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I noticed i have a tendency to breathe through my mouth while riding which obviously isn't optimal and dries out my mouth making it even more difficult to breath/sustain energy.
I believe a major culprit for this is all my current goggles tend to pinch my nasal passages making it difficult to breath through my nose. I've tried breath-right strips to no avail since the adhesive is weak and falls off within a few mins.
Curious if anyone else has experienced this or similar issue and if so, if you've found a particular brand or model of goggles that don't adversely impact breathing?
Thanks in advance!
I believe a major culprit for this is all my current goggles tend to pinch my nasal passages making it difficult to breath through my nose. I've tried breath-right strips to no avail since the adhesive is weak and falls off within a few mins.
Curious if anyone else has experienced this or similar issue and if so, if you've found a particular brand or model of goggles that don't adversely impact breathing?
Thanks in advance!
Try playing with strap tension, too. You DON'T have too wear your goggle straps super tight.
Good luck!
The Shop
Previous Helmet = Fox V1
Current Helmet = TLD SE4 Composite
Current Goggles = 100% Strata, Speedlabs, and Oakley Crowbars
It's crazy just how impactful it is(on vs off) and given MX is arguably the most cardiovascularly intense sport in the world making proper breathing paramount, you'd think it'd be a specific area of focus for goggle R&D depts.
Surely they have/can develop a pair of goggles that don't negatively impact your ability to breathe while riding?
Hope that helps!
None of the nasal thingy's work more than two motos at a time for me. "For me" being key because I sweat a lot. Once your sweat de-lame's a sticky strip from your nose, good luck getting it clean enough at the track to attach a new one. I've never had luck with it. I had high hopes for the Turbine, as while weird feeling initially - opened up my passages more than anything else, but the proper fitting one got pushed out of my nose in its first 10min practice session. It was either the goggles or head jarring from the track, but it came out of one nostril.
The Viral goggles have slightly less pinch than EKS. The best, most reliable, thing I've done is trim the foam around the nose arch on goggles with scissors to fit you. You really don't need a huge contact surface to seal against your nose.
At the end of the day, I'm not convinced nasal breathing is all that anyway. I prefer a big bore "carb" (mouth) versus an rc airplane carb (nose) on my engine (lungs & heart).
Pit Row
As for nasal strips and the intake breathing nose piece. You have to prep your skin for the adhesive with alcohol wipe pads otherwise the oils on the skin will not allow for a good contact surface. Prep and apply strips or magnets about 5 minutes before riding and you should be able to get a few rides in. Be sure to clean the sweat off your nose when done riding a session, this will help as well.
For my particular face shape, I've found that smaller goggles with a more pronounced curve work better for me. I can run those more loosely on the helmet as others have said, and they do not separate from my temples like a flatter curved goggle would. Since the strap tension is lighter, the goggle doesn't close my nostrils as much.
I also always remove any kind of nose guard on the goggle; I need as much airflow over and around my nose as I can get. I'm running Spy Foundations right now with good luck, although I liked the old-school Alloy much better. Utopia Slayers are pretty good too, but I don't know if they are still out there.
On the walgreens website, "24 Hour Allergy Relief, Fluticasone Propionate Nasal Spray".
The only goggles that ever worked for me were Smith over the glasses model. They were awesome. Unfortunately, as you know they are no longer made and the foam gave out on my last pair
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