Wondering if prescription riding glasses are worth the cost, my eyes aren't what they used to be and for distance i'm thinking of looking at prescription riding glasses.
Has anyone got any thoughts they can share or experience using them?
Although I do not need glasses to drive, my prescription really brings out sharper details so I do like riding with my prescription sunglasses during the day and regular during the night. Got the sunglasses at Costco, including special tint and anti-scratch, which I think is a standard offering, they were about $200.00. Well worth it to me.
They are not motorcycle specific but do the job and have taken rock and bug impact without damage.
Fortunately do not need prescription and find these excellent....and cheap. Big visual improvement over the visor and useful as a second line of intercept when raining. $4.25
I’m not a contacts guy so, I’m always wearing glasses. I guess the question is what kind of helmet to wear with eyewear is the question.
I know specific motorcycle eyewear typically has contours that make it challenging depending on your script.
I’m at an age with progressive bifocals. I have transition lenses for the skull cap helmet but, they do allow a lot of wind past the lense and some watering.
I have a modular with flip down tint visor that works well with my glasses but, it lets in a lot of wind noise while on a call.
Anything above 90 km/h, I’m not sure if I’d want open face with glasses only. Sorry that doesn’t help. I’m always thinking of the ideal combo though. I want a quiet helmet with com system and wear my glasses and lets in uv to let my glasses tint or have a flip down visor. When I find it, the cost typically has me comparing it to getting an other bike.
First of all we need to start calling them "plastics" as glass lenses are a thing of the past.
I have a SCHUBERTH helmet that has a conventional visor plus a short tinted retractable visor.
I have my windshield located in such a manner I only use the tinted retractable visor that I can flip up in low light conditions.
The regular clear visor is only used in the rain/snow.
When I ride back roads with shadows I retract the tinted visor for better definition of road conditions.
Plastic lens coatings to darken are temperature sensitive vs glass lens coating are light sensitive.
My prescription is such that glass lens would be too heavy to be practical.
There are motorcycle-specific glasses with rubber gaskets to keep the wind out, but they're meant for open face helmets.
Assuming you ride with your modular closed, you can use any prescription glasses that fit in your helmet. Straight arms might help getting them on and off with the helmet still fastened.
My eye doctor said it was a bad idea buying glasses online, she had a long list of reasons why and recommended the $500 option of using the store next to her office.
I bought 4 pairs of utility glasses from Zenni for $125 total. 2 sets of safety glasses, a pair of clear riding glasses and a pair of polarized riding sunglasses.
I took the glasses to her at my last appointment, she looked them over, checked to optics with her machine and said they were perfect.
I’ve used their glasses for about 10 years, never an issue.
I've been looking for a set of riding sunglasses with a foam backing that are photochromatic so I can replace a set where I have to pop lenses in and out.
I order a set from there with lens options that are photochromatic and for a few extra bucks hydrophobic too. I'm expecting them to also be polarized based on how they have the ordering process set up.
When they ship, I realize they're coming from China (not good). Almost 2 weeks later they arrive and they're just multi-lens glasses like the ones I already have. I paid almost $100 CAD for this.
I reach out to them and at first they say that's what I ordered. I say "no, I ordered photochromatic etc". They then say they'll refund me the lenses cost.
I tell them I already have a set of multi-lens glasses and the reason I bought these is to replace those. Send me a return form and I'll send them back (their refund policy says they'll take them back if it's their fault).
They keep refusing to do that and keep asking me to take the refund. ... I give up and have put in a request to reverse the charges with my CC company.
I purchase the thinnest safety glasses I could find, as that allowed me to fit into the helmet and didn't cause me too much pain.
The bulkier 'safety' glasses or 'sport' glasses have thick frames which caused me lots of pain when I put them on and in the helmet.
Can't find the exact ones I had, but something similar in style to this...
I’m not a contacts guy so, I’m always wearing glasses. I guess the question is what kind of helmet to wear with eyewear is the question.
I know specific motorcycle eyewear typically has contours that make it challenging depending on your script.
I’m at an age with progressive bifocals. I have transition lenses for the skull cap helmet but, they do allow a lot of wind past the lense and some watering.
I have a modular with flip down tint visor that works well with my glasses but, it lets in a lot of wind noise while on a call.
Anything above 90 km/h, I’m not sure if I’d want open face with glasses only. Sorry that doesn’t help. I’m always thinking of the ideal combo though. I want a quiet helmet with com system and wear my glasses and lets in uv to let my glasses tint or have a flip down visor. When I find it, the cost typically has me comparing it to getting an other bike.
Not sure if this is useful for you, but I have noise cancelling earbubs. I can hear pretty good, which is expected, but I was surprised to find that others can hear me pretty good, too, even through the wind noise.
I wear a full-faced helmet. The buds are Monster Archive 100, which is getting increasingly harder to find, but they fit inside the helmet well. If it not too hot, I'll wear a thin balaclavas just to completely dampen the wind noise. My phone is on a RAM holder, so answering calls is easy.
I had a bluetooth helmet, and still do, but I found it useless and don't use it. The wind is too loud for me to hear my audiobook on my commute. It would be okay for music, and tolerable for short calls, but with an audiobook, I need to hear every word, not just a beat.
I have Underarmour 'script sunglasses for daylight hours. I have no issue, but weirdly, I feel much taller while wearing them. When I don't wear them, it appears that I'm dragging on the road. It's strange. Other than the sunglasses, I don't wear glasses expect for reading, although I did just order some, and should get them this week. I'll let you know how they feel.
I have a full-face helmet that accommodates glasses, I just have to remember to put take them off before I remove the helmet.
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