Client feedback

Davilex SBDN is the leading Dutch long distance triathlon team and of course we are enormously proud to supply their custom tri kit. Here is a video of some of their team racing in 2011. Enjoy!

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).

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?].

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!

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….

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.

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 just supplied Durham University CC with some spanking new kit to make them the smartest riders on the British Universities circuit.

There is no reason that students should not be able to race in pro quality kit, just because the Government is wringing every last penny it can out of them. Our mission has always been to supply pro quality kit at reasonable prices and by supplying direct from Portugal with no middleman distributors trousering 30% of what you pay we are able to do just that.

So a heartfelt thanks from us at Carvalho Custom to DUCC for making our kit look so great and we hope you have a fantastic season!

We have been supplying the Richmond Pro Cycling team from the USA for a few years now. They are based in Virginia and are unique in that one of their founding principles is to use cycling to teach leadership and motivation to deprived communities, helping kids with nothing to live for to find some focus. So they go into communities to teach kids to race bikes, but at the same time teach them self-discipline, teamwork and to aspire to a better life.

They are a pro team so they rely on sponsors, but because they do so much for their local community they make themselves a much more attractive proposition. We are very proud to supply their team cycling kit and we look forward to seeing them race with our name on their jerseys again in 2011.

A Day in The Life of RPC from craig dodson on Vimeo.

If you want to find out more about how RPC work or make a contribution, speak to the team leader, Craig Dodson (contact details on their site).

We are very proud to supply the kit to one of the most active online cycling clubs, I-Team CC. They have over 200 members worldwide and organise racing, coaching and training activities for their members and they all get to wear the great looking kit!

I-team cater for all ages and abilities and they offer support for whatever your cycling aims are – here is what they say about themselves: “Something fundamental to i-Team is that we don’t just talk about doing something – we do it. From crazy ideas like roller blading up Mont Ventoux, to finishing a team of over 20 riders in the Etape du Tour, winning 2 National Championships, placing 9 youth & junior riders in to British Cycling Talent Team & 2 Juniors riders placed on the Olympic Development Team.” You can contact them via their site if you are interested in being a part of their online cycling club.

They have been a fantastic client to work with and we look forward to supplying more of their distinctive kit – they were kind enough to send us the following feedback:

“Hi Nicole,

Team Owner www.i-team.cc ”

We have been making jerseys for the Big Bad Bike Ride for a few years now. This year they had 158 riders and have raised over £53,000 at the lastest count.

The organiser is Graham Kennedy who has received an MBE for his charity raising work – he set up the BBBR in 1991 to raise money for Ataxia UK (a Friedreich’s Ataxia research charity) and they have so far raised over £600,000. He also obviously knows how to organise a good time for all the riders and the post ride party is legendary. If you would like to take part in the next BBBR ride, then you can contact them via their website.

If you are doing a charity cycling ride, then we will make your cycling jerseys with no design fee (using our semi-custom online cycling jersey design program )if you agree to post on our facebook page. Read more about this offer for charity cycling jerseys by clicking the link.

We have been very proud to supply Kinross CC with cycling jerseys and as with many of the clubs we supply, we were very happy to help them out with some jerseys for the Kinross Sportive they are organising for April 23rd 2011, particularly as they are supporting the hospice CHAS with proceeds from the event.

This has to be one of the most beautiful and exhilerating places in the UK to ride a bike and above you can see a preview of what the Sportive will involve.

We wish all of the organising committee the best of luck – must be an utter nightmare to organise an event like that!

Bath Amphibians is one of the leading tri clubs in the country and we have been supplying them for a few years now. They are a club that takes training, winning and having a good time all equally seriously and they cater for all talent levels (from lack thereof to world champions!).

Above is a photo of their female team winning the CTS coastal series wearing their Carvalho Custom club tri and cycling kit.