Glasses vs Goggles
#21
04-30-2008, 03:00 AM
RE: Glasses vs Goggles
ORIGINAL: cosmicHD
How well do those work with glasses? Do they still keep stuff out of your eyes?
ORIGINAL: trmac
HD makes a nice shield for half helmets - $30
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HD makes a nice shield for half helmets - $30
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#22
04-30-2008, 04:55 AM
RE: Glasses vs Goggles
The only thing I haven't tried, yet is prescription-lens riding glasses. I need them primarily to keep the sun and glare out of my eyes. UV protection. I occasionally use clip-on sunglass lenses, and "sport" over the glasses sunglasses from Walmart. Not intended to be riding glasses, but I find them to be adequate. I like them because they are easy to take off when I step off the bike and go inside somewhere, or when the evening sun turns to dusk. I just got a pair of Guard Dogs Goggles with dark tint, and they seem to be ok. I look like a freaking bug with 'em on, though! Like "The Fly"!
However, the benefit is being able to take them off by lowering them and just letting them drape around my neck when the situation warrants, like going from a sunny day to the parking garage at work. They also tend to work a little better at reducing the wind circulation around my eyes at speed, but with my compact low windshield, and being used to highway speeds, I don't tear up a lot anyway.
I like the idea of transition lenses. I actually LIKE transition lenses, though I don't have any on my current prescription due to expense at the time. The way photochromatic lenses work is they are sensitive to light...they are not sensitive to dark. What that means is they will fairly quickly darken when exposed to light, but when that light is removed, they will SLOWLY revert back to clear. This is fine as daylight wanes to twilight, or from sunny to cloudy to rainy,but sucks when you go into sudden areas of shade, like a tunnel or parking garage. IOW, transitions go darker a whole lot faster when exposed to light than they go lighter when it gets dark.
Maybe I'll try some prescription riding glasses with transition amber lenses later, but I need to update my prescription first.
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However, the benefit is being able to take them off by lowering them and just letting them drape around my neck when the situation warrants, like going from a sunny day to the parking garage at work. They also tend to work a little better at reducing the wind circulation around my eyes at speed, but with my compact low windshield, and being used to highway speeds, I don't tear up a lot anyway.I like the idea of transition lenses. I actually LIKE transition lenses, though I don't have any on my current prescription due to expense at the time. The way photochromatic lenses work is they are sensitive to light...they are not sensitive to dark. What that means is they will fairly quickly darken when exposed to light, but when that light is removed, they will SLOWLY revert back to clear. This is fine as daylight wanes to twilight, or from sunny to cloudy to rainy,but sucks when you go into sudden areas of shade, like a tunnel or parking garage. IOW, transitions go darker a whole lot faster when exposed to light than they go lighter when it gets dark.
Maybe I'll try some prescription riding glasses with transition amber lenses later, but I need to update my prescription first.
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