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Known for having the most successful lead out ever seen in US crits, L39ION of Los Angeles are a team driven by a purpose far beyond the podium.

We have been to Belgium and can confirm that the soul of bike racing is alive and well. We found it atop a ridge, being resuscitated by a crowd of people drinking beer underneath a giant crucifix, as deep, dark house music pumped out of a giant speaker only to be snatched by a cruel north wind and hurled over the sodden muddy fields below.

The concept is simple: complete the course in five days or fewer at your own pace, on your own or with your friends. Rapha provides the route, a celebratory send off, one checkpoint, a bag transfer and a warm welcome when you arrive in Los Angeles. The rest is up to you.

Unmarshalled and self-supported, the Rapha Prestige challenges small teams to a one-day adventure across stunning terrain and testing routes on a riding challenge unlike any other.

500 kilometres. Eight days. 24th-31st December. The world’s favourite festive cycling challenge is back. Join us for even more miles and memories in our riding rite of passage.

No compromises, no shortcuts, no such thing as bad weather. We make the world’s best weather-protective cycling jackets for use on all types of terrain, in any conditions.

Success is different for everyone, from winning a stage of the tour to completing a multi day endurance event, finally rolling the line you’ve been eyeing for months or bike packing with your best friends at the weekend. Everyone has their own version of success, but one thing is for certain it’s Never Just A Ride.

Created in collaboration with GORE-TEX™, the all-new Trail GORE-TEX Infinium™ Jacket finds harmony in the balance between wet weather protection and breathability so you can find joy in foul weather.

The limited edition Forefront 2 MIPS Helmet represents the next evolution of our collaboration with Smith, now available in three new seasonal colourways.

At the height of the summer, golden singletrack beckons. You may find your peak moments surfing the heatwaves of summer’s trails. Here’s our helpful guide to prepare you for the best that’s yet to come.

The design of each jersey we make has been informed by thousands of kilometres of wear testing, and extensive research and development. But that is where the similarities end. To meet the needs of every rider, our most technical range yet is divided into four collections, complete with this guide to their differences.

The short and harsh days of winter have finally drawn to a close. This is the season we’ve all been waiting for. Spring is in full bloom, but don’t be fooled by the forecast – Mother Nature can still catch us off-guard this time of year. Here’s our helpful spring mountain biking guide to dressing properly so you can enjoy fresh tracks all day, every day.

The key to comfortable riding is a pair of quality bib shorts, but not a pair designed for somebody else. All of our women’s bib shorts are designed for women, tested by women, and include a women’s specific chamois pad.

Even after earning a UCI DH Worlds title and three Canadian National DH Champs victories, Miranda Miller hasn’t slowed down. The Squamish local brings a committed racer’s focus and irreverent sense of humor to everything she does, and next up in her sights is the podium at the Enduro World Series.

Crushing corners and sending jump lines on daylong loops of golden singletrack. Summertime trails are yours for the taking. Even on the hottest days, keep your cool in sweltering heat and find your flow with tips and tricks from our seasonal riding guide.

A comprehensive guide to washing and caring for your GORE-TEX cycling garments to help them protect you better and last longer.

No compromises, no shortcuts, no such thing as bad weather. We work with GORE-TEX to create the world’s best weather-protective cycling jackets for use on any terrain, in any conditions.

If winter is the hardest time to ride, it’s also the most rewarding. Cold, crisp starts into low sun are worth getting out for, but challenging weather, short days and seasonal merriment can mean the bike is easily neglected. Here’s our comprehensive guide to keeping the pedals turning right through winter.

If winter is the hardest time to ride, it’s also the most rewarding. Cold, crisp starts into low sun are worth getting out for, but challenging weather, short days and seasonal merriment can mean the bike is easily neglected. Here’s our comprehensive guide to keeping the pedals turning right through winter.

Long days made for riding, racing, and exploring with friends await. Still, summer brings its own set of challenges to the committed cyclist. Follow our guide of tips and tricks to stay comfortable on the road as the heat rises.

Long days made for riding, racing, and exploring with friends await. Still, summer brings its own set of challenges to the committed cyclist. Follow our guide of tips and tricks to stay comfortable on the road as the heat rises.

From hustling hives of activity to quieter quarters and newer neighbourhoods, unlock your city with a new capsule of refined pieces, each designed to deliver performance and style for the everyday.

A comprehensive guide to caring for your water-repellent garments.

A comprehensive guide to caring for your woolen cycling garments.

A comprehensive guide to caring for your down garments.

You can’t predict the weather, but you can prepare for it with our all-new Trail Pants designed to offer durable protection, consistent comfort and complete freedom of movement on even the wettest winter rides.

