downtube42

I had my first experience with serious rain last month on a 300k brevet, and it was a challenge. During the day I just took my glasses off and it was tolerable. After dark I tried to put the glasses back on but glare from drops on the lenses made it difficult to see. But without them navigation was tough. I ended up riding with my glasses halfway down my nose and looking over them to see the road and looking through them to see my cue sheet and cyclocomputer.

maddmaxx 

Ride in the rain?

cranky old dude

Saliva works as a fair droplet repelent. Keeps em from fogging over in the wnter too.

Bob Ross

My idea is that riding in the rain while wearing glasses isn't a pain.

kr32

short answer.....watch TV.

Okay...I have been caught in the rain and I just rode and wiped when needed. As Downtube42 said I also looked over the top at times with glasses slid down on nose.

I may have only ridden it the rain twice, maybe three times.
Rain and bikes and rain and golf are the pits to me. I try to avoid both.

StephenH

I did have a helmet with a visor on it, and that helps a lot. Ball cap under the helmet otherwise.

Richard60463

We have visors that attach via velcro called Salamander sold by Pacific Rescue for about $15. We wear them all the time. Helps to keep the sun off our faces also.

OldsCOOL

Ok, so far we have spit on the glasses and spit on the earbuds before use (suggestion from the electronics forum). This is getting good.

I_like_cereal

I bought a cycling cap that has a really low visor. It keeps most rain off the lenses and the little that gets through isn't a pain. Prior to that when it would rain buckets I would just take them off. I can mostly see without them.

alanknm

Sounds like we're talking about the universal solvent and glue all in one.

lighthorse

Remove my glasses and ride on.

BikeArkansas

Take the glasses off.

Louis

I use a cycling cap, Yehuda Moon style, under my helmet. Works pretty well but causes fogging in some situations.

zonatandem

Pull down the visor of my cycling cap . . .

Rowan

The spit idea is not as ridiculous as it sounds. I lick the lenses on both sides. It's a trick used by scuba divers to stop their masks fogging up, and it works. It may distort the vision a little, but that is going to happen anyway.

A visor/peak on the helmet is mighty useful in passing showers, too.

And a finger wipe can help, too... not the terry towelling bit, but the bare skin.

At speed, one of the major sources of drops is from the front wheel throwing water forward. It's a problem to which I haven't found a solution yet apart from mudguards, but they don't stop the bead of water in the centre of the tyre where the drops come from.

Road Fan

Rowan, hmm, physically it looks like not even Jan Heine's long-forward fenders might stop water thrown up and forward by tires!

Road Fan

Your myopia is much less severe than mine!

AzTallRider

Actually, divers use saliva as a 'solvent' to clean the film off the mask, as it is the film that makes the mask easily fog. Then we rinse the mask in whatever body of water we are in - we don't leave the saliva on the mask. It's not as common anymore, because everyone has realized that a drop of dish detergent works much better, without creating a bacteria culture in the corners of your mask. It's being clean that prevents the fog, not some chemical component of saliva.

I just keep riding, occasionally I might wipe, but mostly I just look through the droplets. But then, I drive people crazy by not using my windshield wipers when they would have them on.

rydabent

No problem. Since Im older and hopefully wiser I come in out of the rain!!!

BillK

I remember when the remnants of a hurricane blew through MD right as I was riding the Sea Gull Century. It was raining so hard the water ran down inside my helmet, hit the inside of my clear lenses and kept spraying me in the eyes! It took me almost 15 miles before I figured out I was better taking my lenses off.