The new road season began with outcry. For the first time in over a decade, Geraint Thomas would not be wearing Oakley sunglasses.
The masses feared for him. “What will he wear now?” they cried. For many, the Welshman’s bug-eyed Racing Jackets had become a staple of the WorldTour peloton, the last remnants of bygone cycling couture, a middle finger to the modern era.
