Riding with glasses

[Ichy]

The last couple of days I've worn glasses instead of contacts. Didn't think much about it until I got to the first T junction that wasn't 90 degrees to the main road, I just couldn't see what was coming down the road without stopping and turning to take a look instead of the normal glance. I find with my glasses that theres a dead zone to each side. My journey to work means that I have to go through about four of these junctions and I feel a real divvy stopping and looking around when there is obviously (to everyone else) no cars for half a mile.

how do those who always wear glasses cope? Any tricks? Or do you always stop?

[mchaggis]

Just stop and make sure, and turn my head further. Wear an open-faced helmet with contacts and you'll be shocked at how good the visibility is compared to a full-face helmet.
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[extreme3d]

Get back to those contacts asap!!!! I hate wearing glasses full stop and just can't get on with them anywhere outside the house let alone in a helmet - Guess sometime i'm a bit of a "mirror mirror on the wall... who is the fairest of the all"

The only answer is contacts or laser surgery but I can't have that until i'm 25. (and even then...its a bit drastic isn't it?) For me it wasn't just the lack of peripherial vison, but also I found that at speed you tend to drop your helmet down to tuck behind the screen. This means you are looking slightly up and if wearing glasses are looking over the top of the lens and everything is blurred!

[Type_Mo]

i dont wear contacts yet, but i get on with glasses ok, i can usualy make out things in the 'dead zone' so that means i dont have to stop all the time.
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[GSXReater]

Contact lens wearers - dont you lenses dry out? For some reason my do and after a long ride my eyes become really red & puffy.

How can i avoid this?

[Ichy]

[Ichy]

[extreme3d]

I wear disposable's too. Find them much easier as you just throw them away. Also greatly reduces the chance of infection as all the bacteria is removed and put in the bin, not allowed to breed overnight and put back in the eye next morning...

[Flip]

I too am a fellow speccy and I find that contact lenses are nowhere near as good a specs (actually visual improvement here).

I suppose I'm used to riding in them now.

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[kath600]

[TheShaggyDA]

I used to wear contacts, but with glasses you can ride with your visor up. I don't have problems with dead zones. Might be because the bikes I've owned have had a more upright riding position, which means I'm turning my head, rather than trying to chew my shoulder.
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[Suzuki]

I've always worn contacts when riding... up until last night.

All my contacts were at my girlfriends house, and I'd gone home to drop off my car and pick up my bike. Had to ride back with my glasses on. Not an experience I want to repeat.

Glasses didn't sit on my face right, kind of hovered above my nose. My usual glances at the mirrors/speedo and lifesavers were impossible. Had to completely turn my head to look in mirrors, and spin my head loads further for a lifesaver. Horrible.

Stick with the contacts!
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Charlotte got some new glasses a few months ago and had major problems with them on the bike. Went into another opticians (same chain, different branch) at which the guy said that she should never have been sold those for use on a bike (he rode a bike as well). Far too small so pathetic periferal vision. She got some new frames and lenses which fixed the problem.

Seems this might be more of a problem at the moment as the current fashion is for tiny lenses in glasses.

All the best

Keith
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[colin1]

For the first six months of having a bike, i only ever wore contact lenses. Now that i am a more confidant rider I can ride with glasses, but I know its safer with contacts for peripheral vision. Since then I have used glasses sometimes if im just off to the shops or something.

My glasses arm broke recently for no apparanet reason and I have reaslid now that its the stress they get if i wear them under the helmet, due to the shape of the arm.
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[McGee]

I have broke 3 pairs of my glasses so far wearing them in a helmet also feel a right spastic having to take second looks at every thing

Looking at contacts but i really cant be bothered.
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[kath600]

the other thing i just thought of.......

if you get caught in bad weather, fog , rain etc and you have no choice but to put yr visor up for whatever reason....

if yr wearing glasses its not good
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[Flip]

I once rode 20 miles at night in fog that froze on my visor. I lifted the visor and it froze on my specs. I had to ride looking over the top of my specs!

Scariest journey ever.

I tend you use a visor anit mist spray on my glasses for normal misting problems.

[MalcolmT]

I’ve ridden with spec’s since day one so I don’t know any different.
Its great in summer when you lift the visor a little for cool air and don’t get flies in the eyes. Its nice in summer rain and the cops can get cooled, but it’s a bugger when everything mists up and you don’t know which way you're pointing.

[Type_Mo]

It alSO doesnt help when you have no mirrors and you have to keep looking behind you
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[Dom]

I've got a contact lense appointment booked for next Wednesday. Can't wait to find out what this 'peripheral vision' stuff is.

[DucatiEVO]

Always used glasses and never had probs with dead zones, guess you just learn to work around them. But I must admit it does piss me off in winter when they mist up in the cold (same goes for rain, sleet and snow).

Thought about the contacts route but not keen on sticking something in my eye!
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