Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

^^ interesting article. Although I kinda wish he'd had the classics in there. This made me chuckle;

Rapha products always seem to have a story to tell and the Pro Team bibs come with this little piece of inspiration:

“Under low clouds we push hard through the shivering wheatfields, our feet shackled to the pedals. Tongues hang, like those of dogs and the gang breathes fast and heavy. My grandfather once told me of Henri Pelissier, a champion rider who quit the Tour in 1924 and whom a journalist once described as a Forcat de la Route–a ‘convict of the road’. From the team car, an order comes like the lash: ‘Raise the tempo at the front’. We cannot give in. We are chained together, destined to race forever.”

Personally, I don’t think bike riding shouldn’t be that grim but the Pro Team bibs have a fit that is in perfect sympathy with this passage of text.