Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

I ate mine.

Did it taste of the blood and bile that comes from your stomach during too much effort?

I've got the grey softshell, can't seem to wash out the splash marks though

Should I send it back?

After a couple of days use my paul smith jacket smells like a fetid hamster scrotum after a good 3 hours on the exercise wheel. Sweat my tits off wearing it on the bike and freeze them off as soon as I stop and the litre of sweat inside it cools down.

looks nice though. maybe I should carry a transfer jacket in my backpack to help keep my sweat 'au point' and avoid the discomfort of being cold and stinking and just be hot and stinking instead.

I've got the grey softshell, can't seem to wash out the splash marks though

Should I send it back?

are these the kind of splash marks you normally see in CSI under a black light?

Did it taste of the blood and bile that comes from your stomach during too much effort?

might explain the stomach problems for the last week lol

this.

But do agree that the thumb/cuff thing is really uncomfortable. My cuffs have also completely disintegrated now. I most ignore them.

Just tuck the thumb loop up inside the sleeve, you don't have to use it.

My first softshell didn't suffer from the cuff disintegration thing, the second one did but they fixed it on the repair programme.

how lazy are you on the bike? my softshell comes out when the temperature dips below five degrees as i boil to death in it usually

I think this down to what layer you're wearing.

A simple t-shirt would still be cold, whether a long sleeve baselayer would make it perfectly warm.

I cut the elastic cuff off my Softshell but kept the elastic on the thumb and it's much more comfortable, especially with glove.

£50 cardboard box. HAAHHAAHHA!

^what the fuck.

ohgoodgrief

Was it designed by Scoot?

#mustbeworththeprice

Fuck, look at those corners. Lush.

for fuck sake

Or you could save a fiver, thanks to Tyler

http://shop.monocle.com/stationery/monocle-archive-boxes

It's a trap!

No problem if one is wearing Town Gloves.

Received a surprising sum of money from my dad today - a rather early Xmas gift - with the instruction 'Buy something nice for your bike'.

Not one to let instructions go unfollowed, I immediately went to the Cycle Club Osaka and bought a huge volume of soap Classic Softshell.

Fuck. Oh well, thanks dad!

There are now three of us in my group of friends with NJS bikes and black Rapha softshells. Oh dear.

There are now three of us in my group of friends with NJS bikes and black Rapha softshells. Oh dear.

Pictures or it never happened

Received a surprising sum of money from my dad today - a rather early Xmas gift - with the instruction 'Buy something nice for your bike'.

Not one to let instructions go unfollowed, I immediately went to the Cycle Club Osaka and bought a huge volume of soap Classic Softshell.

Fuck. Oh well, thanks dad!

There are now three of us in my group of friends with NJS bikes and black Rapha softshells. Oh dear.

still as ridiculously priced as the equivalent of £240?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/nov/07/spoof-website-rapha-cycling

The Guardian proving it has the finger on the pulse, linking the JVA's spoof website, then proceeds to give Rapha a bit of a savaging. Apologies if this is a re

Pictures or it never happened

I will. We're all going to go on a late-night pudding run (not a euph) sometime soon - this is a strange tradition - so I'll make sure we're all Rapha'd up.

still as ridiculously priced as the equivalent of £240?

Actually that's not TERRIBLE for a decent softshell in Japan - climbing stuff here is horribly priced too. But yes. sigh

:(

I couldnt justify at all

Im finding it hard to spend £50 on a jacket

Um, UNIQLO and theory collaboration... interesting... not quite the **Transfer Jacket **

still made of down though. see upthread for why that's not good idea when rain/sweat are involved because of clumping.