Author Topic: Sky Clothing provided by Rapha. (Read 4978 times)

Exit Stage Left · « **on:** 02 January, 2013, 11:10:21 am »

http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17546_8367250,00.html
It's bound to cause comments, but I feel like the world is gradually closing in on us. If it's the UK team designing the clothes, then they've got AUK points and the graphic designer is the national 24 Hour champion.

Adam · « **Reply #1 on:** 02 January, 2013, 07:58:15 pm »

Will the Sky Team have to suffer a Rapha pink blob^TM on their kit?

Gus · « **Reply #2 on:** 02 January, 2013, 08:13:47 pm »

Quote from: Adam on 02 January, 2013, 07:58:15 pm

Will the Sky Team have to suffer a Rapha pink blob^TM on their kit?

You mean " The pinksky team"

Tewdric · « **Reply #3 on:** 02 January, 2013, 08:15:02 pm »

I might get a set. It's bound to be a bargain!

Rhys W · « **Reply #4 on:** 03 January, 2013, 04:15:53 pm »

It's going to be the ultimate Dentist/MAMIL/Strava Showoff uniform for sure!

marcusjb · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 January, 2013, 04:31:26 pm »

Even for a company that has seen incredibly rapid expansion in it's less than 10 years of being, this must be a really big deal for them.

Great to see a British company expanding rapidly (I believe they employ around 50 people here in the UK) and doing so well.

Allez Rapha!

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #6 on:** 03 January, 2013, 05:23:33 pm »

They are doing incredibly well and they seem to have lots of involvement in racing, esp cx, in the States and in Belgium etc. And their coffee shop near Piccadilly makes a very fine coffee indeed.

Chapeau!

Biff · « **Reply #7 on:** 03 January, 2013, 06:55:53 pm »

Developed in the UK, made in Italy.

Ewan Houzami · « **Reply #8 on:** 03 January, 2013, 08:26:37 pm »

Any idea who by? Giordana? Sportful?

Brakeless · « **Reply #9 on:** 03 January, 2013, 08:34:55 pm »

Quote from: Goldilocks on 03 January, 2013, 08:26:37 pm

Any idea who by? Giordana? Sportful?

http://www.rapha.cc/made-in-italy

Rhys W · « **Reply #10 on:** 03 January, 2013, 09:53:44 pm »

MOA are part of Nalini I think, so Rapha's input is basically the graphics. So much for British industry, eh?

hubner · « **Reply #11 on:** 03 January, 2013, 10:09:18 pm »

From link upthread

Quote

MOA Sport

Vincenzo Mantovani – silver medalist on the velodrome at the 1964 Olympics – started making jerseys for himself and selling them to fellow racers in the late sixties. In 1971 he set up MOA Sport. Since then the company, better known today by the name Nalini (their main in-house brand), has garbed professional and amateur riders the world over. With ten Tours de France, seven Giri d’Italia and four World Championship jerseys to their name, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more authentic clothing manufacturer in cycling.

If you want "authenticity" why not just get a "Nalini" product instead of something made by Nalini but with a "fake" brand on it.

ran doner · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 January, 2013, 02:54:41 pm »

Replica tops £75 - £80

Pro tops £140

citoyen · « **Reply #13 on:** 04 January, 2013, 02:57:51 pm »

Form an orderly queue...

http://www.rapha.cc/rapha-and-team-sky

vorsprung · « **Reply #14 on:** 04 January, 2013, 02:58:37 pm »

If true this story is pretty funny

http://www.cyclismas.com/2013/01/secret-rapha-emails-reveal-code-of-conduct-requirements-for-wiggo/

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 January, 2013, 03:14:18 pm »

Quote from: hubner on 03 January, 2013, 10:09:18 pm

From link upthread
Quote
MOA Sport

Vincenzo Mantovani – silver medalist on the velodrome at the 1964 Olympics – started making jerseys for himself and selling them to fellow racers in the late sixties. In 1971 he set up MOA Sport. Since then the company, better known today by the name Nalini (their main in-house brand), has garbed professional and amateur riders the world over. With ten Tours de France, seven Giri d’Italia and four World Championship jerseys to their name, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more authentic clothing manufacturer in cycling.

If you want "authenticity" why not just get a "Nalini" product instead of something made by Nalini but with a "fake" brand on it.

If you're after 'authenticity' in cycling, then the pro peloton is probably not the best place to be looking. I'd suggest the grassroots, somewhere like the 24 hour, where you'll run into the people who design and market the Rapha stuff. They fulfil the essential requirement of authenticity in British cycling, they know who George Berwick is.

Biff · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 January, 2013, 04:38:13 pm »

Wiggo has a personal skinsuit supplier:

http://www.cyclingskinsuits.com/skinsuits/superman-inspired-skinsuit

Karla · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 January, 2013, 04:59:39 pm »

Wow. Do you reckon that's CTT legal?

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 January, 2013, 05:09:13 pm »

Quote from: Biff on 04 January, 2013, 04:38:13 pm

Wiggo has a personal skinsuit supplier:

http://www.cyclingskinsuits.com/skinsuits/superman-inspired-skinsuit

I find the targeted cameltoe detail a bit disturbing.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 January, 2013, 06:36:03 pm »

Quote from: vorsprung on 04 January, 2013, 02:58:37 pm

If true this story is pretty funny

http://www.cyclismas.com/2013/01/secret-rapha-emails-reveal-code-of-conduct-requirements-for-wiggo/

Bad journalism - he will be Sir Bradley, not Sir Wiggins.

spesh · « **Reply #20 on:** 05 January, 2013, 12:24:39 am »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 04 January, 2013, 06:36:03 pm

Quote from: vorsprung on 04 January, 2013, 02:58:37 pm
If true this story is pretty funny

http://www.cyclismas.com/2013/01/secret-rapha-emails-reveal-code-of-conduct-requirements-for-wiggo/
Bad journalism - he will be Sir Bradley, not Sir Wiggins.

Most of what is posted on Cyclismas isn't exactly what I'd call journalism anyway - it's mostly satire, with the occasional piece of outright BS thrown in.

citoyen · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 January, 2013, 12:59:36 pm »

A lot of what's on cyclismas isn't as funny as they think it is.

And I'm glad it's not just me who's irritated by the "Sir Wiggins" solecism.

d.

giropaul · « **Reply #22 on:** 11 January, 2013, 04:28:21 pm »

I note that the Chinese copies of the new Sky kit are already on e-bay!

Rhys W · « **Reply #23 on:** 11 January, 2013, 11:40:02 pm »

Remarkable - £30 for jersey and bib shorts! Just the thing to wear while riding your £400 Dogma.

giropaul · « **Reply #24 on:** 12 January, 2013, 07:33:44 am »

Quote from: Rhys W on 11 January, 2013, 11:40:02 pm

Remarkable - £30 for jersey and bib shorts! Just the thing to wear while riding your £400 Dogma.