Fashionable Cycling Jerseys
These days retro bike jerseys are gaining in popularity amongst cycling enthusiasts. Specially with bike riders that also have a taste for looking great and having a little fun with the way they look while they ride their bicycles. Some believe this popularity for retro cycling jerseys all started when Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France championship while he and his team were wearing a retro cycling jerseys that featured a picture of the old U.S. Mail logo from over thirty years back.
Whether this is the true foundation of their recognition, sales of retro cycling jerseys is augmenting each day, especially as access to purchasing them online gets less complicated as more corporations set up shop by putting e-commerce on their websites. The retro bike jerseys come in a wide variety of colours styles and with a myriad of photographs outlined on them. Images sported on retro bike jerseys nowadays include novelty pictures such as Dr Seuss’ pussy in the Hat or the Grinch who robbed christmas, Betty Boop, Bozo the Clown and even sesame street characters like Oscar the Grouch and big Bird.
An internet company which has some wonderful older images on their retro cycling jerseys is the retro image apparel company. Images used for their collection come from the pictures contained within the ‘Horton collection line’ these include such famous images as :
* The1935 World Championship Men’s Jersey, a race of 216km over cobblestone roads in Belgium.
The image on this shirt is one that was first made by Henri gray in 1896 for a cycling ad.
* Men’s Cataluna, the image on this shirt comes out of a poster that was made for the 1943 cycling race in spaind called the Vuelta Catalonia.
* Green Eggs and Ham, a colourful jersey with photos of the characters and happenings from the Dr Seuss story of the same name printed for the first time in 1960.
A 2nd great source for retro bike jerseys and novelty bike jerseys is the website and shop at Amazon.com where you’ll find a good range to choose from. Amazon stocks an enormous range of bike jerseys for men ladies and children as well as other bike clothing, cycling shoes and other accessories. One more company that stocks a great range of both novelty cycling jerseys and retro cycling jerseys is ModernBike.com they too stock a huge range of other bike gear, cycling clothing, accessories and shoes.
So for some fun with your look while riding your bicycle, check out the great range of novelty and retro cycling jerseys available online.
Article by John Black.