Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

Ghetto-style!

I never noticed that Gordon Brown had that weird shit going on with his mouth. Since a work friend pointed it out to me, I am unable to actually listen to a word he says as I am too busy concentrating on when he is going to do that weird thing again. What a freak

we do have boris johnson as major though! :(

Something we should know?

I read somewhere that actually Rapha is a sub division of NIke...

Bought a pair of Rapha gloves a few months back, rapha website said "made in england", actual label in the gloves said "made in India".

Proper hilarious this. Buy it or don't, Rapha are behind a cycling team and many free events for all cyclists. Not sure how 'moral' the hard commodities industry is either but it doesn't stop people buying a steel frame.

For the record, I wouldn't buy it at that price but it doesn't offend me.

you didn't see nimbles squeezing into his pink rapha top on the cambridge ride. that was, errr, flashbacks...., very offensive. think condom packed with walnuts :(

Bought a pair of Rapha gloves a few months back, rapha website said "made in england", actual label in the gloves said "made in India".

Yeah it's just like Topshop or H&M just with different numbers on the price tag

BTW i've found leather gloves on Topshop which looks very similar in style, and costs £15 if i remember right. They had them in grey, black, and orange-ish.

(I used to get them and put on e**y - o-ops!)

^^^ Arrgghhh DIE CAPITALIST you should be ashamed Roberto ;)

These ones

No excuses. Just because Capitalism exists doesn't mean you need to excessively participate.
Great line from Jurassic Park "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"
I reckon we got about 4 years and 4 months left on this planet in this civilization so yep, it's time to wake up, and brands like Rapha are no better than McDonalds or Nike except for the fact that currently they haven't been able to do as much damage but that's just a matter of time and size.

People who care about cycling and cyclists who care about cycling who have a spare £55 to spend on a stupid scarf should be using their spare throw abouts to be pro-active. Help start a fgss lawyers fund for cyclists hit by cars, buy an allotment, or a kid a bike.

I have to say that at least the scarf is made in England though I question where the silk is manufactured, and props to rapha for not using their Chinese connections to import silk if they didn't.

It's time to start asking companies like Evans, Rapha, Condor, Cycle Surgery what have you done for us lately?!! What are you doing to actively promote cycling, any lobbying of government happening with your profits? Here's a small project idea for you.... Spitalfields Market (ruined by capitalism and greed) has an Evans and a Cycle Surgery and is the center of Rapha wankster territory, try to find a place to lock your bike.....

I can't rep you at the moment - dammitroxy!

please, someone rep this by proxy.

The irony of course is that having pushed out Blair you are now saddled with perhaps the most incompetent and unpopular prime minister in British history.

I've been living in SF for a little over a year now, so I'm actually saddled with the most incompetent and unpopular president in American history. Unless McCain gets in, of course (sadly, a very real possibility), in which case I'll be saddled with an incompetent, unopop... er... nevermind.

Well this particular obamacon reckons that if America elects the 72 year old frat boy the democrats might as well give up politics now as they are never likely to win.

Well this particular obamacon reckons that if America elects the 72 year old frat boy the democrats might as well give up politics now as they are never likely to win.

Not while Diebold are counting the votes, anyways...

seen in edinburgh

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I can't rep you at the moment - dammitroxy!

please, someone rep this by proxy.

done.

vegan or not vegan has nothing to do with what i had written, the issue is consumerism not diet choice.

[alarm clock rings] This is your wake up call!
Are you serious!?!?!?

Bought a pair of Rapha gloves a few months back, rapha website said "made in england", actual label in the gloves said "made in India".

Is this for real?!?!?! WTF.

I can't rep you at the moment - dammitroxy!

please, someone rep this by proxy.

done.

aw shucks.

[alarm clock rings] This is your wake up call!
Are you serious!?!?!?

serious about what? :confused:

this is what i originally posted:
*"it's simple. if you don't like it don't buy it.
just knit your own out of yogurt or hemp and wear your dainty hankie guilt free."

meaning if you don't want to pay fiddy dollar for a rapha snot rag make your own from off cuts stolen from the bottom of elvis impersonators flares or something equally silly (like knitting your own out of yogurt) and feel good inside because you haven't ass raped a silk worm or twisted the arm of a child sweatshop worker.

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They support a "Rapha" cycling team, which is great for Rapha and those cyclists and good entertainment for the middle class, but track cycling doesn't help get more people to use cycling as transport and getting out of their cars and off buses.

I think hippy mentioned that the Rapha team are a road team, but in addition I think that being a fan of cycle sport remains, for the most part, the preserve (though I'd rather say 'jam') of the working class. Any time spent at grass roots cycling events and fraternising with the supporters confirms this. Admittedly, British society has become more classless in the minds of many of its inhabitants, and so have many past-times that were once more unequivocally working class. Personally, I don't mind sharing with the middle or upper classes, as long as they don't take the piss and run off with my heritage.

Cycling offered poorer people a shot at affordable mobility, and road racing provided an arena for hard men to pit (pun intended) themselves against each other and get some local glory; and time-trialling gave hard men (and many hard women) the chance to take ownership, if you will, of racing against the clock, having spent the week doing the same in fields and factories and whatnot.

Anyhow, perception of British class issues varies immensely, even if you were born and raised here, so I can understand your misconception, which someone will probably argue isn't a misconception anyway.

yeah, I take back everything about road/track racing getting people on bikes as transport. I have no idea, I reckon none of us really do. My guess though would be that the majority of commuters don't attend track/road events and that's not why they started riding. And I would wonder how many adults will take up cycling as transport because of Chris Hoy (no matter how lovely he may be). But yep, I have no stats on this.

serious about what? :confused:

this is what i originally posted:
*"it's simple. if you don't like it don't buy it.
just knit your own out of yogurt or hemp and wear your dainty hankie guilt free."

meaning if you don't want to pay fiddy dollar for a rapha snot rag make your own from off cuts stolen from the bottom of elvis impersonators flares or something equally silly (like knitting your own out of yogurt) and feel good inside because you haven't ass raped a silk worm or twisted the arm of a child sweatshop worker.

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yes, I understand this was one thing you said, however I was commenting on how ridiculous it is to say that diet choice and consumerism aren't related....their like practically inbred brothers.

Apparently loads.

BBC News mentioned as an aside in tonight's news that bicycles sales since the Olympics have seen a dramatic increase. The new feature was discussing the sacking of the guy in charge of athletics, and the comparison was to the success in cycling and the juicy facts included a "substantial" increase in bicycles sales in the last few weeks.

Well, I can tell you that Herne Hill has been absolutely packed the last 2 Saturday mornings. Possibly due to the British exploits at the Games. And there are more and more cyclists on the road, seemingly by the day

Jesus wept. Anyone put the word Rapha in a thread title and it goes on for days.

If the worst reaction to elicit is indifference, then Rapha are doing a lot right.