Sweat in eyes!
Mark
Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
Remember - Don't' sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty
things!
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cotton one like the NBA guys wear. They were about $8 at my LBS. Work
great in even the hottest weather and also fit great under my helmet.
Raptor
Look down a lot and let your sweat pool in your sunglasses. It really
helps the psychadelic effect of heatstroke. (I have the same problem
but it's not annoying enough to try to fix. I'm used to it.)
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Hig Hurtenflurst
difference. It's a neopreen (sp?) headband with a rubberized strip at the
bottom that channels the seat away from your forehead. I bought mine online
at http://www.haloheadband.com/
but I think Performance sells them now as well.
Tom
Mike Iglesias
>I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
>Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
>for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
I use headbands from Kucharik (http://www.kucharik.com). They're much
better than the terry cloth ones you can get at a sporting goods store -
they never seem to get saturated with sweat. The sporting goods variety
can get saturated and then they are useless unless you wring them out.
The Kuchariks cost about $5.
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Robert McDonald
> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
Wear a cotton racing cap instead. It wicks the sweat away from your
brow and drips off the skip (as long as you don't wear it with the
skip flipped to the "up" position).
I wear contacts and this fixed me up a treat.
Robert
Tony Raven
Robert McDonald <rob...@earthsci.gla.ac.uk> typed:
>> I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
>> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any
>> ideas for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
> Wear a cotton racing cap instead. It wicks the sweat away from your
> brow and drips off the skip (as long as you don't wear it with the
> skip flipped to the "up" position).
>
Absolutely agree. I've tried all the other methods in this thread but
nothing beats a peaked racing cap. All of them become saturated sooner or
later so the priniciple of diverting the sweat, which the cap does, is the
only long term effective solution IME You can wear it under your helmet if
you so wish.
Tony
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NS>
silly, but I am thinking of cutting it all off. Only because I am
cheap... Or are you more prone to overheat because of the lack of hair
to act as cooling fins (in my technogeek terminology)?
NS>
Tony Raven
As one who didn't have to shave it off to reach that state I can state its
much worse without. Its not the sweating that's the problem, it's the lack
of anything to absorb and evaporate the sweat before it rolls downs into
your eyes.
David Damerell
>I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
>Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
>for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
That's odd - I find sweat evaporates immediately while riding, and the
only problem is carrying a handkerchief to catch the sweat when stopped -
otherwise it collects all the salt off my forehead and causes me hideous
agony when it lands in my eyes.
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archer
dame...@chiark.greenend.org.uk says...
> Mark <oh...@excite.com> wrote:
> >I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
> >Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> >for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
> That's odd - I find sweat evaporates immediately while riding, and the
> only problem is carrying a handkerchief to catch the sweat when stopped -
> otherwise it collects all the salt off my forehead and causes me hideous
> agony when it lands in my eyes.
You must ride where the air is dry. Any time it's above 65 or so, I have
sweat dripping into my eyes and onto the inside of my glasses unless I
use a headband.
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David Damerell
>Do you sweat less with a completely shaved head? Eyebrows?
I certainly found I was more comfortable with a shaved head - that could
be purely subjective, but it feels just as good. I certainly wouldn't
shave off the eyes' final line of defence against sweat.
David Damerell
>dame...@chiark.greenend.org.uk says...
>>That's odd - I find sweat evaporates immediately while riding, and the
>>only problem is carrying a handkerchief to catch the sweat when stopped -
>>otherwise it collects all the salt off my forehead and causes me hideous
>>agony when it lands in my eyes.
>You must ride where the air is dry.
In Britain? You jest.
Peter Cole
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> I use some very thin headbands made by PI. They aren't the terry cloth
> cotton one like the NBA guys wear. They were about $8 at my LBS. Work
> great in even the hottest weather and also fit great under my helmet.
I have also used those for years. Another thing I've found, for those who wear
helmets, is to replace any absorbent helmet pads with non-absorbent ones. The
absorbent ones collect sweat, concentrate it into brine, which they dump into
your eyes if you touch your helmet or move your head in a way that causes them
to compress even slightly.
Most LBSes have a drawer/box full of helmet pads which they'll let you rummage
through to get the right kind.