For the first time in months, there’s warmth in the sun and it’s light in the evenings. Spring has arrived. Make the most of it with our comprehensive guide.

Preparation is the best solution to riding in the rain. Whether it’s lightweight packable layers for tropical climates or thermal waterproof garments for a freezing downpour. Follow our guide to cover up for whatever the weather can muster.

Preparation is the best solution to riding in the rain. Wet bodies lose heat faster than they dry, and cold bodies don’t work efficiently. Follow our guide to cover up for whatever the weather can muster.

Blending concrete and conifers to create our first capsule collection in our new range of Rapha Performance Trailwear.

From cross national championships to coaching the next generation of riders, the world’s greatest gravel grinders to a full-time graphic design job, Sarah Sturm has a lot going on, and cycling is just the start.

Celebrating the feeling of freedom that only a bike ride can provide with an all-new collection of limited edition adventure apparel for women.

With Olympic medals and national titles aplenty across BMX, 4X, slalom, downhill and enduro, Jill Kintner is one of the most versatile and accomplished riders the sport has ever seen.

A driving force for diversity and inclusion in mountain biking, Eliot Jackson is a man of many talents. As well as presenting for Redbull TV and hosting a popular podcast, Eliot is a master programmer and statistician with a unique perspective on the sport.

A new collection of films that explores how cycling can help us all navigate the complex world we live in.

Our ode to the last great madness of cycling, A Day in Hell challenges you to take on your toughest backroads and bridleways, in our homage to the road to Roubaix. Find a route and see if you handle the pavé like the pros.

Three cities. Three Riders. One day of urban exploration.

Introducing firm favourites and all-new additions, complete with a range of carefully curated colours to match the upcoming season.

For a rider who first got in the saddle as an adult, Lael has cycled far and wide. Her first big feat was riding every inch of Alaska and now, with Rapha, she’s ready to embark on a whole new set of adventures.

Nine years after the first #Festive500 challenge, we revisit the story of how its creator, former Rapha designer Graeme Raeburn, had to ride 1,000km to realise 500km was enough.

EF Pro Cycling’s Colombian trio has experienced a great deal at this year’s Tour de France, with each of their journeys diverging dramatically. But from a glorious stage win to a heartbreaking crash and abandon, they’ve shared their experience together.

From the Mediterranean via the Massif Central, to a bike path in the mountains above Méribel, the 2020 Tour de France was a roller coaster. Take a look back with our photo gallery of a race like no other.

Nothing matches the freedom of moving through the city by bicycle. We recently spent the day with Lucy and Ore, two riders united by their love for riding, to find out why they #ChooseCycling.

Three-times Canadian Cyclocross Champion. Three-times Pan American Cyclocross Champion. Cyclocross World Cup winner. It’s an enviable palmarès for any aspiring racer, but for 27-year-old Maghalie Rochette, this is just the beginning.

As the leaves fall from the trees and the sun sets shortly after each day’s stage finish, time is running out for riders to make their mark on this strangest of Tours. As ever, the third week is largely the preserve of the climbers and overall contenders but there are opportunities for the fastmen too. Here’s what to look out for on the run into Paris.

As global uncertainty continues, pro cyclists and fans around the world have reason to rejoice this week with the long-awaited return of road racing. And even though it might feel a little different to seasons gone by, the pre-race excitement is just as palpable.

Cycling can seem a little serious sometimes but it really doesn’t have to be. Riding your bike is an adventure, a conversation, an escape from reality, and to prove it, we took four riders on a Californian road trip that promised spontaneous stops with dinosaurs, Madonna-inspired hairstyles, beautiful rides and much more besides.

Cycling can seem a little serious sometimes but it really doesn’t have to be. Riding your bike is an adventure, a conversation, an escape from reality, and our collaboration with Outdoor Voices proves it. After meeting two years ago on a cycling adventure in Mallorca, we started work. Now, we’re ready to reveal it.

In a world turned upside down, jumping on your bike is a chance to let your mind wander, to resurrect your routine and to set the tone. Whether you’re riding inside or out, our latest collections are now available in a carefully curated selection of new colours, ready for the road ahead.

From the chaos of last-minute cancellations to a more protracted pause, this spring has been unlike any other Tiffany Cromwell has seen. We caught up with CANYON//SRAM’s experienced Aussie road captain in Finland to hear how she is handling the new reality of life as a pro.

For many of us, finding a way to continue riding together can be a challenge. In partnership with Zwift, we’ve taken the Rapha Cycling Club (RCC) community online, offering group rides and training sessions to keep you riding together and connected throughout the year. On top of this, RCC members will be first to hear about athlete rides and events hosted by Rapha on Zwift.

