I've been using contacts for about 25 years - nearly aways wear some riding glasses to keep the gunk out. No issues there until I started to go longsighted and lost close focus. I now find the contacts can be a pain if I have to do some trail side maintenance. My optician has suggested carrying a cheap off the shelf set of reading glasses! I'm thinking of getting a dedicated set of riding glasses so I can take them off to deal with close work.
No issues there until I started to go longsighted and lost close focus. I now find the contacts can be a pain if I have to do some trail side maintenance. My optician has suggested carrying a cheap off the shelf set of reading glasses! I’m thinking of getting a dedicated set of riding glasses so I can take them off to deal with close work.
My optician - who used to ride with the same group as me - suggested using a near-sight lens in one eye and a far-sight lens in the other. For me, this means that my right eye is unchanged, and my left (weaker) eye's contact lens is slightly less powerful than I should need. It doesn't affect my distance vision noticably, and allows me to read my phone, or menu sized print for example. I used to keep a box of daily, full strength contact lenses for those occasions where I thought I'd need all the vision I could get (night riding, for example), but I rarely use them any more.
