TGIF: Happy St. Patricks Day, Dublin your fun

Irish eyes are smiling:

 Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Let's start off with Milan-San Remo. Tomorrow will be the first anticipated Monument of the season and here's the fantastic performance by Irishman, Sean King Kelly back in 1992...

 Dublin your fun!

Treat yourself to our classic, handmade cycling caps and a bonus: get up to 50% off select caps in our Clearance Section.  No need for a coupon code, we have discounted the price at checkout. 

TGIF: Cheering Tifosi for Il Lombardia

We'll be cheering:
Tifosi Cycling Cap

photo Red Dots Cycling

We are looking forward, cheering like Tifosi, to Sunday's final Monument... Il Lombardia!

This great Italian Monument is nicknamed, the Classica delle Foglie Morte (the Classic of the falling leaves). This will be the 109th edition favored for the punchy climbers. The Tifosi (the cycling mad fans) will be cheering their heroes on the epic climbs: Madonna del Ghisallo and the incredibly steep Muro di Sormano (1.7km, max grade: 25%)...

We'll be cheering like Tifosi!

Ride, Ride, Ride

We love this inspirational video by Movistar. Enjoy your riding weekend!

TGIF: Road Holland, 'What do you think about the Tour?' Custom Road Holland Cap, Jensie, Cyril Lemoine & Going With The Flow

We love the Polka Dots Lion with race leader Vincenzo Nibali.

courtesy Road Holland

The clever, quirky, entertaining and revealing Road Holland video is back. Jonathan is wild for the Tour as we are, so proudly wearing our custom cap he set out to ask folks down Palm Beach, Florida, 'What do you think about the Tour?' You may be surprised with most of the answers!

Many thanks to Richard for sending me some more photos of folks sporting the custom Road Holland cycling caps at the recent Bike Virginia cycle event!

all photos courtesy Road Holland.

Les Maillot à pois rouges...

yesterday...

Jens Voigt, 1998.

... and today.

Cyril Lemoine, stage 5 

UPDATE of our new cap....

During the last few weeks, we are reminded  - you have to go with the flow.

Our fabric shipment was delayed along with equipment breakdowns and yet amazingly still we pulled out most of our custom orders. Meanwhile our restocking of our regular caps have suffered. And, the launched of our new cap has been delayed. Yes it's work in progress...

Thanks for your patience. 

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

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.

Our Tifosi Cycling Cap Cleverly Exposed On Global News BC

This just in - actually televised on Global News BC last night - our Tifosi cycling cap shown in it's glory by Ross (FRFuggitivi team mate) during the Amazing Disaster Rally in New Westminister.  Well done and Thanks Ross for the exposure! 

You can purchase the Tifosi cycling cap here.


Be Forewarned you will look Italian classy!

TGIF: First cap made from our new Pfaff, new Logo & How to wear a cycling cap by Gianni Bugno,

Cappello Nero Rosso

photo: Red Dots Cycling

TGIF time!


We just made our very first small run of Cappello Nero Rosso caps on our new Pfaff machine!

We love it! The machine is fast and works so efficiently that we believe we will save in production time. The New Nero Rosso's are now in stock.


Carolle is busy working on a Red Dots Cycling logo design destined to be embroidered. I can't reveal it until it's finalize. So, we are at the fine tuning stage and it's progressing well.


We think highly of Gianni Bugno, former world champion (twice in 1991 & 1992), stage winner in all Grand Tours and classic winner. He is a cool guy and remains in cycling as a RAI TV helicopter pilot and president of CPA (Association of Professional Cyclists). We love this video of the former world champ revealing 'how to wear a cycling cap.'

I think he would look even better with one of our caps!

TGIF: Parker St Studios & Very Busy

It's Friday and and it's just about to get  REALLY BUSY here at Red Dots headquarters.

January has started with a bang... for more custom cycling cap orders. We have a list of cycling caps that need to come back into stock but we haven't had the time to do it. So it looks like we will be pulling late nights next week to fulfill the custom orders, approved today, and back into making our regular cycling caps. 

You know, we have been looking to expand our little company. Our friend Hans mentioned 1000 Parker Street, here in the Vancouver Eastside. Here's a video on the denizens and some history of this fantastic Artist community....