Those of us that are blind?

[arcane12]

sorry, pedantics aside.....

I think you meant "sorry, pedantries aside....."

I have worn glasses since I was 17. I have considered Lasik, but at around $6000 it is a bit pricey. The stories that are told of the failures...

I have regular glasses and identical tinted ones. I have yet to try contacts while on the bike, but it is good to hear other peoples tales of how they got on. I use the same anti-fog cleaner that I use on my helmet on my glasses.

My worst experience was in heavy fog. I foolishly lifted my visor as it had completely fogged over, and of course my glasses fogged up as well. After that I have taken to going slower, and wiping the visor with my glove. Same in rain, though if I have treated the visor recently, it seems to deal with the rain rather well.

I have yet to try Pledge on the outside of my visor for the rain, I wonder if it would be any good on the inside?

[NOID]

Somantics aside, Lasik eye surgery was bloody fantastic. Peter Ring of the eye intitute sorted me out really quick. It was a No Sh1t life changing experience. Consultations were free, you only paid once the surgery was done.

had glasses form age 6 - 21. Rode tones and was a pain with specs, played sports also = broke meny pairs. @ age 21 got Lasik aswell, best thing i ever did !!

[maxf]

Have to wear hard contacts - don't ask - and if they dry out I know about it... Caberg flip top allows for Adidas Climatech sunnies, the ones with the wind block around the edge (used to be WileyX ones, abd they're safety/shooting rated too, but the Adis were on special & the Wileys are now shop glasses).

Antifog? Tried RainX, CatCrap and a couple of others - all seemed to be the "worst case" when they finally gave up, that total & dense misting. Current Caberg has great AF on the clear visor but none on the slip-down interal sunnie visor, go figure - best I' ve found so far is "Extra Anti-Fog Lens Cleaner Gel" I got at the opticians, little white tube abt 5cm long. Works on the sunnies a treat.

PS - drops - Blink-n-Clear is realy good, but IMHO nothing beats tears. Remember to drink water - and "wet foods" ... coffee, tea, booze - don't always rehydrate as well or as fast as plain stuff.

[Road kill]

I took an unintended swim while coming back to the beach through the surf on my Kayak a couple of weeks ago.

$800 worth of glasses I'd only bought about a month earlier are still out there somewhere,,thank christ for insurance.

BTW those tie down things don't work that well when a tonne or so of angry wave slams you into the sea bed at a great rate of knots,,,will wear an old pair next time

[ducatilover]

I have to wear glasses, I can't have contacts (fucked if I know why, but it's what the optometrist tells me)

I'm not considered legally blind anymore (well, not in both eyes)

[sootie]

I am short sighted & the law (quite properly) says that I must wear eye correction to drive or ride.

I have always worn galsses under my riding helmets & consider them a minor nuisance usually.
(It only becomes major when fogging is an issue & that can be very bad news.)
They are actually helpful (photochromatic) as sunglasses, and as limited eye protection with the visor open at low speed.

Reading some of the foregoing difficulties, I am puzzled. I always have to remove my glasses & then replace them when I don a helmet (just par for the course I reckon). Is this what riders are complaining about? I have never had a problem actually wearing glasses under any helmet I have owned or tried.

Please enlighten me about this

[Small explanation here:
- I am only considering full face, non opening helments in my comments above.
- My glasses are the modern metal rim type these days.]

[Road kill]

I am short sighted & the law (quite properly) says that I must wear eye correction to drive or ride.

I have always worn galsses under my riding helmets & consider them a minor nuisance usually.
(It only becomes major when fogging is an issue & that can be very bad news.)
They are actually helpful (photochromatic) as sunglasses, and as limited eye protection with the visor open at low speed.

Reading some of the foregoing difficulties, I am puzzled. I always have to remove my glasses & then replace them when I don a helmet (just par for the course I reckon). Is this what riders are complaining about? I have never had a problem actually wearing glasses under any helmet I have owned or tried.

Please enlighten me about this

[Small explanation here:
- I am only considering full face, non opening helments in my comments above.
- My glasses are the modern metal rim type these days.]

Same here,,glasses off helmet on glasses back on,,reverse for taking helmet off.

I test the procedure before buying a new helmet and I have found a couple where things were just a bit tight,,but other than that,,no issues.

[GSF]

I wear glasses under my helmet... one day when I had only been riding for a few months I attempted to remove helmet without removing glasses. Just had a brain fart I guess.
Yeah, they broke.

I don't find wearing glasses to be a hassle though. Just the added few seconds when gearing up, glasses off, helmet on, glasses on.

They're useful in a way too, mine have scratchproof coating so I can ride with the visor up and they provide eye protection - quite a few times they have caught a small stone or a bug or piece of dirt.

