Sweat burning eyes

quozl

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

what type of helmet do you have?

Harrybelafonte

I wear one of these:



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

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

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

quozl

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

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

Tiger?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.