About
Getting to work the very next day after the film festival I created the pattern and tested and fitted and reworked the pattern and construction to come up with the great fitting cycling caps we sell today. As the business continues to grow we continue to add products made for cycling be it racing, urban or just a stylish pop down to the shops.
Products made for the website are created using vintage, recycled and reused fabrics. We scour places for vintage finds, rescue fabrics destined to be land fill and use the leftovers of garment production to create our wonderful styles. All fabrics are then selected, matched with trims, coloured highlights and turned into the cycling goodness that is available to the customers. With many of the fabrics we use in limited supply many of our pieces are exclusives with no one else ever able to own the same piece as the one you purchase.
All products are made individually sewn and are sweatshop free, ethical and sustainably produced. With a strong emphasis on reuse all scraps from cutting and sewing are saved and where possible turned into products, patchwork blankets, cushions and products and if too small for that used as stuffing for cushions and toys.
What size are your caps?
All the caps are handmade so sizing will vary from cap to cap and fabric to fabric. We try as hard as we can to keep the size uniform but some variances do occur.
Will fit up to a 61cm and at least down to 55cm.
If your head size falls outside of what we already do email us with your measurement and we will custom make one to your size.
How do I clean my cap?
1 - let it dry (as in if it is all sweaty let it dry out) once it is dry it may not need to be cleaned.
2 - gentle handwash only - under no circumstances should you put your cap in the washing machine.
3 - Do not use hot water, especially if your cap is made from wool.
4 - Do not wash leather - remember the episode of Seinfield where Jerry wonders why leather can't be washed when cows get wet? well learn from his mistakes and do not wash the leather.
5 - Do not use a Dryer
6 - after gentle handwash let it dry in the shade.
7 - if that is all too much for you, just buy a new cap.
Why Rocket Fuel?
Many a better writer than I have mused on the needs, why's, wherefores and what's in a name? Rocket Fuel is many things and many people attribute their ideas to what this Rocket Fuel stands for.
What it really is (and keep this quiet as it may ruin our reputation for style) is that we're really big Star Wars and space nerds and named the label after the thing that fuels the rockets to the stars. So it's Rocket Fuel as in the power, propulsion etc.
Not terribly exciting explanation I know but it's the truth.
