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Women's Festive Ride
~Photos by Gem Atkinson~ On Saturday, a group rode from Richmond Park to Windsor for a seasonal jaunt out of the city. Hosted by Rapha riders Collyn Ahart and Gem Atkinson, here’s an account from the front and the back. -- Gem from the back: As fifteen fast females forgathered in a well known South West London location on a freezing morning, you could be forgiven this was a missing part of …
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Our Favourites
A collection of some of our favourite female riders and their favourite Rapha products. These are cyclists from many walks of life from all around the world. Women that have been riding in Rapha apparel for some time including doctors, writers, racers and just ladies who like to ride their bikes. We reached out to them to ask if they would compose a short paragraph about their favourite piece of k…
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The Crit: Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the corner
~WORDS: Collyn Ahart~ Of course I’d overrun the corner. Zoolander couldn’t turn left. I clearly couldn’t turn right. This seemed an absurdity. My first 21 years were spent turning right, but in the short course of 7 years living on GMT, I’d managed to reverse my spatial hazard zone and couldn’t cut a righty to save my soul. Sprinting from the back I’d put a nice little gap betwe…
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Rules are Rules
WORDS: Collyn Ahart Every so often a list of “rules” surfaces about how to ride a bicycle. Which height of socks to wear. What length of shorts. What colour isotonic beverage. What exact shape of mud-guard. What kind of coffee to drink and almost certainly what to name your first-born son (higher points awarded for more obscure racing-legend dedications). 65 miles into 130, our motley …
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Through the firing line
~WORDS: Collyn Ahartww.collynahart.com/ ~ In road racing, they say the finish line is everything. Every race is won or lost on the finish line, where a matter of inches throws a girl into the depths of depression, soul searching and swearing off every future agony. For most people, and at most races, the finish line is where a race is lost. In those last few hundred meters of excruciating…
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Super Cross Finale
The final round of the Rapha Super Cross series takes place this Sunday at Alexandra Palaceww.rapha.cc/cyclocross-at-the-palace. Beginning at midday, there are children's races, a novice event, a mass start race of 140 screaming adults; and of course the elite race which is shaping up to be a battle between Hope Factory Racing And Scott UK. Look out for local team Vicious Velo in their punk-inspir…
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Riding Solo
~PHOTO: Ben Ingham~ I’d been warned the racing season was a long one. While everyone is keen in March and April, July and August weigh heavy on the heart. Speed builds and disappears. Some great races make way for those where the peloton disappears up the road and you’re left suffering the indignity of abandoned finish lines and last place results. By July I’d found a deep love for sp…
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My First Lanterne Rouge
The term lanterne rouge is a famous part of racing folklore. The rider who completes the race yet finishes in dead last on GC is awarded the title ‘lanterne rouge’ and in turn is lauded and celebrated for having the tenacity to hang on within the time limit and cross the finish line each day. Wim Vansevenant held the coveted title for an astounding three years, finishing the Tour in last pl…
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Women’s Winter Riding
Collyn Ahart, a London-based cyclist, writer and brand strategist, has recently tested Rapha's latest Autumn Winter products for women. Here she discusses and reviews three key pieces in the wider context of her winter riding. Temperatures have plummeted and just as that old familiar freeze creeps into our fingertips and toes and the icy wind blushes our cheeks, we’re planning a winter full o…
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