Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

Answers in chronological order.

1. Yes, I do need to hone my track standing skills. Lets rephrase that, any track standing skills would be nice.

2. I did ride the bike all bloody day for the shoot.

3. 2 x trispokes of US ebay for £150. Not cheap, but not silly either. The spoked wheels on my run-around cost about the same. I would not wish Time Trifling on any one - apologies to any testers out there.....

"Softshells ain't waterproof (you can't seal the seams!)
Clothing geek over and out...."

go and geek out the endura stealth jacket (and the bibshorts)

Bugger, out geeked!
Humble apologies, I stand corrected.
Saw a workwear brand with this type but didn't know if it would stand up to regular use.
May have to pick one up for work sample use/inspiration...ahem

what's the jacket like? I must say you look superb wearing it.

Answers in chronological order.

1. Yes, I do need to hone my track standing skills. Lets rephrase that, any track standing skills would be nice.

2. I did ride the bike all bloody day for the shoot.

3. 2 x trispokes of US ebay for £150. Not cheap, but not silly either. The spoked wheels on my run-around cost about the same. I would not wish Time Trifling on any one - apologies to any testers out there.....

1) Don't worry, so do most people on here
2) You must have been so fast they missed you ;)
3) Bargain!

4) Did they let you keep the jacket?

for a company that pretty much everyone on here says they 'hate' rapha gets a lot of forum space....... if i could afford rapha i would buy it, but i can't so i won't. but you can't really knock a guy for buying an expensive jacket, it's his money, he can spend it on what he choses.
but the scarf....that is 100% taking the piss.

£250 ain't so much for a jacket.

I wear my softshell (£210, my bad) most days - more than my winter coats, which were more than double this each.

1) Don't worry, so do most people on here
2) You must have been so fast they missed you ;)
3) Bargain!

4) Did they let you keep the jacket?

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I do have a bag full of lovely stuff from the shoot that I am hoping gets, sort of, forgotten about. The jacket and the gloves where particularly nice.

Yes, I do need to hone my track standing skills. Lets rephrase that, any track standing skills would be nice.

SOAR, come out to Trixie Dix on tuesdays, good time to hone them skills

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread7272-16.html#post333813

Also being the poster that raised the photo/arrospok issue, nice to know you actually own and ride the bike and wheels in question, rather than Rapha finding one specially for the shoot...

It depends what you want though - thought of as being 'hard' by your peers because you forgo knee warmers when it's cold or knees that aren't arthritic by the time you're 40. Tough choice.

Now you bloody tell me...

rapha make some nice knee warmers.
not the white ones though, fucking genius idea to wear those on muddy roads.

it's nice but £250! LOL. i can get the same thing at urban outfitters for £60.

then you win, then don't you? look, you outsmarted the whole world. nice one.

those Bob jacksons are nice, aren't they? fuck paying 350 quid, though.

then you win, then don't you? look, you outsmarted the whole world. nice one.

oh come on, £250 is a lot! especially when you think what it costs to make it in China.

(yes, this is true of everything else, i know .. )

if it had the dainty pink detailing of the other rapha jackets i would buy 2 so i could proclaim my raphaness even when one was in the dry cleaners

(yes, this is true of everything else, i know .. )

this is the point, though..do you walk into Armani and proclaim ' look! 2 grand for a suit! M&S sell them for £150! same thing!'?

rapha make expensive cycling clothing. it's expensive. it's 'designer'. it's also quite nice. ignore it if you're not into it.
but i'm really bored of people saying its expensive. yes it is. next.

same time next week folks.

yep, see you then.

that's a noice bike, proper bonkers but noice

you were doing the set at the smithfield nocturne i seem to remember

and you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

Doing the waitress and wearing Rapha no?

Hi Big Daddy, yes I DJ'd the Nocturne. I really enjoed it. It was a little strange playing around the commentators, but fun none the less. Hope I will be back there next year.

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it's nearly as insane as paying £300 for a plastic spoked front wheel and using it on a commuter bike instead of in a time-trial.

:-)

it's nice but £250! LOL. i can get the same thing at urban outfitters for £60.
they really need to start making cheaper stuff, people have less disposable income these days!

What gives you that idea? The people that haven't been retrenched are sitting pretty.
They wouldn't be cycling though. They'd have a Bentley and a driver.

£250 ain't so much for a jacket.
I wear my softshell (£210, my bad) most days - more than my winter coats, which were more than double this each.

Okay moneybags.. but I'll stick with my £50 Endura.