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. 

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.

photo Red Dots Cycling

Vive le Tour de France Offer

100th TdF inner tube wallet

photos Red Dots Cycling

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!

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.

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.

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

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...

via 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.

Custom Caps For 3cross Brewing Company & Proudly Wearing The Tee

Thanks Dave!

Proudly wearing the 3Cross Brewing Company tee.

photo Red Dots Cycling

Today I received a very cool 3cross Brewing Company tee from Dave Howland of Worcester, MA. He is the cyclist/nano brewer who successfully surpassed his goal of raising funds for his Kickstarter campaign. We are excited to be part of his crowd funding project - another first for us. Carolle and I are now busy working on his custom 3cross Brewing Company cycling caps. I can't show any photos but, I can say they are starting to look fantastic!

Richard

TGIF: Custom Caps ...Go!

Our custom Café Roubaix cycling cap.

photo Red Dots Cycling

Our custom cycling cap orders are growing.

As our business is growing we're learning to adapt with a new change...

We're currently involved with three custom cap orders, at times a juggling act. For sure it can be  challenging and actually a lot of fun. So, we plan a productive weekend ahead!

TGIF: Feeling Blue... In A Good Way & Our Beer Of The Day

photo Red Dots Cycling

This is our new blue fabric that just arrived in our studio... Carolle and I have already started the conceptual stage and we feel a new cycling cap is coming soon!

TGIF: today's favorite beer, Kelowna based Tree Brewing Cutthroat West Coast Ale... 

We feel like going fishin'

photo Red Dots Cycling

Richard