Having arguably helped to spark the glorious comeback of tweed (which we have reported on time and again) for the modern urban cyclist with the subtle, but popular, tweed detailing on their shorts:
Rapha have gone all the way and produced a limited edition tweed softshell jacket. Like many things Rapha, I both wonder if the world really needs, for example, a £50 silk cycling scarf, but also really, really want one. The jacket:
beautiful as it is (proper pictures here) just doesn’t quite do it for me – I’m more of a traditionalist when it comes to tweed, and would have preferred a classic green or brown, as opposed to what looks to me much more like a business suit check. In any case, none of this matters since, at £450 (which looks even worse from my vantage point on the Western edge of the Atlantic) I’m not going to be able to afford one. Ever.
But I still want it.
I don’t think it helps that their website blurb alongside the pretty pics claims that the jacket takes ‘luxury urban riding to knew heights’.
£450 for a jacket and they can’t afford a proofreader!?
xS