nice selfie, but watch out there's a car coming around a bend on a snowy day behind you!

I wrote a reply and lost it.

I have worn goggles in 20F or lower but really for only the first 5 miles of my 10-11 mile commute. I am in NC. I have to take them off after that due to them fogging up. yesterday i saw 24.5F on my ride in Monday. I just had my Oakley glasses on. I usually wear my Oakley wrap around prescription lenses. Clear.

The goggles I have foam around the outside edge and the nice thing is that the wind does not make my eyes water like they do with glasses. it is also a bit weird to feel the wind blowing on your body but not your eyes.

I wear eyeware with all my riding. road/ commuting and trail. I have had bugs, dirt, tree branches etc and am thankful for the eye protection. Plus it is nice to be able to see down the road.

I'm wondering if the high tech helmets with the visor built in would work well in winter.

Lol

The picture looks a lot more dangerous than it was. The shoulder on that road is wider than a full lane

Wasn’t there a trick to add a layer of soap or something on your glasses to cheat fogging??

Yea, it doesnt do much/anything

i wear my glasses and use a balaclava when its well below 30F. honestly fogging is a problem for me. i just try to manage as best i can.

I'm a big fan of ski goggles, but I'm trying safety glasses as well this year for warm cold weather (down to the mid 20s F or so). Yep, just plain clear safety glasses. They also work well at night in the summer when there are bugs everywhere. I'll be back to ski goggles when it snows heavily and/or I need to cover more skin.

In my experience, goggles will fog in extremely cold weather unless you can find a way to prevent hot air from getting in. There are a number of ways to do this - some more extreme than others.

I wear contacts specifically so I **don't** have to wear goggles or lenses and deal with them fogging up. 20f is a cakewalk with a decent balaclava with nothing over my eyes.

It's wearing a lens over my eyes, and dealing with it wanting to fog up, that's an issue.

Bolle goggles and snowboarding helmet, but only when Temps are in the negatives F.
I tried some WileyX "goggles", but they fogged like crazy even without exerting myself.

Personally I have a varied collection of sunglasses. https://www.ebay.com/i/122697021987?chn=ps I use anti-fog (pretty much any brand) from a local motorcycle shop. One treatment lasts a couple of days; one bottle lasts a couple of years ;> I tend to only treat on the days when I'm wearing a balaclava.

My eyes tear profusely in any wind when the temperature is under 45ºF, much more than most people. I got new glasses today, and I'm glad large frames are in style. These might be good enough for me for this winter.

smile Tom!
Glasses look sharp!

I do much of my commuting in the dark during the winter and I was using cheap construction safety glasses until recently, when I upgraded to Tifosis with interchangeable lenses. They do fog less...so long as you're moving.

when I stop, I slide my safety glasses to the end of my nose, further from my wet face to keep them from fogging. w/o the strap tho I can take them off & wipe my face. then just before starting again, put them back on

So I got those goggles and over 30°F they were fine with no fogging. but once I put my balaclava on they fogged up. so did my other glasses, and also my normal sunglasses. The glasses all were fine when I pulled the nose part of the balaclava down, but that gets cold and defeats the purpose of the balaclava. So the problem here don't seem to be the glasses, but the balaclava.

Google tells me no-fog balaclavas are a real thing. Problem is some of them are over $50-70 with mixed reviews regarding fogging. I figured what really is needed is to deflect the exhaled air away from the goggles.
I found this deflector for $13. You can get similar deflectors for $50....

Does anyone have experience with that and have a better solution? Reading through this thread makes me think the balaclava, and not the goggles, is responsible for the fogging. You can throw expensive goggles at the problem, but as long as you blow moist air over a cold surface, you will have condensation.

I know this is a goggle thread, but the goggles may not be the sole problem here.

^^^ I haven't tried those solutions, but your problem does reflect my own experience with a scarf or turtle or anything drawn up over my nose plus goggles.

I cut the mouth out so I can exhale straight out

but my goggles fog from the moisture on my face not my breath

Doesn't your nose get cold? I see you basically use your nose as a natural deflector breathing out downwards.
Oh, i see you added the plastic overcap over your helmet to keep the air out. do you still wear a hat, or is the balaclava enough? I currently use balaclava and a hat, which makes it a bit tight.

• nose doesn't get cold because I keep the covering over the bridge of my nose
• I breath thru my mouth when exercising
• the shower cap helps keep the wind out and when there is wet precipitation like rain or wet snow it keeps my head dry
• there is no hat between the balaclava & helme

this is what that balaclava looks like w/o the goggles. see how it covers the bridge of my nose?

I can say without any doubt that I am very uncomfortable riding without eyewear of some sort when it is below freezing.

If it's right around freezing...it's uncomfortable but doable. Significantly below freezing, and my eyes are just streaming tears nonstop.

This is absolutely true. Any covering of your mouth/nose directs more hot, moist air up towards the goggles, causing them to fog, or at least increase the likelyhood of fogging.

I've recently had good luck with just being very conscious of how I breathe. Instead of just huffing and puffing into the balaclava, I blow a steady stream of air out the mouth opening of the balaclava; imagine blowing out candles. It helps A LOT.

I think that would work very well actually. Of course...the logical extrapolation of that is to just get a plague mask. I think this could be the new urban chic winter cycle wear: