Yes, definitely. My favorite Balaclava, by far, is the Cannondale Slice Balaclava.

I bought mine at Erik's Bike Shop locally, though it looks like there might be a slightly different model out than when I bought mine -
http://www.eriksbikeshop.com/ride/pr...ffset=2&s_id=0

I think there's the same one available at Performance Bike -
http://www.performancebike.com/webap...551_1101027_-1

Here's a picture - it's not a very pretty picture, but mine has worked the best out of the ones I've tried in real world experience -



The important point is that you can move that front piece that covers your mouth up and down. :-)

Not a problem, though it's not difficult to find good models in this regard.

That's what's great about the movable piece - when it's warmer out I just keep it completely out of the way of my face. As it gets colder, I put it over my nose - it hangs in front of my mouth so the front of my face isn't directly exposed to the wind I'm riding into, but the air comes in and goes out the bottom of the opening so it doesn't fog up my glasses. (to be fair, I think I only actually wore glasses with it once or twice).

The only drawback is that the air you're breathing in isn't warmed up as much as it is with a full face balaclava - but that's the tradeoff you make for something that doesn't steam up your glasses.

Obvoiusly the opening is large enough.

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It feels like most every other baclava I've worn, but it's nice that when it's warm(ish) out I can move the front piece of of the way so it doesn't feel stuffy. Actually, I think I can use it as a neckwarmer only to, but I'm not 100% sure.

The only situation I wouldn't recommend it in is the "it's so cold, the slightest exposure will give your skin frost bite" kind of temperatures. Just because since that front piece moves around, you could end up with a gap somewhere. This has never actually happened to me, I just imagine at -20 fahrenheit it might be a concern - but wearing 100% full coverage gear at other temperatures isn't nearly as comfortable.

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Just to complain a bit, I've never found the perfect balaclava that didn't look ridiculous. This wouldn't work with glasses, but what I'd really like to find is one that's full coverage, but hold the front of the cloth away from your face.

The problem with full coverage ones is that as soon as you start breathing hard, you suck the cloth right up to your mouth and you can't breath. If you have a direct opening that doesn't work either, as you're breathing in the direct cold air and even if the opening is big enough, then you're exposing your lips directly to the oncoming air - frostbite in really, really cold conditions. Even when it's not quite that cold, I seem to have a bit of a bad reaction to breathing in really cold air while exercising (slight exercise induced asma? cold triggered? I dunno).

When I go skiiing, I have a baclava-type thing for my head, but it works better there just because I'm not breathing so hard so the cloth doesn't get sucked into my face. With the cloth away from my mouth, the air gets warmed up by my face and the other warm air in my jacket before I breath it in, which is really nice.

I've seen some solutions which would technically work, but they all seem to involve some sort of mouthpiece, which connects to a tube running into the jacket or something...if I was biking in truly sub-zero conditions it might work, but they usually look a bit like this -




It looks pretty crazy. My ideal solution would be to have a hard plastic piece or something on the inside of the mask that holds the fabric away from my mouth enough that I can breathe heavy (I am biking after all) and still get air in and out.