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The riders of Giant-Alpecin on how to wear a casquette

The cycling cap, or casquette, the short-brimmed, usually cotton or cotton-blend hat that has been seen in the peloton since the early twentieth-century (and once was the only thing atop riders’ noggins), can be worn several ways.

In the pre-mandatory helmet days referred to above, riders would sometimes wear a casquette in the luft position–high up on the head, so high up, in fact, that it seemed improbable that the cap would stay on. If the luft is executed properly, it sits on the widest part of the head and keeps in place. These days it’s more of an after-ride look.

(Full disclosure, your correspondent is a cycling cap nut. Before a recent, rare trip to Toronto for a wedding, he asked his Canadian Cycling Magazine editor for recommendations of bike shops with a good selection of casquettes , betraying his T.O. priorities. Said correspondent writes this wearing a nifty House Industries casquette on luft.)

In a video from Spanish Basque-country cycling clothing company Etxeondo, three riders from Giant-Alpecin, the WorldTour squad Etxeondo supplies, demonstrate their preferred casquette style, with emphasis on the brim flip.