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Rapha

Rapha Winter Base Layer 2013

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Christmas gifts for performance cyclists

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year… nearly. With Christmas just peeping its red-hatted head over the horizon, we thought we’d suggest some gifts for the performance-minded cyclist.

Okay, it's a few weeks away yet but now's the time to start thinking about presents. Maybe you’re a rider yourself, in which case you might want to point family and friends in this direction, or maybe you’re after some ideas for what to get someone with an urge to ride fast.

Branding the banal - brilliant bit of satire

Great parody of the Rapha 'experience'.

I might buy the custom cateye wireless 'made from the finest plastics on earth'.

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Rapha Softshell Trousers

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Rapha Softshell Trousers feel like riding in your favourite pyjama bottoms - only more weatherproof and well suited to cycling in the UK weather.

Don't quote me on this but I think softshells were invented by the same people who make spaceships. The material seems to posses mystical powers that manage to moderate what the weather gods hurl at us while we try and enjoy cycling in the bi-polar British climate.

Diary of a cyclo-cross racer: Richard Mitchelson's fourth race of the season...

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As soon as the entries opened online I was there, typing in my details like a loon. Last year's Rapha Supercross was one of the hardest races of the calendar but the most awesome at the same time. The course is tough but the amount of people that turn out to cheer us on and the festival atmosphere lifts you and makes it really worth the kicking you get. A couple of days after racing I'm still sore but every ache and pain brings back memories of the cheering/jeering people and the fun that was had.

Richard Mitchelson's fourth CX race of the season

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Rapha Super Cross Series Round 3 - Ally Pally hosts exciting final

An exciting if chilly final round of the cyclo-cross series sees Hope Factory Racing take the spoils

Rapha Super Cross Series 2012 Round 3

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MUD. SWEAT. FRITES. COWBELLS. Quite possibly the most entertaining racing the UK has ever seen. ... more

Rapha Pro Team Cross Jersey

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Rapha Pro Team Cross Jersey
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Quite a niche bit of clothing this. The Rapha Pro Team Cross Jersey is a lightweight performance cycling jersey designed for elite-level cross racing and high-tempo training. Blimey, quite specific then. We'll get to that later, but let's run through what it has to offer first.

Quite a nice bit of clothing this. The Pro Team Cross jersey is made from a lightweight high-stretch high-wicking fabric milled exclusively for Rapha in Italy.

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