Race Around Ireland custom cycling jersey

We are making the Race Around Ireland custom cycling jerseys that are given to anyone who actually makes it to the finish line, which considering it is 2100 kms non-stop racing, the least they deserve is a free jersey!

race around ireland custom cycling jersey

We are going over to Navan for the start of the race on 10th/11th of September where we will have a stand in the start area, so please come along and say hello if you are around. As we work direct from Portugal, we rarely get to meet our clients face to face, so it will be great to meet up with some of the Irish clubs we have been supplying over the years.

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 in their country of origin, because just about all of our competitors use national distributors, but we always turn them down as it just doesn’t make sense!

If we had a distributor in every country we sold to, then they would earn 20 to 30% margin on everything we sold and then our prices would be nearly as high as our direct competitors (that is those selling high end custom cycling and triathlon kit). It would also mean that you as the client would not have a direct line of contact with the actual manufacturer so every request you made would have to go down a line of Chinese whispers, with all the mistakes and delays that this entails.

portugal flag

It just makes so much sense to buy your kit direct from a low cost country and cut out the middle man. Although we are in Portugal we are English/American, so there are no language barriers to worry about if you speak English and we do not have the enormous production costs that rich country producers have to shoulder, nor the wasted money and inefficiencies that national distributors bring. That is why we can offer pro quality clothing at reasonable prices, together with first class service, which is what we deliver!

Per Wangel Swedish Triathlon Sprint Champion

We are very proud to supply some of Europe’s leading triathletes with their race and training kit and one of them, Per Wangel, has just become Swedish Triathlon sprint champion.

swedish tri sprint champion tri suit

Here he is wearing his Carvalho Custom tri suit on the top step of the podium. For elite athletes like Per we generally make the tri suits with a tighter fit across the abs, to reflect the build of these top athletes. Also in Per’s case, we had to make the tri suit longer in the torso as he is so tall, so if you are a client who has some specific requirements for a tri suit fit, then generally we can accomodate them.

Anyway, congratulations to Per and best of luck for the rest of the season.

Pamplona Capital Management custom tri kit

We make lots of custom cycling and triathlon kit for corporate teams from the financial sector – the big cheeses who circulate money round the global financial system also seem to be very competitive when they get their hands on a bike! Over the last year or so we have supplied among others, HSBC, ING, I-Shares, ICAP, Deloittes and Pamplona Capital Mangament (picture below).

custom ladies tri suit

The Pamplona Capital Management team seem to get around the triathlon race circuit a bit and judging by the photos they are in pretty good shape so there has to be a suspicion that (perish the thought) some of them might prefer to be out training than sitting behind their desks making squillions. [Note to Pamplona Capital Management CEO – your staff come up with all their best ideas when they are out training in the fresh air, so perhaps you should make triathlon compulsory for all your employees?].

Mirjam Weerd gets second in Salzburg triathlon

We have been supplying Mirjam Weerd and her pro Dutch triathlon team Davilex with kit for a couple of years. Mirjam turned full time pro in 2010 and she is one of the nicest people you will ever meet in the sport, but a fierce competitor. She just came second in the Salzburh tri (Olympic Distance), which is pretty impressive for an Ironman specialist!

custom ladies tri suit

Here she is wearing our custom ladies tri suit, looking in fantastic shape on the run. Keep up the training Mirjam, just one step up the podium next time….

Swedish Tri Champs Winners’ Jerseys

We were very proud to sponsor the winners’ jerseys for the Swedish Triathlon championships in Hallsta, which was won by Annie Thorén and Andreas Schilling pictured here wasting perfectly good champagne on the podium. We are committed to growing our brand in Sweden for both custom cycling and triathlon clothing and it is great to put something back into the sport by sponsoring clothing for events such as this and supporting top athletes like Per Wangel.

Photo: Jockim Axelsson

Photo: Jockim Axelsson

Carvallho Custom är stolta över att sponsra de Svenska & Nordiska Mästerskapen i Hallstahammar. Tävlingarna vanns av Annie Thorén (Sverige) and Andreas Schiling (Danmark). PÅ bilden ser ni Annie och Andreas stoltserar och spurtar champagne.

Carvallho Custom åtar sig och hoppas på att deras varumärke växer både inom cykling och triathlonkläder. Vi jobbar också gärna aktivt med att stötta evenemang i Sverige och ge något tillbaka till idrotten och utövarna. Vi sponsrar bland annat den lovande talangen Per Wangel som under hela 2011 kommer träna och tävla i vår kollektion som vi specialgjort.

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 of the Tour when a policeman brought him to a halt.
Spokesman Jacinto Vidarte said the officer told the three-times Tour winner that he was not visible enough on a road that snakes through dark tunnels.
Vidarte told Associated Press that Saxo Bank rider Contador argued that his team’s cars were lighting his way sufficiently, but was forced to give up and “put his bike in the car”.

high visibility custom cycling jacket

Don’t you just love a self-important policeman? Saxobank should have come to Carvalho Custom for their kit as we can produce high visibility graphics and lettering on the backs of custom cycling jackets and even jerseys, so that you light up like a Christmas tree.

Help for Heroes make £100m

We have been very proud to supply Help for Heroes with custom cycling jerseys for their annual Big Battlefield Bike Ride and this year their arrival in Paris coincided with them reaching £100m of fundraising.

help for heroes cycling jerseys

They are determined to carry on fund raising and it is difficult to think of a more worthy cause, and their success really reflects the depth of support there is in the UK for our soldiers. Long may it continue!

We have some stock of Help for Heroes cycling jerseys priced at 15 euros + VAT each – please click here to buy online or contact us if you are interested.We have been very proud to supply Help for Heroes with custom cycling jerseys for their annual Big Battlefield Bike Ride and this year their arrival in Paris coincided with them reaching £100m of fundraising.

help for heroes cycling jerseys

They are determined to carry on fund raising and it is difficult to think of a more worthy cause, and their success really reflects the depth of support there is in the UK for our soldiers. Long may it continue!

Bike lane protest film!

This New Yorker was fined for riding outside of a bike lane and made a movie about it to prove his point that riding in the bike lane is not always possible or safe….

In all seriousness, it is unbelievably irritating when you see some kind of token cycle lane painted on a pavement or the side of the road, often with numerous fixed obstructions like bollards, phone boxes or whatever in the way and curbs to hop. Either make a proper bike lane that is safe and easy for us to ride on or let us take our chances on the open road. Rant over.

Race around Ireland Custom Cycling Jerseys

So you think you can ride a bike a bit? Fancy yourself as a strong rider who can hold anyone’s wheel? Well how do you think you would do in a 2100km non stop race!!? (For the record you would have had to have ridden it in 4 days, 17 hours and 12 minutes to win it in 2010). The Race Around Ireland is going to start on the 11th of September and if you really want to show to the world how astonishingly hard you are, then you had better start putting in a few extra miles on the bike and enter the race!

The Race Around Ireland is one of the most prestigious events on the Ultra-cycling World Cup calendar and if you are not a genuine nutter, then you can enter in teams of 2, 4 or 8. As well as being an experience of a lifetime in terms of suffering and sleep deprivation, it will also be a chance to see one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
race around ireland

Such is our admiration for anyone who can finish this event we have agreed to sponsor the jerseys for anyone who makes it round. And if you are entering the race, please get in touch with us and we will do you a special deal on some custom cycling kit for you to ride in.

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