How to reinvigorate cycling

If like me you love the sport of cycling, perhaps you don’t think it needs reinvigorating, but I am for anything that makes the sport more popular. Jonathan Vaughters, one of the best thinkers in the world of cycling has come up with a 10 point plan to make the sport more popular:

1. More races of the highest level outside of Europe.

2. Consistent, understandable formats for cycling fans.

3. Long-term guaranteed entry to the Tour de France for professional teams.

4. More focus on prevention of doping, in the first place, as opposed to catching cheats.

5. More team-time trials more often.

6. Technical innovation, such as cameras on bikes, inside cars, helmets, inside team buses to make the “craziness and danger of the peloton more real to the viewer”.

7. Equipment innovation to see if the the smartest team wins sometimes, rather than the strongest.

8. Open radios to the public and listen to your favourite team and what they are doing.

9. GPS tracking of individual riders to make races fun to watch.

10. Have an understandable and consistent way of determining the best rider in the world and the best team in the world. That might mean riders have to ride Paris-Roubaix, and if they do not finish they would be docked points.

vaughters

Sounds good to me – its about time cycling started moving with the times….

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 wangel custom triathlon kit

Per is an outstanding athlete (cross country skiing as well as triathlon, but he is not a conventional shape, being 194cm and 77kg (6’4 and 12 stone), so we had to make him modified kit. We provide this service to anyone who doesn’t fit normal clothing – just ask about how the system works.

Anyway, have a great season Per and watch this space to see just how many podiums he gets on in 2011….

For those of you who speak Swedish, here is what Per had to say:
Årets mäktigaste triathlonkollektion är på plats i Falun i mitt hem.

Efter sommaren 2010 inledde jag ett samarbete med Carvalho Custom som tillverkar egen designade triathlon kläder från elit till motionärer.

Idag har jag fått delar av min kollektion som skall provas ut och fin justeras.

Det bästa med Carvalho Custom är att de är billiga för er klubbar som är intresserade av att göra en egen triathlonkollektion, ett exempel är att ett par cykelbyxor kostar 400 kr/styck med hur många tryck, färger och loggor som du vill ha tillskillnad mot de Nordiska företaget som tar uppemot 800-1000 kr/styck.

Jag kommer att träna varje pass i dessa kläder och tävla i deras triathlondräkt på de Svenska tävlingarna som jag kör sommaren 2011.

Jag är mycket nöjd med kläderna och kvalitén, de är de bästa cykelbyxorna jag någonsin cyklat med faktiskt.

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 of ambitious projects that will propel the club to new heights (never going to happen) etc. etc. .

Then a nervous tension starts to build. “So we need to appoint the club committee for the next season”. Nervous glances round the room.

“Who wants to be the Children’s Welfare Officer?” – a few hands go up.

“And the Treasurer?” – someone volunteers.

The tension is growing. Everyone knows what is coming next. “OK, who will be the club clothing representative” – a deafening silence. You stare furiously at your feet. Don’t catch the chairman’s eye now, don’t flinch, shrink down in your chair. “Well if nobody is going to volunteer, we will have to choose someone”. No, please God, don’t let him say my name….

Well it no longer has to be that way if you are chosen to organise your club clothing. No more receiving clothing orders from club members by email, letter, back of fag packet, text, facebook, phone call, shouted across a windy car park. No more laboriously adding everyone’s order together to make up the biannual club order. We have a solution!

Our new Club Clothing Order system will enable you to organise your club order online. The club clothing administrator for your club will just have to set up the club page (hosted on the Carvalho Custom site), where s/he will choose the parameters for the order (deadline, which items can be ordered, currency etc). Then s/he will let club members have the password to the site, and each club member will then log in to enter their personal details and their order.

happy sports club meeting

Once the deadline day is reached the club clothing administrator will have automatically generated a consolidated order for the full club and a list of what everyone has ordered and the cost. This consolidated order is then sent to Carvalho Custom and we make the kit as specified and deliver it to the clothing administrator.

To find out more, please email Nicole (the world’s most friendly ex-New Yorker) and she will answer all your questions.
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 of ambitious projects that will propel the club to new heights (never going to happen) etc. etc. .

Then a nervous tension starts to build. “So we need to appoint the club committee for the next season”. Nervous glances round the room.

“Who wants to be the Children’s Welfare Officer?” – a few hands go up.

“And the Treasurer?” – someone volunteers.

The tension is growing. Everyone knows what is coming next. “OK, who will be the club clothing representative” – a deafening silence. You stare furiously at your feet. Don’t catch the chairman’s eye now, don’t flinch, shrink down in your chair. “Well if nobody is going to volunteer, we will have to choose someone”. No, please God, don’t let him say my name….

Well it no longer has to be that way if you are chosen to organise your club clothing. No more receiving clothing orders from club members by email, letter, back of fag packet, text, facebook, phone call, shouted across a windy car park. No more laboriously adding everyone’s order together to make up the biannual club order. We have a solution!

Our new Club Clothing Order system will enable you to organise your club order online. The club clothing administrator for your club will just have to set up the club page (hosted on the Carvalho Custom site), where s/he will choose the parameters for the order (deadline, which items can be ordered, currency etc). Then s/he will let club members have the password to the site, and each club member will then log in to enter their personal details and their order.

happy sports club meeting

Once the deadline day is reached the club clothing administrator will have automatically generated a consolidated order for the full club and a list of what everyone has ordered and the cost. This consolidated order is then sent to Carvalho Custom and we make the kit as specified and deliver it to the clothing administrator.

To find out more, please email Nicole (the world’s most friendly ex-New Yorker) and she will answer all your questions.

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