your articles and let you know when I see any mistakes. ...
- don simon fbpe 1 hour 56 min ago
Poor decision for Eurosport to repeatedly show the crash before knowing the outcome. Not cool.
- Daclu Trelub 2 hours 8 min ago
In a perfect world, we'd have a measure of how easily distracted someone is, as part of their driving test....
- Sredlums 2 hours 35 min ago
These products are nothing but ridiculously expensive and superfluous, and they bring nothing but bragging rights....
- Daclu Trelub 2 hours 50 min ago
How does Mr Lucy tell you he's a bit of an arsehole without telling you he's a bit of an arsehole?
- Daclu Trelub 2 hours 54 min ago
Of course they are, and not so different. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09B662CDN?crid=34M42BETAMFT0&th=1 The bugger's got four versions up now!
- squidgy 3 hours 11 min ago
At least the van driver was nowhere near the stationary cyclist.
- OldRidgeback 3 hours 14 min ago
The BMX racers are also no longer being supported. Kye Whyte said he's lost his GT sponsorship. It also looks like GT will no longer make BMX bikes.
- hawkinspeter 4 hours 3 min ago
The people causing traffic jams complaining about the traffic jams
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Reminds me of that time when I ate scrambled eggs then necked a bottle of cherryade then was ill. Sorry.
hope the sponsors are happy about the reduced visibility of their names.....
Why are they wearing some other team's shorts?
At least they have the new Cannondale logo
Is this the best 2022 design? No. Evokes the pavement outside a student-friendly cocktail bar after a few too many strawberry daiquiris.
It's 'kit'. Like sheep and fish and vinyl. Kits are for people who go to Tescos and play Trival Pursuits.
It's the men's kit and the women's kit - therefore the men's and women's kits.
No, kits is fine: kit here refers to a specific uniform for one team, if there is more than one team uniform, it's kits. Kit may be used for multiple items of clothing, e.g. I've got a cupboard full of old cycling kit, but in this specific usage kits is correct, indeed necessary, if you said "The shop stocks the INEOS and Quickstep kit" to the unitiated that would imply that INEOS and Quickstep are one team or two teams who share the same kit.
People who feel they should comment over a 's' are people who appear on police watch lists and go to Marks and Spencers to buy their sharp knives
An 's'.
Yes! And it's Marks and Spencer - it's a singular. Do they sell sharp knives? I've never looked.
People who feel the need to comment negatively about someone else explaining the correct usage of plurals are just the same as the people they criticise.
One man's pedantry is another person's pride in doing things correctly. You could say that it's not unlike comparing to torque settings vs feel or following instructions vs winging it.
And like any public conversation, if it irks you or isn't of interest then you're free to walk on by or keep scrolling/swiping and leave us grammar bores to hammer out the really important stuff.
I would suggest that the origin of people putting an 's' on the end of Marks and Spencer is not a plural, but it is a possessive - as in Marks and Spencer's shop.
Wow, a skit on kits.