Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

Sadly the sample size wasn't large enough to perform any meaningful analysis.

Like any old couple.

Not sure how serious but fuck yeah! Would totally fit with the heritage focus. I see why they launched the way they did, but, much as it pains me to agree with Mr DBAD, it's now 2017. Given how Rapha have carefully tacked away from the full-on Kings of Pain/roadie image to a broader conception of cycling (eg through the copy for the Brevet range and the​ RCC), this does seem a bit like a massive blind spot.
As an aside, I rather assumed that their diversity in advertising was better than it actually is, until I realised I was thinking of images on the 'gram, where there are may people of all races and genders clad in Rapha, all of whom are younger, fitter, and more attractive than me, the bastards...

Myself, @amey @Arvy. and @NurseHolliday are happy to volunteer for the next ethnic range

Haven’t we done this at North’s about 6 years ago?

I’m already looking forward to the retrospective at the Barbican.

Poster image for the Barbican show?

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Wait, I don’t remember being there.

Must have been a hell of a night then....

PS-we miss seeing you on the 343

It was kind of a PTJ of a post, ribbing the commercial appropriation of race and history, but also, yup, I would totally be up for a Major Taylor range, esp. if the profits went to the Association.

The garment reproofer is out of stock on line. Is there an alternative or is it a case of just waiting for it to come back in stock?

I think it's just Grangers in a fancy bottle?

6 years ago I weighed all of you combined, Rapha hates fat more than coloured people

We don’t have a tumble dryer. Has anyone used a hair dryer to activate?

Radiator?

Pop into your local launderette. Best places in the world to spend 20 minutes.

Good post

It does have a multi-ethnic workforce but HQ, where decisions are made, has the ethnic diversity of the junior school I attended in 1987 where my sister and I made up half of the total number of ethnic students in the whole school.

It’s only in the last year or so there have been photos of men and women riding together rather than in their separate gender groups so it’s no surprise there’s no real ethnic diversity in their models.

for what it's worth, and from my position a long way away from any actual decision-making; they are trying. Not very successfully, but it's a problem that's been identified and people are attempting to make changes. It is always going to be a slow rollout though, even a shoot done today with an 100% POC cast wouldn't see the light of day for 8 months. Not to defend woeful underrepresentation for more than a decade but you know.

p.s. I'm half welsh and that's 100% a subaltern class.

8 months! Give us the insta admin password, Amey break out the Leica, I'll call Corny and we'll bang this out by 17:00.

Jokes aside, thanks for responding. Means a lot. I'll wait and see what happens in the upcoming months.

Jokes aside, thanks for responding. Means a lot. I'll wait and see what happens in the upcoming months.

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8 months! Give us the insta admin password, Amey break out the Leica, I'll call Corny and we'll bang this out by 17:00.

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Good idea. Not sure I’ve ever been in a launderette, what could possibly go wrong.

Not sure I’ve ever been in a launderette

The most unsurprising thing said by anyone in the Rapha thread?

Laundrette just for drying!?!
You better bring the charm and the correct denominations #prayforalan

Edit: apologies for the " @"

Major Taylors autobio worth a read?

Do they at least serve a good flat white while you wait?

Let’s see, from experience I’ve been offered the best quality heroin in the country, was propositioned by a 60-something woman (I was 20 at the time) and been held up at gunpoint and told to hand over my valuables, when it was clear to me and all the other patrons that the robber was holding his hand in a gun shape with a tea towel over it.

Happy days.