Cycling hats

[vickster]

Cap during the hot summer day (1). The helmet is just too hot and sweaty.
Caps, HTC highroad, Movistar, and Campagnola.

Why wear a helmet ever then? Seems to be rather at odds to the reasons why people choose to wear a helmet, which are surely as valid on a sunny day as a cold grey one?

I am not starting a helmet debate by the way!

 

[SS Retro]

retro team cap under helmet, cafe stop helmet off lounging in cool looking cycling cap!

 

[s7ephanie]

how do you stop your cap blowing off when going fast downhill? off your head i mean !!

 

[Leaway2]

Why wear a helmet ever then? Seems to be rather at odds to the reasons why people choose to wear a helmet, which are surely as valid on a sunny day as a cold grey one?

I am not starting a helmet debate by the way!

Because it keeps my head warm on cold days! I commute every day and its quite cool at 6:30.

Now I realise a helmet is never going to be as cool as riding about sans helmet with a bald head, but if you are finding a helmet unbearably hot, it suggests you don't own a very good helmet!

This very possibly true in my case. I bought not knowing how hot it would be though.

 

[vickster]

Cycling caps are quite tight fitting and only have a teeny peak...also they stick well to the bald blokes' sweaty heads!

 

[Amanda P]

how do you stop your cap blowing off when going fast downhill? off your head i mean !!

Hear hear. Mrs Uncle Phil shrivels up with sunburn the minute the sun comes out, so she has to be slathered in sun cream and wear a hat at all times. Trouble is, whenever we ride the tandem down a hill, sooner or later her hat blows off and we have to stop to pick it up.

What's needed is a cap with vents in the peak to let the air thru without letting the sun through. I hereby serve notice that I had this idea first, unless someone knows different, in which case, where can I buy it?

 

[Rob3rt]

Now I realise a helmet is never going to be as cool as riding about sans helmet with a bald head, but if you are finding a helmet unbearably hot, it suggests you don't own a very good helmet!

 

[vickster]

Because it keeps my head warm on cold days!

That's a different reason for using one...what's wrong with a beanie...or hair

 

[IDMark2]

My cap doesn't blow off..now me, that's another thing altogether.

 

[Leaway2]

That's a different reason for using one...what's wrong with a beanie...or hair

I don't like wearing woolen hats, they just don't feel right/too itchy on my bald head (see avatar).

 

[MarkF]

I've never owned either, I would go for cap if I was forced (under threat of death) because who'd want a stripey bonce?

I do think some caps look coolio.

 

[Peteaud]

If you have a bald head and weat a helmet, do you get a tan on ya bonce in a nice patten?

 

[youngoldbloke]

On really blindingly sunny spring days (if any) when the sun is low in the sky, cap under the helmet. Hot sunny summer days (if any), just the helmet.

 

[Soup890]

I might get one since some of you guys pointed out the positives.

I will try and find a Specialized one to match my bike.

 

[MontyVeda]

how do you stop your cap blowing off when going fast downhill? off your head i mean !!

I take it off for the duration and hang it over my bar end but always put it straight back on as i look like Tintin at the bottom of most hills


I wear a baseball cap to keep the sun and the rain off my face, and to stop the forward momentum from giving me the aforementioned Tintin fringe... it's larger peak also works quite well as a plough when going through those inevitable insect clouds.