Rapha is introducing a new Outskirts collection designed for ‘exploration by bike’. As well as clothing, the range includes sunglasses and even a hip flask.
The range is said to have been inspired by adventure riders Lachlan and Angus Morton. Lachlan, who races for UCI WorldTeam EF Education First, recently won the GBduro, a 2,000km race along dirt tracks from Land’s End to John O’Groats. The brothers’ latest trip was in Vietnam, from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City.
“The collection features many of their trademark style points including an abundance of tie-dye and overlaid patches and graphics,” says Rapha.
“Core Cargo Bib Shorts form the foundation of the collection, and feature a Vietnam-inspired design. Limited-edition long and short sleeve technical t-shirts in high-wicking fabrics provide loose fitting cover for the top half while an extremely lightweight wind jacket, a cotton t-shirt, caps and a hip flask inspired by their journey round off the collection.”
Here’s a selection from the range…
Outskirts Technical Reflective Patch Jacket £220
Made from a hard-wearing cotton twill and featuring reflective embroidered patches.
Outskirts Tie Dye Wind Jacket £180
Lightweight jacket made from silk.
Outskirts Technical T-Shirt Pedal Power / Tour Print £65
A loose-fitting, wicking T-shirt.
Outskirts Technical LS T-Shirt Tie Dye £75
A technical long-sleeved T-shirt in a tie dye effect.
Outskirts Core Cargo Bibs £145
Bib shorts with mesh cargo pockets.
Outskirts Hip Flask £40
A pewter flask featuring a good luck motif.
Outskirts Sunglasses £170
Limited edition colourway with Carl Zeiss lenses.
10 thoughts on “Rapha introduces Outskirts collection for adventure riding”
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Oh! Is that what it is?
brooksby wrote:
As in “good luck mixing your adventure riding with hard spirits”?
I’ve never wondered what it
I’ve never wondered what it would be like if someone crossed some PedalEd (is that how you do it? Hmm, probably not) kit with some Primal kit. And now I don’t have to.
Really…?
As a bit of a Rapha fanboy I think I can confidently say that that lot is some of the most fugly stuff I’ve seen!!
Hideous! That will go
Hideous! That will go straight to the outlets at Shepton Mallet and Bicester.
Hideous! That will go
Hideous! That will go straight to the outlets at Shepton Mallet and Bicester.
The Hip flask is OK I think – nice to have a nip of something to warm up before bivvying out on your adventures – , but the other pieces in this collection…(and the prices)…are not to my taste, but each to their own.
Unless that is a Rapha retro reflective bandage he’s wearing in the photo? If so, that’s got to be worth having!
Rapha wound dressings: stylish and functional, not available on the NHS. (But by the time the politicians have finished with it what will be?)
Or you can wait a few weeks
Or you can wait a few weeks and pick up this fugly stuff at a massive discount from Sports Pursuit. Now, who said taking investment capital from you guys that brought you the George range wouldn’t undermine your brand?
I thought Rapha were the
I thought Rapha were the purveyors of expensive and stylish cycling clothing?
Got to be honest, this lot looks more like they’re channeling one of those zombie brands stocked exclusively in Sports Direct…
The ‘standard’ Core Cargo
The ‘standard’ Core Cargo Bibs are £110, yet these add £35 for nothing more than a purple tie-dye on the uppers. No thanks, I have several pairs of the non-Cargo Core shorts and they’re excellent, at £85, the ‘uplifts’ are just taking the proverbial.