Sweat Buster Skinny - Bike Helmet Sweatband – Stops Sweat Dripping, Premium Comfort, Simple Helmet Integration & Quick Removal for Washing. Mountain Biking, Road Biking, Cycling

It works but you have to wash it after every ride

I'm an avid cyclist in South Carolina, so I deal with a lot of sweat constantly dripping into my eyes and down my glasses. I've tried too many "high tech" fabric sweatbands; they all last about the same 45 minutes. Stop, take off the helmet, wring them out, then you have about 30 minutes before you have to do it again. That gets tedious when you are doing 100 miles over around 5 hours. I moved on to $20 a piece "high tech" sweat absorbing skull caps. Only marginally different at around an hour before they are soaked. Read about sweatbands that have a silicone band in them that sits against your skin that reroutes the sweat to the side. I didn't like the idea of anything silicon that had to sit tight against my skin to work.Reviews in the cyclist forums are great on these Sweat Busters so I figure I'd add them to the collection. They appear to just be folded up sewn microfiber (don't know if anything else is in there) but THEY TOTALLY WORKED!! What I like is they velcro right into the helmet in place of the front comfort pad that comes in the helmet and actually make the helmet significantly more comfortable. I was hopeful after a 2 hour ride without a bead of sweat coming down but wanted to do a full effort and length ride before I called it a win. Did a grueling 75 mile race through the forest over the weekend for 4 hours; plenty of sweat down the back of my head and behind my ears but not a bead of sweat into my eyes or on my glasses the whole time. Pop it out of the helmet when you get home and through it in the washer. Done.

I am a heavy sweater and I ride in Central Texas. I frequently ride when temperatures are at or above 100 and no telling what the temperature is a couple of feet above the pavement. I can go nearly 45 minutes without experiencing any sweat in the eyes with this product, which is pretty darn good for the things I have tried. The Gutr, for instance worked for only a few minutes before I had to switch to a sweatband. So Sweat Buster is pretty good.

Installed this on a Fox Speedframe Pro helmet for use in the Texas summer in my attempt to find a solution to sweat dripping down my forehead into my eyes even with the use of various head bands and skull caps designed to catch sweat.I'm happy to note that the Sweat Buster works as advertised. I have done mountain bike rides in the 100+ degree heat of the afternoon and the sweat is very much absorbed by the Sweat Buster. I do carry an extra one in my backpack for when I prefer a fresh one over squeezing the sweat out of the current one, although continued use of one per ride does work well.I bought a bunch of them so I always had a clean and/or dry one to swap out after each ride.

So I lost the two year old sweatband on my expensive two year old helmet that my friend bought me two years ago after I survived a slip and fall concussion that totaled my old helmet and I didn't want to wait for the two weeks the bike shop said it would take the supplier to replace the OE headband so I ordered this and it came in time for me to put it in with a couple of the supplied velcro stickers and I survived 5 hours 50 miles 5,000 feet of climbing on the hottest day of the year so far and I didn't feel it on my head at all. Better than the one that came with the helmet.