I take great offense to your suggestion that funny hats serve no functional purpose, and submit it as evidence that you are a bit short sighted about headgear possibilities ad might not have the credibility to really be making any kind of argument for or against the functionality of ANY type of headpiece

Im sorry, that was a terrible thing to say.

Well... they certainly ARE fashionable! But there are other types hats / rags out there that might serve the purpose with more humility... For instance, how about a big lettuce leaf?

Something about this thread is definitely ridiculous.


What are your credentials?


No, I am imagining (in my mind) that the sombrero's are biker caps. Try that.

But I think you certainly implied it.

I bid you good day sir.

Oh god, point-by-point argument and refutes. Classic.

this is the e-titlefight.

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You're really bad at this, jake.

Comparing a cycling cap to a lettuce leaf? Oh, classic. You're betraying your ignorance and stupidity with every word. Cycling caps are useful, some people where them as a fashion statement. Woop-dee-****ing-doo.

People wear basketball shoes off the court as a fashion statement. People wear baseball caps outside the diamond as a fashion statement. People wear dog tags even though they aren't in the armed forces as a fashion statement. Are basketball shoes no different than clown shoes because of this? Are baseball caps no different than hot dog hats because of this? Are dog tags no different than gold chains because of this?

If you saw someone playing basketball in basketball shoes, would you give them **** about it? How about someone playing baseball in a baseball hat? No? How about someone going through basic training with a set of dog tags?

And yet you'd give someone **** for cycling in a cycling hat. Amazing.

which is worse:

a. not being able to wrap your mind around the intricate complexities of niche fashion

b. poorly attempting humor by starting a thread about said intricate complexities, then spending two pages looking like a moron while defending the idea

c. realizing it's pointless and attempting desperately to paint the entire thing like a joke

d. coming to the previous conclusions only to realize that clicking the [reply] link makes you (and by you i mean me) part of the fail

Excerpt from the C.O.N.I Manual
"...In days of blazing sun, the head should be further protected either with a cabbage leaf placed under the cap or by moving back the visor or the latter to create a large area of shadow on the most exposed and delicate part of the head, namely, the cerebellum."

I NEVER see people with the cabbage under their cap OR my more reasonable idea of a head of lettuce under the helmet without a cap.

The act of riding a bicycle is irrelevant to this argument.

this thread sucks

All I know is I want a Colnago cap like Wesley Snipes wore in White Men Can't Jump.

Trainwreck thread, but at least I know I'm a little safter riding down the street with my helmet on:

I never tried a cycling cap.
I didn't even know that they fit under helmets (which I always wear).
I've always suffered from sweat running down into my eyes, and even sweatbands often fail.

Thanks to this thread, I'll buy a cycling hat.
Do they make plain gray or white ones without a bunch of pretentious advertising?

Has anyone noticed that it's getting hip to wear a helmet now? Seriously. I guess that's pretty good.

Yeah, that is good..

Soaks up sweat, keeps the sun/heat off your head, light weight, keeps the hair out of your face if you have mid/long hair.

I don't even really like the way cycling hats look, but recently got one to wear under my helmet / deflect the rain a little when I'm doing long rides on the geared steed. Take that, fashion-mongering OP.

Yeah... It's you. You're an idiot.

Yes, they make plain ones. https://www.walzcaps.com/caps.html
https://wearcognition.com/index.php/caps/
https://www.octopuscaps.com/octopus/OctopusCaps.html
https://sagebrown.com/cycling-caps/


Black Campagnolo cap https://www.kucharikclothing.com/camp...cap-p-146.html

Black Cinelli cap https://www.rei.com/product/736373?cm...:referralID=NA


Make your own caps: LINK1 LINK2

https://urbanvelo.org/handmade-cycling-caps/

https://www.bicyclinghub.com/cyclingcaps.html

this reminds me of when my mom used to tell me that it was cool to eat my veggies.

From what I've gathered a lot of the "fixed gear" style has been filtered down from various entities. I would say a mixture of messengers and pro racers have influenced the scene. I think it's cool that this sport has become so popular and that the younger generation is coming up with ways to make it a true culture and not just another activity. That being said there is really is no rule on how to dress or what to ride. The rules have been tossed especially in the lower income areas where people just wear what they have and can't afford to keep up with the ever changing styles.

I wear a regular baseball cap sometimes. I do have to turn it backward when I start riding fast though. But by then I try to have my helmet on and the ball cap isn't on.

This thread got off to a shaky start, but I really like what Jake has done with the place. Baiting righteous debaters is a cakewalk, but stringing them along in a patently inane point-counterpoint is gold. My cycling hat's off to you.

My favorite hat says ARSE SPORT on it, which ought to answer your question pretty thoroughly.

The pope says that it is gods will that cyclists wear funny hats

I would hardly count a single instance of point-by-point refutation on my part "stringing along" but whatever helps you sleep at night...

What's up with the spandex outfits anyways? You bikers dress like a bunch of clowns.