Eyewear

[Greenbank]

I usually wear glasses (I have some Optilab corrective specs too) but in the p*ssing rain, like this afternoon , they get put into my pocket.

I wear a cotton cycling cap, it keeps the majority of the rain off my glasses (except when it's coming in horizontally).

 

[yello]

I had my rapha climbers cap on (I'm showing off now!) because it's waterproof. The water was dripping off the peak and the rain was directly into my face. If the glasses had wipers, I would have been fine!

 

[Flying Dodo]

Anything above 10 mph I find my eyes water too much anyway, so I've normally had some form of glasses to wear.

 

[Randochap]

I would no more venture out on the bike without my (helmet &) glasses than I would weld without goggles. Not that I weld.

It only takes one bee in the eye at 60 km/h to drive the point home.

As I need prescription, I use Bolle Paroles w/ the prescription insert. I had the prescription made up as bifocal, w/ the reading section made up to a measurement from my eye to the handlebars (computers & route sheet/map), which I took to the optometrist who tested my eyes at that distance. The main part of the lens is my usual "distance" prescription.

The double lens can fog up (like any glasses) and is a bit of a pain when you stop in very humid conditions. They clear as soon as you get moving. I always wear a cap under my helmet, so the brim helps.

BTW, it is very important to shield your eyes from UV ... even if you don't weld. Ask the sheep of New Zealand and Patagonia.

 

[D4v0]

I only wear glasses in sunny weather, and never wear a helmet. I do like the look of those 6 lens ones though.

 

[snorri]

I bought a set of Madison glasses at a weak moment, but the coloured lenses were much too trendy for my image and the plain lens made me feel I was sitting about one metre higher than normal, so I dumped them, and now only wear ordinary sunglasses on the odd occasion. Can't say I have ever had any bother from flying debris or wildlife. I wear gloves in winter but don't have a helmet.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

go moutain biking with mates in the wealden clay and get some of that in your eye you'll always wear glasses

 

[Randochap]

Can't say I have ever had any bother from flying debris or wildlife. I wear gloves in winter but don't have a helmet.

Famous last words. A scratched cornea that abscesses is just about the most excruciating pain imaginable.

Brain damage, I hear, isn't much fun either.

 

[snorri]

Famous last words.

Charming, I'll give up on the healthy exercise and use my car a bit more, that'll be better for me.

 

[asterix]

Yes, but go too far down that route and you'd stay home, watch telly all day. Much safer on the sofa.

 

[BalkanExpress]

I've used glasses on the bike ever since I got a pair of Oakley factory pilots from family in the US 20+ years ago. Day one a big fly bounced back off the lenses and i was sold on them. Alas they are long gone. Nowadays its a marginally less retro pair of Bolle Edge IIs. Yellow lenses most of the time mainly because I've lost the clear ones and the yellow ones make every ride look as if its summer in southern Spain!

 

[Radius]

I have some super cool silver ones with orange lenses that I wear when I really want to look like a roadie

 

[bonj2]

wear oakleys
otherwise you WILL be guaranteed to INSTANTLY DIE

 

[Randochap]

Charming, I'll give up on the healthy exercise and use my car a bit more, that'll be better for me.

 

[asterix]

wear oakleys
otherwise you WILL be guaranteed to INSTANTLY DIE

Actually, old chap, my £5 supermarket shades are fine. And clash very nicely with my Lidl cycle shoes..

Bling is sooo yesterday.