Once and for all, let's figure this out.

FACT: I wear glasses. When it rains, the glasses get smeary and streaked with water. It's hard to see. It sucks, in fact.

SOLUTIONS:
1. Wear a hat. Only a baseball hat under the helmet works for me. The groovy cyclist cap has a bill that doesn't offer enough coverage.

2. Carry a bandanna to clean lenses. I have to pull over probably two or three times on a rainy commute. The problem with this is that once the bandanna gets soaked, it only smears the lenses. Is there a lens cloth that will still clean the lenses when wet?

3. Use Rain-X. I think I applied Rain-X once but it didn't rain for weeks after. So I'm not sure if I haven't wiped the stuff off in the meantime. In any event, if it was on my lenses last night, it sure didn't work. I'm willing to try again, but from my experience driving (where Rain-X is indispensible), don't you need to be going, like, 40 mph for the beaded water to run off?

Other solutions?

• Cycling glasses. Does the shape and lack of frame maybe help with the rain runoff?

• Contact lenses. I'd hate to endure all the wincing and aggravation I see contact users suffer. But maybe that's the only way to ride in the rain.

We can solve this problem!