We start a small journey through the 2023 cycling jerseys
Among the jerseys for the 2023 that begins, the Jumbo Visma cyclists do not present major changesperhaps for this reason that if something goes well, it is better to play it right.
The piece is very identifiable in the peloton, for several years also, it is what it has, on the other hand having a powerful and fixed patron for so long.
Yellow with the central black stripe takes center stage in a design that will have a review for the Tour,
I don’t know how many they sold last year, but their innovative jersey with Van Gogh lines, among others, we even saw in the soup.
Another one that varies the least is Intermaché, the team that is in fashion right now, which has not won with Girmay but has with Goosens, the sensation of the Challenge de Mallorca, and the old dog Rui Costa.
This team distinguished itself years ago for making very cheap liquidations of all the clothes that were left over at the end of the yearand when I say cheap, seeing how expensive the market is getting, I mean very cheap.
Years ago his jersey was a “mechambrado” of brands and logos that this time they have managed to balance very well, lightening the shoulders and the upper part, to give room for the patron on yellow to make a fluid transition to the blue that combines with the culotte.
A jersey that I don’t dislike, like that of Education First, for many the most beautiful of the World Tour.
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Here I have to disagree.
The jersey is beautiful, yes, and identifiable, but from there to saying that it is the most beautiful, I don’t see it.
In this ranking the Trek is usually very high and of course above this one, which follows the parameters of attracting the attention of the respectable effectively.
If EF is used to being a team that identifies with good collective performances, it is also because of the effectiveness of its jerseys.
The set of violets is fine, but the black letters… don’t convince me, although this is like everything, for color tastes.
In reviewing the jerseys that the cycling teams plan for 2023, I think that in this trio we have the least possible changes.
Astana maintains the same structure as last yearwith the light blue that it has taken over, it would be wrong to let it escape, with the darker gradient in diamonds.
Many people have commented that they don’t like the design, but it seems elegant to me, the result of the color, which is beautiful, but also of the simplicity of the sponsors, resolved quickly.
We already know here the payer is one, and that makes things easier, but the fact is that the gradient of the jersey integrates perfectly with the shorts.
Cofidis, meanwhile, continues with his marathon of years in cycling maintaining a very similar structure to last year, with the same clothing supplier.
The red central body, even higher than last year, and the white sleeves, mark a design that incorporates prints to, they say, transmit more modernity.
I personally liked last year’s horizontal gradient three layers better.
We finished the batch with the AG2R-Citröen, in another example of maintenance compared to last year
Already at its premiere, this aspect gave us something to talk about, when I consider it the most Solomonic jersey in the peloton, since it brings together two large French companies and gives them the same treatment, in a clean and obvious way, but above all striking, something that some teams in the peloton they have not been able to understand.
It is a clean jersey, as I said, without beads, with the names very large and clear and very identifiable in the peloton.
It seemed original to me at the time and they haven’t touched almost anything, which I think is a good idea.
The step forward of the Soudal-Quick Step
A year ago, when I briefly reviewed the cycling jerseys that I liked the least, I mentioned the Quick Step one. Today the scenario, in my opinion, is very different for 2023.
I like the piece that Castelli has renewed for the Soudal- Quick Stepperhaps because of the blue they get, like the geometric games that involve the gradient that frames the team’s name.
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Although it is obvious that the fewer names the jerseys have, the cleaner and more beautiful they are, It would not be lawful to criticize Tito Lefevere for taking money from companies for cyclingOn the contrary, that he achieves the most possible, even if the fit of his sponsors is complicated.
See Soudal on that chest It is, therefore, as if a part of its great rival, the Lotto, had set foot in someone else’s pen, something similar happened to me when I saw Deceuninck co-sponsoring the Alpecin.
They are things and movements that explain the importance of cycling in Belgium.
From blue to blue, I like the Gobik jersey for Movistar.
They did not have it easy, because last year’s La Passioné seemed to me to be one of the most beautiful in the peloton, but now the team takes an intermediate step between what they had with Endura and Ale and last year, that is to say they do not go to the darkest blue, but neither to the light blue.
They stay halfway, playing with sleeves and neck for other more celestial nuances, and ultimately lighter, which gives a sensation of electricity, movement and connectivity, which is what the patron sells.
Lastly, it feels bad for me to say it, but the Jayco jersey, last year’s BikeExchange, seems to me the 2.0 of a much better version.
Last year I already commented that seeing the Mathews and Simon Yates in this way did not convince me, they are designs that, it will be subjective, I link more to amateur teams and not to a structure of the highest level.
The Australian team has been one of the best groups that cycling has set foot in these years, but without a doubt, I don’t think the aesthetic level has ever accompanied them.
Kern Pharma, Bora and Alpecin, in the high profile of cycling jerseys for 2023
If the good works, it is better not to change it and I think both Kern Pharma and Bora are right in their jerseys for 2023.
