how to avoid brain freeze?

[gelfy666]

Merry Christmas.

Well ive just been out for a quick cycle about, and im finding my head is getting really cold..... but if i wear a beanie under my brain bucket i look a knob.

How does everyone else keep their heads warm?

 

[PaulSecteur]

Are you wearing a woolie beanie?
They are useless. Hold too much sweat in and that goes cold, and dont block the wind.

Have a look at skull caps from gore, specialized and assos. Not cheap but worth it for regular cold rides.

Edit: some cycling specific woolie onesare suposed to be decent, I meant the £2 woolie ones off the market.

Edit 2: merry Christmas.

 

[Brandane]

How does everyone else keep their heads warm?

Try the beanie without the plastic hat .

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I got a cheap thin thermal scull cap that just covers my ears for Halfords (Dare2ware)

I didn't think it would do much, but its brilliant, and is thin enough to fit under the helmet with just the slightest adjustment

 

[gelfy666]

wifey likes to wear the brain bucket all the time so ill have to try a skull cap thingy.

 

[vickster]

I've got a pearl Izumi skullcap, about £15 off eBay

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I got one from Decathlon about a tenner, covers my tabs & fits under pastic fine.

Alan...

 

[ianrauk]

A Buff.. that's all you need.
Warm in the cold, cool in the warmth.

 

[gelfy666]

is that the safe as a scuff?

 

[Saluki]

I have a buff under my helmet. Lovely warm head and ears. I have a second buff as a scarf thing.

 

[uclown2002]

+1 for buff

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Goretex do a plastic mushroom cover, waterproof and wind proof. Won't cover the ears tho, I use polar buffs in winter and can layer them into a 4 layer beanie for when it's really really cold...but I don't wear a plastic mushroom.

 

[Salad Dodger]

A Buff.. that's all you need.
Warm in the cold, cool in the warmth.

+1 for this.

 

[Spinney]

Get a buff that doesn't have the fleecy bit - that will make it a bit thick to go under a lid.

 

[Linford]

A baseball cap under the cycle lid. Keeps the rain off the specs, and the sun out of the eyes. Practicality overrules fashion.
use a neck tube for the lower face.