What's with the faux camo kit?
09-03-18, 06:16 PM
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Honestly, I don't know what game you're talking about - unless you're suggesting that this whole conversation is some game (the rules for which only you seem to get), in which case I'd rather not play. Thanks, anyhow.
09-03-18, 08:03 PM
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Cool ... i win.
09-06-18, 07:02 PM
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In other fun "camo as workout wear" info, the zig-zagging black and white stripes on a lot of workout wear (and some Giro helmets) comes from WW1-WW2 ship camo. It didn't really work, but also looked cool. I doubt the people who wear it care about anything but the fact that it looks cool.
from the Wikipedia: "Unlike other forms of camouflage, the intention of dazzle is not to conceal but to make it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading. Norman Wilkinson explained in 1919 that he had intended dazzle primarily to mislead the enemy about a ship's course and so to take up a poor firing position.[a]"
Since Sky is all about marginal gains, I fully expect them to be decked out in Dazzle camoflage next year in time for the TdF. Nobody will be able to tell when Geraint Thomas goes on the attack until it's too late. :-)
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