Is there anything more anti-climatic than a kit launch? The prospect of seeing a team’s new design send your imagination running; maybe they’ll completely change the colour, maybe just maybe, it’ll be everything you want to see in a pro kit? But then you realise – it’s just vaguely different to last year’s.
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Nevertheless there was a buzz around the Team Sky kit launch last night, with many of you voicing your opinion one way or another. And no matter what kind of marketing spin Castelli can put on it, it’s the people’s voice that matters.
So here’s the best of your internet based comments on Sky’s new rags. Some of you hated it, some of you sort of liked it and some of you just downright couldn’t care less.
The people who thought it looked like and arcade game
Team Sky go retro by including a classic 80's arcade game into the new kit design for 2017 pic.twitter.com/U4MG9ai6V4
— Scott O'Raw (@velocast) November 3, 2016
The people who thought it looked like an aerial view of a motorway
@cyclingweekly Awful. Looks like a pacman maze layout or the M6 lane markings!
— Cycling_Photographer (@SimonNottingham) November 3, 2016
Some people actually did like it
And others definitely didn’t…
@cyclingweekly I'm totally underwhelmed, bet it's pricey too.
— Jacky Snowflake 48% (@alswifejacky) November 4, 2016
A damp squib squid..?
@cyclingweekly Damp squib 🐙
— Tim Foster (@thefosterkid) November 4, 2016
Channelling Clarkson
The anti-Murdochs
And the Morse code people
@cyclingweekly I like the 'morse code' but I also liked it when Team Sky were at the pinnacle of British engineering, with Rapha and Jaguar.
— Stephen Matthews (@politicalwizard) November 4, 2016
