Sweat burning eyes

quozl · 12-05-2014 5:31pm #1

I get burning eyes from sweat (salt) dripping into my eyes. It's particularly a problem in the rain where I'll be sweating from a hard-effort and then the rain will wash all the lovely salt off my head and down into my eyes.

I think a lot of it is thanks to being bald - with a head tilted forwards on the bike the rain just rolls down over my face and it's too much for eyebrows alone to stop

Using a buff over my forehead helps a lot but are there any better solutions?

kumate_champ07 · 12-05-2014 5:32pm

what type of helmet do you have?

Harrybelafonte · 12-05-2014 5:36pm

I wear one of these:

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doing rollers. No sweats at all. I don't know if it'd work with helmet on, but they're going readlly cheap in Tiger at the mo so might be worth a try? Or there's a Rabobank one on eBay

quozl · 12-05-2014 5:39pm

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

what type of helmet do you have?

Giro Skyline. A very basic yoke that I got when I bought the bike last year.

RobertFoster · 12-05-2014 5:41pm

A cycling cap or a headband might help. Also, Vaseline above your eyebrows can channel the sweat away.

quozl · 12-05-2014 5:43pm

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

but they're going really cheap in Tiger at the mo

Tiger?

Harrybelafonte · 12-05-2014 5:49pm

https://www.facebook.com/Tigerstores.ie

Upper-end Danish budget products store. Mostly good quality stuff with a relatively quick cycle of stock types and some standards. The sweatbands were in about three months ago and are back again. Two Euro or four, can't remember.

quozl · 12-05-2014 5:55pm

Thanks Harrybelafonte. I'd never heard of them!

I'll definitely give them a try. I'm also seriously considering a 25 euro Castelli skullcap which searching for that headband led me to. Cycling can be pretty ridiculous

krissovo · 12-05-2014 5:56pm

I use a HaloV headband under my helmet, works great! Used to suffer but this worked perfect, has a small rubber insert that channels the sweat away from your eyes.

Hmmzis · 12-05-2014 7:16pm

I use some sort of headband-neckwarmer-scarf-buff sort of thingy I got a couple years back in a Trespass store. It's made from a rather thin stretchy fabric and sewn into a tube shape. Fits on the head like a bandana or on the neck like a scarf. Works great for keeping the sweat out of eyes and on hot days when drenched in water keeps the head nicely cool.

Highway_To_Hell · 12-05-2014 7:25pm

usually wear a cycle cap under my helmet during the summer and a skull cap in winter, both keep the sweat out of my eye. Sometimes use a buff to the same effect.

Sweat burning eyes

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