"Night blindness"?

[FROSTY:Me]

I hate riding when its getting dark.My depth perception gets tottaly screwwed up.
I used to use an orange visor which helped heaps.
I think as Drew said you can get night driveing glasses which have orange or yellow lenses
Actually I think they might be target shooting glasses

[Rogue]

eat more carrots dude

[sunhuntin]

i have the same issues. i avoid open roads at night unless 100% necessary. i stick left and focus on the white line instead. i do get blinded by headlights, both oncoming and in the mirrors. when ive got both, i cant see much of anything. if i am stuck at night on the open road, ill try and stick on roads i know like the back of my hand [ie, bulls to wanganui]

[beyond]

Hi Chris,

Riding at night in the rain sux... full stop!

Ever since I started riding when I was young and even now, riding at night in the rain with oncoming traffic is shit, pure and simple.

I can spot a rabbit on the hill side 100's of metres away and now need reading glasses but have always had that problem.

You aren't alone. Motorbike visors covered in rain and oncoming traffic at night just do not mix, never have and never will. One of the reasons I try as hard as possible to never ride at night in the rain.

My other pet peeve is traffic behind you with lights on glaring back through your mirrors when riding at night in the rain

[madandy]

Some amber/yellow polarised lenses may be just the trick.
Consult an eye specialist as suggested I guess....of course some will try and sell you some expensive corrective lenses but, as mentioned, the problem may be simpler than faulty eye bits in ya head

[xgnr]

All good advice.

Personally I hated riding in the wet and even more so at night but needed to get used to it if I was going to get through the Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge.

The 2007 event was a shocker with lots of rain through the night. I recall riding at about 30km/hr north towards Whangarei in sheeting rain and wondering what the hell I was doing. Couldn't see anything when a car approached. Best technique I found was to simply keep my visor partly open and be very aware of the left hand white line/markers.

After a while it all became quite routine and my average speed increased as I got used to it.

Cheers

Stu

[Patch]

Its possibly a combination of everything but age & fatigue will be the biggest factors.

If its always been there, fatigue will only make it worse, combined at night with the rain the mushy grey matter may be a bit slow at times with all that concentration going on.

Go see a decent opto and keep taking the little blue pill to help with the ageing process



I don't do frig all night stuff any more for the above reasons (especially on two wheels). The easiest way I find to cope with it is wait 'til very early morning, alot less traffic and dawn is better than dusk.

[Usarka]

jeaves has the same problem and he has a chemical brothers avatar?

Dilated pupils......

[Ixion]

In the dry is OK, though I hate encountering a cage with full beams on mid corner. Furtunately you normally see the light haze sufficiently in advance to be prepared.

In the rain, I find I can't see at all with a visor. So, simple solution, I just open it. Sorted. Never had visors back in the day.

[PrincessBandit]

I have crizal lenses on my specs which hugely reduce flaring from lights. Don't seem to notice my visor being a problem here, even in rain. But what i DO hate is fog. Rode to Hamilton last weekend in pea soup the whole way from Bombay to Huntly and had to keep swiping across my face every couple of minutes as the droplets were so fine they wouldn't bead and run off! Most annoying.

[HTFU]

I have the same issue . Headlights tear my eyes to shit , cant see very well on open unlit roads esp if its raining , cant see the white roadmarkings in the rain , sometimes i cant tell which way the road turns until almost the very very last moment whilst raining.

Went and had my eyes checked , slightly short sighted and was prescribed glasse's (fixed some blurs). However my vision is fine enough that i Legally dont have to wear them whilst riding etc (my eyes are more or less ok)

I too feel your pain. Also short sighted, not much but enough to create a problem at night. Glasses sorted it for me, quite the difference.

(I have just started failing the eye test on the machine at the testing station but can still get pass the optometrists eye chart - but only just)

[Conquiztador]

I knew there was a reason I don't use visors...

[Jeaves]

I too feel your pain. Also short sighted, not much but enough to create a problem at night. Glasses sorted it for me, quite the difference.

(I have just started failing the eye test on the machine at the testing station but can still get pass the optometrists eye chart - but only just)

Yeah I have problems with them as well , I only see two columns all merged together rather than three , but half the problem is the shit testing machines they have - as I eventually focus enough to see it all clearly-ish

[gijoe1313]

Face it mate, yer getting old and these are all just meh meh fooking neeeowww excuses!

Know what you mean, me being a short sighted squinty asian devil ... I don't think I've encountered the prob you mentioned, but seen it first hand with Jeaves (he was on a group night ride and had the common sense to pull off from the ride when he was encountering difficulties you mentioned)

Its a hard one, I could recommend some arcane asian remedies, but you wouldn't like them?

[Waylander]

eat more carrots dude

Beat me to it.


Have that problem too DMNTD. I just guess where the road is going.