Lycra Fashion Expert

that kit is 100times better than anything else in the Chicago Peloton. Big ups for xXx for ditching the ugly 2007 kits and going for something this awesome.

Signed,

Fashion Expert

joeyTWOwheels

It’s so hard to please so many. I know they’ve undergone some hard decisions in the past regarding the kit.

Tell me this, though, how is a black kit going to “highlight its efforts to improve safety”. I would think just the opposite, especially when riding at night.

Either way, xXx deserves a lot of credit for remembering their own. A great group of people.

Mission Bay, eh?  Color scheme, whatever, the big change in my mind is a certain shop that’s been replaced.  Speaks for itself.

Jeff Kao

The black kits going to look sharp a lot longer than the mostly white ones last year.  Nice!

holly

First off, Joe2wheels isn’t jealous because he sports the black and white kit of team killjoy.  I am disappointed that XXX’s kits are very similar to ours now. We are such a small team that our black and white kits have always made us so visible and distinct. :(

Hey isn’t that the unattached jersey look too?  The kit looks new and fresh, I likes.  But having previously been with Vox and our black kits.  Come July I think you will reconsider when the heat comes to play.  Best of luck.

joeyTWOwheels

Black is the new black. I like the kit, and perhaps that didn’t come across. It’s much better than the “Euro” design from a couple years back (IMHO).

And nothing beats the skulls of Killjoy.

FWIW, I was on xXx for four years when living in Chicago. We were always expected to wear our sponsors about town – whether commuting or otherwise. So, since Chicago is dark at 4:30pm for a good part of the year, I wondered how the black kits would help.

Luke has some strong ideas on that and I’ll agree with his sentiment. But it certainly doesn’t make you more visable or safe at night.

Let’s just say all of us are going to be suffering at Spring Prairie in our new kits if it’s 80 and sunny (one advantage to white).  I hope the new Pactimo moisture wicking fabric really works!  The one great thing about black though is that drivetrain grease stains will be less noticeable...:)

For one, I wouldn’t call the pink skinsuits “ugly”. What you rockin’ performance vest? :D Pactimo makes great fabric so we aren’t worried about the black attracting heat.

Lycra Fashion Expert

The black will also make some members of xXx more slimming (i.e. Luke).

“the black kit will pay tribute to the two riders the team lost in 2008, Beth Kobeszka and Pieter Ombregt”

Isn’t that more important than anything else?  Who gives a shit who had a black kit first.

Ben

Not to open an old wound, but I like the new kits for this year.  Black is pretty badass, but all the same I think it is a really nice gesture from the team to the riders families.  It is really fitting, I wouldn’t be able to think of any better way to comemorate two team members.

Seth Meyer

No rainbows or camouflauge?