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You mean on new year's day?
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- Thread starter RyanB98
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RyanB98
Active Member
- Location
- Manchester
I dont have lights at the moment so it has to be later than 07:30 or whenever the sun comes up
No, I mean the morning of the 31st. I saw 10 cars, 4 pedestrians and a cyclist in the first 10 miles!
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
Poundland is your friend for cheap lights. The rear 5 LED ones are really quite good and the front ones are adequate to 'be seen' by - chuck in a pack of 12 batteries and you're sorted for £3!
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Yeah, this thing is as thin as a buff, but it's already skull shaped so you don't get any overlapping fabric. I think I've probably made a pig's ear of describing it!
vickster
Legendary Member
Skull cap?
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-windslam-cycling-skull-cap/
I use one when it's v cold. Otherwise I rely on a running headband to keep ears warm and a very full head of hair under the helmet
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oldroadman
Veteran
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- Ubique
The old way under a helmet (going right back to Belgian days when that was compulsory for races) in the cold was simple and effective. A piece of aluminium cooking foil. Even today first aid will sometimes have foil blankets (very similar stuff) for keeping casualties warm. This works a treat and is thin enough not to notice. Unless you make a crease and then a line appears on your head, which goes away quite quickly. Worth a try at zero cost except an odd look from SWMBO!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
A tinfoil hat seems like an appropriate accompaniment for the other piece of headgear, although it's more protective 
If you don't like spandex, don't wear it. It's not obligatory - or even beneficial in some cases.
If you don't like spandex, don't wear it. It's not obligatory - or even beneficial in some cases.
Salad Dodger
Guru
- Location
- Kent Coast
+1 for a buff. I wear one under my crash hat in cold or rain (I don't like getting a wet head!), and might rearrange it to form a neck warner during rest halts.
BorderReiver
Veteran
I like Merino wool base layers. Not especially cheap but lasts for ages and wicks sweat really well. It can leave you smelling a bit like a wet sheep but I live in the Yorkshire Dales and the locals seem to quite like that......
oldroadman
Veteran
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- Ubique
You could be right about the old style crash hats, but there didn't seem to be hundreds of riders getting head injuries and they maybe worked just as well for the glancing blow which is the likely one in a race crash. Most of us "old soldiers" who only ever wore helmets for races because we had to are still around. But of course to helmet or not is still a choice. In one flush of madness I did use a plastic hat in an "anciens" race, in the wet (lovely...) with said kitchen foil under to keep warm and dry. Still works and absorbs no liquid from either outside or inside. Each to their own, I guess, whatever works for you, then that's your best choice.A tinfoil hat seems like an appropriate accompaniment for the other piece of headgear, although it's more protective
If you don't like spandex, don't wear it. It's not obligatory - or even beneficial in some cases.
oldroadman
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Note - after the suffering and useless result in said race, I decided that a nice potter was preferable for creaking old legs!You could be right about the old style crash hats, but there didn't seem to be hundreds of riders getting head injuries and they maybe worked just as well for the glancing blow which is the likely one in a race crash. Most of us "old soldiers" who only ever wore helmets for races because we had to are still around. But of course to helmet or not is still a choice. In one flush of madness I did use a plastic hat in an "anciens" race, in the wet (lovely...) with said kitchen foil under to keep warm and dry. Still works and absorbs no liquid from either outside or inside. Each to their own, I guess, whatever works for you, then that's your best choice.
