Rapha have announced the opening of an archive store in Bicester Village, offering discounted prices on past-season and sample products from across the brand's range of cycle wear and accessories.
The store opens on 20th October and will also contain a café offering food and drink, free coffee to Rapha Cycling Club (RCC) members, and an outside terrace to watch live bike racing.
Bicester Village is home to more than 130 boutiques of world-famous brands, and - perhaps surprisingly for UK readers - is actually world-famous in its own right. More than six million people visit each year, attracted by savings of up to 60% on retail prices. (Apparently it's so popular among Chinese tourists that signs have even been put up in Mandarin at Marylebone station to welcome them.)
The Rapha archive store will host regular open and RCC rides from Bicester, Oxford and the Warwickshire area. Rapha have helpfully provided details of a one-hour cycling route to the store from Oxford, but Bicester is also easily accessible by train from Oxford (14 mins) and London (46 mins).
If you do choose to cycle there, you'll find plenty of secure bike parking - and Rapha will even post any purchases home to you for a fiver, so you don't have to load them onto your bike.
For more details, check out the Rapha website.
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