Biking with hats

[email68]

The Hatbox showed up today. Here is a photo of it on my bike.

It should work out fine. But it looks like it should be laid on its top the way its built to save the brim.

 

[xz123]

Does anyone know where I could get the Bencraft carrier (or something comparable) in Europe?
I've sent Bencraft an email, asking if they could send me one, but didn't get an answer.

By the way: Hello, I'm new here
I'm from Germany. I own a few hats - two Borsalinos, an Akubra, a Stetson and a few oilskin and leather hats.

 

[Edward]

Personally go a cap when I cycle. More in keeping with the style of the thing. Beret is also a good option.

Probably what I'd do - easily rolled up and shoved in a pocket, and substituted for the helmet once off the bike. I don't currently have a bike here in London, but I plan to get one at some point, for exercise and short local rides. Helmets are not a legal requirement over here (yet), but given everything I've heard from trusted sources, including nurse friends who have worked A&E when cyclists came in, I'd bite the bullet and wear one. Just shame it's so hard to find one that doesn't make you look like a mushroom painted up like a Power Ranger. For a long time my solution has been to eschew cycling rather than wear a helmet I consider necessary bit idiotic looking. I don't give a damn what other people think of the look of me in it..... if, however, I think I look like an idiot, even every other person in the world thinking it's the canine's testicles would not persuade me to don it.

 

[PADDY]

 

[Saint-Just]

even every other person in the world thinking it's the canine's testicles would not persuade me to don it.

Reminds me of an Antique shop in Portobello :lol:

 

[Edward]

Reminds me of an Antique shop in Portobello :lol:

lol I've probably walked past that a hundred times, but it's never registered before.... Priceless.

 

[Edward]

*Great* look, Paddy.... what are the trews? Vintage, or repro? They really set it off.

 

[PADDY]

Original 1940's.

 

[xz123]

Am I the only one who doesn't get any reply when mailing bencraft? And yes, I've checked my spam folder.

And Paddy, that looks great indeed.

 

[billyspew]

I go for the cycle caps myself.

 

[mattface]

I ride my bike to work almost every day, and if it's a fedora day (which it has been a lot lately) I wear a a fedora while biking to work. i really don't see a problem. the only time one ever blew off was when I was wearing a new Panama that hadn't yet shrunk to my head.

 

[scottyrocks]

I go for the cycle caps myself.

I have a yellow campangello bike cap that I bought years ago. Its like the one the cabbie wore in Crocodile Dundee.