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I was sitting on the john this morning thumbing through a bike catalog when I saw some collegiate jerseys for sale. Some big company wants to make a profit off of printing up some jerseys with your alma mater's logo. This is lame.
You see, there are hundreds of collegiate cycling teams out there that could use your support. Few of these are school sponsored teams, most of these are grass-roots sort of efforts, riders of all ability levels that organize to ride and race together and spend their limited college student funds on traveling to neighboring schools to compete. These collegiate teams have jerseys (not the same ones you find in the catalog), and most of them will sell them to alumni or whoever is interested in order to raise funds to help them offset the cost of traveling, etc.
So please, spend your money supporting grass-roots collegiate racing, not some big jersey company who has a licensing agreement with some big university's administration.
I personally am an alumni of the <a href="https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/IlliniBicycleRacingClub/">Illini Bicycle Racing Club</a> from the University of Illinois. I know they'd be happy to sell you a jersey, or socks or whatever. The National Collegiate Cycling Association has a <a href="http://www.usacycling.org/clubs/index.php?advanced=1&ncca=1">search engine</a> you can use to find your favorite school.
You see, there are hundreds of collegiate cycling teams out there that could use your support. Few of these are school sponsored teams, most of these are grass-roots sort of efforts, riders of all ability levels that organize to ride and race together and spend their limited college student funds on traveling to neighboring schools to compete. These collegiate teams have jerseys (not the same ones you find in the catalog), and most of them will sell them to alumni or whoever is interested in order to raise funds to help them offset the cost of traveling, etc.
So please, spend your money supporting grass-roots collegiate racing, not some big jersey company who has a licensing agreement with some big university's administration.
I personally am an alumni of the <a href="https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/IlliniBicycleRacingClub/">Illini Bicycle Racing Club</a> from the University of Illinois. I know they'd be happy to sell you a jersey, or socks or whatever. The National Collegiate Cycling Association has a <a href="http://www.usacycling.org/clubs/index.php?advanced=1&ncca=1">search engine</a> you can use to find your favorite school.