Thread: rapha duds?
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Old 05-02-06 | 09:12 AM
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abe1x
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Bikes: Bomber Pro, Shorter, Iro MVP, Some old british steel thing

hmmm, neither my baselayer nor the shants have any sort of "made in" markings, at least that I can find. I guess it's not required by law over in the UK?

Earlier this year they had a "coming soon" type page that listed a handful of products with release dates, a bunch of those dates have past without the product showing up. Could be any number of reasons for it, but shipping delays from overseas sounds like a reasonably likely one... The fact that some of their stuff is labeled china, some uk and some not at all makes on wonder.

I have one ibex piece (a hoody) that is incredibly well made, and the Rapha stuff is on par. Designwise though it's pretty easy to tell which one is designed in Vermont and which is designed in London.

Interestingly enough I ordered the rapha baselayer from their usa operation, which no longer seems to exist, the site (raphausa.com) was redirecting to the main rapha.cc site and now just dies. I actually ordered over the phone from them, real nice guy running it with I think his brother. Basically they were licensing the right the sell the stuff in the us and maintaining some inventory, guessing they didn't get to far unfortunately.
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