I just noticed a pic of Patrick Lange’s new Canyon road bike which has the World Champion stripes on it.
Does Kona count as a world championship that would be approved by UCI it ITU orca world governing body? Yes, I know The WTC owns the title, but it used to be not the colors/stripes.
Does any one care any more? It used to be a big deal back in the day?
I just noticed a pic of Patrick Lange’s new Canyon road bike which has the World Champion stripes on it.
Does Kona count as a world championship that would be approved by UCI it ITU orca world governing body? Yes, I know The WTC owns the title, but it used to be not the colors/stripes.
Does any one care any more? It used to be a big deal back in the day?
No. Triathletes are not UCI champions. They look like idiots when they use UCI stripes.
The UCI owns the trademark and could sue them for infringement.
That was my understanding too, but I am old (school 😜)
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Isn’t it that the World Stripes are also called the Rainbow Colors … it’s confusing …
edit: oh, the ITU removed two words from their rule book … colors are ok again …
I thought about joking about rainbow colors too, but hoped to keep it somewhat serious.
Not that there is anything wrong with it
😜
The Audi rings on his suit look a lot like Olympic rings too and on Wikipedia they use gold silver and bronze medals to denote podium placings
Time for triathlon to come up with the uber runner Golden Arches
I just noticed a pic of Patrick Lange’s new Canyon road bike which has the World Champion stripes on it.
Does Kona count as a world championship that would be approved by UCI it ITU orca world governing body? Yes, I know The WTC owns the title, but it used to be not the colors/stripes.
Does any one care any more? It used to be a big deal back in the day?
No. Triathletes are not UCI champions. They look like idiots when they use UCI stripes.
The UCI owns the trademark and could sue them for infringement.
Let’s talk serious about that … 
https://www.triatlonchannel.com/2019/01/18/la-canyon-de-carretera-de-patrick-lange/
https://www.uci.org/...cx?sfvrsn=6e909509_6
“The UCI and its appointed Organizing Committees take the protection of their rights, assets and interests, as well as those of their respective partners and licensees, very seriously.
The following assets are protected by means of intellectual property rights:
- The rainbow stripes. The UCI rainbow colour chart reproduced below is a registered Trade Mark of the UCI. It is protected in numerous countries around the World. It is internationally known as the stripes of colors blue, red, black, yellow and green that are associated with the UCI events and the Cycling World Champions.
The use of the rainbow stripes is reserved exclusively to the partners and licensees of the UCI.â€
… that said (by the UCI rule book) … and because of the lack of colors in this case … a question to the ironmen … which color/colors would you prefer to honor your values ??
Two things
- Disagree on them looking like idiots - I think it’s a good look
- It says that it’s for partners of the UCI. Which I’m assuming that Canyon is… So I assume that’s why Canyon is in the clear to do this? They gave Patrick the sticker, I would assume they wouldn’t do that without knowing no recourse is coming
In the taren video he put a sticker on his laptop, but I couldn’t find anything 8n the rules against that
Is it really a rainbow though? It has a black band and no purple or orange
UCI world champions use the “rainbow stripes” as defined by UCI on their jersey / bikes for the year, plus the “sleeve strips” the following years.
Olympic champions use the “gold” color (not sure if regulated by Olympic Comité - probably as they are very “legal oriented”), as we can see on Greg Van Avermaet bikes and jerseys
What is used by ITU world champs ?
Nothing defined by WTC for Kona or 70.3 Worlds champ ?
The Ironman ‘Mdot’ is a protected trademark, but you’ll find it plastered all over peoples bikes, and in their skin! I guess they view that as free marketing.
I personally totally oppose most “Velominati” mantra BS. For example, when in France I watched the TdF in Paris and picked up a polka-dot jersey that I wear around town sometimes. I didn’t win the best climber award, I just like the dots/mountain classification.
Now, for a pro athlete though…even cyclists who are total Freds and think the Velominati stuff is BS will take a hard pass on the rainbow stripes.
It’s the one no-go in our books.
Others take a pass on all team kit, country champs, classifications jerseys, world champs stuff.
I think the classifications are a bit easier as you can’t avoid every color kit possible. Vuelta is red, TdF is yellow, Giro is pink, mountains is polka dot, sprint is green, young rider is white, and so on ad-nauseum.
There’s also no confusing a local Cat 6 racer with the real deal. Now, a pro though…that’s getting into gray area.
… that said (by the UCI rule book) … and because of the lack of colors in this case … a question to the ironmen … which color/colors would you prefer to honor your values ??
Red, gold and green. Red, gold and gree eee een.
- Disagree on them looking like idiots - I think it’s a good look
I agree on that, the whole thing about flags on jerseys is one of things I love about cycling that no other sport really does. I wish other sports would have their own versions
Aren’t there a bunch of manufacturers who sell world championship stripe colour scheme versions of their helmets, jerseys etc?
Is this under license?
I’m pretty sure Crowie had the WC Stripes on his kit too at one point.
… that said (by the UCI rule book) … and because of the lack of colors in this case … a question to the ironmen … which color/colors would you prefer to honor your values ??
Red, gold and green. Red, gold and gree eee een.
Oh fuck YOU
hahahahahaha
As far as I am aware, if you do it commercially like on a mass produced bike it would be infringement. On a one-off personal item it is not.
I could nail a Mercedes badge on my rusty VW beetle (if I had one) and Mr Zetsche couldn’t do anything about it.