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Ha ha ha haa. Jesus fucking wept.and...
Oakley eyeshades, 650c front wheel, Panasonic skinsuit, Vittoria shoes, no.4 haircut...this pic is so cool it just cracked my screen.
How was your cycle commute?
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ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
He looks as cool as it's possible to look. You herbert.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That is not a cool look. It is a sports look. Sports.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Sports = cool.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I WILL NEVER AGREE WITH YOU
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Sport equals long cotton socks, shiny shorts, slidy materials, massive branding and far too bright colours.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
And tweed equals braying faux retro hipster am-dram types yearning to pretend they were former member of yesteryears gentry...and doesn't belong anywhere near a bike!
The fashion/style/history of cycling is a huge part of it's appeal. I think a few of the images will confuse the "I just use my bike to get from A to B" types as they have no interest in the history of the thing and don't have the appreciation of what the images represent (are they epic cycling fashions, or epic cycling images?).
Tbh the Hinault/LeMond/Mondrian/Birth of Carbon & Clipless era look would be my goto imagery for historical badassery
And at risk of banning myself from any online cycling discussion portal for eternity, the B&W Rapha images of a few years back IMO laid the foundations for everything they do today (and how everyone visions themselves when they step out in the gear).
The fashion/style/history of cycling is a huge part of it's appeal. I think a few of the images will confuse the "I just use my bike to get from A to B" types as they have no interest in the history of the thing and don't have the appreciation of what the images represent (are they epic cycling fashions, or epic cycling images?).
Tbh the Hinault/LeMond/Mondrian/Birth of Carbon & Clipless era look would be my goto imagery for historical badassery
And at risk of banning myself from any online cycling discussion portal for eternity, the B&W Rapha images of a few years back IMO laid the foundations for everything they do today (and how everyone visions themselves when they step out in the gear).
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
There's nothing inherently wrong with Rapha. It's just the people who wear it that suck.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
See this is what's shit about fashion/clothes wearing.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Is it fuck. It's exactly the same tribal game we play over music, football, postcodes etc. it's a laugh - if you're (not you, if one is) taking it seriously you're doing it wrong.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
There's nothing inherently wrong with Rapha. It's just the people who wear it that suck.
It was the former quote that I was objecting to. I have no idea what Rapha is or refers to but it's Chris is judging people by the brand they wear.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Yeah, but he's not. Well, he is and I make him rightIt was the former quote that I was objecting to. I have no idea what Rapha is or refers to but it's Chris is judging people by the brand they wear.
, but it's just playful identification. I am not that kind of cyclist, I assert that by poking fun at those who are. Taking it seriously is a waste of blood pressure. It's like taking a football chant seriously.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Sorry ChrisFilter I'm not actually speaking for you. That's my opinion^^ you may genuinely hate people that wear Rapha and try to kill them on bank holidays
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm not sure I will ever get just where playful identification transitions into shitty tribalism.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
What is Rapha anyway?
Get out.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
It was the former quote that I was objecting to. I have no idea what Rapha is or refers to but it's Chris is judging people by the brand they wear.
Stop being such a funsponge - it's a light hearted comment at best, though even Rapha owners will/should identify themselves as idiots. I do.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT RAPHA IS FFS! are they like Birkenstocks or George at Asda?
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
It's a cycle clothing brand that you've been bothered to google yet are acting niave and nichalent about. To humour you (and for those less aware...) they make genuinely consistently great (not perfect) cycling gear that's very popular with monied types from London, though this gets lost behind offensive levels of marketing guff and stylising that makes them an easy target for ridicule.
In their early days, they were the sole brand for those not wanting branded* hi viz/ ugly practical cycling gear that was painful to the eyes, and solely stocked in Evans.
*The irony is that they're now the most notorious of all cycling brands
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
So like M&S or John Lewis for bikes?
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
No, more like Ted Baker or Hackett for bikes. I suspect you'd like a lot of their off-the-bike clothes. They're very nice.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Gosh no. So are Rapha the Ben Sherman of bikes?
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Depends how you see Ben Sherman. As a nice example of mid-range British tailoring, or shirts for 'chavs'. If the former, then I suppose so, but a bit poncier than that.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
This is the sort of thing I think you'd like, less the hat:
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
On tonight's evidence, no.
Had a clatter. Sore.
For a datapoint, I was wearing a fairly bright blue jacket. When I got broadsided two years ago I was fully lo-vized up in brown and khaki. On that evidence, it makes fuck all difference, although maybe I should include all the times I haven't been hit whilst in my now defunct orange waterproof.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Bike ok?
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Well, quite, but OU has already expressed a dislike for cycling caps.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Especially for OU.
