Nearly hit.......

Eat My Dust

.....a lampost this morning. Cycling on the flyover on the North Circular at the Ace Cafe, sweat trickles down my face, straight into my eye, the searing pain caused me to close one eye, opened the eye after a few seconds and the lampost I <i>was</i> about to pass magically jumped right in front of me, missed it by a whisker!!

SNAPS

Origamist

Vaseline applied to your eyebrows helps keep sweat out of the eyes - also keeps the old brows looking sleek...

Folders

snakehips

Cor , don't it sting!
A couple of evenings ago I had to stop for a non-cycling reason, and all the sweat that would otherwise have gone somewhere else ran down my face in to my eyes.
Where does it normally go I wonder. It can't all get absorbed in the pads of your helmet

Snake

DavidTQ

MY helmets gota nice absorbent front pad, kind of a cotton type thing instead of just foam, does a great job of moppoing up the sweat on the go, doesnt alway feel so great putting it on for the home journey though...

Greenbank

This is also the reason why I don't put any suncream on my forehead when going on a long ride. That stings even more if it gets in your eyes.

If you wear the plastic hat, then wear a cotton cycling cap underneath it. It keeps the sun off your head, soaks up the sweat nicely (and helps keep your head cool) and all of the sweat drips off the front of the peak away from you.

If you don't wear the plastic hat then either wear a cotton cycling cap, or a buff.

Baseball caps can work but the large peak will catch the wind on a descent and probably fly off.

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goo_mason

A Buff scrunched down a bit to give a wide head-band works for me. Before I wore one, I used to be regularly blinded by the sweat where it got bad enough to overwhelm the foam pads in my helmet...

Cheers !

Grant
Three From Leith podcast
www.threefromleith.com

Small Fish

I used to put Gel on my hair (in the days before it all went grey!) and on very rainy or very sweaty days when that got in my eyes it was agony, not to mention dangerous.

domtyler

I almost always wear either a peaked cycling cap or skull cap to prevent the sweat monsters paying me a visit.

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Unknown

Sweat normally exits down either side of my face after collecting in eyebrows. Strangely, it doesn't sting my eyes if it gets into them.

Hmm?

Greenbank

You're obviously not dehydrated enough.

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dangerousjules

eh mr tyler did you just post that you wear a skull cap? teeeee[:D] is it like the one ali g wears?[:0]

dangerous jules.
god bless those pagans!