[Closed] Rapha Sample Sale. Leeds

What were the prices like, and availability of sizing? Anything non standard kicking about. I might go to the one in Glasgow on Friday but I don't fancy joining a queue.

Get there early! I got there at 8:30 and got through the door at 10. It was worse later on - people on Twitter talking about 3 hour queues.

From what I saw, if you're an XS, S, XL or XXL you're laughing. Or, if you're a woman, or you really like Team Sky kit. Choice in M or L was more limited. Luckily I'm an S in jerseys so I found a classic jersey. I also found a pair of M classic shorts, but only because they'd been put in the S section by mistake; there were no shorts in M or L. I was in the market for a Rain Jacket but no luck in my size.

Plenty of Trade Team and Country jerseys, wind jackets, Hard shell jackets, pro team shorts, Lombardia jerseys. Plenty of accessories; boxes and boxes of caps, socks, overboots, mitts and shoes. Also lots of their city kit; jeans and chinos and stuff.

TBH it's a bit of a jumble sale - they replenish the stock each day so what you see in Glasgow might be completely different to what I saw in Leeds.

Prices?

Keen to here prices too so I can decide if the one up this way is worth the faff

I went at lunchtime - queued for an hour or so to get in, but someone I knew came out while I was queuing - she'd got into the queue at 9.30 and was only just leaving.

I got shorts and a gilet, could have picked up a bit more but that was as much as I wanted to spend. I am female though - there was a lot of XXS but they did have a decent selection of other sizes. I needed to get back to work so didn't spend as long rummaging as I could have once I'd found the bits and pieces I'd actually turned up for.

Prices are about 50% of rrp. Jerseys £55, bibs £80, cap £10.

[i]Get there early! I got there at 8:30 and got through the door at 10[/i]

Right, I think I'll give it a miss then.

Bloke at work was going to go this afternoon (we finish work at 12:30 based in York). Drove there, saw the massive wait to get in, turned round and came home lol.

just buy it in the normal sale and save some self respect 🙂

Just don't buy any of it and save ALL your self respect.

I have one Rapha jersey that my brother gave me for my birthday. It is a lovely bit of kit but when you hear about queues like this for their sales it seems to be a bit of a clique now, a victim of its own success. Think I'll avoid getting any more of it. Unless of course it's really cheap....

nothing is in any order, the signs may says XS S M L XL XXL but stuff is mixed in everywhere, i just went through every box and pulled out some decent stuff (imo)

stuff was being brought in all the time, while i was there a bunch of shoes, large jerseys and essentials cases were put out

bib shorts are few and far between in any size, saw a few winter tights without pads,
few aerosuits mixed in, cross and black aero, saw a couple of larges and a small
a few soft-shell base layers in grey, most sizes
overshoes - rare
shoes - large 46s or small 39s sizes, saw 1 pair of 43.5s
didn't look though the sky stuff - tkw stuff innit
socks were mainly smalls
piles of plain black/white stripe cotton caps
briefcases?
a few leather town gloves
some imperial works stuff mixed in 2/3 pieces
transfer jackets
gilets few and far between

think i joined the queue at the worst time, 10am, was just after 12 when i went in,

I can just imagine black Friday style scenes, lots of unfit middle aged people fighting over tshirts and shorts that cost the same anyway, but it's 80% less than RRP!

transfer jackets

Can't believe they stopped making them. One of the best bits of kit they ever did. I pretty much live in mine for about 7 months of the year!