Bald is Beautiful

Feature Requests
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Not to put too fine a point on in, I’m mostly bald.  (I hope that’s not like mostly dead in “The Princess Bride,” but I digress.  

The shaven  hair style just looks like a stubbly shaven head and the flowing locks of the other hair options seem like, well, a lie.  

My current choice is a white mohawk as a sort of reverse bald spot.  Then I topped that with a helmet. Just. Not. Right.

I opened a ticket and suggested that ZHQ assign it to a new hire.  Their newest hire pointed me here.;-}  So, can I drum up some backing among the folliculary challenged for a fringe hairstyle?

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You had me at Princess Bride. We’ll pass this along.

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It would be great it the avatar customization included a “male pattern baldness” look to go along with the many other available hairstyles. I realize the top of my head doesn’t show since I’m wearing a helmet for safety, but it would make the avatar more like me if I weren’t wearing one.

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I’m not convinced of the merits of “for safety” in the context of Zwift. :stuck_out_tongue:

As for the hairstyle, surely it’s entirely moot if you can’t see it. I know you say if you weren’t wearing a helmet, but you are.

I’d like a pink mohican. :smiley:

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Sorry that option is 2,000,000 drops in the store.

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I know you can’t see it, but it feels like living a lie :winking_face_with_tongue:

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+1, but I think there are more important issues for Zwift to fix now.

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8

I use a Tacx Vortex. I’m the definition of living a lie! :wink:

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9

I feel like a cheat when my avatar has a full a head of hair. Please make customisable bald patch! There are lots of us on Zwift :slight_smile:

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10

MAKE ME BALD!!! I can’t stand having a shaved head on my avatar.

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11

I know, right?! Surely it could not be that complicated and I would guess far more men are bald than shave their heads. Not the biggest issue in the world but it would be more representative of reality.

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I’ve read any number of comments/requests for a “bald head”. I have alopecia - it would be great to reflect (:rofl:) this with an appropriate avatar option. Cheers

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13

If you add big ears then it could be called the Pantani avatar.

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I’ve seen a couple of posts going back a few years from fellow baldies asking about a bald avatar option, but no plans mentioned. I feel a bit of a fraud donning my wig every time I ride. Are we going to be allowed to ‘shine’ out amongst you hairy zwifters sometime soon? Surely it can’t only be bald legs out there?

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Have you looked at the available ‘hair’ options? I thought there was one for bald, or at least close to it.

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It’s more like a 6 o’clock shadow with a few days of growth added:

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Yeah. That is definitely a sad approximation of ‘bald’.

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18

I support this.

I helped a sixty-something-year-old man get onto Zwift recently and when he saw all the youthful-looking avatars with full heads of hair he actually said “none of these represent me”, which was a little sad. He still hasn’t completed his intro ride.

The current option of “I shaved off all my hair” isn’t the same as “I’ve lost some of my hair.”

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Yes that Avatar is me and probably a lot of shiny headed males! Looks like my Action Man figure from childhood, just needs a cheek scar! It’s far from putting me off Zwift but it sounds like some people are very conscious of this omission and it’s a shame that their alienation puts them off participating.

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+1 to all that. My short-cropped avatar is a spitting image of what I looked like, about 20 years ago. Now, not so much. I don’t care hugely, after all I rarely see the top of my head. But others may be confused or think I’m trying to kid myself :slight_smile:

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