Archive for May, 2011

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.

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.

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.

At this time of year we tend to get busy, but this year has beaten all records! We just cannot make kit fast enough at the moment because our order books are so full and this has meant our lead times have been pushed out to a little over 6 weeks.

We aspire to deliver in a month, but with this many orders coming in we can’t – we are not missing any deadlines we have given clients, but we think it is fair that we do not create false expectations for new clients, which is why we are writing this blog post.

The reason we are so busy is because we have continued to focus on producing pro quality custom cycling and tri kit at reasonable prices, so we don’t try and compete with the cheap and cheerful brands and we are much better value for money than other premium quality suppliers. Our simple secret is that we work from Portugal, a low cost economy with a history of producing high quality textiles and we distribute direct to customers, so that we can pass all our cost savings on to you, our clients.

For future reference, if you are able to order outside of April to July, then we will be able to deliver faster and we will continue to grow our capacity just as fast as we can!