Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

So, £150...

Or £100, without the 'orrible polka dot on the back.

Am I missing something?

Still, a hundred quid is too much for me. Nice, but blah blah blah.

So... it's based on the jersey for the black lantern. The shittest guy in the Giro. The snail of the peloton. Presumably, this position has some kind of kudos attached, like being the guy at the pub that can drink 3 pints of guinness upside down after a vindaloo without shitting stomach acid down his back. That it's sold out in XXL shows that they are marketing to fat cunts who will be wearing this spotted monstrosity and spraying their sweat over their new condor dti specced bikes as they grind through Surrey at 12kph. Ok.

Shirly, this flies in the face of chiselled, rugged guys with legs stronger than Madonna's pelvic floor muscles mincing through exotic countryside despangled in discreet yet flattering vetements, and Rapha, for all their marketing nouse and nice imagery, will readily be the brand of the fat cunt with more money than sense or skill, rather than just the slightly vain tosspots with definitely more money than sense but also a BMI of under 1000 and who hasn't just taken up cycling because they've been told they've got to fight off type 2 diabetes because they eat too much foie gras of a corporate lunch and they also think their trophy wife has started getting the gardener to tend her succulents...

Or did we already get to that point long before I was busy trying not to look at the Rapha website since October for fear of being seduced by their CX gear?

Agreed, all the cx stuff is in clearance now

aww yissss.... runs off to look like a total moremoneythansensefatcuntwithdelusionsofbeingabitbelgianinhislifeoutlook

Nah. Fuckit. All looks a bit Marks and Sparks now. Sorry. Going to stick with my patented 'Le Groupement Neon Puke' chique. At least nobody will try and pinch it in the locker room.

So... it's based on the jersey for the black lantern. The shittest guy in the Giro.

The guy you can only dream of being...

hurhur. I think when sir's humour gland was being surgically grafted onto his sphincter he missed the point.

Will spunking £150 on an ugly 'designer' Rapha jersey will bring me closer to this deep rooted dream to come last in this iconic sporting event? It's not really much of a tribute to anything other than fat blokes with too much cash riding slowly to come last in sportives. It's like hipster irony and nihilism for blue collar workers.

XXL is already out. haha
(i am an xxl (in my defence i am six foot seven)but only 27 and not in the same income bracket as a mamil)

God I was only joking about it.. but quick look this morning and ALL sizes are sold out.. They must have only made 5 of each size..

if you're gonna get paul smith in to do a design for you it totally makes sense to only have a run of 30 or so jerseys done, that's economics 101.

no wait...

that black hue is lush tho

Black hue?

the shade of black on the paul smith jers

thats true actually, the hue itself absolutely justifies the price imo

hueporn, one could say

high WTP for those off black hues

black doesn't have a hue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue

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(read the rest of the conversation. not getting involved!)

black doesn't have a hue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue

I think you missed a point here

sorry danb colors and stuff is not really my field

Black is Black.. A hue of black would be grey.

Whatever the H or S is, as long as B is 0 then it's black. #chsb

please let this debate flow

the polka dot looks good, dont get the hate - wouldnt pay 150, but it still looks good

the polka dot looks good, dont get the hate -

Love is a desire for what [we think] will absent the pain of what we know deep down is an essentially empty , solitary existence. Hate is what we feel when we realise that that which we love is incapable of absenting that pain. We still desire, and so love, but we still pain too and so the object of our love becomes itself a source of pain as we recognise the futility of our desire. For that which we love the most do we suffer most and so give voice to our suffering in hate.

In other words we are seduced by Rapha packaging their goods with our cycling dreams and so desire them greatly. But then we realise that its just stuff and can't really make us happy. But we still love it, and at the same time see it for what it is and hate it for the ultimate sense of dissapointment and disillusion we are left with. E.g when we see obese estate agents in Rapha making a mockery of our dreams.

New Rapha Condor JLT team issue..

X small sold out.... LOL

Oh... Wait...