How to out-Rapha Rapha

[Fnaar]

£550 cycling jacket anyone?

http://road.cc/content/news/134444-paul-smith-launches-531-cycle-clothing-range-£550-jacket

 

[Fnaar]

I'll be honest though... if I had money to burn, I'd be all over Rapha and stuff like this...it's just SOOOOOOOOOOout of my range, that I feel duty-bound to exercise a degree of inverted snobbery and claim that my Aldi/Lidl/dhb-sales gear is just as good

 

[potsy]

That orange gilet is hideous still it's only £350 so what can you expect?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'll be honest though... if I had money to burn, I'd be all over Rapha and stuff like this...it's just SOOOOOOOOOOout of my range, that I feel duty-bound to exercise a degree of inverted snobbery and claim that my Aldi/Lidl/dhb-sales gear is just as good

Having just cycled to Aldi in a LiDL jacket, I think we can both lay claim to the title ''Rougher than Rapha.''

 

[potsy]

I do quite like the hoodie though

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

And what's more it hasn't got any arms

Only an extra £100 per arm

 

[SteCenturion]

[QUOTE 3355893, member: 259"]Actually, I really wish John Smedley would manufacture cycling stuff. Their clothes are expensive but they last for ever, and my uncle Bob lives up the road from the factory shop![/QUOTE]
Mmmmm - John Smedley, the finest knits in the land.

I have 2 or 3 Smedley garments that have lasted years. Bargain finds in TK Maxx, they crop up on rare occasions so when they do & if my size I snap the up, can't afford them at anywhere near full RRP.

Lovely stuff.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Pah!

Sooo nouveau riche. Im sticking with Assos.*

*And dhb, lidl... Halfords.

 

[Bollo]

I'll be honest though... if I had money to burn, I'd be all over Rapha and stuff like this...it's just SOOOOOOOOOOout of my range, that I feel duty-bound to exercise a degree of inverted snobbery and claim that my Aldi/Lidl/dhb-sales gear is just as good

Reminded me of a Joe Orton quote..."I've discovered I look better in cheap clothes"