"Night blindness"?

[007XX]

Yeah? cool. I have polarised sunnies and they turn the Visor multi-coloured but I can live with this.

Stu

I get the same thing, especially when looking at water...it immediately looks as if I'm staring at rainbows...F'in pain in the arse it is! makes you feel like you had mushies 30 mins before going riding

I hate to admit it, but riding at dusk is my least favourite thing to do...even though I have perfect eyesight, I really struggle with the shadows and half light at that time of the day.

I'd suggest that it is all down to getting used to it if I didn't already know how long DMNTD has been riding, and how well he does it.

[bungbung]

eat carrots

[Number One]

I have multifocal intra-occular lenses in my eyes. They light up like possums do when you points a torch at them. Only thing I feel safe doing is avoiding night riding, following others if I get stuck somewhere (even if it's a car) and sticking to well lit areas.

For instance - I'm happy to go for a night ride that'd take me along the Hutt/Welly motorway but wouldn't be able to ride the Rimas in the dark...as exposed in last nights TRTNR - sorry I couldn't out help guys

[Mikkel]

My understanding, (limited in the ways of science as it is), is that polarised lenses seperate the different colours and brightness, making everything sharper (so to speak).

Polaroid lenses has a linear filter that absorbs light with a certain polarisation (a bit hard to explain, but if you want me in nerd mode do say so ). The filter is aligned so that it absorbs light polarised in the horizontal direction.

With non-polarised light (e.g. ambient) a fraction of the light will be absorbed in the filter.

However, light reflected off a surface tend to be polarised along the plane it is reflected off. In many cases reflections will be off a horizontal surface and as such contains a large degree of horizontally polarised light. This will then be absorbed by the polaroid lens.

So, polaroid lenses absorb a larger amount of reflected light - reducing glare from cars, water, "heat haze", etc. This makes them great for various applications such as driving and fishing.

[Maha]

An eye test will/should tell what is up my nigger.....
Tell me something Chris, do you have floaters?.... now before you mention anything about looking in the shitter, i mean those black floating things in your eyes?
If so, I can tell you what your problem could be.

[DMNTD:Me]

An eye test will/should tell what is up my nigger.....
Tell me something Chris, do you have floaters?.... now before you mention anything about looking in the shitter, i mean those black floating things in your eyes?
If so, I can tell you what your problem could be.

Nope no floaters G
Rode back through Pyes Pa last night following another rider and as soon as he turned off it became quite dangerous...depth perception was non existent and oncoming cars were a nightmare.
Will be having my eyes seen to( ) next week.

Personally I just think I need a new bike....surely that will help!

[Number One]

do you have floaters?....

I had them for the first couple of years after my ops Maha. You can get them zapped too and they break up into smaller pieces and eventually break down.

Got one at the moment that's driving me batty

[Maha]

I had them for the first couple of years after my ops Maha. You can get them zapped too and they break up into smaller pieces and eventually break down.

Got one at the moment that's driving me batty

Yeah I have one or two in my right eye which is first one they replaced so I may need a trip to get them zapped. They did say it might happen.

[Rob Taylor]

Yes age is the problem.My night vision is getting bad. You may have noticed the harley tourers riding with there driving lights on during the day.They are set up to be on at low beam to give a bright spread light.So bright high beam (single light) to bright spread low beam (3 lights).Its great and no blind issues.Im always lifting my visor at night with on coming cars and it does become a problem when wet...Your not alone

[Mike748]

Had my eyes tested a few years ago after finding night driving difficult, I had to stare at small or distant objects before I could identify them, I kept ignoring it until I finally failed to spot a cop car on the side of the road.

Turns out my eyesight was ok (legal) to drive without glasses but as it had deteriorated quickly I was aware of the difference and I could therefore notice it.

While I'm easily legal to drive/ride without glasses poor lighting dilates the pupil making my vision worse, the opposite is true for bright sunlight which makes the pupil smaller and my vision sharper.