Summer caps LFGSS

got mine in Friday, can't believe they're made by rapha!?!

Ruined it. Believable until Rapha comment

Ok too many pages to trawl through here, how do I get one?! Link on first page doesn't work

@PhilDAS
you mean yours isn't? 🙃

List for Rapha LFGSS cap with the list on it

1. Husy
   

Let's dredge this thread. What's happening (if anything) with the caps. Paging @6pt @Velocio

Oh, didn't you see the list? It went to PMs after that, and they've all been ordered and delivered...

Mine is great. Thanks @6pt for the updated design.

RRY? have I missed the boat?? epic fml

They're all simultaneously taking the piss out of forum gullibles and goading me for being a dickhead who over-promises and under-delivers. Life is fucking nuts for me right now, I have plans but no time, @timbre was up to something. Anyone else welcome to step up.

I've also been having a very busy period of life and not had time to follow any of this up.

I actually have a few design's that I did some weeks back before it all kicked off, will try and follow up in the next few weeks.

I also think that the new kits is very nice and would like to do a cap to match that style.

Sounds good. Just make sure we've chevrons and unicorns on it

Any chance of a top hat as well?
Wedding season is approaching

I'm mighty tempted to put blue and white stripes across my bowler and stick some letters on the side.

Where are we? Snapped the peak in my OG cap tonight. Gutted.

I think the obvious answer is that we're depending on way too many people who's lives are frankly too busy and unpredictable to allow them to dedicate the time that they think this job deserves. That is, of course, a mark of their professionalism and commitment to the forum.

However, we already have a design, a good one at that. If the original designer has no objections then I boldly suggest that @Velocio opens up pre-orders in the shop and allow those of us either without caps or whose caps have not well weathered the long and inexorable march of time since the last caps were made, many aeons ago, to purchase our hearts greatest desire.

Of course, if such an endeavour were to turn a profit for the forum then perhaps that could be put towards retaining one of our beleaguered resident designers as a proper paying customer to design a new cap for next year. I say next year because, lets face it, summer is upon us, the solstice is fading into history and Winter Is Coming. Winter without a lovely, lovely cap.

Agreed!

Also agreed. List of people who agree?

1. @Thrasher
   
2. @dglshrn
   

1. @Thrasher
   
2. @dglshrn
   
3. @sacredhart
   

Would it be possible to do a kick starter/crowd funding type thing?

petition

The issue in terms of effort and time isn't the putting it on a shop and selling it.

It's:

• Talking to a factory who speak broken English, and I speak no Italian.
  
• Finalising details with said factory
  
• Dealing with the Summer shutdowns (you aren't getting caps until October now)
  
• Receiving delivery
  
• Putting hundreds of caps in envelopes, posting them, tracking delivery failures, handling returns (expect 2-3% defect rate)
  
• Manually distributing caps to compass beers over 2-3 weeks (because there's always people who don't turn up when they say they will).
  
  

The act of designing them, putting them on the shop and pre-selling them, handling the stock control, ensuring money is received, accounted for, paid to the manufacturer or covers postage & packing... is actually not a big deal compared to manufacturing and distribution.

Im sure that work could be divided up. More than happy to manage distribution.

Anyone speak broken english?

Awesome, then we have enough resource to end the task, but not to begin it.