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I have to say we have quite a few headaches trying to get our female sizing right – to put it bluntly, the problem is that there are a lot of shapes and sizes to cater for, so we can’t keep all our female customers happy! We have a new female cut cycling jersey, which has a more contoured fit and shortened arms than our standard jersey and we also have new non bib shorts that are more waisted and have a female specific chamois. We already have female specific custom tri suits and female tri tops, which have proven extremely popular with the girls we supply.

We strongly advise all our clients that they get some samples for sizing purposes – there is no charge for this and we only ask that you post them back to us. We have now reworked our sizing chart, which gives more detail about the female sizing.

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For skinny female cyclists, we would generally recommend that you go for the male sizing for the custom cycling jerseys and jackets, because you will probably not require the extra contouring that the female cut gives.

We have some etape places available – if you are interested, please contact Charlie. First come first served.

We have just had a new program written for us that allows you to design your own custom cycling jersey online (and bib shorts too!). With this program you can choose one of our base templates, add colours, add text, add logos and then save to your computer.

It’s not that we are lazy and don’t want to do the work ourselves (!), but rather it gives you a chance to play around to find a look that appeals to you. Once you have decided on the design you want, then you can just email it in to us and we will polish up any rough edges before it goes into production. The program has to be the easiest graphics program in the world to work, so get designing!

We made some fantastic looking custom cycling kit for Personal Fitness Studio in the UK – it took a long time to get the design just perfect, but that is what we are here for! This design has come out so well as they have used a small number of colours, carrying a single theme throughout the design, together with and an unfussy logo, which is always the best way to go

Personal Fitness are a London based personal training outfit, specialising in cycling. They take on beginners to experienced cyclists and will whip you into cycling shape as well as sorting out bike fitting and helping you to get all the right equipment you need (including of course their Carvalho Custom clothing!).
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We have been supplying Southdown Velo in Chichester for 5 years now with their custom cycling kit- they are a model club that has worked really hard to develop their more serious racing side with riders such as Toby Neave, winner of the Portsmouth-DHCyclesport circuit series, as well having really strong children’s, female and more ’social’ sections. We have worked really hard to develop our female range of clothing over the last few months, adding a new female chamois and new female cuts to non bib shorts and jerseys/jackets and we also supply a full range of childrens sizes.

As with a lot of good clubs, they have a very strong relationship with a local bike shop, Geared Bikes and Wear ,who sponsor the club and offer members discounts and of course they get to put their logo on the legendary Southdown Velo cycling jerseys!

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We have moved to silicone leg grippers (and indeed for all the grippers we use, for example on custom arm warmers). Silicone is great to use as it sticks better than rubberised elastic and also gives great stretchability so that it does not constrict.

For those who are not familiar with silicone, it is a band that runs along the gripper that will not slip on the skin, so preventing shorts from riding up. There are a lot of options available for silicone and one of the key factors is finding one that is durable when washed in washing machines (the cheaper ones will peel and crack). We went through an extensive test period with ours and we are confident it is the best available on the market in terms of comfort, funcationality and durability. We always welcome feedback, so if you have been wearing them, let us know what you think!

We have been supplying Wheelworx in Dublin with custom cycling and tri clothing for 3 years now – as well as being Dublin’s leading triathlon shop, they are also one of the leading tri teams in Ireland.

They are having a fantastic season and have just had a one, two in the female Triathy Olympic distance, with Aileen Morrison winning and Elena Maslova coming second. You can see Aileen above in T2 wearing our new custom female trisuit.

Elena obviously hadn’t had sufficient work out, so after the race she had a couple of Powerbars, towelled herself down and jumped back in the water to win the Sprint distance. She would probably have run the 80 kms back to Dublin after sinking a couple of pints to celebrate her victory if they hadn’t bundled her into the van…..

We work very hard to be the custom cycling and triathlon supplier with the shortest lead times in the industry, normally working off 4 weeks. In recent months we have had unprecedented demand for our kit however and our lead times have been stretched to 7 or 8 weeks – we completely understand that many clubs need their kit quicker than this, but we just cannot make the kit any faster!

We are now putting in place plans to substantially increase our production capacity so that next Easter/Summer we will be able to manage the peak demand better.

To compound the problem further, in Portugal everything closes down in August, including our factory, so this will add a further 2 to 3 weeks on lead times for kit order before the holidays.

We are meeting the delivery dates that we have given to clients at the time of order, so clients are not getting their kit late. We like to think our kit is worth waiting for, but we hope to be back to 4 week lead times come September.

We have just added a new microfibre fabric to our range and it is one of the best fabrics we have in our range. It is called Cuadro and we are using it for our new range of custom technical t-shirts; Cuadro is fantastically lightweight and silky smoorth, but through some ingenious microfibre engineering holds its shape really well and gives great wicking properties (wicking refers to the way a fabric carries moisture away from your skin to evaporate).

A technical t-shirts means that it is made from a fabric (microfibre) that will help you feel more comfortable when you start getting hot and sweaty and will also dry out super quick. Once you have done any level of sport you will never want to go back to good old fashioned cotton again! Our microfibre has a unique weave to it, which up close shows lots of tiny squares, which help to maintain the shape of the t-shirt when you are wearing it.

To print our custom technical t-shirts we use the same digital sublimation printing as we use for our custom cycling jerseys, which means there are no limits on the design & colours that you can print. It also means that rather than having the nasty scratchy printing that most t-shirts have, we actually dye the fabric, so the design will never fade or crack.

Microfibre has only one drawback – it is very expensive! That means that our custom microfibre technical t-shirts are going to cost more than getting a cotton t-shirts and doing old fashioned scrathy printing on them. In fact they are €22.15+VAT and depending on whether you are ordering other items, there may be a set up fee. This does mean you get a pro quality custom technical t-shirt with digital sublimation printing and absolutely no limits on your design, though – so it is worth every penny.

We are just launching a range of custom rashguards for surfers. You can have long-sleeve, short-sleeve or sleeveless and we can produce any design that you require. Unlike many rashguards which use that nasty scratchy printing for logos that cracks and peels off after a few washes, we use the same sublimation printing that we use for cycling and triathlon kit, so the fabric is actually dyed with your design.

For our custom rashguards we use exactly the same ‘Power’ lycra that we use for our tri suits, which means that it is extremely hardwearing and gives a firm fit to avoid it going baggy in the water. It also holds colours well so that your designs come up really sharp.

You can design literally anything you like and we will reproduce it for you. There is a minimum order of 10 of each top to avoid paying surcharges. There is also a one off design fee of EUR140, which is what we charge to set up your template. You would not be charged this fee on any subsequent reorders of course. The prices are EUR26.65 for the long-sleeve, EUR25.15 for the short sleeve and EUR24.80 for the sleeveless.