So what colour lenses do people wear for night riding and why? Orange? Yellow? Clear? What are the pros and cons of each?

Clear, anything else is not clear enough!

Ruby Clear 8)

Yellow or red (or orange by definition), anything else allows bleaching of your rods (IIRC) and so wrecks your night vision. That said, most people subscribe to the "lumens race" and I don't, YMMV.

Black ones and a troutlight? 😕

Dark tint.

Makes it more exciting.

I would just go for clear.

Clear, any tint is reducing the amount of light getting to your retina.

Clear, any tint is reducing the amount of light getting to your retina.

But might be using your eye more efficiently/the way it was designed for night vision.

Carl Zeiss clear 82 Giro Havik lenses for night time.

Clear, any tint is reducing the amount of light getting to your retina.

But might be using your eye more efficiently/the way it was designed for night vision. [/quote]

On the sixth day God created man; and God said, 'Let his night vision be optimized for looking efficiently through orange lenses to make his night life more interesting for the first six thousand years of his sojourn on this earth …'

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Clear.

yellow – it enhances contrast with halogen light, can't comment on it's effect on LED as i use a halogen helmet and LED bar light. The mix of colour temperatures also aids contrast and vision

On the sixth day God created man; and God said, 'Let his night vision be optimized for looking efficiently through orange lenses to make his night life more interesting for the first six thousand years of his sojourn on this earth …'

but 'god' did not create the eye for night vision using enhanced light sources near or directly in line with the eyes. we are pretty poor at perceiving contrast (a vast proportion of the 'useful' bit of sight) under such conditions.

I'm not sure hunter gatherers had yellow tinted lenses? Can't follow that a tint at night (any tint) will help, if they did, then surely we'd have significantly tinted car windscreens, and it would be compulsory to wear a tinted lens after sunset?

hunter gatherers didn't wear bright light sources on their heads. coloured lenses work with the colour temperature of the light source to enhance contrast hence my LED/Halogen comment above

I think rose pink is in this year LoL, failing that Clear, you ever driven in France in the old days with yellow lights, yuk, just imagine riding with yellow glasses.

I just use my Tranistion Oakleys, day or night

A random question I know.

I have just bought a Giro Hex helmet and now my riding glasses don't sit right due to the helmet placing.

Anyone else suffer from this? and how do you get around it?

clear

YELLOW!

I'm a skier and in white-out conditions (ie when you can't see your hand in front of your face) yellow enhances the contrast.

Have a play with this:
http://www.anonoptics.com/goggles/lens_performance/11-yellow/

Thanks everyone.