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Reports and features
To mark the launch of the Rapha & Raeburn collection, we take a closer look at the work of designers Graeme and Christopher Raeburn. In an exclusive short film and photostory, the brothers discuss their influences and pay a visit to the historic Manchester factory where the Wind Jacket is made.
Ahead of the 2013 Giro d’Italia, Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins talks candidly about his relationship with the sport and why the Giro is the most romantic race of all.
I didn’t like climbs but they didn’t usually bother me either. What I saw that Friday, however, shook me to my core: the final 100km of Liège-Bastogne-Liège were simply the hardest 100 kilometres I could ever imagine having to cycle – let alone having to do so after 170 long, hard kilometres.
Whereas a national team comprised the best talent a given country could offer, a trade team must, inevitably, be a mongrel, the best riders available to the purse from whatever corner they might come.
In 2013 Rapha will be recreating this great race as the Bordeaux-Paris 2013 Challenge, a team cycling event run over the famous Bordeaux-Paris route and, crucially, ridden through the night. The aim of the ride is to raise £250,000 for Ambitious about Autism.
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.
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 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.
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.
A film by Nick Livesey with Ridley Scott Associates for Rapha
"The only way to define Museeuw's true 'North' was to meet him in the ancient forest. From there the trajectory of the back story was formed, and thus began the filming process."
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.
High-grade merino performs significantly better in reducing physiological stress during exercise than its polyester counterparts.
