Client feedback

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.

We are involved with sponsoring the kit for a few leading tri teams – it is great for us to have pro triathletes training and racing in our kit for helping with product development and in Holland we sponsor the leading pro tri team SBDN Davilex.

The SBDN team have had a fantastic 2010 and they have just won the Veenendaal olympic distance tri – they managed to win male and female races which was a bit greedy…

Her is Edo van der Meer on his way to victory wearing our custom tri suit.

Now when you or I talk about going on a long ride, we might mean 150k and we would feel quite pleased with ouselves when we get home and put the kettle on. Some worthy souls might take it to the next level and perhaps try Land’s End to John O’Groats. Well Peter Gostelow is putting us all to shame – 25,000 kms London to Cape Town, unassisted and on his own. He is raising money for the Against Malaria Foundation.

You can imagine that as custom cycling jersey suppliers we get a lot of requests for free or cut price jerseys for charity rides. We would like to help them all, but as we get requests pretty much every day, we just cannot do it!

Peter’s effort was just so monumental that we decided to help him out in a very small way and here he is on some God-foresaken track in the arse end of nowhere with paniers stuck all over his bike and a look of grim determination plastered over his face.

If you are doing a charity cycling ride we have found a way to help you reduce your costs, whilst helping us to do a bit of advertising. The way it works is that you produce your design on our semi-custom cycling jersey template and put in an order with us. You then post the design on our Carvalho Custom facebook page and then tell all your mates to comment on the picture. For each comment you get, we reduce the design fee (normally €90) by one euro. So if you get 90 comments, you get the design for free and just pay the cost of the kit.

It helps us bring a bit of traffic to our facebook site and saves you some money, so everyone’s a winner!

We were very pleased to supply Wight Tri with kit this year, which they designed using our semi-custom tri kit option (as you can see in the photo they have semi-custom tri and cycling kit).

They have been a pleasure to work with and anyone who lives on the Isle of Wight and is thinking about getting involved with triathlon needs to get involved with a club whose motto is “The body is bad and must be punished” as well as organising the regular “splash and dash” events (don’t ask, they do things differently on the Isle of Wight).

We are very proud to say that we are now one of the largest supplier of club tri kit to the combined Irish and UK markets, supplying over 100 triathlon clubs in these countries. It has been a lot of hard work and the biggest lesson for us is that for triathletes product quality is absolutely everything. When we first started selling tri kit a few years ago, we did not have the cut of our kit quite right and we did not invest enough in the top drawer fabrics, but we found that triathletes just wanted the best. So we redeveloped our range and we have had a lot of success with it, although unfortunately for us, there is no time to rest on our laurels as tri clothing technology is just moving on so fast, we are constantly having to reassess things.

We have just supplied Holland’s top triathlon team, SBDN Davilex Triatlonteam with new kit. They have racing for them many of Holland’s top triathletes, including Mirjam Weerd, pictured here winning the Amsterdam Olympic distance triathlon on 13th of July, wearing our custom female tri suit.
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I can’t quite believe she is smiling for the camera, given the amount of pain she should be in. Anyway, best of luck for the whole team this season.

We have just supplied Help for Heroes for the third year with custom cycling jerseys for their Battlefield ride round northern France.

You can find out more about this ride here. The Help for Heroes charity is an extraordinary organisation that raises money to help injured soldiers. The popularity of the organisation is testament to the heartfelt support that the British people have for their soldiers and we are very proud to supply their cycling kit.

We supply a lot of cycling clothing for charity rides and we do our best to help out, so if you need some custom cycling kit, you can get some semi-custom cycling clothing made up with no design fee if you take up our facebook offer. Click the link above or go to our Carvalho Custom Cycling & Triathlon facebook page.

We have been working with Henry Furniss from Wyndy Milla for a several years now, from when he was an elite rider at the Bike and Run team to now, where he runs his own cycling hub (shop, bike fitting and cycling club near Farnham in Surrey). Here is Nasima looking particularly hot in our tri top and bib shorts:

We have made a lot of kit for them over the years and they currently have versions of our kit in pink, blue, black and white (just to make sure that everyone can find something they like). We owe a lot to Henry and Nasima because over the years they have tested custom kit out for us and helped us to develop our range. Anyway, check out their new look website – www.wyndymilla.com – to find out more!

An unbelievable race by Mirjam Weerd, one of the triathletes whose clothing we sponsor, to come 4th in Ironman South Africa.

Here she is crossing the finish line looking fresh as a daisy wearing our female tri top and tri shorts and you can see some more photos here. We are very proud to be associated with her and we look forward to seeing some more fantastic results to get Carvalho Custom kit on the podium!

We are now supplying Evolution Tri in Windsor with their club triathlon and cycling kit for the second year and they have some sharp looking kit!

The club is run by Kevin Wallace, the most motivated man in Windsor who I first met at the TCR show in London last February when there was 6 inches of snow on the ground, but he insisted on wearing shorts. Now there’s a man who likes to suffer.

The club has a fantastic balance between serious training from qualified coaches and having a good laugh – as well as having the added bonus of being able to feed off Kevin’s ridiculous amounts of spare energy. You can go to their site or their facebook page to find out more about them.

We have been supplying Londonskaters Speed team with kit for a few years now. We supply them with a whole range of kit, including the custom inline skating skinsuits pictured below. They also buy cycling kit, training jackets and other clothing paraphernalia that anyone who is involved with any sport knows they love to collect.

They are one of the UK’s leading and largest inline skating teams and have athletes of all abilities, from national champions to beginners and are very welcoming to new members if you are interested in giving it a go.