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Team Sky and Rapha
The Rapha and Team Sky collection has been created to meet the very highest standards set by the riders of the world’s leading cycling team. Echoing Team Sky’s renowned attention to detail, Rapha’s race-grade apparel boasts proprietary technical fabrics and features for unrivalled levels of comfort and performance, while stylish off the bike products feature luxury materials and the very finest components.
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Team Sky Lookbook
Over the next four years, working with the world’s number one team will enable Rapha to take performance, function and style to the next level. We are incredibly excited to be official partners with Team Sky and look forward to the season ahead.
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Not Just Another Sport
An exclusive short film celebrating the launch of the Team Sky and Rapha kit. Riders including Rigoberto Uran, Bernie Eisel, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Mathew Hayman and Bradley Wiggins discuss the highs and the lows of racing, their ambitions for the season ahead, and why road racing isn't just any ordinary sport.
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From the Rapha Blog
Par Guest Author • 30th May 2013 • Publié dans Doppio
by Klaus (cyclinginquisition.com)
You’ve probably read the term, or heard it at some point. It’s an unusual but now popular bit of shorthand used among the cycling press: “the Colombians.” More often than not, this moniker is used in the past tense to encompass a hundred riders or more who raced in Europe for the better part of a decade, after the first all-Colombian team took part in the Tour de France in 1983. In a sense, the use of the term suits the memory that many have of South America’s most feared climbers. To European riders of the time, Colombia’s cyclists came seemingly “out of nowhere” — another stock phrase that is still often used — and then largely disappeared after the early 1990s, further adding to their mystique.
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Par Chris DiStefano • 1st May 2013 • Publié dans Team
Ian Boswell is hoping for the unanswered attack; that he can simply roll away from the bunch without concern from those on guard duty at the front.
Team Sky’s American neo-pro is, perhaps, already too well-known for this to be likely any time soon. A second-place finish at last year’s U23 Liege-Bastogne-Liege and fifth overall at Tour de l'Avenir have already revealed his range of all-around abilities. Expectations are running high for the native of Bend, Oregon, as he adjusts to life in the top professional ranks. So high, in fact, that with about 40km to go at this year’s Flèche-Wallonne, Boswell’s absence through injury was mentioned in Eurosport’s coverage as a potentially important factor in deciding the outcome of the race.
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