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Helmet Question

Uncle-A

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What do you use under your helmet?

I like a headband to cover my ears on the very cold days.
 

scott43

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I don't use anything. I find my head gets hot for the most part. I usually have the vents open unless it's harsh cold out.
 

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Thin balaclava on super cold days, thin wool beanie (like for running, or wearing under bike helmets) on not as cold days. Nothing on warmer days.
 

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Nothing underneath. Pull up the hood if very cold or snowing. But a more important additional question would be: does my helmet make my head look fat?
 

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Two reasons why I always wear a thin beanie: 1) I"m always cold & 2: I don't like the way ski helmets feel on my head. On frigid days, I have a couple of my down jacket hoods that can fit under my helmet or a do a combination of balaclava or buff with my beanie.
 

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Nothing underneath my Briko Vulcano 6.8, but it's not ventilated - it's a FIS-compliant lid for racing. It's plenty warm - too warm in the spring, to be honest.

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Under my Giro Nine, I occasionally wear a SmartWool skullcap underneath, but it is seldom necessary. This past week at Killington, the windchill was in the low single digits and I didn't need anything under my Giro to keep my head warm. I closed the vents, that's all.

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I will wear a buff to close the neck gap, but that is all.
 
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depends.... my Salomon Prophet is really warm so I dont need anything, if it gets winddy and near zero, then I pull up the hood. My former helmets were not as warm and I wore a super thin balaclava. I still cover my face on really cold days though.
 

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That's interesting because mine is a Salomon also. Actually I have to have a spacer in mine. It's sort of like a yarmulke. But it stays in the helmet usually. If it's really really cold like -20C then I have a thin skullcap that goes in.
 

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But a more important additional question would be: does my helmet make my head look fat?

I still have my Boeri Moto in XXL. Fits up to 64cm heads. And then puts 4cm of internal padding around that.

I wear that thing I look like I need a wiggle-tail, in the manner of a certain Woody Allen scene. Looking from more than 10m/30 feet you can barely tell I have shoulders.

And yes, it is actually a ski helmet.
 
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