Recreational cyclists

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How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

You're not looking in the right place if you haven't seen any. I know a
couple of recreational cyclists who have Postal yellow jerseys.

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Is it considered to be bad form for a non-racer, non-race winner to wear a
yellow jersey? What about a plain one, w/o team or race logos? And does ths
apply only around the time of the tour, during racing season, or year-round?
I ask because during the tour I had to wear my plain yellow jersey because
it was way past laundry day and I had nothing else clean to wear on a ride,
and I could swear I got some funny looks from fellow roadies.

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How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

You're not looking in the right place if you haven't seen any. I know a
couple of recreational cyclists who have Postal yellow jerseys.

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Mike Iglesias Email:

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"Kovie" wrote...

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Is it considered to be bad form for a non-racer, non-race winner to wear a
yellow jersey?

During the Tour, if you're a non-racer, what you want to do is go with
cut-off shorts and a t-shirt (any color but yellow is fine). You'll avoid
criticism for being a poser, and possibly (if you're strong) get invited on
a club ride or two.

JF

Jiyang Chen said:

How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

I had a plain yellow wool jersey. One afternoon I was honking up a
tough hill outside Albertville. A farmer stopped what he was doing,
waved his hat wildly at me and yelled, "Le Maillot Jaune! Le Maillot Jaune!"

Steve

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Is it considered to be bad form for a non-racer, non-race winner to
wear a yellow jersey? What about a plain one, w/o team or race logos?

While commuting, training or on a casual ride, yellow is just a color like
any other. Yellow is a good choice out on the road, it helps motorists see
you. I wear yellow while commuting frequently for that reason; I think I'd
puke if I wore hi-viz green every single day. I don't care what others
think of me in yellow because I know I'm not pretending to be anything
other than just a commuter at that moment. So screw 'em.

That said, I would not show up at a road race or a crit in yellow. Your
fellow competitors might think you're being a bit presumptuous and they
just might want to show you your (non-yellow) place.

Al

in article [email hidden], Jiyang Chen at [email hidden] wrote
on 7/27/04 5:03 PM:

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How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

My dad and I both wore yellow jerseys today, but they were Vini Caldirola
and ONCE team kits.

-Sonarrat.

Jiyang Chen said:

How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

I used to have a World Champion jersey I'd bought ignorant of it's meaning.

Ron

Al James said:

Yellow is a good choice out on the road, it helps motorists see
you. I wear yellow

I have a solid yellow Nike jersey, good visibility I figure, it's a nice color.

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"BitwiseBob" - Bob Anderson
Eugene Oregon

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Steven Bornfeld said:

Jiyang Chen said:

How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

I had a plain yellow wool jersey. One afternoon I was honking up a
tough hill outside Albertville. A farmer stopped what he was doing,
waved his hat wildly at me and yelled, "Le Maillot Jaune! Le Maillot Jaune!"

Steve

Then he fell down laughing, right, Steve? (heh)

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tanx,
Howard

So far, so good, so what?

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

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"Kovie" wrote...

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Is it considered to be bad form for a non-racer, non-race winner to wear a
yellow jersey?

During the Tour, if you're a non-racer, what you want to do is go with
cut-off shorts and a t-shirt (any color but yellow is fine). You'll avoid
criticism for being a poser, and possibly (if you're strong) get invited on
a club ride or two.

Why should I care what other riders think about me?
If I'd like to wear a yellow jersey I'd do so.
If someone would critisize me for doing so I'd laugh about that.

KH

Howard Kveck said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Steven Bornfeld said:

Jiyang Chen said:

How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

I had a plain yellow wool jersey. One afternoon I was honking up a
tough hill outside Albertville. A farmer stopped what he was doing,
waved his hat wildly at me and yelled, "Le Maillot Jaune! Le Maillot Jaune!"

