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Sweat burning eyes

  • 12-05-2014 5:31pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭


    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?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    what type of helmet do you have?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    what type of helmet do you have?

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,224 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


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

    Tiger?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    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 ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭krissovo


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭Hmmzis


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Highway_To_Hell


    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.


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