Cult Of Rapha ( paper article)

Wicklowrider

http://bit.ly/1lWFjB6

"the standard for self-important, wonderfully over-tailored kit: the kind of kit that suggests that the wearer is equally at home poring over a rare manuscript of forgotten Persian poetry as he is gliding up a sun-parched Mediterranean mountain pass. Welcome to the world of Rapha."

Normally I am an "each to their own" guy. You know, whatever gets you through the night. But this has me remembering lads with one Huret down tube lever and the other lever dura ace and tubs that had been cut open and repaired so many times that there was hardly any original thread left in them. And I remember 3 lads I saw one night cycling up the road in club jerseys and jeans (presumably because they hadn't cash for leggings.) and the three of them had their jerseys hanging almost to their back tyres because they had trophies they had won that day in a race many, many miles away. Has something important been lost along the way?

fortis

Wicklowrider wrote: »

http://bit.ly/1lWFjB6

"the standard for self-important, wonderfully over-tailored kit: the kind of kit that suggests that the wearer is equally at home poring over a rare manuscript of forgotten Persian poetry as he is gliding up a sun-parched Mediterranean mountain pass. Welcome to the world of Rapha."

Normally I am an "each to their own" guy. You know, whatever gets you through the night. But this has me remembering lads with one Huret down tube lever and the other lever dura ace and tubs that had been cut open and repaired so many times that there was hardly any original thread left in them. And I remember 3 lads I saw one night cycling up the road in club jerseys and jeans (presumably because they hadn't cash for leggings.) and the three of them had their jerseys hanging almost to their back tyres because they had trophies they had won that day in a race many, many miles away. Has something important been lost along the way?

Don't think so (something important been lost). You don't have to buy into that nonsense, most don't.

It's just marketing bull

Lumen

I stopped buying Rapha when I realised that it looked and functioned worse than cheaper stuff.

daragh_

Time to post this again.