The cycling cap was part of any kit: nearly black shorts, team jersey and cap. It would be matching, it would be cotton. In the day before the required helmet, the cycling cap was it. Unrestrained by helmet or hairnet, the cap was the crown upon the head. It would sit high on the head, not pulled down like a baseball cap. It sat no higher upon the head than upon Giuseppi Beppe Saronni’s fine Italian head.
Beppe wore the cap with an unrivaled sense of italian style. The cap perched up there, as if it just landed, light as a feather. How it stayed there in the breeze, we don’t know. Perhaps the Saronni skull had just the perfect shape to hold a cap. We will leave that for the Phrenological scientists and the pathologist.
Rule #22 states the wearing of a cap may be for a brief interval before and after a ride, otherwise it has to be hidden under your helmet. That is a sad state of affairs. Maybe we need a national day of helmet-free cap riding. What is the worst that could happen? Do we have to ride the old timey Strade Bianche if we long to spend a long time in the saddle wearing a V-cap? If we can only wear it for a brief time or while using toe clips, is it an anachronism? Is it time to take it back: wear it in the bathtub, in the car, gasp, while walking in public? This idea has been discussed before here; the cap is ours, we should own it. When and where would Eddy wear it?
Behold the Beppe.
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LIST TO PRE ORDER A V CAP:
1) Rob x 2
2) Wiscot x 2
3) Teocalli
4) DCR x 2
5) VeloSix X2
6) Steve-o x 2
7) RedRanger, 1 of each color if there is that option.
1) Rob x 2
2) Wiscot x 2
3) Teocalli
4) DCR x 2
5) VeloSix X2
6) Steve-o x 2
7) RedRanger, 1 of each color if there is that option.
8) Bill Chris x 2
@ChrisO
I thought it had already been announced that a V cap was on the way. Obviously not in a "We'll have them in stock next week" sort of way but Frank has said they had overcome the previous issues and were going to produce them.
Agreed, but as @Rob put up some encouragement I thought it was worth supporting.
LIST TO PRE ORDER A V CAP:
2) Wiscot x 2
3) Teocalli
4) DCR x 2
5) VeloSix X2
6) Steve-o x 2
7) RedRanger, 1 of each color if there is that option.
8) Bill Chris x 2
9) JohnB x 3 (this way I might get at least one! Missing socks? I'm not bitter.......)
LIST TO PRE ORDER A V CAP:
2) Wiscot x 2
3) Teocalli
4) DCR x 2
5) VeloSix X2
6) Steve-o x 2
7) RedRanger, 1 of each color if there is that option.
8) Bill Chris x 2
9) JohnB x 3 (this way I might get at least one! Missing socks? I'm not bitter.......)
10) DeKerr x 1
And I know there is a company here in Vancouver, BC that is making their own caps (Red Dots Cycling) who might be able to facilitate production.
@mouse
Think you were being quite generous to the Attaquer guys, these two are pretty interesting...
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@Mikael Liddy The only flaw was the uneveness of the black socks in the last pic.
LIST TO PRE ORDER A V CAP:
1) Rob x 2
2) Wiscot x 2
3) Teocalli
4) DCR x 2
5) VeloSix X2
6) Steve-o x 2
7) RedRanger, 1 of each color if there is that option.
8) Bill Chris x 2
9) JohnB x 3 (this way I might get at least one! Missing socks? I'm not bitter.......)
10) DeKerr x 1
11) Barracuda - South Oz is a cap not hat kinda place !
1) Rob x 2
2) Wiscot x 2
3) Teocalli
4) DCR x 2
5) VeloSix X2
6) Steve-o x 2
7) RedRanger, 1 of each color if there is that option.
8) Bill Chris x 2
9) JohnB x 3 (this way I might get at least one! Missing socks? I'm not bitter.......)
10) DeKerr x 1
11) Barracuda - South Oz is a cap not hat kinda place !
12) Weldertron x 2
@Bill Chris
!&@^!(! For Merckx sake. Get that shit out of here! KRX10, Karsten, the graphic design genius behind all Velominati will come to your house and snip off your windows using fingers with a pair of bolt cutters. He won't do a tidy job.
Yes, things are in motion. Announcements will be made at the appropriate time and orders will go through the normal gear page. Will they make ones that will fit my big head? I doubt it.