Steve

Then he fell down laughing, right, Steve? (heh)

I was actually treated nothing but nice in France. That trip was in 1987.
My first trip (1980) I didn't have a passport. A friend who worked in
Passports helped expedite mine. But he asked me why I wanted to go to
France--"They're anti-American, they're anti-semitic--they don't even
like themselves."
What a lot of [censored]. I was treated very, very well indeed--and they
knew I was American.
The ironic thing is that on my first trip in 1980, the dollar was only
getting about 4 francs, and almost no other english-speaking folks were
in Northern France at the time but the Germans--we wound up hanging out
and becoming friendly with them, as we were generally travelling (us by
bike, them by train) in the same direction and kept running into them at
youth hostels.
My dad's generation would never buy a German car, but I remember having
the thought drinking with these terrific folks that my grandparents
would be spinning in their graves.

Steve

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Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS said:

What a lot of [censored]. I was treated very, very well indeed--and they
knew I was American. [...] almost no other english-speaking folks were
in Northern France at the time but the Germans

IME people, especially in Britain but also France, get a lot friendlier
all of a sudden when it is cleared up that I am not German, but Dutch.

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A farmer stopped what he was doing,
waved his hat wildly at me and yelled, "Le Maillot Jaune! Le Maillot

Jaune!"

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That is what I think every time.

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jiyang Chen

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How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

You're not looking in the right place if you haven't seen any. I know

a

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couple of recreational cyclists who have Postal yellow jerseys.

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Mike Iglesias Email:

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University of California, Irvine phone: 949-824-6926
Network & Academic Computing Services FAX: 949-824-2069

Been to many group rides, during TDF and during non-TDF times. Never
before seen the yellow jersey.

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS said:

What a lot of [censored]. I was treated very, very well indeed--and they
knew I was American. [...] almost no other english-speaking folks were
in Northern France at the time but the Germans

IME people, especially in Britain but also France, get a lot friendlier
all of a sudden when it is cleared up that I am not German, but Dutch.

Memories die hard, eh?

Steve

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Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
http://www.dentaltwins.com
Brooklyn, NY
718-258-5001

Jiyang Chen said:

How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

I have one and wear it sometimes.

http://www.performancebike.com/product_images/400/10_2549D.jpg
http://www.performancebike.com/shop/profile.cfm?SKU=16342&subcategory_ID=1110#

I did not relate its color to the TdF. It was cheap and good quality. That's all.

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Jiyang Chen said:

How come one never sees a recreational cyclist wear a yellow jersey?
I've seen them wear the Maillot Verde, but never the yellow one.

I had a plain yellow wool jersey. One afternoon I was honking up a
tough hill outside Albertville. A farmer stopped what he was doing,
waved his hat wildly at me and yelled, "Le Maillot Jaune! Le Maillot Jaune!"

Steve

Reading Tim Moore's French Revolutions, one gets the impression the
french are more appriciative and friendly toward cyclists.

"Kovie" wrote...

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Is it considered to be bad form for a non-racer, non-race winner to
wear a yellow jersey?

No, wear it proudly. Aside [censored] (posers in SUV's) on the rode cyclist
have alot to worry about then thinking about what others think of their
shiny new TDF jersey or whatever. Plus by buying them you support the TDF.

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During the Tour, if you're a non-racer, what you want to do is go with
cut-off shorts and a t-shirt (any color but yellow is fine).

I'll agree with this comment. During the TDF or Giro the pink and yellow
jerseys as well as the polka dot and orange shouldn't be worn.
Obviously, occupied by the shoulder and legs that earned them.
But wear the jerseys proudly and know their meaning.

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You'll avoid criticism for being a poser, and possibly (if you're
strong) get invited on a club ride or two.

Who care what anybody thinks, a cyclist is out on the rode as opposed
to some opinonated poser cruising around with a cellphone and SUV!!!

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Reading Tim Moore's French Revolutions, one gets the impression the
french are more appriciative and friendly toward cyclists.

Germans too. My son and I were riding through a small village up in the hills
one day. We came over the last climb of the day and had about 15K of downhill
ahead of us. Usually we were pretty careful coming through villages but this
day he decided to spank me. He went blasting down into the village in his RSC
Kaiserslautern kit with me chasing. He weighed maybe 105lbs at the time I was
190. As I was catching and passing him we were doing about 60Kmh through the
center when this guy rode along side on a scooter screaming encouragement. He
rode with us for about 3K cheering all the way as we went into 2 man TT mode.
It is one of my fondest memories of Germany.
Bill C