Winter Training Revisited
The arrival of some properly cold weather seems like an ideal chance to recap on the winter training advice we brought you last November, not to mention an appraisal of how one rider has applied this advice.
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Cross Continents
This weekend witnessed the climax of the international cyclocross season, with the world championships in Belgium. While Rapha-FOCUS’s US riders struggled to keep pace with the home team, it could be a different story next year, when the worlds will be held in Louisville in Kentucky.
Play it as it Lies
In the week leading up to his world championship race in Koksijde, we checked in with Team Rapha-FOCUS's US-U23 national champ Zach McDonald.
Chris Jones: A Man for all Seasons
Tom Southam interviews cross (and road) pro Chris Jones, recently selected to join Rapha-FOCUS teammate Jeremy Powers at the upcoming cyclocross world championships.
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Paris Brest Paris
After more than six months of arduous training and qualifying rides, four Rapha riders headed to Paris in August 2011 to participate in Paris-Brest-Paris. The oldest and certainly one of the longest road races still in existence, the 1,200km plus journey is not for the faint of heart, head or legs. Here are their accounts.
Galibier
The Col du Galibier was first scaled by cyclists at the Tour de France in 1911. Henri Desgrange, the Father of the Tour, heralded it as a great victory for mankind to defy the laws of gravity and climb this giant.
Super Downsize Me
If you have purchased a jersey this year and lost weight through riding, Rapha would like to offer you a 50% discount on your new size jersey.
The Merino Miracle
High-grade merino performs significantly better in reducing physiological stress during exercise than its polyester counterparts.
Rapha + Paul Smith: A Conversation
In this exclusive short film, Rapha founder and CEO Simon Mottram talks to Sir Paul Smith about the celebrated designer’s love of cycling.
The 1910 Challenge
The 1910 Challenge ride honours Lapize and his contemporaries, as well as Steines and Desgrange, giving four amateur riders the opportunity to cycle the same route as the leg-shattering stage 100 years ago.
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- Cross Continents
- Play it as it Lies
- Chris Jones: A Man for all Seasons
- Twelve for 2012
- Tour Down Under 2012 Passport
- Best of the Festive 500 2011
- Rapha Condor Sharp Film Competition
- Festive 500 – Ride to Redemption
- Alpe d'Quiz
- KTC China
- Rapha Rides Oslo Film
- Winter Training
- Return of the Mac
- Turkey Takeoff
- Oslo City Guide
- The Style of Rapha Condor Sharp
- Women’s Winter Riding
- An Interview with James Holliday
- Super Cross
- City Scopes
- Oakley Auction
- Rapha Rides Little Switzerland
- USA Cross Recap: Week One
- World Championship 2011 Events
- The Hidden Alps
- USA Cross Preview
- An interview with John Herety
- PBP 2011: Four Journeys
- Lunch With JPow
- One Thing Led to Another…
- The Audax Diaries: The 24 hour TT
- Massif
- Galibier
- Étape du Tour 2011 Acte II
- Étape du Tour 2011 Acte I
- Rapha & TV2 Sport L'Etape 2012 Competition
- The Bicycle Collection: An Interview with Tony Pereira and Ira Ryan
- Rapha Rides the Victorian Alps
- The Audax Diaries – Bryan Chapman 2011
- Rapha Rides North Sealand
- Randonnée Appennini 2011 Report
- Ethan Suplee Downsizes
- Le Cycle Ardennais
- Balearic Bicycling: Cycle Club Mallorca
- Roubaix Recce: Hors Course
- Hell of the North 2
- Paris Roubaix Challenge
- Rapha Rides for Tohoku
- National Perspective
- Women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2011
- Denim
- Chris Newton interview
- Geoff Proctor interview
- Tweed – The original performance fabric
- Rapha Rendezvous
- Eleven for 2011
- Cent Cols Challenge 2010
- GORC
- Wet Weather Riding
- Rapha + Paul Smith: A Conversation
- Rapha Rides Monti Pallidi
- A Tale of Two Cycling Cities
- Evolution of a Classic
- Cyclocross. Three Ways.
- Ridley Scott Associates and Rapha
- The 1910 Challenge
- On the Port de Balès
- 24hr TT 2010
- Étape du Tour 2010: A Pilgrimage
- The Merino Miracle
- Tour of Japan photostory
- Burfields & Co
- Col d'Aspin
- Rapha Rides Siracusa
- The Rapha Top Ten for 2010
- Oregon Manifest 2009
- Cent Cols Challenge photostory
- An interview with Phil Deeker
- The Elusive Prize
- Mont Ventoux
- Rapha Rides Andalucia
- Cent Cols Challenge
- The Season ahead
- Oregon Manifest
- The Crazy Bet
- Rapha Events in Austin
- L'Étape du Tour 2008
- Rapha Roller Race International Series
- Rapha Events in Portland
- The Hell of the Ashdown
- Ride to the Catford Hill Climb
- London to Brighton Night Ride
- Beauty and the Beast
- Majesty and Misery
- Alllez! Poulidor and the ETAPE 2004
- Alley Cat
- Ardeche Adventure
- Bikeman
- Caps
- Dunwich Dynamo
- Glory Through Suffering
- Heaven
- Il Passo di Larch
- Introducing Softshell Trousers
- J. Brinsmead & Sons
- Looking to the Continent
- Norddal Cyclocross Photostory
- Peloton Magazine Competition
- Pier Park
- Rapha Rides Los Angeles
- Rapha Rides Norddal
- Rapha Rides The Swiss Alps
- Rolling the Night Away
- Tales from the Gutter
- Tales of the Winter Rider by Matt Seaton
- The Bastard
- The Broken Desert
- The Kemmelberg
- The Nearly Performance
- The Tour du Mont Aigoual
- Transit Elite: film and photostory