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We are in the process of launching the Carvalho Custom brand in Sweden, selling directly from Portugal so that we can supply pro quality custom triathlon and cycling kit at reasonable prices. We already sponsor Swedish pro triathlete Per Wangel and we are very proud to have been asked to sponsor the winner’s jerseys for the Swedish national tri championships.

We already supply cycling and triathlon teams from all round the world: UK, Ireland, Holland, Canada, USA, Singapore, Finland, Norway and many more countries – all supplied direct from Portugal and we are very much looking forward to working with some Swedish triathlon and cycling teams.

Carvalho Custom är ett Portugisiskt företag som nu är på väg att etablera sig i Sverige. I och med att Carvalho Custom äger sin egen fabrik kan de pressa priserna och är omkring 30-50 % billigare än Nordiska konkurrenter utan att tumma på kvalité.
Företaget är den största leverantören av egendesignade triathlonkläder till Storbritannien och Irland. Som ni vet är båda dessa länder stora triathlonnationer.
Nu vill de ytterligare växa och komma in på den svenska marknaden.
Carvalho Custom stöttar den Svenske & Nordiska Mästaren Per Wangel som kommer både att träna och tävla i egendesignade triathlonkläder från Carvalho Custom.

Den 29 maj avgörs de Svenska och Nordiska Mästerskapen där har Carvalho Custom gått in och sponsrat tävlingen med så kallade ”vinnartröjor” till segrarna i både junior och seniorklassen.

Under denna helg kommer du som motionär ha chansen att vinna någon av de cykeltröjor som utlottas.
Carvalho Custom letar aktivt efter klubbar och team som är intresserade att profilera sin klubb med egendesignade kläder utan att betala överpriser.
Intresserad?

Tveka inte att kontakta Per Wangel för mer information. Du når mig på 070-182 92 45.

One of the athletes we sponsor, Mirjam Weerd, turned pro in 2011 after an outstanding 2010. She has been out in California training for a couple of months and raced her first event of the season in March, the San Diego Superseal (Olympic distance).

She came in second which bodes well for 2011! Above she is pictured wearing our custom running tights and training jacket at the end of the race. We put a lot of work into developing these running tights as there are a lot of technical issues involved in making tights comfortable for running – we had to remove all the seams from the inside of the legs to stop any chance of chaffing for example, which is not as easy as it sounds! It is not enough to just look great on the podium (and Mirjam always looks fantastic in photos of course!), but our kit is all about performing under race conditions, which is why we use pro racers like Mirjam to help us constantly develop our range under the most demanding conditions. Have a great 2011 Mirjam…

We have sponsored tri kit for Mirjam Weerd, a pro triathlete from the Netherlands and she is racing the South Africa Ironman this weekend (on Sunday).

Here she is receiving a prize for a 25k warm up race she did a few days before, of course wearing one of our faboulous custom technical t-shirts! As with a lot of our products, our microfibre technical t-shirts are not cheap at €23.25, but that is because we use top of the range microfibre to make them and there is an enormous difference in terms of performance from one microfibre to the next. What is most important in a technical t-shirt is the wicking capacity, the silkiness (so that you can hardly feel you are wearing it) and the stretch in the fabric so that you don’t have to wear it baggy (and show off your rippling torso of course!). Our mission as a company is to provide pro quality at accessible prices, so we do not apologise if our prices are not the cheapest in Europe, even though we make the kit in one of the lowest cost countries in Europe (Portugal) and sell direct to customers without using national distributors to keep costs down.

Anyway, best of luck Mirjam on Sunday and enjoy the race….

After years of sniggering at triathletes and their silly training regimes and bike handling skills, Charlie is finally going to race a triathlon or two.

I have been at it for a month or two now and to begin with it seemed pretty simple; train 5 or 6 days a week, an hour in the pool, an hour’s run or a couple of hours on the bike each time and finnish each session whimpering with exhaustion. But now I find out that I was doing it all wrong – rather than jump in the water and whip myself into an agony of exertion, or run like I was Coe breaking the mile record for the first time (remeber the last brutal 100m?) or ride a bike like a drug free domestique in the Tour de France, I have now found out that I need to do some complicated arithmetic involving my age and resting pulse, buy a heart rate monitor and then make sure I train in my aerobic zone (130 to 140 bpms more or less). Where is the fun in that!? That is exactly why cyclists laugh at triathletes and why nobody wants to sit next to a triathlete at dinner.

Triathletes of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains! Throw away your training calendars, your heart rate monitors and your food-weighing scales and just do what the hell you feel like each day (but just do it hard). You might lose a couple of minutes on your PB, but who is counting anyway?
Rant over….

Looking for something original to fill the long Summer holiday? How about a 24 hour cycle race…..

For those with a very low ratio of IQ to VO2 max, you can do the whole thing on your own – the rest of us can enter in teams of up to 8 riders. For more information see  http://www.24heuresvelo.fr .

custom bandanaWe actually supply a lot of custom kit for cycling and triathlon events (mainly jerseys for charity cycle rides and similar) and we have supplied custom jerseys to events such as the Help for Heros cycle ride to France  and the London to Paris ride. We can also supply give-away kit for entrants to races to take home with them, such as custom bandanas, buffs, musettes (feed bags) and so on.

We supply a unique pro cycling team in the USA with kit – they are Richmond Pro Cycling. They are one of the top teams in the US, finishing 4th in the USA crit series in 2008, but what is special about them is what they do when they are not racing.

Richmond pro cyclingRather than be dependent on one or two big name sponsors, they decided to integrate the team with their community, teaching local kids to ride bikes and inspiring them to make something of themselves. They also raise money for a lot of local charities. That way that have encouraged the local community (in Richmond, Virginia)  to support the team financially.

Craig Dodson, runs the team and races in it and lives off thin air to pursue his dream – and so he has recently been nominated by Outside Magazine/Crocs Footwear as an “inspiring sole”. This award recognizes five athletes who have dedicated their lives to raising awareness for meaningful causes.

It takes seconds to vote and for anyone who wants to help raise the profile of cycling and supports the idea of cycling teams integrating into their local communities, it is a great thing to do.  http://www.inspiringsoles.com/pages.php?pagename=awardnom_submit&pagecolor=green

You can find out more about the team at http://www.richmondprocycling.com. Well done Craig and lets hope for an even better 2009!