Shaun Rimmer
I use a special sweat band that has many, many small tubes built into the
cloth. These tubes are arranged much like some motorcycle exhaust pipes (4
into 2 into 1 etc. but starting with much bigger numbers!) and get larger as
they become less in number (starting off at capillary size). It finishes up
with 2 tubes at the back, that enter another 'arrangement'. This arrangement
works like a basic carburettor, and uses the air flow (there are 2 small
'scoops' that attach to the side of the helmet) caused by the bike moving
forward to 'vacuum' draw the moisture out, to where it drips down onto the
floor behind you. This works exceptionally well, and I never get sweat
blinded.
These are not available in the shops though, as I designed and built this
myself - sorry, but maybe you too could adapt this idea?
Shaun aRe
NS>
I may still go shaved ...not sure ... I just wanted a reprieve from the
sweaty eyes and nasty sunglasses. Like everyone else...
I use a vented helmet so I probably would have to use sunblock on my scalp.
My eyebrows seem to pool the sweat and insert it directly into the eyes when
turning or encountering traffic. If it misses my eyes it definitely gets the
sunglasses. I usually make a bad choice and choose to dry the pool in the
glasses and unfortunately smear sunblock over the lenses. My rant :-)
NS>
Rich Clark
> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
Have you tried Headsweats? The Coolmax version solved my sweat problems.
It's a hadband sewn into a Coolmax bandana, which does an efficient job of
wicking moisture and letting it evaporate. And since it absorbs sweat from
your entire scalp before it can run down your forehead, the band tends not
to get as saturated anyway.
Works well under a helmet too.
RichC
Paul Southworth
I do the 1/4" attachment, and it does make things cooler. It also
makes more room in your helmet for a headband or cap. I would not
take off the eyebrows unless you want to look like Whoopi Goldberg.
--Paul
Per Elmsäter
> I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any
> ideas for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
> Remember - Don't' sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty
> things!
Wax your eyebrows and then shape them in such a way that the sweat will
drizzle off to the side.
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Java Man
> I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
your peril.
I'm a profuse head-sweater once the temperature gets above 65 F. I wear
a helmet (required here), the pads of which wick perspiration away. It
gets soaked up by the pads, and after 30 min or so, the pads start to
drip. I simply press on the helmet to drain the pads. Messy? Yes.
But it keeps the salt out of my eyes.
Rick
Thomas Reynolds
> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
My low-tech solution is to carry a small cotton cloth in my pocket,
pull it out and wipe my eyelids. In a 100 mile training ride I
usually only have to do this 3 or 4 times.
Tom
Raptor
> archer <ns_archer1960@ns_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>dame...@chiark.greenend.org.uk says...
>>
>>>That's odd - I find sweat evaporates immediately while riding, and the
>>>only problem is carrying a handkerchief to catch the sweat when stopped -
>>>otherwise it collects all the salt off my forehead and causes me hideous
>>>agony when it lands in my eyes.
>>
>>You must ride where the air is dry.
>
>
> In Britain? You jest.
I think you don't sweat as much as some of us do. I ride in Utah, which
is very dry, and I have all the usual problems with sweat. But this is
only on climbs, which we have a lot of. As soon as the road flattens or
turns downhill, the only problem is getting the shades clean enough to
see well.
Raptor
I've been doing that a lot lately. The problem is finding the right
angle to flow the sweat away from the eyes.
My sweat recently destroyed the adhesive keeping the forehead pad on, so
now I'm riding without it. We'll see how it affects the sweat flow, and
hopefully I won't have to test how it affects crash performance. It's a
fairly close fit without the pad.
DiabloScott
> I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
> Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
I've seen a lot of those guys who squeeze their helmets to their
foreheads at the end of a hot ride and get like a waterfall effect
coming out of their pads - gross!
I used to wear a cycling cap backwards under my helmet - it worked fine
but the only ones I've found in the last 5 years have been made by Pace
and they're too small for my head - (one size fits all… right, my head
is NOT that big.)
I switched to Headsweats - they work well, they're comfortable and cool,
and they help keep the helmet from slipping around on my head (not
shaven). Haven't noticed a lot of difference between Headsweats and
Santino (?) brands but the CoolMax versions definetely feel cooler than
the cotton versions.
