winter sun woe

[jellywrestler]

i often wear kiddies sunglasses on a bike, pairs that the hooks are too short to hook over my ears, when i come into a dark corner and need them gone a nod of the head gets them off my eyes and when i'm out of the risky area wear sunnies aren't that good i can flip my visor and get them back on my eyes. might sound silly but it works very well. I had on my last jacket pipe cleaners through my pocket zips, that way if i rode off and suddenly was not sure i'd closed my pocket i could grab them with gloves on, causing less distraction, or see them in my mirror, there were times i'd stop, check my phone, cigarettes of get sunnies in or out of my pockets and weren't sure of pocket flap status so this worked real well. new jacket has velcro tops so not workable with pipe cleaners

[Laava]

Jeez Cosmik, you were very unlucky to be having the cataract ops and then have detachment! My wife had it the other way around and that was bad enough!

[1/32 man]

I rode from Napier to Gisborne a few weeks ago.....sun was in my eyes going up and the sun was in my eyes coming back.
Combine that with the road going into shadow and coming out into full sun many many times and a broken road surface I lost my bottle and slowed right down. Didn't enoy the experience at all.

[F5 Dave]

50mm mx strap would have been pretty good right then. Sun can't go through that like they can sunnies.

[BMWST?]

Because I have old eyes that are a bit fucked, I don't use sunglasses at all ! Just Specs.

In winter esspecially, I run two strips of tape on the upper edge of the Shoei.
It works for me, a slight tilt of the head if sun appears and I'm good.(but thats not often ).
Looks a bit F1'ish but hey !

I need all the advantage I can get, to see gravel or shit/damp on the road surface.

Two strips for the width or do you have em layered so you have different transparency?

[F5 Dave]

Tape is about 18mm thick so slightly edged over is 30mm. Not really big enough let alone if one wasn't fully non transparent.

[roogazza]

Two strips for the width or do you have em layered so you have different transparency?

Just two strips for the width bud. Seems crazy simple but for me its works like a peak.Jjust a slight tilt of the head.
Realised yesterday I use the sun visor in the car the same way,my eyes hate any sort of glare.

[Cosmik de Bris]

Jeez Cosmik, you were very unlucky to be having the cataract ops and then have detachment! My wife had it the other way around and that was bad enough!

yes, it's pretty scary. you go blind in a matter of minutes. fortunately ER were very responsive and i was in a hospital bed within a couple of hours, both times. i'm very grateful to sean every, he is a great surgeon.

cheers

[Cosmik de Bris]

Wife and I both have had photochromatic lenses on our Bells for the last 2 helmets, not to dark and lightens up when needed, there is no compromise required when you do this.
Put simply, they work.
Bloody well.

I have one of those on my shoei but it does not help my particular situation. the glare, even reduced, shuts down the vision in both my eyes. i don't think darkening works, the sun needs to be blocked.

cheers'

[BMWST?]

Just two strips for the width bud. Seems crazy simple but for me its works like a peak.Jjust a slight tilt of the head.
Realised yesterday I use the sun visor in the car the same way,my eyes hate any sort of glare.

thats a good idea though,not new of course, but exactly like a sun visor in a car

[SaferRides]

Just two strips for the width bud. Seems crazy simple but for me its works like a peak.Jjust a slight tilt of the head.
Realised yesterday I use the sun visor in the car the same way,my eyes hate any sort of glare.

We used to do this back in the day. Two layers of insulating tape almost completely blocked the sun. It worked well then, but my eyes were much younger and not as sensitive to light as they are now.

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[Cosmik de Bris]

Just two strips for the width bud. Seems crazy simple but for me its works like a peak.Jjust a slight tilt of the head.
Realised yesterday I use the sun visor in the car the same way,my eyes hate any sort of glare.

this sounds like the best idea, thnaks.

[nerrrd]

I have a variation on this, in that I put tape across the top of the visor and across the bottom - means if the top's not working, you can open the visor and adjust it up or down a bit to suit.

Means your eyes get a blast of air, not such a problem for we bespectacled types, however if your visor hinges are a bit shit it might not work so well.

I use reflective tape usually, adds a bit of sparkle to the helmet at night.

[1/32 man]

Thanks for the tip regarding the tape across the top of the visor.
I tried it on yesterdays ride....worked great....so thanks once more from my 71 year old eyes.

[rastuscat]

On a tangent, with the sun being so low in the sky, it's the perfect time for people to pull out of intersections in front of us, and having sun strike to blame.

If it's hard for us to see, it's even harder for people to see us.

Whether they should or not is moot. They won't. Being aware of sun strike and how it impacts drivers view of us is a key riding skill.

If you can see your own shadow on the road ahead of you, watch out for people pulling out of side roads ahead of you too.

For other riding tips likely to put the fear of dog into you.