Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

I would like some women's Rapha touring shorts (which don't exist, as far as I'm aware). How do I campaign for such a thing to happen? Can I start a petition?

Send an email to them

rogerio.

Just had a look and it's like £100.. surely thats a no brainer? Or is that the usual price!

I'm guessing it's exactly the same as Classic Bibs apart from the sky and 21st fox crap on it...

Pls.

Fancy buying tonight ideally.

Would happily pay the difference for no SKY references.

Would happily pay the difference for no SKY references.

This. You could literally give me a whole Team Sky kit and I'd never wear any of it. Outside the Square Mile, who the fuck would want to?

This. You could literally give me a whole Team Sky kit and I'd never wear any of it. Outside the Sky Pro Team, who the fuck would want to?

ftfy

The Sky kit doesn't look bad IMO. I don't wear it myself because I have my own team kit but what's the diff between wearing that and another sort of team kit?

but your team kit looks like sky ; )

I wouldn't wear any team kit unless I rode for the team... Sky kit has a lot more UK mamil connotations than any other trade team, IMO.

Sky kit has a lot more connotations.

I've got some Ullrich era T-mobile somewhere. I wear that (rarely, admittedly) because it's boss.

Trade team update

As it was such a lovely morning.. I dusted off the Mapei jersey. It looks ace with the Rapha socks as above^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Give thanks,
Tim

A history lesson for you...

Mapei was an Italian based road bicycle racing team active from 1993 to 2002, named after sponsoring firm Mapei. From 2003 Mapei dropped the sponsorate, and a new team was built on top of the old with the name of Quick Step-Davitamon.

Mapei was one of the strongest teams during the late 1990s, and ranked as the strongest UCI team in 1994-2000 and 2002.

The team had the great Belgian and Italian classic specialists of the 1990s such as Johan Museeuw, Michele Bartoli, Andrea Tafi, Franco Ballerini, and had Patrick Lefevre as directeur sportif and then manager. The team won Paris–Roubaix five times. Three times (1996,[1] 1998[2] and 1999[3]) the team even won the first three places. In the 1996 edition, the sprint for the line was decided 15 km from the finish. Directeur sportif Patrick Lefevere, who was following the race in the team car, talked with the owner of Mapei, Giorgio Squinzi (in Milan), who said that Museeuw was to win the race. Gianluca Bortolami was second while Andrea Tafi was third.[1] In 1998 Franco Ballerini won the race with over four minutes ahead of his two teammates Tafi and Wilfried Peeters.[2] and in 1999 Tafi won with an advantage of two minutes over teammates Peeters and Tom Steels. In the summer of 2000, Lefevre announced that the Belgian part of the Mapei team would be leaving the team to form a new team called Domo-Farm Frites which had Museeuw as team captain. As a result, there was a great rivalry between the two teams.[4]

Mapei was less dominating in the Grand Tours. The only true stage race specialist was Tony Rominger, who won the 1994 Vuelta a España and the 1995 Giro d'Italia for the team. As Rominger focused on the Tour de France in 1996, Abraham Olano was given the leadership role at the Giro d'Italia in 1996. Olano took the maglia rosa but lost it in the mountains and during the Tour, Rominger lost time in the mountains. The team never played a major role in the Tour de France.

The official names of the team changed with the cosponsors several times. The team has run under the following names: Mapei (1993) Mapei-Clas (1994), Mapei-GB (1995–1997), Mapei-Bricobi (1998), Mapei-Quickstep (1999–2002).

If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me....

Pls.

Fancy buying tonight ideally.

If you can't afford to buy the non-branded ones buy these. They're just as good but don't look as nice. You can sharpie the logo's if you need

Thanks for code. I just bought my firts Rapha clothing.

Cheers Tenderloin, ordered. Will find a permanent marker for the 21 Century fox bits!

Also ordered a Winter Jersey for next year to boot!

Rep to arvy for the code.

Thanks for the 15% off code, just picked up some Rapha jeans!
Tempted to buy the classic softshell jacket for next winter using the code, does anyone know if the classic softshell ever gets discounted greater than 15%? Much appreciated.

^^ Don't boot that either.

Which base layers are best? Merino, merino mesh, or pro team?

This. You could literally give me a whole Team Sky kit and I'd never wear any of it. Outside the Square Mile, who the fuck would want to?

I've got the long sleeve pro-team jersey and the race cape, both Sly branded, both bought in the sale when they updated the sponsors.

I can't see the "Sky" branding whilst I'm wearing it, but I get exactly the same benefits as the non-branded kit gives.

Still seems like a sensible decision to me.

Yeah wouldnt mind sky given the code ^ you can get a pro team kit (jersey & bibs) for £208

On a diff note; I've been using DHB Goldline kit for last 500 miles or so and its fucking amazing. VERY comfy padding in bibs (same pad as rapha I think) and great fit altogether. Jersey has part seamless welded construction. Hardly can see black on black DHB branding. I think they went out and copied rapha .. I just hope they continue with this product line.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-goldline-bib-short/

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-goldline-short-sleeve-jersey/

Thanks for code. I just bought my firts Rapha clothing.

Its a downhill slippery slope from here......

Website down.
Code a bit too successful perhaps?

I can't see the "Sky" branding whilst I'm wearing it, but I get to function as a rolling billboard for a hideous company run by one of the world's greediest cunts.

ftfy