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  1. #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by sjane View Post
    I use Goody StayPut Elastics. My hair's fine and super straight, and these stay in really well.
    I second these. There was a 2-pack of them in the rider packets for the Arizona Bike MS a couple years ago. I loved them because my hair is very fine and slippery and would always end up a mess during exercise. Those things would just stay put without me having to keep cinching up my ponytail.

    I don't use them anymore, only because I hacked off about 10 inches of my hair for donation this past spring and have been keeping it trimmed to above-chin-length since then.
    '09 Jamis Satellite Femme | stock Jamis Road Sport -- road
    '08 Trek 7.2FX | Terry Cite -- commuter
    '77 Raleigh Grand Prix mixte | stock Brooks (vinyl) -- just for fun!

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
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    yeah, I've migrated to the Stay-Puts, too. I wore the ouchless for a number of years, but they do stretch out/break, and I have really thick, heavy hair so they just didn't stay in place for long. Stay-Puts will stretch out, too, but not as badly as the ouchless.

    One thing I don't like about Stay-Puts is that they DO snag my hair. Other than that, 99.9% of the time I'm either wearing one on my head of around my wrist.

  3. #3
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    I like the Ouchless by Goody, my hair is fine but I have a ton of it. The Stay Put ones end up getting uncomfortable for me. The Ouchless are not that durable but I find I lose most of them before breaking them.

    When my hair was really long (was mid-back until last winter) I favored the neoprene Hair Glove. I have a long one and it is simple, fuss free. I did not like the leather one my mother first gave me, the leather was too stiff.
    Amanda

    2011 Specialized Epic Comp 29er | Specialized Phenom | "Marie Laveau"
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  4. #4
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    Aug 2010
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    I use the Scunci ones that I find at CVS. The fat ones since my hair is pretty thick. A problem I used to have on my bike was that I had to put my ponytail or bun below the base of the helmet, and it would always loosen while I rode and I'd have loose hairs going all over the place. Super annoying. I recently discovered I could pull the plastic inside thing of my helmet down (not sure what that's called) and readjust the straps to create a nice little hole above the plastic thing and below the acutal helmet that I can stick my ponytail through. It never falls out anymore!
    "By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

  5. #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by m.eliza View Post
    I recently discovered I could pull the plastic inside thing of my helmet down (not sure what that's called) and readjust the straps to create a nice little hole above the plastic thing and below the acutal helmet that I can stick my ponytail through. It never falls out anymore!
    we already knew thatbut welcome to the club
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