Cycle clothing brand Vulpine is "insolvent" and enters administration

Although disappointed they have folded two of the three items failed.  A pair of shorts were mended quickly and a jersey I never bothered to send back despite two different issues with the pockets.  Not sure if quality control was an issue for them but they tried to do something different.

Shame, but as opposed to Simon I think they were a mess. Baggy, boxy cuts, with generic looking base layers that you can find littered all over sites like Sports Pursuit. It's was very.. middling. I always checked in with their site though, I was always sort of wanting them to get it and take it all up a notch, because we're missing really nice brands in the UK. Everything's so safe, and beige and generic looking. Just. Please. Grow. A. Pair. Of. Testicles. and hire trendy designers and go for it. At least if they dropped their prices they could have sold more kit. Their pricing was sort of aspirational, but the kit was dull. Ummm? Even the logo was a 5 min job on photoshop. Christ. Circle with V in it. Guys? Did they do that through fiverr?

'Oh but we have some innovative materials and ideas'. Oh who cares. Sports market is saturated with that nonsense. It needs good design to differentiate. And that design doesn't mean the sort of thing that you'd feel comfortable wearing with your gran or playing soggy biscuit with your tweedy chums. 

Ahem. 

Just sort of came out. 

That's a shame. I thought they stood out in the market and had a distinctive approach. I also liked Nick's attitude and the way he responsed in discussions on this website. I hope this won't be the last we see of him.

Wow. Their Hoy-Vulpine stuff was amazing recently. Then they stopped doing it to concentrate on smart cycling suit jacket-ey wear that cost a bomb. Shame.

Plenty of their gear going to be cheap of Sport Pursuit then.

Sad, but I wasn't impressed with quality of the one pair of shorts I bought from them, same price as rapha but disintegrated in a couple of months. 

I think (my opinion, based on experience) that their sale (when the 'system' overload occurred and the stock levels were not reflected correctly) - leading to over sold stock, hurt them quite badly.

Also the low headcount of staff led to many poor after sales issues. The length of time taken to reply to emails, plus the slap dash customer care - even though the end result was satisfactory- for me, was just too long.

It meant that I held off buying more products fromthem directly.

In fact - in my favour - I picked up some more Hoy Vulpine items from Sportpursuit for a better price and the dispatch was quicker...

It's a pity. I liked their road cycling gear, but not so much their urban outfits (based on extremely exorbitant prices and me having no need for any of the items they stocked)

I did consider backing them via Crowdcube, but there was just something that just didn't sit right for me in that the product range was a bit "meh" and fine your Shoreditch bearded fixie warrior, but not the bigger market out there.  and at prices way beyond what mortals will pay.  hey ho - another one bites the dust.

Hardly surprising - always wondered how many barmy £80 tshirts and £350 jackets they managed to sell. Clearly not enough.

Shame though.