Green is the thread of both pieces that resolve in almost the same way as last year.
Bora Hansgrohe will go to the defense of the Giro de Hindley with a jersey very similar to that of 2022 with the green losing muscle from above, some vertical lines and that red in the abdominal area that breaks for good.
Yes, it is true that many sponsors accumulate in his sleeves, but the truth is that the jersey is cool, and a lot.
A similar color -a green in different gradients in the lower part- will cover the guys from Kern Pharma, that team that Roger Adrià described to us as a family.
Last year Kern already released one of the pieces that I liked the most and little or nothing has changed for this season, in which I hope they will take a step forward in sports, there is not a little experience and tables that kids are acquiring who are leaving to be kids
Few changes also the Alpecina degraded blue that gains tone as we look down.
I like it, it seems simple, and therefore appropriate, with the Alpecin logo, in red, breaking the monotony for the better.
In addition, the fact that they gave Lefevere a sponsor like Deceuninck, increases his attractiveness.
Groupama, UAE and Trek, under review
We follow the path of the cycling jerseys for the recently released 2023 with a piece that I really liked, the one from Groupama FDJ.
We should first assess how long the French lottery has been betting on cycling and how the powerful insurer Groupama has been able to add to this ship.
The French jersey is undoubtedly a declaration of intent that I, at least, see clearly: they want to be the French team par excellence
That set of blues, with the little flag running through the center of the piece, reminds me of the soccer team, and some have already told me that the rugby team too, even the cycling team.
It is the elegance that France has imposed on much of its national clothing, embodied in a cycling team.
In the case of UAE, we already knew for a long time that Gobik was going to leave Pissei the signature of the new design…
We are pleased to announce #Pissei as our new clothing sponsor from 2023.
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— @UAE-TeamEmirates (@TeamEmiratesUAE) December 1, 2022
… and the Italians located in Tuscany they have not broken their heads excessivelysimplifying the design with a white center front base -with all the markings- and solid black sleeves, no gradients.
I like the touch on the back of the pocket, the central part in black.
And we end the round with Trek Segafredo, who I don’t know if it’s because they had Nibali in their day or because they now have the category, among others, of Jasper Stuyven, It seems to me that they still have one of the most beautiful jerseys in the pelotonadded to the novelty of the back, that checkered or red paving that distinguishes them as the elegant ones of the bunch.
Look at Pedersen celebrating the GW of three years ago, the sleeves have changed, now they are red, but the line is still valid, demonstrating a taste that they know how to maintain, year after year, with a scheme as simple as it turns out.
I would put it in the top 5 of my favorites.
So are those of Ineos, Bahrain and Lotto
A few cycling jerseys are already known for the 2023 campaign, which begins in about a month with the return of the Tour Down Under, three years later, and the Vuelta a San Juan.
It is not the custom of this badly ringed notebook to go into detail about each one of them, but this season comes with designs that are really interestingand not all because they are especially innovative.
Among the cycling jerseys that we have for 2022, the one that has caught my attention is that of Ineos
More than ten years ago, the English entered marking the lines of what would become many of the things in cycling that we know today, from the base of training and recovery, to technology, reaching aesthetics.
Team Sky marked a before and after, from their Adidas jerseys, to those that would come with Rapha and finally Castelli, a delight, it really gave a twist with the substitution of red for blue in the jersey when the petrochemical entered by the television company.
In this evolution we arrive at the piece that has just been removed, a rehash of everything we are seeing in the peloton: reds, oranges, gradients and diamonds.
In this case, it will be difficult to distinguish a Bahrain from an Ineos, with the exception that the team with Arab capital already had the patent for the base of the design.
I find it hard to believe that people like Ineos and those of Bioracer, guarantors of the Belgian sky, are not capable of a greater degree of originality.
They talk about “visibility fast”, because Bioracer makes you faster, when I think that the fact that it looks like others hinders identification.
In this sense, their soul rivals for so many years, Movistar has gotten better over the years, always playing with blue.
Image: FB Lotto Dstny – Maxime Van der Wielen
Between Ineos and Bahrain I prefer the second, at least they are the first.
Although it appears in the continental list, I will never look at Lotto as a lower category team.
While they adapt to the new category, they have released a jersey for 2023 that is a bit of an evolution of the one they had in the past Tour with the sponsorship of Dstny, a corporate communication company.
By the way, if you want to see what each patron of cycling does, look at this thread…
I have compiled in this thread what each main sponsor of 24 men’s teams does. All the WorldTeam and some ProTeam
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— ZipiZapismo (@ZipiZapismo) December 17, 2022
Going back to the jersey of one of the peloton’s historical figures, I like it, it’s simple, it combines so many different colors and above all it will make them stand out in the peloton, something that many times I don’t think the designers are so clear about.
