Originally Posted by
sirtirithon
Thanks for the great suggestions so far! This gives me some options to look into. I think the reason I have issues with fogging is because my face mask forces my breathing up into the eyewear.
Well, yeah. FWIW see my post
#4 above, to consider
well-ventilated safety goggles and the face mask as a system to keep your upper face and eyeballs warm. That moist warm exhaled air can be your
friend.
Originally Posted by
KonAaron Snake
I've done best using cheapo 3m safety glasses with some fog spray.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
…I have also often suggested that any recommendations for winter riding include description of the conditions in which they are employed, i.e. lowest temperature and distance.
From my experience, I have found that fog sprays can be overcome by exhaled vapor particularly at low temps, less than about 20 degrees, and when breathing hard with little oncoming wind, as when riding uphill.
Originally Posted by
tarwheel
…You can buy various products that you can apply to the lenses and supposedly reduce or eliminate fogging, but they are not foolproof and have to be reapplied. What works for me -- to a degree -- is to simply move my eye glasses further away from my eyes onto the bridge of my nose when I have to stop at red lights or other reasons.
As above, all my adjustments are made with the face mask only. Finally,
Originally Posted by
scroca
If you get a face mask with fabric over the top of your nose, it should help direct your moist breath down instead of up. I wear ski goggles when the temperature gets low enough to freeze icicles on my eye lashes or when it is snowing hard such that it would hurt the eyes. And those are times that I'll have the face mask on so I don't know about fog on the goggles without it.
I think one problem with trying to seal off the goggles is that it doesn’t take much mosture to fog, so my preference is to ventilate the googles well, as safety glasses with a wide frontal wind screen and widely opened at the sides.