One might thing this place is full of engineers….
Oi, I resemble that comment (and yes, copyright is a big deal in engineering too)
I dunno, I kinda think MTG got railroaded into that position, his initial assertion that cycling jerseys on the whole didn’t seem to be ‘designed’ was (IMO) fair enough in relation to the asthetics.
On the other hand:
Technical development of fabrics
Cut and fit
Stitching selection
Functional stuff like zips and pockets
All ‘designed’ (or maybe better termed ‘engineered’ if we were to give it a distinction), and most people will happily pay more for X jersey over Y jersey because it has some tangible improvement. But in terms of asthetic design, most cycling kit swings wildly between ‘explosion in the ADHD factory’ and ‘boring’. Very little seems to ever be ‘designed’ by someone competent.
Basicly, I think a lot of cycling kit is ‘designed’ by the engineers as an afterthought.