glasses - helmets

[Splat]

Guys,

I wear glasses, and have a Shoei Multitec.

The helmet squeezes my head just right, but my glasses a bit too much.

On our very bad roads here, the bike jumps around, making my helmet tremble, making my glasses tremble, and messing with my eyesight.

Anybody had the same issue? Quick fix? (cut a piece of foam around the glasses or something).

I saw that Shark now has a Vision-R helmet where you can actually take out the bits surrounding your glasses. But I'm not in the market for a helmet just yet.

 

[Timolgra]

Hey, Splat are you sure you don't have a 1200?

 

[Taff]

Contact Lenses - trust me.

I have to wear glasses to drive / ride but since starting using contact lenses life is a lot easier. TBH at first I dreaded using them as the thought of sticking something in your eye didn't appeal, but you'd be surprised how quickly you get used to them. And they're not painful anyway, they just feel a bit odd for the first minute or so. They work out at approx 60p a day, but I only use them when glasses would be a nuisance eg sport, riding the bike (especially in wet / damp weather when the glasses mist up) and on nights out.

If I know I'm going out on the bike, I just pop a pair in first thing and forget about it till it's time to take them out at night. In fact, they're so comfortable I have been known to forget I'm wearing them and leave them in overnight.

 

[Davy F]

Quick fix?

+1 Contact lenses.............

 

[stolzy]

Funny, I have a mutitec and find it one of the more comfortable helmets for spectacle wearers.

Do your glasses have particularly thick sides?

 

[hank]

When my wife got new glasses, she took her helmet into the opticians with her and wore it while trying on various specs till she found a pair that were comfy.

 

[Splat]

I have to wear glasses to drive / ride but since starting using contact lenses life is a lot easier.

If I know I'm going out on the bike, I just pop a pair in first thing and forget about it till it's time to take them out at night.

I've actually been talking to a (very unpleasant) optician past weekend.

I like wearing glasses (been doing it for over 28 years, since I was 5), and I would just consider contacts for riding.

But most of my riding is 'on a whim'

He told me there were two types, the monthlies and the daylies.
But I have -8 and -8.5, and with a 'cylinder'... so I'm unsure of the cost.

Which do you use?

I want to go on a big trip this summer.
I never had problems with my previous helmet/glasses combinations.

The legs are fine, but my head is very narrow, so the glasses are somewhat wide in the front

 

[Splat]

Hey, Splat are you sure you don't have a 1200?

I'm still trying to find the correct suspension settings.

Now, I think it's on the hardest. (preload, I don't feel any difference with that little screw that you can't reach anyway )

I'm a very light (my weight, not my riding) street rider, and it seems to be the best setting for handling.

 

[Taff]

But most of my riding is 'on a whim'

That's not a problem, as it only takes me 2-3 minutes to put them in including washing / drying hands etc. Some people can put them in in seconds.

He told me there were two types, the monthlies and the daylies. But I have -8 and -8.5, and with a 'cylinder'... so I'm unsure of the cost. Which do you use?

I use daily disposable ones. One eye is slightly different to the other, so I now have 2 boxes - one for the left and one for the right. I have thought of having lazer eye surgery - but that might be a step too far at the moment. Hell, it took me years to decide to wear contacts - but now that I've got used to them I wish I'd used them years ago.

 

[Blind Lemon Ade]

My glasses fit fine in my Multitec, but I have a big head (Size L, 59-60cm) which fits pretty snugly. Put it this way, I have to take my specs off to get the lid on, and my ears still get folded over in the process...

Perhaps your glasses are just too wide at the front, to fit in the helmet aperture? My current "letterbox" shaped lenses are wider than my old "John Lennon" style round lenses.

How about a pair of "wrap-around" shades with a prescription insert?

http://www.extreme-eyewear.co.uk/

I tried contacts years ago, but couldn't get on with them - I'd get "misting" caused (I think) by my eyes drying out when my blink rate decreased, so the lenses came unstuck. Not good while braking for Druids...

 

[mr badger]

madame switche to contacts when she started riding and has no problems. About a pound a day fopr disposables.

I can't do contacts and am at the point where I need specs to ride, especially in poor light. Varifocals on thin frames.

The problem I have is the lenses misting up. Anyone found a good product/solution? The lenses are anti fog coated but under 5C they take ages to settle.

 

[Loiq]

suppose it depends on the glasses you wear, but contacts are pretty good as an alternative to the old dame edna's

 

[Bury_Dave]

I wear glasses. I find contacts very good for riding as well as for other sports either high activity or outdoors in cr@p weather. I have dry eyes so have to use some supplemental drops once in a while. Still worth the agro' but I choose not to wear them all the time - even when riding. But wearing cool sunglasses is only possible when wearing the contacts

For me the misting up is an issue with glasses in cool, humid weather but not warm or very cold (Drier i suppose?). Comfort-wise, I have some glasses with bendable metal frames and bayonet arms on them ( almost no hook over the ears). This allows me to feed the glasses arms past my ears dead straight and the frames bend slightly but don't distort my vision. The frames are also VERY thin so there's no material to speak of between my nugget and the helmet.
NEVER had a problem.

Regarding your prescription, 8 is pretty high. I'm a 3.5 in my worst eye and consider myself to be blind without my glasses . I also have astigmatism in one eye and there is a limit on what contacts can do for you. Even now. It may not be possible for you to wear contacts ...

Through your optician you also only need order as many daily disposables as you want for each 3 month period. Not necessary to get and pay for lenses for every day and then not wear them and waste money. As I wear them less than an average of twice a week over the course of a year, at £0.60 per time, it isn't expensive to get the number of contacts for what you might want to ride. I rarely wear them in winter and serveral times per week in summer.

I hope you get something that works for you be it a change of glasses or getting some contacts. Both can work.

Cheers,
Dave