Best Old Rider Jersey?

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Postboxer
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Best Old Rider Jersey?

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How about having a Jersey for the best old rider in a grand tour? What age should it be? Or between the oldest 30 or 40 riders competing? What colour Jersey? The colour of a Werther's Original wrapper? Or a design of many birthday cake candles?
Debs
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The grey jersey? :)

Perhaps the silver jersey would be more respectful (?) :D

IMO over 35 would be about the right and appropriate elder rider qualification.

The stats of the 2021 Giro are below:

Age & number of
30 = 7
31 = 17
32 = 8
33 = 8
34 = 8
35 = 3
36 = 9
37 = 3
38 = 5

The oldest rider in this Giro was Koen de Kort (Trek-Segafredo) 38 years 243 days

The youngest was Andrii Ponomar (Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec) 18 years 246 days

Ponomar was the only teenager, the next youngest was 21 year old Remco Evenepoel
David2504
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Valverde just won a stage in the Dauphiné aged 41
merseymouth
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Hi all, I thought you wanted nominations for the best jersey design from yesteryear?
My nomination would be the "Bic" jersey, schoolboy with knees just like mine. MM
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Hellhound
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Chris Horner won the Vuelta aged 41!
NickJP
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Davide Rebellin is still racing at UCI Continental level, and he turns 50 in a couple of months...
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