[arcane12]

I wear glasses under my helmet... one day when I had only been riding for a few months I attempted to remove helmet without removing glasses. Just had a brain fart I guess.
Yeah, they broke.

I don't find wearing glasses to be a hassle though. Just the added few seconds when gearing up, glasses off, helmet on, glasses on.

They're useful in a way too, mine have scratchproof coating so I can ride with the visor up and they provide eye protection - quite a few times they have caught a small stone or a bug or piece of dirt.

I try not to do that too much. Early on riding, I had the visor mostly up, doing around 30km/h, and I swear the bug got suck into the helmet around my glasses straight into my eye! ouch! So now I try to only have it opn a crack at lower speeds (not usually needed unless stopped for too long, but the extra air is nice) and fully closed at 40km/h+.

[Flip]

I am short sighted, 4.0 and 4.25 diopters. I have a set of riding sunnies that I had fitted up with corrective lenses. They work fine when riding but the lenses are right at the edge they can do into wrap-arounds and don't work at all well if I have to look at some thing close up.

If the weather is crap I wear a shoei flip lid, otherwise its just a half helmut.



I have worn glasses all my adult life, they have often saved me from a face and eyes full of crap, I have had a couple of rounds seperate recently and all my glasses are pitted with welding hits. I can manage the fogging ususlly with detergent or cat crap and a anti fog insert in the shoei, it's no worse than many other riders have to put up with.

[f2dz]

I put contacts in before I leave home, put glasses on when I'm at work, then contacts back in to ride back.

The helmet is a bit too breezy though and every few months I have to have a break from riding as it drys out my eyes really bad and makes them really sensitive to light. I'm looking at getting a breath box to help minimize that though.

But having a helmet that fits glasses in it would solve all m problems..

[sootie]

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But having a helmet that fits glasses in it would solve all my problems..

I do believe you, but this statement amazes me.
I currently wear my glasses under a Shoei FF, an Arai FF, an old Vcan (open face) & a very old FFM.
Over the years, I have also worn glasses under far more helmets than I can remember.
Frankly I can never remember it ever being a problem once the helmet was in place.
This was true even in the old days of heavy plastic spectacle frames!
(The modern metal frames are much better in every respect that matters to me.)
I suspect there is something about your glasses which is the problem.

It has just occurred to me that I once had a cheap spectacle job done & got what I paid for.
It is very important that several aspects of spectacles are set up dead right for those of us who have to use them 12 hours a day plus.

I admit now to paying top dollar on specs. It would be impossible for me to live a normal life without good eye correction. My present pair were the best I could buy (photochromatic, progressive, coated, titanium frames etc) They cost over $1200 5 years ago, and were worth every cent. They still look new.

One of the fitting aspects is the spectacle frame width chosen. If it is too narrow, it is uncomfortable & reduces periferal vision. If it is too wide, the glasses are easily knocked out of place & the arms catch things. Small differences really matter here. Have you considered this??

I just checked, and my specs have 10mm clearance between each arm, and the forehead adjacent to each eye. ???

I have been wearing glasses for over 50 years now.
Hope something here helps.

[f2dz]

I do believe you, but this statement amazes me.

What amazes you about it? I tried to put my glasses on when I bought my helmet and they didn't fit inside, so I just bought it knowing that I'd have to wear contacts every time I rode.

I don't really want to start measuring my glasses in the middle of the office but I imagine the arms on mine are around the same distance from the sides of my forehead. My frames aren't the thickest I've seen but they're definitely not the thinnest either.

I couldn't see myself spending $1200 on glasses either. I need new ones, but I wouldn't spend over $500. My current ones were around that four or five years ago.

[sootie]

..... What amazes you about it?......

I guess I am amazed because I have pulled on literally scores of helmets, and never even thought twice about any spec wearability problem with any of them. The titanium frames are particularly thin, slippery and rigid by the way - it all helps.

Like you, I do not like paying big money for specs, but I pay more for my cars & my motorcycles & they mostly just sit & wait for me to use them!
Without eye correction, motor vehicles would be of no use to me at all.

Having anything as good as it can be is well worth a bit more when you get over 5000 hours of use from it every year!

Good short & long sight would be my first wish but the gods have conspired on that.
Really good specs are my next choice. Sorry if that choice is not sexy.

[f2dz]

Maybe it's just my helmet then. I'll make sure my next one fits glasses in it for sure though, cos when I have problems with my contacts or if I forget to order some I can't ride.

Not to derail the thread, but it mainly comes down to the quality of the lens, not the frames, when it comes to glasses, doesn't it? Providing your frames aren't made out of cheap crap.