Professional cycling is the toughest sport in the world. What separates the winners is an ability to overcome and find comfort in the chaos. The Pro Team Shoe combines three advanced technologies, years of research and 30,000 kilometres of wear testing to provide absolute comfort, even in your most uncomfortable moments.

Roll up to a ride without enough on, and you’ll soon be turning back home in search of central heating. But get your layers right, and you’ll make the most of your winter miles. Use our guide to learn the principles of staying warm on cold days.

Roll up to a ride without enough on, and you’ll soon be turning back home in search of central heating. But get your layers right, and you’ll make the most of your winter miles. Use our guide to learn the principles of staying warm on cold days.

It’s not just mullets, mo’s, and Mitch at the Santos Tour Down Under – Rapha will be at the race once again with a pop-up hosting a packed schedule of rides and events for all. Join us in Adelaide to kick off the year in style.

The Rapha Foundation launched in 2019 with the goal of building a better future for cycling by inspiring, empowering and supporting the next generation of racers. Boulder Junior Cycling was awarded one of the first grants and now shares an update on how that funding has been used.

To ensure our recently launched Mechanics collection withstands long days in the workshop, we had three builders and fixers test it out. Here, we catch up with the first of them, British frame builder and ultra-endurance rider Rob Quirk, for his take on a job that is one part profession, two parts passion.

How a children’s card game, an inspiring tweet, and a little ‘monster’ kept the good ship EF Education First afloat at this year’s Vuelta a España.

Though the outcome had a familiar feel, the 2019 Tour was undoubtedly one of the most challenging and entertaining in recent memory. As the race scaled its highest peaks, some riders soared, others succumbed to exhaustion, and some even had to shelter from snow.

Is Alaphilippe growing stronger or weaker in yellow? Can Thibaut Pinot hold his form? Who is leading Ineos? And, just how much hotter can it get? Our third gallery of images from the Tour chronicles six stages that have given rise to more questions than answers.

After a week that saw the yellow jersey lost and regained, narrow time gaps on the climbs and gaping chasms in the crosswinds, our latest photo essay tells the tale of a tumultuous week at the Tour.

Meandering across l’Hexagone, the Tour is quintessentially French, taking in the full gamut of Gallic landscapes. But for most of us, the mountains are what matters. With the Tourmalet in the rear view mirror, this instalment of the digital Doppio takes a look at the remaining summit finishes on this year’s Tour.

Every year the Étape du Tour gives mere mortals the chance to go behind the barriers and experience the life of a pro. On closed roads, nearly 10,000 riders follow the same route as the queen stage, grinding up the climbs, swooping down the descents and finishing, arms aloft, atop a mountain summit.

From a Grand Départ in the capital of Europe via a puncheur’s paradise in the capital of champagne to a sprint showdown in Nancy, we paint a picture of the Tour so far.

A balance of high-altitude adventures and set-piece sprints, entertaining fans and empathising with riders, planning the Tour is no mean feat. On the eve of the great race, the second instalment of the digital Doppio reviews each of the Tour’s twenty-one stages.

Perfect escapes start long before the first pedal stroke.

Justin Williams is the US National Elite Road and Criterium champion and one of the fastest sprinters in road cycling. He’s also from south central Los Angeles. A man with his path to the top blocked at every turn.

A road captain’s view of six rain-streaked days of racing at the 2019 Women’s Tour from CANYON//SRAM’s experienced Australian Tiffany Cromwell.

Finally, all your hard work and commitment on the bike pays off.

Colombian cycling is the strongest it’s ever been. Noughties trailblazers Rigoberto Urán and Nairo Quintana are still kicking it at the top of the sport, recently joined by a new generation of wonderkids like Egan Bernal – last year’s Tour of California winner – and his team mate Ivan Sosa. But has EF Education First Pro Cycling unearthed a talent to top them all? Ahead of his debut for the team in pink at Cali, Rapha spoke to 21-year-old Sergio Higuita.

Accessibility to fans is one of professional cycling’s greatest attributes but, as the Rapha Roadmap finds out, there’s work to be done to make the sport as open at the grassroots level.

The cost of operating an elite-level cycling team has ballooned in recent years. In an attempt to costs spiralling further out of control, the Rapha Roadmap investigates ways of maximising revenue streams in cycling.

Everyone in cycling, from the fans at the roadside to the riders they’re watching, is aware of the sport’s fragile financial model. The latest instalment of the Rapha Roadmap asks a simple question: how do we make professional cycling more profitable?

