Bandana for Cycling

When your helmet pads soak through, perspiration has nowhere to go but down your face and neck. The sweat eventually moves to your sunglasses and eyes, which becomes irritating and causes you to pull your attention away from your riding.

Avoid salty streaks and burning eyes by wearing a lightweight bandana under your helmet. It’s constructed with the same smooth multi-fabric that’s used in a majority of jerseys, making it the perfect addition to your everyday riding gear.

Cycling bandana under helmet

Even the most experienced racers can be caught unawares by the weather. But in an emergency, professionals get in the car and go home, not amateurs.

That’s not an option for the weekend warrior, you have to ride home.

To help keep hypothermia and heatstroke at bay, we recruited professional cyclists, to share their dressing secrets.

Bandana mountain bike

Every mountain biker remembers their first time: You’re on a bicycle, which makes sense. But you’re riding over rocks, across streams, and overall types of different terrain, which (at least at first) feels like it makes no sense at all.

It’s fun and exciting, yet nerve-wracking and terrifying all at the same time. It gets easier—and more fun!—with time. But there are a few tips and tricks every one of us wishes someone had shared when we were just starting out. Here are nine beginner mountain biking tips you should know when you’re first getting ready to shred.

How to wear a cycling bandana?

As cycling continues to boom I feel that it’s part of my duty to educate and inform on the finer details of the sport.

Bandanas are totally different things, but since they’re a piece of headwear that many people still wear I think they deserve some attention.

Under helmet bandanas for uv protection cycling

Under helmet bandanas for UV protection cycling:

A bandana is my favorite bike tool. You might think I’m just good at accessorizing for my ride, but it’s actually super useful, along with being lightweight and easy to just throw in the bag

Here are the ways I have used a bandana over the past decade on bike commuting: Bandana for Cycling

• Tied around my wrist: Tied around my wrist to easily wipe the sweat from my eyes.
• Tied around my neck: with the triangle pointing down my back, to cover the back of my neck from the bright sun and potential sunburn.
• Tied around my shin: just below my knee, because riding for 8 hours a day in one direction across, meaning that one side of the body was exposed to the sun much more than the other, and the darnedest places get burned! Who thinks about their shins?
• For wiping my hands: after touching my chain put it back in place when it falls off. Better yet, as a barrier between my hand and my chain a smooth move!
• Tied around my neck: for when I’m riding past a street cleaner or garbage truck so I can quickly pull it up over my nose for dust and odor protection.
• For drying my bike seat: after it rains and I need to get back in the saddle, sans wet butt.
• Tied around my neck: to keep my neck warm from the cool fall breeze at night.
• Tie it around your forehead to act as a sweatband, between head and helmet.

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