Winter bike clothing for less

Step 3 Necking

The neck area requires specific attention, because it's the hardest join to overlap the clothes at. However, a simple scarf or tube-scarf from the market will sort out this area so it's not a great expenditure. Beware of bike shops- they will try to sell you space-age NASA-developed thermal wear with triple-layer hollow fibre insulation, when you can get a simple fleece tube scarf for much less that does the job almost as well.

There are plenty of Instructables on how to make or knit your own scarf, so I won't repeat all of their words. An even simpler solution exists: if you wear a hoodie underneath another layer, you can wear the hood down (they aren't great for keeping your head warm, a hat is better and doesn't funnel cold air down the back of your neck) and bunch it around your neck to act as a scarf. A large paperclip or bulldog clip to keep it together at the front will increase the effectiveness at the cost of looking considerably more weird.

Scarf:
Cost: ****
Weather resistance: ****
Looking stupid: ****

Bunched up hood:
Cost: *****
Weather resistance: ***
Looking stupid: ***