Clothing Online :Race Around Ireland – giants of the road

We flew back from Ireland on Monday morning having been there for the start of the Race Around Ireland on Sunday evening, which Carvalho Custom has sponsored. And here we are on Friday afternoon and the solo riders are still racing, with over 1500 kms cycling in their legs and less

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Cool Clothing :Race Around Ireland Start

We have just come back from Navan in Ireland where we attended the start of the epic Race Around Ireland cycle race. It is an Ultra Marathon race, which means riding 2172 kms in a continuous race (so if you sleep, you lose time) and they are looking to finish in less than 5 days. [...]

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Cheap Clothing :Our new order form, to organise your club members’ orders

We keep on trying to improve things here at Carvalho Custom to make things easier for our clients, so we have brought out a new excel order form that will allow the person who puts the order together for a club to easily add together all the individual orders received from club members.
So

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Clothing Wear :Why we don’t use national distributors & sell direct from Portugal

We sell our custom cycling and triathlon kit direct from Portugal to countries all round the world – UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Finland, Russia, Norway, Canada to name a few. We are often contacted by companies who want to represent our products

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Clothing Online :We are on holiday!

Along with the rest of Portugal, we close for the first two weeks of August. We will be checking our email periodically in case there is anything very urgent. Thank you so much to all our clients for keeping us so busy for the first half of 2011 and we look forward to launching some [...]

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Clothing Wear :High visibility lettering for custom cycling jackets

Alberto Contador just got nicked by the French police for riding through the ‘dark’ tunnels going up the Galibier without being sufficiently visible:
The Spaniard was undergoing specialist training on the descent of the Galibier pass in the Alps for the mountain stages

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Shopping Clothing :Britain’s fittest director racing in Bodylab kit

We have been supplying one of London’s leading sports therapy clinics, Bodylab, with custom cycling and triathlon kit for a few years now. As well as doing general sports therapy, they also provide individual training plans for mainly Ironman triathletes, as well as maintaining

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Cool Clothing :Per Wangel custom triathlon kit

We are very proud to supply kit to one of Sweden’s leading triathletes, Per Wangel. He has been helping us to launch our custom cycling and triathlon clothing brand in Sweden and he has promised us he is going to get a whole load of podium finishes this year….
Per is

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Clothing Online :Club clothing administrator – worst job in the world?

It is a scene repeated a thousand times across the country. Your sports club is having its AGM and you have decided to turn up to show willing. You sit through the opening gambits – minutes of the last AGM that you had managed to avoid, discussion of the club budget (or lack thereof), talk [...]

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Clothing Online :Custom cycling skinsuit for hero Terry Byrne

We have been making cycling kit for Help for Heroes charity rides for a few years now and when we had a call from them to say that one of the GB paralympic team cyclists wanted to race in Help for Heroes colours, we were delighted to make them a custom cycling skinsuit, and we [...]

Friday, March 25th, 2011