Looks cool duntet.
Having never tried it tho', what's it like?
& any recommendations? there seems to be quite a range in price etc.
Open face lid and goggles is great to ride in. Wearing goggles focuses your vision and makes you go faster than normal without really realising. Then there's the advantages that they keep ALL the crap out your eyes and stop your eyes watering from cold air.
Get decent goggles. I'm using Oakley Crowbar MXs at the moment. I've got a Persimmon lense in to increase contrast, which works brilliantly. I'd also recommend using tear offs on them all the time to stop your lense getting scratched. I use laminated tear offs and just remove one tear off after each ride so I've always got clean vision for the next ride.
Any lid with a reasonably deep and flat back will work. My Urge Endur-O-Matic is perfect for it.
giro remedy is a nice helmet, paired with some spy goggles
got some basic buy nice Fox goggles from Pearce. Great to use lenses cheap as chips so are the tear offs.
1 tear off is normally fine so you can wide the crud off and not scratch the lense
I have a fox recon helmet. Not wishing to sound "Hora"; but won't a £35 pair of Bloc goggles suffice as opposed to £100+ Oakleys?
Think you'll be surprised what Oakleys cost, I paid £30 for my MXs. (I'd actually ruled Oakley out on the assumption they were expensiv!)
Don't really like wearing goggles with an XC lid though.
Quite simply, if they were £100+, I wouldn't own some.
http://www.dirtbikebitz.com/oakley-crowbar-mx-goggles-c-3465_55_75_599.html
OOOH that's mightily embarrassing.
So, Oakley mx's it is then. Thanks STW folk.
Oh, while we're goggley... Anyone used snow goggles on the bike? I've had some bother with fogging mine up in cold conditions (night downhill and the like), I figure the doubleglazed snow kit might avoid that?
Double lens' are better for not fogging, wouldn't say they are worth the significant extra cost though. Removing foam from around the top can help too
I struggled to find some to fit the front of my helmet, they either crushed my nose or pushed my helmet up
I've been wearing ski googles with a regular (not full face) helmet in the snow. One downside is hat they limit your peripheral vision which is a problem on the road - for example when looking over your shoulder to turn right.
Bloc do double glazed ones for £35. they described them as helmet friendly.
Have some Crowbar MXs that work a treat - as above, they keep all the crud out and seem to fog up less than my Jawbones. I've used mine with TSG p!sspot, Giro Feature and POC Receptor Flow - they seem to fit best with the POC lid.
I tried it on the weekend - used proper ski goggles.
They were given to me for free by a mate, but I do own inexpensive MX ones that work just as well.
Verdict: looked like a nob, but they didnt fog up apart from one very hard climb, kept my eyes clear of the blizzard, didnt obscure peripheral view (depends on your head and goggles)and had the bonus of making the whole world look warm due to the orange lens.
Id use them again dispite looking stupid.
Not all goggles fit and feel the same, some have more/less foam backing, wider/narrower etc, like normal glasses, you need to try some to find ones that work.
Use various combos of Spy/Giro/Oakley throughout the year depending on conditions but they were orsum on Friday in blizzard-lite conditions I don't think I would've been able to see anything at times riding into the wind.
Goggles work well with my Giro Feature
I have partaken of the [I]"Pisspot 'n' Goggles"[/I] look in the past, but TBH it looks a bit ****y really...
Then who cares if it serves a purpose go with it...