The way sports are broadcast is changing. The latest instalment of the Rapha Roadmap explains why switching up the coverage of professional cycling is the key to ensuring fans don’t switch off.

The fact that bike races unfold on public roads and not in enclosed arenas is one of the sport’s greatest appeals but can also make it difficult to watch. The Roadmap asks how do we make cycling easier to follow.

After the first half of cycling’s Holy Week was coloured EF pink by Alberto Bettiol at Flanders, we speak to his roommate and the team’s main man for this weekend’s Paris-Roubaix to see if he can repeat the feat.

If you had a famous cycling father, you’d be forgiven for giving the bike a wide berth – especially when you share a name. But Miguel Indurain has found his own road. After gaining a degree in business, he chose to ride for the love of adventure.

Kelton Wright lives in Topanga with a dog called Cooper and a cat called Finn. Working as Director of Movement and Sport at Headspace, Wright is a published author and keen cyclist, leading rides from Rapha Santa Monica.

Tommy Thornton is from Chicago, where his love of riding took root. In the last year, he took a break from a long career in business tech and moved to Los Angeles, looking for a change of pace and a new way of life.

Ivy Valdman lives in North London but calls California home. The Social Media and Brand Strategist is a mother of two, and riding a bike is one way to connect to simpler times.

Our original and most refined cycle clothing collection, Classic is made with carefully selected materials for those who refuse to choose between performance and style.

The addition of Tejay van Garderen to EF Education First Pro Cycling’s stable of stage racers made waves over the winter. A proven winner at WorldTour level, the American has been on the cusp of greatness without quite achieving it. But, as he assures us in the second of EF Gone Racing’s rider interviews, his best years are still ahead of him.

Three new chamois pads designed specifically for women, each three years in the making, all with a single goal: to make our women’s cycling shorts the most comfortable in the world.

To solve a problem, you first have to understand it. The complete overhaul of our range of women’s chamois pads was driven by a predominantly female team to create cycling shorts made for women, by women. For the final word on a project all about comfort, we spoke to four of our female wear testers.

Last summer, Rapha took three riders on a ten day road trip to explore the best of the state's cycling, from the iconic Independence Pass to hidden gems on the far side of the Rockies.

Rapha founder and CEO Simon Mottram pens an open letter to mark the new year.

In the bus. At home. In the team cars and on top of mountains. EF Gone Racing is a new series taking you on the road with EF Education First Pro Cycling. Exclusive access, larger than life characters, and a Rapha film crew to capture it all. #GoneRacing

In a vintage year for road racing, Rapha founder and CEO Simon Mottram picks his top moments of panache.

As Sky calls time on professional cycling, Jeremy Whittle reflects on the state of a sport suddenly left without its dominant force – and the long descent that looms after Britain’s climb to the top of WorldTour.

A forgotten race between iconic Italian cities. Two editions, twelve years apart, both won by the same rider: Milano-Roma. Rapha celebrates the best bike race you've never heard of with this luxurious special collection.

As the temperature falls and the light fades, it’s harder to get out and ride. Led by our legendary merino jerseys and padded tights, the Classic collection takes on the challenges of autumn and winter riding.

Luggage for life on the move and a pairing for the 21st century

In his latest contribution to Mondial, WorldTour directeur sportif and former Rapha-Condor pro Tom Southam takes us through Britain’s storied cycling history to remind us all just how spectacular the recent run of British Grand Tour victories has been.

As the first of the autumn gales struck the UK, the Rapha Cycling Club escaped to Snowdonia for a weekend of superb riding on some of Wales’ finest roads.

After British riders complete an unprecedented triple crown of Grand Tour wins, can Simon Yates go one further by adding the rainbow stripes? Rapha Mondial asked Jeremy Whittle to assess the season so far, and look ahead to Austria next week.

Some say cyclocross is the most fun you can have on two wheels. Mud-splattered, sand-blasted… there’s always a gleaming set of pearly whites amidst the grime. We spoke to five riders to help you get across road cycling’s fun little sibling.

From the fin-de-siècle velodromes of North America to the glamour and chaos of the first women’s Tour de France, Queens of Pain offers a sweeping panorama of female racing history.

In the latest Mondial long read, we hear the story of James Mark Hayden, the fastest man across Europe.

Since May 2016, an anonymous writer has been penning a series of diary entries about long-distance riding for Rapha. In this piece we reveal his name.

In Episode 11, Rapha Race Radio makes it to Paris for the party, but not before going surfing with Tour de France stage winner Juan Antonio Flecha and meeting some proud Welsh fans at the final time trial.