Our Custom Guvnors' Assembly Cap In London

Tour de France, Tour de London

via Adrian McCarthy

It's always a treat to see our cycling caps on displayed and enjoyed somewhere around the world. Today, we would like to thank Adrian for this excellent image of the Guvnors' Assembly cycling cap on stage 3 in London - Chapeau!

You can order your custom Guvnors' Assembly cycling cap here.

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Vive le Tour de France Offer

100th TdF inner tube wallet

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We have a Tour de France offering...

We have a small amount (a dozen) of 100th TdF inner tube wallets remaining from last year. This is a special limited edition and made to commemorate the 100th Tour de France. This wonderful wallet is amazingly light and the recycled rubber will look better with age. These wallets are handy and designed to hold some bill notes and some cards. Each unique pouch measures approximately 4 1/2” X 6” open and  4 1/2” X 3" folded and include unique embroidery and French ribbon.

Starting today as a special limited time offer, while quantities last..

with every order we will include... (1) bonus 100th TdF inner tube wallet at no extra cost!

Note: We use recycled inner tubes - all wallets will be slightly different and not exactly as shown.

Go ahead and make your purchase and we will include one handy 100th TdF inner tube wallet with your order. Vive le Tour de France!

Sorry, that's my money and credit card - not included!

Richard

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!

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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

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.

Guvnors' Assembly Custom Cap

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.

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

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

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.