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capacity. Moreover in the unlikely event you need a second one,
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>
> Mark wrote:
> > I sweat a lot when I ride. I wear a bandana (Willie Nelson style not
> > Aunt Jemima) but it gets saturated pretty quick. Anybody have any ideas
> > for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
> I've seen a lot of those guys who squeeze their helmets to their
> foreheads at the end of a hot ride and get like a waterfall effect
> coming out of their pads - gross!
>
> I used to wear a cycling cap backwards under my helmet - it worked fine
> but the only ones I've found in the last 5 years have been made by Pace
> and they're too small for my head - (one size fits all… right, my head
> is NOT that big.)
>
> I switched to Headsweats - they work well, they're comfortable and cool,
> and they help keep the helmet from slipping around on my head (not
> shaven). Haven't noticed a lot of difference between Headsweats and
> Santino (?) brands but the CoolMax versions definetely feel cooler than
> the cotton versions.
>
One other advantage of Headsweats is that, for us chromedomes, they
prevent sunburns through the helmet slots.
Sam
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Try it and report back here on how it has worked out for you.
Dashii
>
>
Chris Zacho The Wheelman
get from your LBS or mail order, like performance or Nashbar better.
Even these will get saturated though, A fact that the lovely summers in
Dixie proved (in spades!). So you might want to take two or three. When
one gets soaked, take it off and don a dry one while you hang the wet
one on the bars, or somewhere else it can dry while you ride.
This is why I like the synthetic or terry synthetic blends, they dry in
the breeze faster.
May you have the wind at your back.
And a really low gear for the hills!
Chris
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NS> "
You don't sweat less, but the increased airflow over the bare skin may
help evaporation.
Speaking of bare skin, if you do adopt a chrome-dome, you might want to
remember to apply sunscreen, or you may end up with a very interesting
sunburn on your noggin!
Chris Zacho The Wheelman
"I switched to Headsweats - they work well, they're comfortable and
cool, and they help keep the helmet from slipping around on my head (not
shaven). Haven't noticed a lot of difference between Headsweats and
Santino (?) brands but the CoolMax versions definetely feel cooler than
the cotton versions. "
How well do those work in hot weather? I would think having more
material on your head would keep heat in and increase sweat. Or is there
some cyclo-magic happening here?
P.S. I live in the South East portion of merica (read: hot and humid).
NS>
>
> One other advantage of Headsweats is that, for us chromedomes, they
> prevent sunburns through the helmet slots.
>
> Sam
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yeah that is my concern as well... I would become a "Visitor" like
figure from that old Psi-drama... Or a leopard head from the tanned
splotches.
NS>
ant
dont stop riding! ;)
im a big sweater myself. it seems that whenever im biking, i keep a
pretty good clip going and it all just blows/evaporates away for me to
stay reasonably comfortable. then i stop to go into a store, or arrive
at work, or get home, and i start dripping like i was having the
workout of my life. nevermind the biking sweat! i need a way to stop
the 'post-flow'.
cheers
Jpfler
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>>Anybody have any ideas for keeping the sweat out of your eyes?
>
Smear petroleum jelly above eye brows and nose bridge, and down the ends of
eyes; sweat will drain around the eyes. Works well for me.
Jim
Raptor
water on them, stir it around with a fingertip, then blow dry with your
breath. Worked great today.
David Damerell
>David Damerell wrote:
>>archer <ns_archer1960@ns_hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>dame...@chiark.greenend.org.uk says...
>>>>That's odd - I find sweat evaporates immediately while riding,
>>In Britain? You jest.
>I think you don't sweat as much as some of us do.
That would also explain why I have not experienced problems with stuck
quill stems. Lucky me.
NS>
I shaved my head. I replaced the foam in the helmet (although the bike
shop said it's better to replace the helmet than replace the pads). It's
a Giro Ventoux RL. Ayway I vaselined my eyebrows (not cut) and all
worked great until I stopped at the end of the ride. Sweat poured off of
my head and helmet all over my face like I had turned a faucet on....
I will have to admit the breeze through the helmet and anywhere on my
head feels pretty darn good. I will have to supplement with a cycling
cap though or bandana or whatever the cool new term is...
Thanks for the posts....
a bald NS>