Unior Bike Tools Flat Brim Cap

Overhead shop lighting and a polished rotor are a bad combination. Fluorescent tubes or LED panels overhead wash out the working area of a rotor, a chainstay, or any other reflective surface you're trying to sight along. The brim of a cap is the cheapest possible shop-lighting solution; it cuts the glare from the overhead source so your eye can resolve the part you're working on.

A flat brim sits closer to the eye line than a curved one. That's the practical case for it in a shop: more brim in front of more of your visual field, more shading where the overhead lights are coming from. The aesthetic case is whatever you want it to be; the working case is the lighting.

We made our flat brim with a raised UNIOR logo on the front (not a flat printed graphic), Made For Work icon on the back of the band, and a snapback closure. The snapback adjusts in steps, which is the way snapbacks are; it's the closure that holds a position best under a helmet or under the strap of a workshop face shield. One size fits most.

Specs

• Brim: flat, high-peak profile
• Front graphic: raised UNIOR logo
• Back graphic: Made For Work icon next to the snapback closure
• Closure: snapback, adjustable
• Sizing: one size fits most

Built by a tool company

Unior has been forging hand tools in Zreče, Slovenia, since 1919, and sponsors professional road and mountain-bike race teams. The Made For Work line sits alongside the tool catalog as its apparel-and-gear counterpart. A flat-brim cap is a small detail, but the raised front logo and the snapback step adjustment are the kind of detail that separates a working-shop cap from a souvenir cap.

Pro tip from our mechanics

If your shop runs overhead LED panels and your work involves a lot of sighting along reflective surfaces (rotors, polished cassettes, chainstays for paint inspection), the flat brim is a real ergonomic choice; not just an aesthetic one. For a softer in-between fit that packs under a helmet, the Single Panel Strap Back Hat is the call; for winter, the knit cap is the layer. The rest of the Made For Work line is in: What we wear in the workshop →