Casquette coolness...

greasedscotsman
greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
edited February 2011 in The bottom bracket
Obviously an important question...

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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    it aint cool either way, unless you are in your 70's, then it don't matter
  • lucan
    lucan Posts: 339
    I'm too young to know what a casquette is. :)
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Peek at her front looking downwards...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    The evidence for my choice (especially the first one):

    Coppi-1.jpg

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  • drewfromrisca
    drewfromrisca Posts: 1,165
    Coppi = COOL AS F**K!!!
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  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    I wear my peak down at the front as a way of bowing before Coppi. He looked great, I look like Norman Wisdom.
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,471
    It's a source of continual disappointment to me that for some reason, any type of cap with a sticky-out brim/peak (baseball cap, casquette) instantly makes me look like a 12 year old school boy. I'd love to look cool in a casquette, but alas it's never going to happen. :cry:
  • secretsqizz
    secretsqizz Posts: 424
    Homer J wrote:
    it aint cool either way, unless you are in your 70's, then it don't matter

    You cycle , I presume? that aint cool for 98.275% of the population either.
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  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,170
    Front and up. Obviously.
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    I wear my peak down at the front as a way of bowing before Coppi. He looked great, I look like Norman Wisdom.

    norman-wisdom_420.jpg

    Looks like Norman had more of a sideways look for his Rapha tweed cap, maybe that's where your going wrong?
  • Mark Elvin
    Mark Elvin Posts: 997
    Why is everybody obsessed with being "cool"? :D
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  • pst88
    pst88 Posts: 621
    Calling it a casquette instead of a hat doesn't make it cool.
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    pst88 wrote:
    Calling it a casquette instead of a hat doesn't make it cool.

    So Ken Joy isn't being passed a bidon by a rather pointy breasted lady in this photo then?

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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    So Ken Joy isn't being passed a bidon by a rather pointy breasted lady in this photo then?

    http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/266 ... on-Archive

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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    if you think you don't look cool, you're not riding fast enough

    for me, front and down

    only time it's acceptable to have it pointing rearwards is on an old school TT bike (and always rear down, never rear up)
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    edhornby wrote:
    only time it's acceptable to have it pointing rearwards is on an old school TT bike (and always rear down, never rear up)

    If it's pointing up at the rear, doesn't it act like a spoiler?

    :D
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    I wear my peak down at the front as a way of bowing before Coppi. He looked great, I look like Norman Wisdom.

    norman-wisdom_420.jpg

    Looks like Norman had more of a sideways look for his Rapha tweed cap, maybe that's where your going wrong?

    I'm still waiting for the Rapha Deerstalker so I can wear it sideways and then have have both a front and a rear peak...

    You've photoshopped Normans bike out of that photo.
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    pst88 wrote:
    Calling it a casquette instead of a hat doesn't make it cool.

    So Ken Joy isn't being passed a bidon by a rather pointy breasted lady in this photo then?

    http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/266 ... on-Archive
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  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    pst88 wrote:
    Calling it a casquette instead of a hat doesn't make it cool.

    So Ken Joy isn't being passed a bidon by a rather pointy breasted lady in this photo then?

    http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/266 ... on-Archive

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    I wear my peak down at the front as a way of bowing before Coppi. He looked great, I look like Norman Wisdom.

    norman-wisdom_420.jpg

    Looks like Norman had more of a sideways look for his Rapha tweed cap, maybe that's where your going wrong?

    I'm still waiting for the Rapha Deerstalker so I can wear it sideways and then have have both a front and a rear peak...

    You've photoshopped Normans bike out of that photo.

    It's a little known fact that Norman won several stages of the Tour, including the Ventoux stage of the 1947 race! He dedicated the stage to his directeur sportif, Mr. Grimsdale...

    (Just noticed that it would have been Norman's birthday today. Happy birthday Norman!)
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    No wonder Norman is riding no handed...

    who would win in a two man sprint between Norman Wisdom and George Formby?
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    I wear my peak down at the front as a way of bowing before Coppi. He looked great, I look like Norman Wisdom.

    norman-wisdom_420.jpg

    Looks like Norman had more of a sideways look for his Rapha tweed cap, maybe that's where your going wrong?

    I'm still waiting for the Rapha Deerstalker so I can wear it sideways and then have have both a front and a rear peak...

    You've photoshopped Normans bike out of that photo.

    It's a little known fact that Norman won several stages of the Tour, including the Ventoux stage of the 1947 race! He dedicated the stage to his directeur sportif, Mr. Grimsdale...

    (Just noticed that it would have been Norman's birthday today. Happy birthday Norman!)

    Isn't that pic from the 1949 Vuelta where he hit a lynx mid sprint? Excellent pic for the era.
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  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    prawny wrote:
    Isn't that pic from the 1949 Vuelta where he hit a lynx mid sprint? Excellent pic for the era.
    I think it's from '48 - the year he didn't use a bike to give the rest of the field a chance. Still won by over 3 hours though.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Nuggs wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Isn't that pic from the 1949 Vuelta where he hit a lynx mid sprint? Excellent pic for the era.
    I think it's from '48 - the year he didn't use a bike to give the rest of the field a chance. Still won by over 3 hours though.

    Norman is also sporting a Rapha Gentlemans Tweed suit RRP @ £1799.00, which also helped him easily win the Giro in '48 as well.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    dmclite wrote:
    Norman is also sporting a Rapha Gentlemans Tweed suit RRP @ £1799.00, which also helped him easily win the Giro in '48 as well.

    Didn't Norman help develop the tweed suit with Rapha? Literally minutes of work in the wind tunnel in Barnsley...
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    Norman is also sporting a Rapha Gentlemans Tweed suit RRP @ £1799.00, which also helped him easily win the Giro in '48 as well.

    Didn't Norman help develop the tweed suit with Rapha? Literally minutes of work in the wind tunnel in Barnsley...
    IIRC Norman invented aerodynamics.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Normans innovations also included the use of black pudding and pale ale at feed stops and capering and falling about at perss conferences with his directuer soprtif, Mr Grimsdale.

    Unfortunately his race winning "Tripe Butty" was added to the list of banned substances and his spiral from cycling slowly began...............
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    In fact Mario Cippollini took all his styling cues from Norman.

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