How do you stop sweat pouring into your eyes?

How do you stop sweat pouring into your eyes?

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Steve vRS

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4,836 posts

240 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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I'll try the Vaseline tonight on the Chain Gang ride I've signed up for!

Although if a tub of lubricant goes in my cycling bag along with my chamois bum crème, my wife will start wondering what's going on. Needles to say that is combined with a lot of Lycra.

Steve

richardxjr

7,561 posts

209 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Gruffy said:
In summary: the cycling cap is one of my favourite bits of kit.
This. It just works.




Fotic

719 posts

128 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Steve vRS said:
I'll try the Vaseline tonight on the Chain Gang ride I've signed up for!

Although if a tub of lubricant goes in my cycling bag along with my chamois bum crème, my wife will start wondering what's going on. Needles to say that is combined with a lot of Lycra.

Steve
Just tell her that salty fluid in the eye really stings.

ro55a

705 posts

153 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Fotic said:
Grow up?
Don't cry?

80sMatchbox

3,891 posts

175 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Gizmoish said:
Rouleur said:
Deodorant. Spray, not roll-on.
Aerosol?

There's no need to be insulting.

/coat
Reminds me of the Not the 9 o'clock News sketch - the Swedish chemist shop:
Ball or aerosol?
Neither, I want it for my armpits.

I usually wear a cap but with this heat, I haven't been lately. I think I will give the vaseline a try. .

jrb43

793 posts

254 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Cap. And sometimes, when I'm riding at least 100 miles from the nearest car, on smooth road, within my capabilities, I *shhhh* take my helmet off and let the wind rush through my hair, remembering how it felt to ride a bike when we were kids. I know, I know, I'll explode in a ball of flame... rolleyes


Gizmoish

18,150 posts

208 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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80sMatchbox said:
Gizmoish said:
Rouleur said:
Deodorant. Spray, not roll-on.
Aerosol?

There's no need to be insulting.

/coat
Reminds me of the Not the 9 o'clock News sketch - the Swedish chemist shop:
Ball or aerosol?
Neither, I want it for my armpits.

I usually wear a cap but with this heat, I haven't been lately. I think I will give the vaseline a try. .
Yes, that was the joke.

godzilla84

148 posts

179 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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I try and ride slow enough that I don't break into a sweat but that's why I've been bought a "fat lad at the back" Jersey haha

oyster

12,577 posts

247 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Headband all the way, couldn't ride without one. Not the thick tennis type ones but a thin one made of good wicking material.

Daveyraveygravey

2,018 posts

183 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Gruffy said:
It's counter-intuitive at first glance but I ride cooler when I wear a cap. It does draw the sweat out and wicks it away.

I ride very hot so keeping cool is a challenge for me. In the winter I ski-tour and have the same challenge, usually climbing in just a base layer, even down to -20°C - just to give you an idea of how hot I ride. Before I started using caps I would get sweat in my eyes, the helmet would stink, my temples and forehead would get all spotty from the helmet.

Since I started riding with a cap (every ride) I've had no sweat issues, the skin has cleared up, the helmet is perma-fresh. Somebody else mentioned a huge benefit that you can just sling the cap into the wash once a week (with your gloves), which isn't something you can do with your helmet. Lastly, the peak gives shade in the sun, shelter in the rain and, when raised up, directs a bit of extra cooling ventilation across your face.

In summary: the cycling cap is one of my favourite bits of kit.
I've noticed more and more people with the cap and helmet combo and it looks odd (to me) but I might have to try it.

straight dad

450 posts

156 months

donfisher

793 posts

165 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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PHmember said:
Sounds odd, but a thin line of Vaseline above the eyebrows makes the sweat run down the side of your face & not in your eyes.
I'd like to know how or why this works but I tried this today and work it does.

I wasn't too keen on going to ask any of the girls in the office for some vaseline (not after the last time) so had a dig round for an alternative. I realise this is going to sound a bit velominati but I've got lip balm at home and in my locker at work for commuting in the winter and this has the same ingredients and worked well. I've got tens of them in a bag somewhere from those inflight washbags - probably a free lifetime supply.

Johnny

9,652 posts

283 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Rapha Cap, backwards.

Works for me.

Gruffy

7,212 posts

258 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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donfisher said:
I'd like to know how or why this works but I tried this today and work it does.
It's a water repellant layer, so water goes around it rather than over it.