Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: Chris Hoy's skinsuit - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: Chris Hoy's skinsuit - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: Pinarello city bike - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: The signed Pinarello - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: Details of the Pinarello city bike - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: A 56cm Independent Fabrication made for Rapha - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: The Rapha Independent Fabrication - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: The Rapha Independent Fabrication - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: The Rapha Independent Fabrication - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: The Rapha Independent Fabrication - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: The Rapha Independent Fabrication - Courtesy
Rapha’s Bordeaux-Paris Challenge auction: Loads of unique memorabilia with signatures from riders like Chris Froome - Courtesy
Rapha revived the Bordeaux-Paris for an event last Friday as part of a fundraiser aimed to earn £250,000 for Ambitious about Autism, a cause close to the heart of Rapha founder Simon Mottram, whose son, Oscar, has autism. To continue the fundraising efforts, Rapha is running an online auction to benefit Ambitious about Autism, with personal and signed pieces of cycling gear donated by some of the biggest names in the sport.
Rapha’s bordeaux-paris challenge auction: chris hoy's skinsuit : rapha’s bordeaux-paris challenge auction: chris hoy's skinsuit - Courtesy
Chris Hoy donated a signed skinsuit
The signed jerseys include:
Mark Cavendish’s 2012 world champion’s jersey
Ryder Hesjedal’s 2012 Giro d'Italia Maglia Rosa
Andy Hampsten’s white jersey from the 1986 Tour de France (complete with the foie gras stain sustained during a food fight between Hampsten’s La Vie Claire teammates)
Bradley Wiggins’ Team Sky jersey
Rapha is also raffling bikes, including David Millar’s Cervelo S3 from 2011, and an Independent Fabrication bike made for Rapha.
Also up for auction: a two-day training camp with Team Sky in Mallorca; a ride with David Millar in Girona; and a ride around New York with Greg LeMond and Rapha founder and CEO Simon Mottram.
Rapha’s bordeaux-paris challenge auction: team sky signatures: rapha’s bordeaux-paris challenge auction: team sky signatures - Courtesy
Team Sky riders signed this one
There are also prints by photographers Nadav Kander and Ben Ingham, a suit fitting with tailor Timothy Everest, and some not-for-sale Rapha pieces like Ian Stannard's Team Sky jacket.
The auction runs through Tuesday. For more details visit rapha.cc/4411
Ben Delaney is a journalist with more than two decades of experience writing for and editing some of the biggest publications in cycling. Having studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, Ben has worked for Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, VeloNews and BikeRadar. He has also previously worked as Global Brand Communications Manager for Specialized. Ben covers all things road and gravel, and can be found logging big miles in the Rocky Mountains that nestle alongside his home in Boulder, Colorado. He has covered the most important bike races in the sport, from the Tour de France and Tour of Flanders, to the Unbound gravel race, and specialises in tech content, showcasing what the pros are riding and putting everyday equipment through its paces.
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