Keeping the sweat out of your eyes/off your lenses?

sjacob33

Gday Guys
I know most of you are now heading into the colder months but down here in the southern colonies (aus) it is getting freaking hot. With this heat come my ol nemesis, sweat. I've recently purchased myself a lovely pair of Oakley jawbones but I’m finding that on my longer rides I get about 30-35 mins in and a big ol sweat drop comes off my brow and straight onto my lens. I’m now eventually blind in one eye because it keeps trying to focus on the droplets on the lens. The obvious answer is a sweat band but I’m worried that it won’t fit in my already cramp helmet (my head is 64cm circumference). So my question is, what are other options that I could try to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance
SJ

White Line

Sticking some Vaseline on your eyebrows works I hear. :?

bompington

Emigrate to Scotland

Chiggy

Take the sponge pad out from the front of the helmet. And the Velcro pads ( they scratch ).
The sponge pad soaks up the sweat and eventually, after 30 mins or so, lets out an enormous drip of sweat.
Without the sponge pad, sweat simply runs down the nose and drips off the pointy bit of the nose. Or, drips off the front of the helmet if your hair forms a bridge.

anyuser

I use one of these (skull cap version).
Quite thin so fits under the helmet, but soaks up all the sweat.
http://www.sweatvac.com/

Pretre

White Line wrote:

Sticking some Vaseline on your eyebrows works I hear. :?

It does - a thin layer just above your eyebrows, all the way across your forehead, channels the sweat away very well

keith1200rs

I use a headsweats bandana - I guess similar to the sweatvac one.

Keith

mzm70

http://www.sweatgutr.com/

Mark Alexander

Buffs. www.buffwear.com brilliant thing at this time of year too

Pross

Head band - makes you look like Fignon too

izza

Mark Alexander wrote:

Buffs. www.buffwear.com brilliant thing at this time of year too

+1.

Single thickness (like a bandana) keeps you cool in summer and soaks up all the sweat whilst double thickness (like a skull cap) is perfect for chillier times. I bought several and don't ride without one now.

edwards99

you could alwaystry going faster thus the sweat will be transfers to the back of your head and not on your oakleys. 8) 8)

cakewalk

Halo Sweat band

http://store.haloheadband.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y


A1 product.

Tested on Marmotte 2010 and Cingles du Ventoux 2011.

itboffin

Ditch the helmet and get yourself some 80s magic, tights optional - hair NOT!

Pokerface

I feel your pain. No matter what I try, I can't soak up the sweat enough to stop it getting into my glasses. Which is why I can't wear them unless it's below freezing, and then, only if I'm riding slow enough not to work up a sweat! :oops:

sjacob33

Thanks for all the sugestions guys very helpful

This one however dear lord i'm actually temped to put a mullet wig over a helmet and go out like this just for S&G

itboffin wrote:

Ditch the helmet and get yourself some 80s magic, tights optional - hair NOT!

Philby

Another vote for a Buff.

Velonutter

White Line wrote:

Sticking some Vaseline on your eyebrows works I hear. :?

Tried that last night on the turbo and whilst it may work on the road it deffo doesn't work on the turbo. :?