Emancipated!

[James Deuce]

Free! Free at last!

I got contacts today.

Wish I'd done it years ago.

I could close my visor and shut it. No fogging. The pinlock visor really doing its job for the first time ever. In the wet and wearing the Arai, my glasses would fog up at every intersection.

Free!

[MattRSK]

Shot Jim2 I got contacts last week. I am getting used to them now. Were a little scratchy to start with.

[James Deuce]

I was speeding everywhere on the way home and diving into corners with a lot more zest. Peripheral vision in focus does wonders for your riding style.

Just have to work on the speeding thing now. Weird. Speeds just LOOK different.

A little bit scratchy, but I lasted 12 hours in them

[MattRSK]

The night after I got mine. I drank way too much whisky. Ended up passing out and sleeping in them. They felt wierd in the morning. I wouldn't recomend it.

[yungatart]

You lucky bugger! I wish I could wear contacts!
I just forked out nearly a grand for new specs..
Green with envy, I is.. mutter bleeding mutter

[skelstar]

Yeah, I resurrected my tacts last Dec when my (then) new HJC wasnt glasses friendly. Could ride any other way now...

btw - you get good at taking them out when you are drunk.

[MattRSK]

Yeah, I resurrected my tacts last Dec when my (then) new HJC wasnt glasses friendly. Could ride any other way now...

btw - you get good at taking them out when you are drunk.

thank goodness for that lol. Practise makes perfect i guess.

[Maha]

I had the dilema a couple of years ago where my sight was 6/60.....
which means ..... what normal eyes could see at 60 mts i would have to be at 6 mts.......so i had monofocal lens's inserted into each eye, they used ultrasound thingy to break up the old lens and put in the new lens through a 3mm cut in the eyeball....now i can see 1 line better than 20/20 on the eye chart...money well spent...

[Sketchy_Racer]

The night after I got mine. I drank way too much whisky. Ended up passing out and sleeping in them. They felt wierd in the morning. I wouldn't recomend it.

Blurdy Piss head

[MattRSK]

yeah mate. Got knocked over in the hall. got thrown over a balcony. then got thrown on the road. Someone didnt like me lol. I cant remember a thing its all witness accounts. stupid i is.

[Karma]

The night after I got mine. I drank way too much whisky. Ended up passing out and sleeping in them. They felt wierd in the morning. I wouldn't recomend it.

I've got the monthly leave in ones, been wearing them for nearly a year now...

Pop them in at the start of the month and leave them in until 4 weeks later when you swap them for a fresh pair...

Makes things so much easier.

[MattRSK]

Yeah I cant have those. I work in some heavy industrial areas and I constantly get stuff in my eyes. Cant justify the cost of replacing them because I am stupid.

[sAsLEX]

pfft just sleep in them easier than poking your eyes in them if really drunk!! cept dont pass out then vomit in your sleep then sleep with your face in it then you get Conjunctivitis which hurts!

And becareful when cleaning them, dad has squirted cleaning stuff instead of eye drops in his eyes a few times lol

And might pay to take eye drops on long rides, I never do I get real scratchy eyes on long rides, 6chris6 had these little single use eye drops he swore by that came in little tear off packs.....

[SARGE]

i'd wear Contacts, but i've only got the one eye and ill be DAMNED if im stickin a finger in it ...

[riffer]

Yeah - riding with Contacts is definitely much better.

Unfortunately for me they never make contacts with transitions technology in them so I always find I end up having to wear sunglasses which kind of ruins the effect - my eyes are slow to react to changing light conditions which can be a pain.

So, I've always ended up going back to the glasses after a while, even though the leave-in ones are good too.

I don't know how you do it Weasel - I can go maybe 40 hours straight, then I get the worse case of arc-eyes...

Besides, getting the latest fashion in specs is cool - I just got a pair of Ted Bakers with the latest acrylic lenses with transitions 5 coatings off Hitcher's brother last week - I'm loving the extra light weight and fast changing tinting - you can't get that with contacts!