Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

He says, while taking a choux bun from his £200 leather musette.

I've found a Danish pastry is a better fit to the musette shape. Or Frazzles.

I reckon @31trum could make you a musette for significantly less dorrah.

Pain au raisin

Pain au chocolate surely is the correct shape.

Pain-au-chocolate-cave?

It's a ridiculous idea that to occasionally splash out on a cycling jersey that costs north of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS you have to be working in the City.

I don't know what the average number of cycling jerseys purchased per cyclist per year are, but let's say for the sake of argument it's two and the average cost of a Rapha jersey is £110.

That's £220 a year, when the average UK salary is £26,500 or £1758 a month after tax. 1% of the average net income is £211. I'm sure I've read that cyclists earn more than average too.

I'd like to have watched him smashing the keyboard keys as he wrote that 'article', the rage would have been fascinating viewing.

Tortuous

Did I read the same article, he just explained Rapha's market and the direction cycling/consumption is moving. Hardly an angry piece..

To be honest I only read as far as 'the city'...moan...crumble...buyers....

too busy browsing custom titanium trouser Clips for Well dressed sufferer.

I was skim reading long before that point

Conquista carries no torch for Rapha. For all its “investment in cycling”, Rapha is fearsomely commercially-minded, and sometimes genuinely cynical. 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

Have you even read it? It's a big fat moany piece of shit writing.

He's definitely been wearing wellies when writing.

Classic Jersey mkII tomorrow.

Aren't you a charmer!

Some perfectly reasonable points made there. Especially the 'art-of-suffering' thing, which is just fucking awful.

but in no way as bad as the article's art of whinging

I didn't really see much whinging to be honest, let alone anger.

I'm with the Bear, its lazy, old, boring bollocks we have all heard many times on shit forums.

Are most of these things not true?

I own a few bits from Rapha and like it, but it's hardly a charity. You can't deny it is a profit making company that does things like marketing to sell its products and targets specific audiences in doing so..

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It's literally 99% bullshit.

LITERALLY.

le sigh, it's been few weeks now since they received my exchange and a week since they've not replied for my emails

What happened to the Classic Jersey from the sale?
All sizes were available but now off the site- they must have loads left somewhere as new range comes out soon