Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

They also haven't updated any of the copy for their remaining products! Total shambles.

hey @rapha I'm unemployed and I can do product launches like this with my eyes closed

I didn't get any emails from them today with 'TBC' in the subject, just one yesterday, subject 'Introducing the Rapha Collections 2016'. Obviously I'm not special enough :(

No, skinny like a rake - my arms, the rest of me could use some work.

Maybe I just have sweaty arms.

New range looks solid. Like it.

Fade jerseys are a bit marmite.

I'd need a reverse fade for the old gut.

An inverse shim for your belly?

#FadeGate

http://www.teamdreambicyclingteam.com/post/138686190977/for-the-faded-record-team-dream-was-founded-on

My club is currently designing a new kit, one of the initial options had a big fade but it was rejected for 'looking good now but will date very badly'.

/csb

I so wanted these in my yoof!!

new slate blue PT colour way looks nice

The new team sky kit looks nice.

That's a decent response.

Merino socks and the winter socks. Sale prices. Nice but not very pricey. They've made every other pair of socks I own seem a bit disappointing.

For those wondering, the black/ pink fade jersey is actually brown/ pink fade.

Long read:

http://conquista-cycling-club.myshopify.com/blogs/polemics/112967239-who-are-the-raphaphiles

It feels like the writing of a 14 year old boy that never got to kiss a girl and was picked last for footy.

Sounds like most cyclists.

Yesterday someone told me that they paid £800 to replace a water pump in their VW Polo. I LOL'd hard.

Conquista brings the highest standards of journalism and photography to the sport of cycling.

Wait what?

Ah its from the north .. that explains a lot.

Cant wait for a thought-piece/open letter from glorious cc.

It's not wrong....

But it doesn't paint the whole picture either.

If you are a rich city banker, and spend Your Money on Nice resturants, and get fat. People will hate you for it.

If you are a rich city banker, and spend Your Money on Nice cycling kit, and dont get fat. People will hate you for it.

Feck. If you ride around in DHB People will hate you for not pumping Your fat cat wages back into the economy.

Epic meh.

It's OK.

I felt it fell over here:

Founder Simon Mottram is undoubtedly a cycling enthusiast. However, he is also a professional "luxury brand consultant", who bought the "Rapha" name from a defunct French team and hired an army of designers and marketers quite consciously to exploit the (mostly juvenile) fantasies of his (mostly male) customers. Unsurprisingly, then, its prices are preposterous, some of its products more so, and its monochrome “art-of-suffering” advertisements are perhaps silliest of all. And its designs are not always as stylish as their reputation: Canyon-SRAM’s 2016 team kit appears to have been inspired by the 1992 Aston Villa goalkeeper’s jersey.

Not really the highest standards of journalism, eh?

Who the fuck cares?

My thoughts exactly. What a waste of time - and effort, if you could call it that.

wont read, buying more rapha instead

I'm wearing the track jacket at work today. Smug bastard, sitting in comfort. Great buy from me i must say.