Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

Haha I'll take gentlemands...

I've just text you that code Pat, what a bargain! Did "trolly" go out for a beer with you lot last night?

mmm... spraying his musk everywhere lol.

I didn't get it bud? Is it the one further up the page?

No, he didn't.....did someone invite him then? ;0) he might have done a Greavsey though, and met up over the squash club....know what I mean?

Anyway, my funds are all accounted for at the minute......apart from some handlebars and a crankset maybe.....l!

Been looking on ebay for a rain jacket for the past month or so. No need to bother now, you've just got me nearly £40 off a brand new one! I was also able to buy the colour I wanted.............safety black.

Cheers mands, you're a gentleman.

was this

not enough of a clue?
(or deliberate mistake)

Haha I'll take gentlemands...

I was going to say - mands is a doris.

Assuming that people from Rapha actually read this, your website is an utter nightmare. Trying to checkout an order requires more effort than getting up Swain's Lane.

I saw a fella in what looked like an Imperial Works woolly hat the other day, had to resist the urge to go and ask him about it, felt pathetic...

Haha I'll take gentlemands...

Sorry Mands, I had my head up my arse and blinkers on when I saw the 20% discount code. Often the codes don't last very long, so I was pushing people out of the way to get my order in!

Much obliged.

I saw a fella in what looked like an Imperial Works woolly hat the other day, had to resist the urge to go and ask him about it, felt pathetic...

You bugger: the whole reason that fella spent four figures on Rapha in the last quarter is so that he will get asked about his excluso-hat on his commute. Rapha equivalent of a reach around, innit?

Rapha mug

"The finest coffee vessels available"

Clue's in the name.

Assuming that people from Rapha actually read this, your website is an utter nightmare. Trying to checkout an order requires more effort than getting up Swain's Lane.

You're just not ready enough to suffer and hence not worthy of wearing Rapha. :)

I think I need to reproof my city rain jacket. Should I use nikwax tech wash? Thanks

That discount code may have just scored me a rain jacket for Xmas so ta vey vey much

^

No, you need to use the adrenal gland of japanese snow-monkies and gently rub it all over the jacket, before rinsing with a delicate mixture of swedish moose piss and polar-bear sperm. Then it has to be carried atop Mont Ventoux by 3 virgins of indeterminate age and left to dry from the passing air displacement of Tom Simpson's ghost as he does endless hill sprints.

Only then shall your jacket be re-energised and ready for wear in the rain again.

Grangers cleaner and proofing solutions. The two part version works well, use a tumble dryer.

Good article.. and like Trevor Ward, i'm not ashamed to say I own a few Rapha garms myself, in-fact most of the gear I have is Rapha. By that i mean I've bought a couple of jerseys, bib shorts and some base layers and have found i don't need anything else. It's dam pricey for sure but I suppose, like most things, if you're willing to pay it's the best quality.
The funny thing is is that i first bought Rapha clothing because the distinct lack of branding on their clothes. Most cycle clothing, and sports clothing is plastered with garish brand names whilst Rapha remained subtle. Only later did i become so aware of the brand, but to be honest videos such as their Continental series only got me more into cycling. Which can't be a bad thing.

agreed, +1

On a side note I did see someone wearing the flourescent pink gilet with the stripes at the weekend and he looked a right bellend in it

Not for me

On a side note** I did see someone** wearing the flourescent pink gilet with the stripes at the weekend and he looked a right bellend in it

Not for me

I think that's the point, despite looking like a big glistening glans.

I think that's the point, despite looking like a big glistening glans.

The driver's see you alright, they also have to resist a massive urge to swerve towards you for looking like a ball-sack. It's a double-edged sword

If your ball-sack looks like that I would go to the doctors.

The driver's see you alright, they also have to resist a massive urge to swerve towards you for looking like a ball-sack. It's a double-edged sword

Just being on a bike is usually enough to encourage that type of behaviour - I'm not convinced the gilet is a riskier clothing option.

http://www.rapha.cc/the-festive-500-returns

so having just got the hard shell jacket in Chartreuse, i don't really care about what others think, as i know the twat who's pointing their car and not paying attention, will hopefully see this bright yellow jacket in front of them.

great fit for a jacket though, comfortable.

^I never got my badge from the last Festive 500, I was going to use it to patch my bibswhich i ripped after falling on ice.

^I never got my badge from the last Festive 500, I was going to use it to patch my bibswhich i ripped after falling on ice.

bastards!

Dammit, you called them? I did with mine and they sent it

bastards!

this is a good idea. do you have experience in sewing badges and patches etc on lycra or whatever the bibs are made of? I ripped a fair hole in my thermals yesterday as as well.