It’s a perfect season for riding.
But it’s not long before the flying bugs appear.
No matter how well you wear sports sunglasses, if you pass a place where flying insects are gathered or encounter flying insects that are distracted, the insects will enter your eyes or mouth.
Going into the mouth can be blocked by using buffs (Link), but going into the eyes is really difficult to block.
I would like to share the method I used to completely block flying insects.
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Block flies while riding a bike – Kloops
There’s a company called Kroops (Link). It is said that they started making goggles like the photo in 1947 while making windproof goggles for horse racing. (story)
It seemed to be used a lot when skydiving.
In my case, I usually wear sports sunglasses during the day, but in the evening, I just wear glasses.
However, the time when flying insects appear intensively is also the time when the sun goes down.
(Of course, bugs get into your eyes during the day, but…)
The first time I used it was 10 years ago. It was all worn out so I bought a new one.
Kroops VFR (OTG – OVER THE GLASSES)
Kroops has a wide range of products, including sunglasses.
If you go to the cycling category (Link), there are 6 products as above.
If you don’t wear glasses, you can just do whatever you like, but if you wear glasses, you can buy “VFR (OTG – OVER THE GLASSES)”, a product of “OVER THE GLASSES”.
It feels like this. The downside of sweating too much is that you get wet.
And it leaves marks on the forehead and cheeks. So I put a buff on it and put Kloops on top of it.
The product pictured above was bought 10 years ago. Like the image goggles below, there are metal ventilation holes on both sides.
In fact, it just needs to be perforated, so I recommend a product that is not made of metal.
This part has faded due to moisture. It rusts.
conclusion
For those who don’t ride bicycles, when they hear that flying insects get into their eyes, they ask, “Are your eyes really big?” You may think.
Surprisingly, flies often get into the eyes.
If a bug gets into your eye, it’s not easy to get it out. Even taking it off is uncomfortable.
Some people say that wearing glasses prevents them, but glasses are not very useful.
Insects rarely get into the eyes when riding a bicycle in the mountains, but they do get into the eyes especially near riversides or lakes.
If you are a person who rides a bicycle to work, you might want to give it a try. Because it’s not very expensive.