I don’t think of myself as a heavy sweater and it isn’t terrible hot where I live, but recently I’ve been training a little harder and annoyed by substantial sweat running down my forehead and into my eyes. It seems like my helmet pad gets saturated and then it’s just a stream.
Thoughts on how to manage the sweat? A cap, different glasses, helmet with more airflow, just a new helmet pad?
Thanks!
I’ve tried the Gutr (silicone band with a front channel to catch and redirect sweat) and a Halo (sweatband with a silicone strip along the forehead to redirect sweat). The Halo worked best and fit well under a helmet. It also works well on the trainer on its own. The Gutr was too thick and had to rest below my helmet, wouldn’t stay in place, and leaked.
Normal sweatbands would just delay the inevitable until they got loaded up, at which point I would get a flood of sweat into my eyes
I’m a lifelong heavy sweater. I wear a GripGrab summer cycling cap under my helmet and it works. It’s a good design as it doesn’t have a particularly long peak, so your vision is not obstructed. Sweat tends to gravitate towards the peak, then run off away from your eyes. For someone with zero hair on top living in Australia it’s also a good idea to wear a cap under your helmet to avoid UV exposure.
There’s been a thread about this on here before. I ended up trying a Halo skullcap off the back of that with some success (helmet fit dependent as it can add a bit of thickness), but now that I am back riding road more I have gravitated back towards caps.
My issue with caps (also being in Australia and also being devoid of good hair coverage) is that they vary in fit and thickness. Those GripGrab caps look good in terms of being a light weight fabric, so I’m going to grab a few colours - thanks for the recommendation, @Howard_Duncan.
EDIT: Found it - it wasn’t so much sweat management as skull cap recommendations, but the discussion kind of verred in the same direction:
Definitely give your pads a good wash. I went from mostly okay to sweat in the eyes constantly with the pads doing nothing, turned out I’d tried a sunscreen with a waxy substance in it and it had effectively made the pads waterproof.
Been using a Merino wool sweatband for some years and has been sensational at soaking up lots of sweat (there is no fabric better for moisture management than Merino wool) and it’s made and sold by Snowgum in Australia. www.snowgum.com.au
As a further bonus they’re on sale at the moment - Merino Accessories – Snowgum
Should say that A$15! And their beanie has also been excellent for riding when a bit cold. Moisture management in the cold makes a massive difference to comfort. Their base layers are great too, but Merino long johns with no fly are less attractive than other brands to some.