dizzyj

anyone use a cool shirt with a hood? I thought I was one was available somewhere.

I'm going to be doing an endurance race at cota in august. want to stay as cool as possible. The car has a cool suit system, but thats it

linzman

Cool-shirt makes one. Works well, but can be an awkward fit, esp if helmet is already snug. There's a couple of new products coming out, cool-shirt in conjunction with Traqgear. Look promising

Gary R.

I have a CS hoodie, love it and hope it lasts until Traqgear comes out with a head cooling system. Nothing better when sitting in race staging on a 90F day than those hoses on your neck!

por944s2

^^ A cool head and neck is the best. The cool short hoodie works well, love mine and I'm a sweating machine.

smsarchitects

"Works well, but can be an awkward fit, esp if helmet is already snug."

+1.

I'll need to buy a slightly larger helmet but its worth it for the cool head factor.

ApexPerformance

Cool Shirt hoodies are 50/50 - some like them, some don't. Cool Shirt is in final stages of coming up with a thin insert that would go inside the helmet and connect to your existing cool water shirt hookups. Estimated pricing is $50-60 and we are hoping to see them become available within the next 2-4 weeks.

Here's the link but we don't have pricing yet. Saw a prototype at the PRI show in December and it was super thin but cool to the touch. No thick tubing in the head area like the hoodies.

http://www.apexperformance.net/Cool-...OON_p_785.html

Traqgear is also working on a neat cooling balaclava that will work similar. They had some prototypes at the recent PCA Club Race at VIR and fine tuning that product.

Lastly, if ROUX ever gets moving on their helmets, they will offer a model that has tubing manufactured inside the helmet that will hook up to your cooling system. Hoping to see those by end of summer????

Stay tuned!

Gary R.

I'm holding out for the Traqgear product, will buy one of their SFI cool shirts at the same time as I love the current SFI shirt I got from them!

dizzyj

Any chance I can claim one of the cool a clava's if the come in time for the race? I'd rather not pay $230 for a hoodie shirt if there is a better solution that might make it in time. if they dont come in, then ill grab a hoodie

ApexPerformance

Email me at Linda@apexperformance.net and I'll let you know when they come in. Cool shirt said at least 2 weeks so my opinion is 3-4 to be safe.

mglobe

I'm part of the 50% that dislikes the CS hoodie. It makes my helmet fit WAY too tight. Look forward to seeing how this new solution works.