Friday, August 7, 2009

Have Fun With Retro Cycling Jerseys

Retro cycling jerseys are getting more favored among bicyclists nowadays. Particularly with cycle 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 awareness for retro cycling jerseys all started when Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France championship while he and his team were wearing a retro bike jerseys that featured an image of the old U.S. Mail trademark from over 30 years back. Whether or not this is the true foundation of their recognition, sales of retro cycling jerseys is enlarging each day, particularly as access to buying them online gets faster as more corporations set up shop by putting e-commerce on their web sites. The retro bike jerseys come in a wide variety of colors styles and with a myriad of pictures printed on them.

Pictures sported on retro bike jerseys today include novelty photographs like Dr Seuss' Moggy in the Hat or the Grinch who Nicked Christmas, Betty Boop, Bozo the Clown and even sesame street characters like Oscar the Grouch and Large Bird. An internet company which has some glorious older photographs on their retro cycling jerseys is the retro image clothes company. Photographs used for their collection come from the photographs contained in the 'Horton collection line' these include such famous photographs as :

* The1935 World Championship Men's Jersey, a race of 216km over cobblestone roads in Belgium.

* girls's Phebus, a recreation of a cycling advertising image made by Henri gray in 1896. * Men's Cataluna, an image for a poster which was made in Spain in 1943 for a cycle race called the Vuelta Catalonia.

* Green Eggs and Ham, a colorful jersey with photos of the characters and events from the Dr Seuss story of the same name made public for the 1st time in 1960.

A 2nd great source for retro cycling jerseys and novelty bike jerseys is the internet site and go shopping at the Amazon site where you can find a good range to select between. Amazon stocks an enormous range of bike jerseys for men girls and children as well as other bike clothing, cycling shoes and other accessories. Yet one more company that stocks a great range of both novelty cycling jerseys and retro cycling jerseys is the company 'ModernBike' they also stock a huge range of other bike gear, cycling clothing, accessories and shoes on their site.

So for some fun with your look while riding your cycle, take a glance at the great range of novelty and retro cycling jerseys available on the internet.