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How do you do it? and more to the point WHY?
After years of riding with contacts in, I'm having to suffer a week of wearing glasses before my laser surgery next week, just been out on the bike this evening, and had them fogging up, clearing unevenly, glare from car headlights, falling down my nose on descents and generally being a right pain.
How on earth do people ride with them on? I was ready to come back after ten minuets.
Think i'm going to risk a pair of disposables for a couple of hours for tomorrow night ride.
It seems a very old fashioned thing to wrap bits of metal round your head with lumps of glass in so you can see properly.
Some of us don't do contacts, can you not accept that people are different? Oh, and laser surgery? Rather you than me.
I seem to manage fine with mine. Apart from enabling me to see more than a foot in front of my bike, they're also great for keeping mud and rain and general detritus out of my eyes.
It sounds like your specs don't fit properly, and don't have a decent anti-glare coating. They're like anything else: cheap crap is cheap and crap. A good pair of well-fitted specs will stay on your head through some quite spectacular crashes, let alone rattling down a hill normally. As for fogging up, I don't seem to get that much, but you could try polishing a bit of candle wax onto them, some people seem find that helps.
I prefer my specs to the alternatives. Sticking uncomfortable bits of plastic on the surface of my eyeballs was unpleasant when I tried it, and the idea of carving up my cornea with lasers is, frankly, terrifying. I suppose it is old fashioned, but sometimes old-fashioned has its advantages. You can't stick contacts back together with 'leccy tape half way down a hill. And we have unparalleled evidence for the long-term safety of wearing glasses, after centuries of widespread use, which isn't something you can say for eye surgery.
Contacts are great until mud gets in your eyes, you rub them and then the lenses come out or break. Rather stick an old pair of glasses on if I'm not doing something too intense.
I can't get on with either on a bike. I use the force 😉
i have a set of contacts, bespoke -6 jobbies, any movement such as when you blink and i am blind. Tend not to use them much now due to the hassle. Much easier to grab glasses and get on with life.
and never ever cut chillies then rub eyes whilst wearing contacts...
I wear both glasses and contacts for riding. Both are fine. Sounds like you just need some better ones / mtfu. 🙂
I don't wear mine on the trail.
It has the beneficial effect of smoothing out the trail 🙂
They keep muck/stones/pollen out of my eyes. Specs are great.
And make me look intelligent.
Spectacules are a right Pain, unfortunately for me I'm almost blind. I went for a consultation re laser surgery but they said 'oh we can fix you all right, you'll be able to see distance like a peregrine but you'll always need reading glasses for close up stuff! I've got contacts but when I wear them I can ride ok but can't even read the menu at The Dales Bike Centre.
I'm like Blind Pugh me so I'm lumbered with varifocal-transitions.
similar to [b]mrmo[/b] here. contacts for swimming, glasses the rest of the time.
Laser surgery ? well my wife works in the eye dept at the local NHS hospital. There are 5 specialist surgeons in the unit.....they all wear glasses. That is adequate risk assessment for me 😛
[i]There are 5 specialist surgeons in the unit.....they all wear glasses. That is adequate risk assessment for me[/i]
The consultant I saw (or think I saw) also wore glegs. Her eyes were goosed as well.
mine is in a way a sweeping statement, although I say it every so often on a laser surgery thread. The thing is, these surgeons see what goes on, albeit I guess they more often see the cases where it goes wrong than right.
For me, with this knowledge, the odds just don't stack up, much as I would like them to do, being 44 yrs old, very short sighted and going to need a reading solution within a few yrs....
RX system, prescription sports glasses, anti glare, anti fog.... there's plenty of solutions. personally I can't say I'm that keen on risking my vision with some laser weilding cowboy, I'll stick with the specs for now....
I wouldn’t want a laser surgery either. I wear my cool safety glasses and sometimes contacts for riding. Both of them work just fine for me. I’ve bought from this [url= http://www.lensway.co.uk/contact-lenses ]contact lenses[/url] online store. They’re cheaper and the quality is great. Utterly recommend.
glasses most of the time for me. I do wear disposables sometimes but the extra £1 that that adds to each ride puts me off a bit. 😉
One thing contacts do with me is make cylindrical things look a lot bigger for some reason. So I usually keep them on for the post ride shower.
[i]How do you do it? and more to the point WHY?[/i]
The 'WHY?' gets me.
I've tried & still have some contacts. I have trouble getting them in (they just stick to my finger no matter what) & even more trouble getting them out. Then if I need to read I need reading glasses. It's easier to wear my varifoval transitions & carry a cleaning cloth up me sleeve.