I've been shaving my head for about 15-years and serious about cycling for about the same. Coincidence?

I keep hair detangler at work. But I also have a massive mane of curly hair so I don't know how much it would benefit someone with shorter/straight hair.

I was getting two "racing stripes" down to middle of my head due to my helmet when I first started.

It was caused by two cushions in my helmet which I ended up just taking out. Didn't make a difference at all to the comfort of the helmet.

I still get a little bit of helmet hair when I arrive, but then I normally just wet my hair in the bathroom and dry it with a paper towel. Seems to do the trick.

i shave my head i just have imprints from my halo headband and my helmet but they go away.

Like the rest of the world outside of the U.S. and Australia, I don't wear a helmet. The Dutch, Swiss, Germans, Swedes, Danes, and Italians don't seem to be getting killed from not wearing helmets, and they have better looking hair.

I'm an engineer. It makes me look more like an evil genius!

Joined the gym on the second floor, my office is on the fourth. I ride enough during the spring/summer/fall so that my gas savings pays for the membership and then some. When I get to work, I shower and leave my riding clothes in a locker down there and then after work go down to change, do my lifting and then head home on the bike.

Beyond that I wear a bandana under my helmet ... Have for as long as I can remember.

I use nylon stocking caps from the 99 cent only store. Comes in a 2-pack and in black or white. Thin enough so I dont have to make any helmet adjustments with or w/o the cap on. No more helmet hair and find them comfy enough to use them year round in any weather/temp condition and ez to hand wash/clean.

On my commutes I wear a cycling cap and on recreational rides a cycling cap + helmet. The trade off is having hat hair instead.

I've got longish hair. It's okay to look goofey and smell bad where I work. I carry a Nike Featherlite tennis cap in my bag, rinse with cold water every night and it's dry and odor free the next day.

I have long-ish hair, and I definitely have very stupid-looking helmet hair most days. In general, I do nothing at all about it. But then, I'm a middle school science teacher, so expectations in this department are already so low that I don't really need to worry about it...

my genetics pretty much solved that problem for me.

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small motel style bottle of diluted shampoo. bring a towel and large plastic cup into the bathroom. wash, rinse, dry, presto!

You could put some goop in your hair after your ride and comb it.

My favorite goop these days is olive oil, yes, the edible kind. We anointed our bodies with it in ancient times, so I see nothing wrong with doing it today.

You ride to work AND you use a gym? :D

I do indeed

This is funny, very 1950's ish... Most of the women I know have graduate degrees and work 60+ hours a week and they have husbands who are stay at home dads, work from home artists, musicians, etc.

I have wavy hair that is a bit below my shoulder and I wear it in a ponytail or bun below my helmet and I don't seem to have any helmet hair when I get to work. I use dry shampoo on the areas of my hair right near my face and neck when I am cleaning up and comb it out a bit. The one thing I haven't been able to do is to wear my hair down after riding (there is no shower at my job). I have tried various ways of styling it, but I wind up wearing it in a ponytail or bun. I pretty much only wear my hair down on days I drive, which are rare when the weather is good.

My advice for men is this:

1) Many men look better with long hair (unless they are partially bald). Tim Lincecum and Tom Brady are both good examples of this - good looking with the long hair, not so good with the short hair. Grow your hair long and wear it in a tight ponytail under your helmet. If you are trying to land a lawyer or doctor wife, in addition to growing your hair long, you should be a bohemian artist/writer/musician who also manages to buy her various carbon fiber, steel and titanium bikes. Maintain the bikes for her and make sure the household work is done and child care arranged so she can do long rides whenever she wishes.

Helmet hair was worse for me with a buzz cut. With hair styled/parted I find I often can take off my helmet, and with the smallest splash of water from my bottle be looking suave in a moment. If I particularly want my hair to look good I'll just forego the helmet, as it is the child's comfort blanket of the cycling world and not all that necessary.

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:thumb: Bravo!

For men (and women, for that matter) reluctant to go this route, here is a hint: no helmet = no helmet hair. *winks suggestively*

Obvious solution:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=382617

wear it all the time.

I'm a guy with fairly thick curly hair, medium length, and all I do is run a brush through it when I get to work. I have never been able to use a comb on it so I carry a folding pocket brush.

The one time in my adult life that I did not wear a helmet, I had not gone more than 200 feet when I was squeezed to the curb by a black Charger, hit the curb, and went over the handlebars: broken clavicle and a nasty scalp laceration with contusion. Over the course of 6 months, the hair over the contusion fell out (blunt force trauma induced alopecia) and slowly regrew. I now wear a helmet on even the shortest rides.

i get wicked helmet hair. I just spray some water on it and fluff it out.
but i also have short hair - i get 'buzzed' a 7.

example:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7223/...ff8056_c_d.jpg

Do you get helmet sideburns? The strap can push it flat by my ears and the rest looks more normal.

- Andy

I'm laughing too, because the ponytail/bun suggestion that works for you was EXACTLY the suggestion I made.

I quote myself here: "Grow it long, pull it into a pony tail. Helmet hair is impossible. For professionals, when you get to work, twist the pony tail into a bun and pin it up in one minute (with practice)."

Some remedies are timeless. And I clearly acknowledged that women may also be professionals in the same sentence. There are certainly "Golden Women" out there with advanced degrees, but rest assured...there are many, many females in the work place who are not made of gold so they choose to mine for it in the workplace. I know plenty of them. It is much more difficult for a male (in the Steamy South anyway) to land a professional woman willing to work 60 hours a week so he can stay home practicing on his ukelilli.