Winter Cycling eyewear.
 

I've been using a pair of cheap ski/snowboarding goggles with a very light tint. The ventilation is actually great, both top and bottom, and not so cumbersome. I find any visors or glasses at those temps isn't going to be very good as the wind and cold is too awful for my eyes. With the goggles my eyes are protected, as is the area around them. Find the right pair is key, though. I've used ones that fog up as soon as I pull the balaclava over my nose, or they fog up as soon as I come to a stop.

Decent quality ski goggles are the key to avoid fogging. A good balaclava also helps with antifogging - I have a Serius perforated neoprene balaclava that works as well as any.

I'm trying something new this winter. just replied to someone about that in another thread. see post #5 here

https://www.bikeforums.net/general-c...indshield.html

So much depends on whether you ride warm or cold
 

I wear glasses and I've not used goggles of any sort, even at -25F, and even for long rides like the Arrowhead Ultra in northern Minnesota. I use a lightweight buff, pulled up over my mouth if necessary. It keeps me surprisingly warm. A bit of a beard helps. I find that anything heavier both keeps me too warm and also tends to fog up my glasses.

Rain-X makes an anti-fog product that may work, but I'm not sure if it is safe for plastic. Ski shops or scuba shops should also have products designed to keep the inside of the lens from fogging up. One product that I recently found is called Cat Crap. I will likely give the Cat Crap a try. Let me know if you try it first and how it works.

My hat's off to you. I'd last about 10 seconds in that kind of weather without a survival suit on.

I recently picked up a pair of Oakley Field Jacket sunglasses. They have a lever on the bridge of your nose that pushes them out maybe 1/4" while keeping the nose rest in place. This allows extra air flow when they start to fog, works great for me at stop lights but so far I've only used them down to around 38-40 degrees.

Yup.

Even cheap ski goggles will work....if you have a balaclava that diverts your breath away from the goggles.

I am trying out some "night drive" sunglasses that I found in CVS which look exactly like this except the logo is "Solar Shield" and it was $20 on the rack:
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1d0ec5c2f5.jpg
Which I recommend so far as very satisfactory. Somehow bright headlights and glare are filtered out (no more a-hole blinding you on the MUP!) without degrading my vision at night, and the contrast in the dark is actually improved.

Night Driver Classic Large Square - Night Drivers

I saw a lot of ski goggles on my commute this morning. I don't feel the need yet, but I understand others do.

My temperature cut-off for Winter goggles (as described above) is 35° F for a full commute of 14 miles, or 6 miles via Commuter Rail. Prescription eyeglasses are fine for shorter distances, but about one mile at 19° recently without goggles was not fun. :twitchy:

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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston (Post 18213778)

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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston (Post 16323439)

…that any recommendations for winter riding include description of the conditions in which they are employed, i.e. lowest temperature and distance.

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Jim from Boston...

Have you ever been told that your posts are an eye sore to read?

Yeah, lots of times, in particular,

It's not just the visual layout. Even when I try to read it sequentially, the mental effort to keep track of who said what is considerable and unnecessary. But I gather you don't care, so I won't try to convince you.

FWIW, each quote box is headed by an attribution, kind of like reading a script, e.g.

Yes I know. I know what you're doing. All the attributions and lines are a visual mess. The result for me is that I usually skip your posts. I might be the tip of an iceberg with other forum users doing the same. But I get it: you don't care. That's OK. It's not because I don't understand it. It's just too much trouble for me. It's like my head is swinging looking at the various speakers.

I don't wear glasses at all. Temps here only get to about 12F for a night or two. These look like something for me, not expensive. I'm always losing my glasses or sitting on them.

I commute 6 miles. I use snowboarding goggles and helmet. Works well. With the baklava on, I found that my glasses were fogging up inside the goggles while the goggles themselves were staying clear. I thought the outside was fogging at first, so I tried diverting my breath away from the goggles by cutting holes in the cheeks of the baklava.. etc, didn't work. But what was happening was that my breath was being pumped into the goggles and fogging up my glasses instead through the fabric of the baklava being under the lower portion of the goggles. So, what I finally did with the baklava is I snipped the seam over the bridge of my nose so that it rode down lower on my nose than it was designed to. Still not perfect, but a lot better.

So you acknowledge it but don't care to change it so that people might want to read what you have to say?

:wtf:

I tried goggles one year but the moisture from around my eyes created a fog after about an hour, then the fog froze so I couldn't even wipe the "frost" off with a cloth. so I built a small fire to evap everything. that worked really quickly

Yeah...I personally like the idea but bikeforums "quote" formatting is poor in my opinion for doing that. Probably some way to format it so it would be more readable...