Hear! Hear!
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates, CA
> Ray,
> Very well said and may I add it is only "WORLD
> CHAMPIONS" who are entitled to wear these bands. They
> have won these coverted laurels in competition so lets
> ban all the POSEURS from wearing them on their look
> alike jerseys (Mitts & Bottoms) it really does devalue
> the honour of these bands.
> In the 70's you would have had the piss taken out of
> you rotten if you wore a jersey with rainbow bands on
> it, how things have changed for the worse!
>
> --- greenjersey@ntlworld.com wrote:
>
>> The rainbow and National bands on cuffs and collar
>> has got out of hand. Tom Simpson didn't have them
>> on his Peugeout jersey in 1966/67 but Jan Janssen
>> had rainbow bands on his Pelforth jersey in 1966
>> (winner in 64) Certainly Merckx had them after his
>> 1967 win.
>> I think De Vlaeminck went too far having cyclo cross
>> bands on his road jersey but things have got worse
>> since his day. I'm sure that one of the Aussie pros
>> has rainbow bands on his road jersey that he won as
>> a junior on the track !
>> National championship bands are now univeral. See
>> Axel Merckx for example.
>> For me it should be limited to the discipline and
>> category you are currently riding in. So in a pro
>> road race only former pro road champions would have
>> rainbow collar and cuffs. I make that five or six
>> riders eligible. Lets keep things elitist!
>> Ray Green, Brighton
>>
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> Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not
> still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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