Prendas Ciclismo Cotton Cap

The Prendas Ciclismo Cotton Cap does everything you'd like your cycling cap to do. After a tough tour of duty; rain, sun, sweat, more rain, mud, wind and rain it's still the first one off the hook, peeking into Favourite Cap territory.

Prendas Ciclismo have been purveyors of cycle clothing for over 15 years, and their website is a place to happily waste a whole afternoon pondering saddle schmutter. In the millinery section of their peloton haberdashery is a whole range of cotton caps displaying current and retro trade team designs and their own less partisan designs, some of which we have here.

For something so simple it can be remarkably simple to get a cotton cap wrong. Some shrink alarmingly with each wash so they give you a headache, and leave the tell-tale Red Ring Of Pain on your forehead when you peel them off, sometimes the peaks are too big or crease, sometimes the stitching gives way, sometimes they just don't feel happy on the head, sometimes we think about these things too much.

But for the connoisseur of the casquette it's easy to have a favourite cap that's somehow 'just right' with a level of importance way beyond its proletarian status, the Lucky Cap. Or just the one that matches top, matches shorts, matches socks, matches bike, and gets pulled on or shoved under a helmet over all the others for each and every ride.

The Prendas Ciclismo Cotton Caps get it right. Fit is just so, being neither too tight nor too baggy, and they don't shrink over time to become uncomfortable. The peak hasn't gone soggy with age and the cap has done its job of keeping sweat and sun out of eyes, or more usefully, the rain.

The only downside is that the printing on the sides doesn't take long to wear thin, but that just makes the caps look like they're done some Epic™ riding and been worn out by sun, rain, wind and sweat.

Verdict

A good price, and just gets it right.