Friday 4 July 2014

TGIF: Road Holland Custom Cap For Bike Virginia, Making 50' Of Custom Ribbon, TdF & New Cap Update.

The Road Holland serious & stylish duo: 
Jonathan Schneider (left) & Richard Grossman (far right)
Photos courtesy from roadholland.com





TGIF opens with our recent custom cycling cap collaboration with our friends of Road Holland: the makers of excellent cycling jerseys based in Florida. Richard Grossman contacted me requesting custom caps for their Bike Virginia cycle event. It was a success and may I say Jonathan and Richard look supremely dapper in our custom cycling cap paired with their cool Hilversum jersey - that I also own.  We thank Jonathan and Richard!








The always entertaining Jonathan at Bike Virginia including our custom Road Holland cycling cap...






Once again, we are busy with yet another custom cap order - so busy we've decided to bring in the extra artillery...


Tour de Custom Ribbon...
When the going gets tough our Pfaff 96 gets going!
photo Red Dots Cycling




I have been recruited to work on our Pfaff 96 mechanical sewing machine, we lovingly nicknamed - The Panzer. See photo above - that's me making 50' of custom handmade ribbon for our current order!






We are excited the Tour de France is tomorrow. And, Carolle and I will be up early to watch it live - around 5 AM.


An update on our new cycling cap: Due to unforeseen circumstances we've delayed the launch of our new cap. We planned on introducing it for tomorrow's stage 1 of the Tour only to be delayed until next week!





Richard



Friday 27 June 2014

TGIF: Guvnors' Assembly Custom Caps At L'Eroica Britannia & Maillot à pois rouges: Pierre Rolland


Chapeau!





Many thanks to Guvnors' Assembly riders at the recent L'Erocia Britannia. The riders made our custom made Guvnors' Assembly cycling caps looked the rage at the vintage bike ride!


More photos here.




photo Red Dots Cycling







Update: We are working on our new cycling cap and we are feeling confident to have it out for the start of the Tour de France, July 5!




Maillot à lois rouges...
Pierre Rolland will be back to ride the 2014 Tour de France.





Tuesday 24 June 2014

Bonne St-Jean!






For me, St Jean Baptiste day is a time of celebration and I'll take time today to listen to Québecois music and have a drink...


Bonne St-Jean!

Carolle


Friday 20 June 2014

TGIF: Fondness For Handmade, Saving My Velocity Iron

photo Red Dots Cycling





All of our caps are made with special love, with attention to detail. In fact, we're in a middle of another custom cap order with special emphasis on making this tricolor ribbon (above). And, it's lovingly handmade because we want you to enjoy our cycling caps for a long time. We don't make throw away caps. We like to think we are a rarity in the cycling cap apparel world, creating the haute couture way... to last!










Ironing plays a huge part in making our caps . When we first saw the velocity reliable iron we had to have it. It's been performing better than expected until...

A brown sludge excreted profusely out of it's steam holes ruining my fabric. Horrors! I went online to read up on peoples experience and it was ugly. I was ready to toss it out. But I thought, as a last resort, I was willing to try one thing. I used a technique first used on my mother's fifty year old iron - to fill the reservoir with pure vinegar and use it on full steam until the vinegar is gone. The tap water has iron in it. I boil my water but it doesn't remove the iron. After steaming away the vinegar I steam away two reservoirs of water. To my surprise it works. Now, I have a maintenance schedule of monthly vinegar steaming. And, my Reliabe iron has, once again, earned it's name!


Carolle





Monday 16 June 2014

Form Follows Function: Our Caps Are A Great Fit Under A Helmet

John: dapper with 3-season capper.
All photos Red Dots Cycling





Form follows function: Every cycling cap (3-season & winter) we create will fit comfortably under a cycling helmet. And... you'll look stylish too!





Winter cap at home.

Saturday 14 June 2014

Time Off On The Horizon







On my recent Frfuggitivi ride, conversation was about our cycling cap business and Matt asked me, "Is this what I do full-time?" 

Yes it is. And, we're noticing our little business is becoming busier especially with custom cap orders.  
In fact, the workload has increased so much that we find ourselves working every day. Our plan is to catch some sun this summer and, perhaps, take some time off. Even though we may have to work on some weekends to fulfill production, we will keep business emails to Monday thru Friday only. 



Thanks to all of our customers for your continued support and... keep on riding.


Carolle & Richard


Friday 13 June 2014

TGIF: Father's Day Shopping At Raiment & Guvnors' Assembly Cap

Londoner cycling cap 
by Red Dots Cycling
Via Raiment.cc






Are you in the Vancouver area and shopping for cycling inspired gifts for Father's Day or for yourself? Then ride on down to the nice folks at Raiment Bicycle Life. Our cycling caps are available now!





New update from our friends at Guvnors Assembly...






Our Guvnors' Assembly custom cycling caps are a hit over in the UK. Perfect to display their Pashley pin! 

You can order the cap here.