Dollywagon is named after a mountain in England’s Lake District, where we’re based.

It’s a great place for cycling enthusiasts like us and we’ve decided that we want to ponce around on our bikes in ‘Team Dollywagon’ cycling jerseys. We’ve got four competing designs but can’t decide what to go for.

If readers of this blog can tell us which looks coolest, we’ll send a free jersey printed with the most popular design to whoever can best convince us it’s a good idea to be spending money on vanity branding projects like this…

p.s. when we first made this post our ‘comments’ system was misbehaving – apologies to all those who were unable to leave a comment.

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