Fernando Carvalho Custom Cycling & Triathlon Clothing Blog

Looking for something original to fill the long Summer holiday? How about a 24 hour cycle race…..
For those with a very low ratio of IQ to VO2 max, you can do the whole thing on your own - the rest of us can enter in teams of up to 8 riders. For more information see  [...]

We supply a unique pro cycling team in the USA with kit - they are Richmond Pro Cycling. They are one of the top teams in the US, finishing 4th in the USA crit series in 2008, but what is special about them is what they do when they are not racing.
Rather than be dependent [...]

I had the opportunity to do a day of cycling out of Geneva the other day, and we chose the Col de la Colombière. It is a typical alpine climb, 16.3 kms at an average of 6.8%, with a kick in the teeth at the end with 3 kms at over 10%.
It was pretty embarassing [...]

It is pretty impressive for anyone to ride the Marmotte, so well done to Tom Aikens for completing the course. You can read about it here http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Fitness-&-muscle/active-cycle-challenge/v3.
He was riding with Wyndymilla, which is a new cycling team/cycling coaching outfit, run by ex elite rider Henry Furniss and his gorgeous wife Nasima. They help everyone from [...]

We are really happy to be working with AtoZ Adventures (www.a2z-adventures.com ) who work with us to run cycling holidays in Portugal. They have an outstanding range of moutain bike, road and hybrid holidays on offer and they are fantastic guys as well! They can do guided tours and self-guided tours with GPS or old-fashioned maps, so [...]

We miss out on a lot of sales because potential clients think that we can’t possibly supply pro quality kit at such reasonable prices, so how do we do it?
Our business was set up in 2001 and from the start we were determined to keep our costs down to an absolute minimum. Now that we [...]

In the interest of fully testing our cycling clothing in a range of different environments, Charlie has just spent a week cycling on Lake Como in northern Italy with his slightly slower brother, Tom.
 
It is an unbelievable place to ride a bike, with great quality roads (most of the time) some monster climbs and [...]

There is a new girl at Fernando Carvalho Ciclismo! She is Nicole, who lived in New York until moving to Portugal to go to University in Braga. She was competing for a place on the US diving team before a car accident stopped her from competing.
Nicole is extremely good at developing designs for new clients, [...]