Ken Sommer Teases Coug Again

Yesterday on Twitter - look, it's raining in the UK, all right, I can't get out to work, I'm stuck indoors, it was a bit dull, I had lots of paperwork to do but the Twitter page just opened up all by itself, and oh! as though by magic I was signed in......

Start again: Yesterday, on Twitter, I decided to change my avatar - yet again - as I'm getting a bit tired of the Crying Leopard face.

 

The time for wailing is over: Leopard Trek are no more, the merger has happened, now we all have to put on our smiley faces and make the most of it, look forward to the next season and the new challenges, blah blah blah woof woof etc.

You will remember that I horrified Ken Sommer recently with my nasty red Radio-Trek logo *sniggers and much laughter all round*.

Well, I didn't want to make him cross, so I thought I'd have another go at a better "fake" logo.

After some speculation about jersey design, I thought I might suggest that elements of the old jerseys could be retained, so I came up with this:

And actually, it's not bad, is it? In fact, think how much money they could save, by just screen printing this logo over the top of the old L-T jerseys, then adding NISSAN in big letters across the back.

There you go, we knew there was a reason for all that white space.... with a bit of felt-pen work on the Mercedes logos, and one or two others, they could be completely re-kitted at a fraction of the normal cost.

Anyway, having spent some time creating this minor work of art, I thought I should bring it to Ken's attention, to see if I'd get a seal of approval, or a tiny, tiny hint as to what the kit might actually be.

And do you know what? He replied, which is always nice: and he replied with a link to a photo, which he must have put up specially just to answer this tweet:

What can I say? Well done Ken, you  had me going there, and Kat fell for it as well, and Barbara - we all went rushing off to see what the new jersey was going to be like, only to meet his retro rebuff.

I suppose you could say that at least he has confirmed that there IS going to be a new jersey, but that was a it of a foregone conclusion really, wasn't it? Neither the L-T kit nor the Shack kit would have quite the right selection of sponsor names, although, errrr, horrible thought, the Shack kit does indeed feature Shack, Nissan and Trek (and Twitter, for some unknown reason) so a case could be made for sticking to the old kit.

Yikes!

I am so glad that no-one suggested that on any of the blogs or forums, that would have been quite worrying! But luckily Ken has now confirmed that there will be a new kit, so let's be grateful and look forward to seeing it.

And apparently they're having a press conference next week, so maybe they'll unveil the new kit there? Let's hope that they have a UCI licence by then!

Oh, and as a side issue, it's almost a pity that Leopard Trek were riding Trek bikes not Bianchi - anyone else noticed the strange similarity in colour choice?