Not enough time to invent a solution

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remking

New Member
Surely someone must have invented a solution for those who wear glasses (spectacles) in the rain on their bikes? Has anyone seen any products geared towards helping this vast number of cyclists with wet specs? I was thinking of some kind of miniature clip-on warm air blower, some kind of see through mesh that would deflect the water, clip on wipers, tear offs like Formula 1...
 

tdr1nka

Taking the biscuit
Contact lenses?
 

Scoosh

Velocouchiste
Moderator
Location
Edinburgh
Long-peaked cap under helmet worked for me during a very wet Glasgow-Edinburgh 51 miler last year. Not perfect but remarkably effective - and it was fair stoatin' :tongue:

Looked marginally better than the glasses :biggrin:
 

LLB

Guest
Either a baseball cap, or a cycling hat with a peak - or disposable contacts. Those who can't get on with regular ones rarely struggle with these.
 

jasper

Senior Member
I don't see why not. It's just a treatment that that you wipe on and makes the water bead off. I use it on the visor of my (car) racing helmet. Might have to have a fair pace going though before it becomes effective...?
 

wafflycat

New Member
The only thing I'd be worried about is that some specs have an anti-scratch coating on. What effect, if any, would applying Rain-x to specs that already have a coating on them.
 
I have a similar product to Rain-x, and it passed the provisional test (water from the tap :biggrin:) very well.

As jasper says, you may need to have warp factor 5 for it to be effective.

Do both sides of the lens, but let it dry before wearing: I don't know what harm the solution or the vapour would do to the eye!
 
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