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On a more serious note, I have three different types of neck tube things, the thin stretchy one is great for summer and keeping off a chill, and so light you forget it's there, the next has a waterproof and windstopper membrane, and the last is a thick fleece one which is the warmest, I have two of each as putting on a damp one isn't the nicest thing to be doing.
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I've got one I wear most of the year ..
http://www.getgeared.co.uk/HELD_9053...ategory=403570 ..... keeps the drafts (sp?) out !!! I've also got a windstopper balaclava for when it gets really cold ......... lovely ........... but its a bit narrow to give full sideways vision ..... I used to use a scarf ......... but you'd always find gaps ........ and it got really wet !!! Last edited by LK-SV; 16-11-09 at 03:05 PM. |
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A mate of mine, who is an ex dispatcher uses (and don't laugh) a piece of old inner tube!
It's quite a big one and it stretches slightly so it's a snug fit around the bottom of his helmet but not so much that it squeezes around his neck. The bottom bit sits over and outside his collar so the water just runs down and outside his jacket. It's thick and heavy enough not to get blown around, but even he admits it's not that fashionable! |
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That's alright the bike fashion police ride sports bikes and they will have put them away at the end of the "session", so won't be seeing any of those until next years now........
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Someone got me one of these 'polo pancho' things for Xmas last year for the bike and it was pretty good actually! Keeps your face/neck/chest really warm in the cold.
Had an Oxford neck tube and it sucked, not long enough to stay in the jacket. Definitely reccomend the weird looking pancho thing http://www.whotzhot.info/Polo_Pancho.html |
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Mark - generally I would agree but I commute all year on a sports bike, I do get some stange looks on dry days from "dry day" riders in full leather with my waterproofs and hi-viz stuff on. Especially as my bike is generally quite shiny.
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Yeah need to make a Soho return or a Selkent at the very least.
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