rogerzilla
Legendary Member
I'm long-sighted (+ prescription for distance) so reading a menu is even more difficult without glasses! I just order what I usually have 
Middle-aged issues
- Thread starter Cathryn
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I have the garmin's set to their maximum text size and they're just far enough away on an out front bar mount. I struggle to read menu's in low light though. My contacts are 0.15 below my varifocal specs though (the optician said that was OK for my use) and I suspect if I upped them to the same that would push me over the proverbial edge.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
My right contact lens has the proper distance prescription while my left has a weaker prescription. This allows me to read with my left eye and see distance with my right. This took a lot of getting used to but it works and for office work eliminates the area I can't focus on either with or without glasses, which coincides with where my monitor is.
I generally use my glasses now for cycling and can see my garmin by looking under them.
My biggest problem is wearing prescription cycling sun glasses and going into a dark shop or cafe. I can't see anything with them and everything is too blurry without.
I generally use my glasses now for cycling and can see my garmin by looking under them.
My biggest problem is wearing prescription cycling sun glasses and going into a dark shop or cafe. I can't see anything with them and everything is too blurry without.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Before I got varifocals my eyes were better than they are now but I still needed reading glasses. Back then I used to use plain sunglasses with stick-on +2 lenses. Effectively, home made bifocals. Worked very well.
I got the stick on lenses from somewhere on the web. Don't recall where.
I got the stick on lenses from somewhere on the web. Don't recall where.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Does the Explore have a colour screen? If so can you switch it to "dark" mode? This will improve the contrast. I use a Wahoo Roam with colour screen. In dark mode I can read it very easily, in normal or "light" mode I can't.
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Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
I shall investigate immediately!
I used to have one contact lens for distance and one for reading. It worked really well for about 10 years until the discrepancy got too much and I couldn't see at computer distance so I swopped to varifocal glasses.
Kingfisher101
Veteran
I use a large magnifying glass from Home Bargains, it was a pound. I've misplaced it so will have to get another.
- Location
- Glasgow
I need glasses only for the small print.
Tried some *focals years ago (can't remember if bi or vari) but didn't get on with them.
I just keep a cheapo pair of reading glasses at hand to read Garmin, mobile, list of ingredients ...
I know it's faffing about, but it's manageable.
Tried some *focals years ago (can't remember if bi or vari) but didn't get on with them.
I just keep a cheapo pair of reading glasses at hand to read Garmin, mobile, list of ingredients ...
I know it's faffing about, but it's manageable.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
I remember a meal out locally with a group of old pals from school. Most of us didn't wear glasses all the time, but we all by then needed reading glasses so we had the embaressment of having to pass round the one pair we had between us to read the menu. Or did we borrow a pair from behind the bar which they kept for this very scenario. Either way, we had to share readers
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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- Land of confusion
I use bi focal safety glasses for work , you can get sunglasses with them in too fairly cheap .
eg 3 pairs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/voltX-CONS...al+safety+glasses&qid=1739047734&sr=8-17&th=1
eg 3 pairs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/voltX-CONS...al+safety+glasses&qid=1739047734&sr=8-17&th=1
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Some of us have been wearing glasses since our late teens. It’s not a middle aged problem, it’s a glasses or contact lens wearer problem!
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Reduce the number of data fields on the screen and have multiple data screens. This will maximise the font size of the data you want to see. You can set it to auto scroll the data screens or manual swipe.
The other option is move the gps further way which can be done with an accessory bar mount plus out front mount. But that may put it out if range of pressing buttons or swiping screen whilst on the move.
The other option is move the gps further way which can be done with an accessory bar mount plus out front mount. But that may put it out if range of pressing buttons or swiping screen whilst on the move.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Varifocal cycling glasses, photochromic. Optilabs in my case.
