Hats?

Mark Tranchant said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

The people organising the Kings of Pain exhibition in Brick Lane
are the new Rapha clothing company www.rapha.cc
They demoed their waterproof cotton cap to me by pouring water on it.
Very nice - but it is 20 pounds.

If anyone is in London, come along and watch the end of the Tour
with us there. Sunday afternoon, after about 3ish.
And no, I have no connection with the company.

Mark Tranchant said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head
b) the plastic peak insert has broken

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap? I used
to have a Campag hat, and would love to find one of those. It seems that
helmets have killed the cotton cap business.

I picked up a Bianchi one from my LBS (Nicholsons in Dundee) a couple of
weeks ago, for last week's touring holiday. And very good it was too,
so ask at your LBS.
Mine was the last one they had, Margaret pointing out that they didn't
sell many any more since people tended to get helmets, but OTOH I'm sure
any decent LBS would order one in for you.
If Bianchi don't have set sizes I wouldn't get one of those: I generally
take an "M" in hats and it's /just/ big enough.

Pete.
--
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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On 22/7/04 10:27 am, in article [email hidden],

Mark Tranchant said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

Quoted message said:

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap? I used
to have a Campag hat, and would love to find one of those. It seems that
helmets have killed the cotton cap business.

Get a buff and go for the pirate look. If I could find a clip on gold
earring and train the parrot, I could do a reasonable blackbeard impression.

I have an old cycling cap but it is a very tight fit.

...d

Mark Tranchant said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head
b) the plastic peak insert has broken

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap? I used
to have a Campag hat, and would love to find one of those. It seems that
helmets have killed the cotton cap business.

--
Mark.

I got two for £5 at the York Rally. I have had trouble in the past finding casquettes to fit me. Pearsons were selling Campag ones in the comic a few months ago.

David Martin said:

Get a buff and go for the pirate look.

I often do, but the peak on the cycle cap makes quite a difference, I've
found. And on the 'bent where I'm not gazing at the road so much that's
even more pronounced (and no need to snap up the peak unless I'm taking
pictures).

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Mark Tranchant said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head
b) the plastic peak insert has broken

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap? I used
to have a Campag hat, and would love to find one of those. It seems that
helmets have killed the cotton cap business.

Buffs are better 🙂

http://www.buffwear.co.uk/

--
Chris

Mark Tranchant:

Quoted message said:

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap?

<URL:www.probikekit.com>

They carry a good range of hats, bandanas, earwarmers, headbands, etc -
either plain or
in your favourite team colours.

d.

David Martin <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Get a buff and go for the pirate look. If I could find a clip on gold
earring and train the parrot, I could do a reasonable blackbeard
impression.

A brass curtain ring should do, and no doubt Dundee has a surfeit of
pigeons - dope one up on booze soaked bird seed, paint it nice bright
colours, tape its feet to your shoulder and repeat after me "Argh, me
hearties!" :-)

Graeme

Mark Tranchant <[email hidden]> wrote in news:dLLLc.4699
[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head

As a kid, I bought a cycling cap, I thought I was the bees knees wearing
it. So much so that I wore it around the house. I did keep wondering
however what the stuff was that had mysteriously started dropping off the
ceiling onto the back of my head. It turned out to be the over-strained
elastic pulling out the stitches one at a time. It was many years before I
managed to find any sort of hat to fit me properly.

Graeme

Mark Tranchant said:

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap?

url:http://www.gbcycles.co.uk/eshop.asp?wci=subdept&wce=263

~PB

Could you point me in the general direction of the 'light'? I'd ignorantly
assumed that helmets for bikes were as sensible as helmets for motorcycles
(seatbelts for cars etc.....).
Can you guide me to enlightenment?

Steve

"Mark Tranchant" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head
b) the plastic peak insert has broken

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap? I used
to have a Campag hat, and would love to find one of those. It seems that
helmets have killed the cotton cap business.

--
Mark.

Mark Tranchant said:

Now I've seen the light and stopped wearing a helmet, I need some sort
of cap to stop my hair from fluffing up.

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head
b) the plastic peak insert has broken

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap? I used
to have a Campag hat, and would love to find one of those. It seems that
helmets have killed the cotton cap business.

You must have a massive head - those caps are huge when new.

Lots of places sell trade team caps. My "lucky" Lotto cap is still in
service after 12 years.

Steve Almond said:

Could you point me in the general direction of the 'light'? I'd ignorantly
assumed that helmets for bikes were as sensible as helmets for motorcycles
(seatbelts for cars etc.....).
Can you guide me to enlightenment?

They have to be light and ventilated for people to wear them, so
basically they're too flimsy to do any good. Plus the statistics show
that increased helmet wearing (or, worse, a mandatory helmet law) does
not reduce cyclist deaths or serious injuries - after allowing for the
inevitable drop in people cycling - at all. In some countries the risk
has *increased*.

Mark Tranchant said:

Quoted message said:

I've tried a CTC cap from the CTC shop, but found that:

a) it's too small for my large head
b) the plastic peak insert has broken

and Zog The Undeniable responded:

Quoted message said:

You must have a massive head - those caps are huge when new.

I suspect it may vary from cap to cap. My CTC cap has always been a
comfortably tight fit, and I've got a small head (56cm IIRC).

I recently ordered a couple of spares and they're slightly bigger, but
still a comfortable fit.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:15:32 +0100 someone who may be "Steve Almond"
<[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

Could you point me in the general direction of the 'light'? I'd ignorantly
assumed that helmets for bikes were as sensible as helmets for motorcycles
(seatbelts for cars etc.....).
Can you guide me to enlightenment?

Point a web browser at groups.google.co.uk, search for helmet in
this group.

Do you believe that helmets for motorcyclists (not motorcycles) and
seatbelts for car occupants (not cars) are a good idea? Do you know
that the latter caused a 40% increase in cyclist fatalities in the
first two years?

--
David Hansen, Edinburgh | PGP email preferred-key number F566DA0E
I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government
prevents me using the RIP Act 2000.

Mark Tranchant said:

Any suggestions where I can get a decent "old style" cotton cap?

From the caravanne publicitaire on the TdF.

Happy with my polka-dot cap aquired last Wednesday....

Mike

Quoted message said:

Do you believe that helmets for motorcyclists (not motorcycles) and
seatbelts for car occupants (not cars) are a good idea?

Yes and yes. (sorry for the typo).

Do you know

Quoted message said:

that the latter caused a 40% increase in cyclist fatalities in the
first two years?

Caused or coincided with? Do you know how many were wearing helmets?

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:21:59 +0100 someone who may be "Steve Almond"
<[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you believe that helmets for motorcyclists (not motorcycles) and
seatbelts for car occupants (not cars) are a good idea?

Quoted message said:

Do you know

Quoted message said:

that the latter caused a 40% increase in cyclist fatalities in the
first two years?

Caused or coincided with?

The former. Risk compensation.

Quoted message said:

Do you know how many were wearing helmets?

Cycle helmets are essentially irrelevant for crashes involving motor
vehicles.

--
David Hansen, Edinburgh | PGP email preferred-key number F566DA0E
I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government
prevents me using the RIP Act 2000.

David Hansen <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you know how many were wearing helmets?

Cycle helmets are essentially irrelevant for crashes involving motor
vehicles.

If if they weren't irrelevant, at the time the compulsory seatbelt law was
introduced in the UK there were virtually no cyclists wearing helmets. Just
about the only ones you ever saw were the plastic and/or leather "bunch of
black bananas" which at least were fairly honest in that they only claimed
to protect from scrapes and cuts.

Graeme