Originally Posted by
Square & Compas
I am trying to make it so I can ride in the cold weather. I have a Serius hood/bala that covers the head, nose and face, it has vent holes around the mouth area. I have a pair of Oakley clear single lens goggles. I wear prescription eye glasses. When I put the hood, and goggles on my eye glasses fog over inside the goggles. Nothing I have done prevents it from happening. I am doing this before I try riding bike like this. I have used defogging solution that divers use on scuba masks and the anti-fog wipes people use to clean their glasses. Neither thing works. Contacts are NOT an option for me, I can not wear them. What can I do to prevent my eye glasses from fogging over in the goggles. Also they fog over even with out the goggles on and when I have the hood/bala on. The goggles are not the issue. It is my breath being focused up around my eye glasses that is fogging them over and not clearing fast enough so I can see.
The dive mask anti-fog stuff requires you to coat your lenses in it, rub with your fingers and then rinse with water. The anti-fog wipes do not require rinsing, but still did not work.
What do you recommend? Should I try an anti-fog spray used for eye glasses, one that I spray on and wipe, but do not rinse off? I know there is some way to fix this, jsut don't know what yet? Anyone else in the same situation? What did you do to fix it?
In my opinion, fogging goggles and eyeglasses has been my most hazardous challenge on my winter commute of 14 miles, often into the teens and twenties, and as low as -3. I've posted to probably about a half dozen such discussion threads, touting my own cheap, easily fashioned goggles, that work better for me than any other solution I have tried. For example, this post summarizes some approaches:
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
Originally Posted by
jpdesjar
balaclava...i have to keep my nose uncovered so i don't fog up the glasses
Hi jpdesjar,
FYI, there have been several discussion threads about fogging glasses in the past few months. In particular macteacher and I have traded suggestions for modified goggles. See for example, "Glasses fogging up":
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=474041
My post #6 references our respective solutions. Most otherwise recommend goggles with double lenses, one with a built in fan, but mostly various potions to rub onto the lenses.
If you are so inclined you can follow the link to macteacher's and my goggle modifications, or directly to mine:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=450447
post #47
Since I originally posted it, I recently tried also riding with a wrap-around face mask in addition to a balaclava at 20 degrees, to further cover up exposed face. In a few miles, that was pulled down below my cheeks because it was too warm. BTW, my original post was written August 6th, to show how vexing this problem is; it is even anticipated in the dog days of summer!