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

  • 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.

  • 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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