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Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy
Go to an auto parts store and buy a chamois. Cut a 6" square from it. Squirt some dish washing liquid on that, put it under running water and squeeze the soap through it for a while. Let dry. Put in jersey pocket or top tube bag. This will take anything off your glasses without scratching or leaving a film residue, which latter is the problem with every other method on the road. I've been doing this for ~15 years with excellent results.
I've been keeping a well cleaned (like you suggest, but using DI water for the final rinse, since our well water and old iron pipes have enough dissolved salts to crystallize out at only about 50% evaporation) microfiber glasses cloth in my saddle bag. Works wonders for most ****; bugs got challenging. 'course that may be that I tend to keep riding for however many miles until I reach a planned stop. Letting the arthropod proteins coagulate and dry in the asphalt heated air is probably not ideal from a cleaning POV.
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