Originally Posted by
grolby
I'm actually vaguely tempted to start my own club or racing team to pursue essentially this strategy, partly because I think this is actually better for sponsors, partly because I'd love to design a really cool no-compromises kit. It sort of falls down on the social element of organizing a squad - I don't know that I'm good enough at meeting people and making friends to attract people to a new team, especially one where they don't get any discounts or team bikes or whatever. But I'd love to make something like that happen.
People who want to join a team just to get free stuff are not the kind of people I want to race with, personally. I'm sure there are more seasoned/successful racers that may disagree with me, but this is a core principal that we're using to run our club. And, since we are a club, not just a team, if our members want a more traditional team experience, they're welcome to join whatever team they'd like (we already have a few on the Mike's Bikes dev team and they're doing well! They'll be 3s very soon if they continue with the results they're getting now). We're agnostic.
For the foreseeable future, I'll be racing under the club's banner.
Anyway, back to team kit. Who's gonna be the first team to incorporate camo in their kit? Camo is the new hiviz...