borisface wrote:This is a disgrace of a forum. Everyone agrees.
Buffs are rubbish. Save your money.
Nah not really I have about half a dozen and even wear them about the house. I reckon they are probably worth a layer of clothing on the bike.
I don't even know what a buff is, could be a color or an american word for an enthusiast?
Whatever they are, wearing one indoors is good, better than using the heating
Any photos? Diolch
They are basically a tube of material. They can be worn in a huge variety of ways...
Just google them
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Wore my thin buff on Sunday, It was cold, I got snowed on. Folding them into 3, so I have a 3 layer tube around my neck works best for me, especially the winter one with the fleece. Fleece on the inside sandwiched between the thin material, as I find fleece quite itchy next to the skin. It has to be quite cold to wear a winter Buff cycling, but I wear it all the time winter mountaineering
rotavator wrote: In the winter I use one under my helmet to keep my ears and the top of me head warm.
Many helmet makers say not to do that because it makes the helmet more likely to move in a crash, negating the impact protection zone or worse. It's about as bad as wearing a helmet with chinstrap dangling or at a jaunty angle like Boris. I suspect it's better not to use a helmet than to wear it badly.
What about wigs? Or plain baldies? I've a feeling the helmet makers want it all ways round.
I always wear one but in colder weather I additionally use a fleece scarf/tube hybrid closed loop with a mesh section (with deliberate weak point*):
This means its forms either a narrow fleece tube or a wide fleece and mesh tube/loop---
when cold the fleece is closed up into a neck warmer by velcro but when too warm I open the velcro then wear the expanded loop like a bandolier to avoid faffing stuffing it into a pocket somewhere.
*so as it snaps rather than strangles me in the event of an adverse event.
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rotavator wrote: In the winter I use one under my helmet to keep my ears and the top of me head warm.
Many helmet makers say not to do that because it makes the helmet more likely to move in a crash, negating the impact protection zone or worse. It's about as bad as wearing a helmet with chinstrap dangling or at a jaunty angle like Boris. I suspect it's better not to use a helmet than to wear it badly.
What about wigs? Or plain baldies? I've a feeling the helmet makers want it all ways round.
As well as telling you not to wear them on top of a cap or hood, Specialized also tell you not to wear their helmets on bundled hairstyles. It's in the middle of page 2 of http://service.specialized.com/collater ... Manual.pdf - I doubt they're the only one, but you should probably check your own user manuals.
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mjr wrote:Many helmet makers say not to do that because it makes the helmet more likely to move in a crash, negating the impact protection zone or worse. It's about as bad as wearing a helmet with chinstrap dangling or at a jaunty angle like Boris. I suspect it's better not to use a helmet than to wear it badly.
What about wigs? Or plain baldies? I've a feeling the helmet makers want it all ways round.
As well as telling you not to wear them on top of a cap or hood, Specialized also tell you not to wear their helmets on bundled hairstyles. It's in the middle of page 2 of http://service.specialized.com/collater ... Manual.pdf - I doubt they're the only one, but you should probably check your own user manuals.
I have very little hair, (eggshell blonde,) and in cold weather wear a buff under my helmet.
I would say that there is less between my scalp and helmet than there would have been when I had a full head of hair, and I am 100% certain that in the event of a crash the helmet wouldn't come off before impact with the ground.
I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my HUAWEI VNS-L31 using hovercraft full of eels.
