[Closed] Eye protection. Do you?

Yes all the time cycling. Oakley flackjackets and Adidas Evil Eye with various lenses.

Wear em all day at work and have had plenty of occasions where I've been glad of them too.

With flies and flying grit on the bike, I see no reason not to either.

I use various, but try some clear Bolle safety specs

Having lost the vision in one eye I'm pretty paranoid about this and have a variety of goggles

I never go out for a ride without eye protection. I have two pairs of Tifosi Snglasses: Dolomite with photochromatic lenses and Logic with interchangeable lenses and they seem to cover all conditions pretty well. Got a pair of cheap goggles for the uplift days, too.

A few months ago my front wheel kicked up a pebble that hit my left lens fairly hard. I have no doubt it would have seriously hurt my eye.

I never used to but I do now. Usually clear lenses, don't really like tinted in the trees. Keeps the rain/flies/grit out.

I do, but then i wear contact lenses when riding so that needs some protection. Mud/grit/bugs etc can really mess your lenses up.

Bills safety specs about £8 perfect.

Always, tend ti use Bolle safety's

Yup.

Commuting, XC stuff, the lot.

Clear Bolle safety glasses off the bay FTW.

With flies and flying grit on the bike, I see no reason not to either.

This is my usual line - but got undone by some proper Scottish dreich that made glasses useless. Shoved them in my jersey pocket where of course they were not to be found at the end of the ride. I'm now mourning their loss and working out which photochromic replacements I want/can afford.

does anybody make cheap clear bendable safety specs ?

(I have a "special" face that requires a bit of adjustment)

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Yep...clear lenses only though. On 2nd pair of Avenir smokes after my dog ate the first...glad i hadnt forked out on oakleys.

Especially need them at cyb in the wet.

B&Q clear, yellow, tints. £5.95.

I didnt used to but in the last year or so i have been. Its way better. No getting hit in the eye with something, then riding down the next section with your eyes closed. I dont bother with expensive glasses i dont see the point. Doesnt matter how expensive they are going to get scratched with all the mud and grit thrown about.
I used these and change them as they get sratched cause scratched lenses are not good for your eyes either.
http://www.bolle-safety.com/model/contour.
Mine get donated by work but they are only 8quid a pair in screw fix

never ride without them lost the sigh tin one eye and contact in the other.
not prepared to take the risk and even some grit can be pretty dangerous for me.
used various kinds without issue

If using Bolle, I'd usually go for the Contours, but the Spiders are ok too

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I just use some clear lens safety specs I got from work for nowt. The amount of time i've been whipped in the face by branches and foliage, splatted in the face by dust, grit, stones and mud and stuff getting getting kicked up when clattering down a hill i'm sure I would have lost an eye several times over without them. Safety specs are perfect. They're lightweight, Polycarbonate lenses, modern ones look good and if you damage them or lose them, which I do all the time, they've not cost you anything and are easily replaceable. Also there is no visual distortion through the lenses - the last thing you want when you're operating machinery or power tools.

Always
Oakleys - Various.

I do- Bolle BL10 safety glasses mostly. Don't really like riding in sunglasses, very occasionally I do it in setting sun conditions but otherwise I prefer clear. Mostly it's for the wind, I get runny eyes otherwise, but it's good for mud etc too, and whippy branches.

And every so often, something like this happens- huck to eyeball at innerleithen:

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If going for the bolle would you recommend clear, esp or shaded?

Nevet worn them before but I do worry about my eyes.

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Yup, most of the time. Unless I forget. Mostly to stop my eyes watering on descents to be honest, but being able to see is a safety factor too.

MoseyMTB - Member

If going for the bolle would you recommend clear, esp or shaded?

Nevet worn them before but I do worry about my eyes.

esp ok for most daytime riding, clear for night

Wear them on commute just to stop eyes watering....maybe I'm going toooooo fast??

Tend to wear them on off road rides as a matter of habit from wearing them on commute, feel naked without them, but I've never really thought about wearing them for protection (apart from against the wind).

1 pair of blocs which have accompanied me down the Pacific Coast Highway, in French Alps and on every commute daily for last 3 years. Ran over them in car too...they have seen better days but too attached to them to change!

esp ok for most daytime riding, clear for night

Brilliant, thanks.

Yep, spent a very uncomfortable couple of weeks recovering from getting a small shard of metal embedded in my cornea not all that long ago, flicked up from a wheel in front while I was commuting home.

A+E was the worst bit, having the nurse say 'now stay still and try not to move your eye' when she starts leaning towards you with a needle to, as she put it, 'persuade it out', unfortunately she wasn't persuasive enough and I had to go back the following week for them to dig the last of it and a bit of rust out with some evil whizzy little brush contraption, Was. Not. Fun.

Always wear eye protection now, was pretty good at doing so before, just bloody annoying that one fo the few times I wasn't was when it happened 🙁

Normally use cheap safety specs for commuting, bolle something or other, have a few pairs as prone to losing them, clear or slightly yellow lenses.

Also have some Arnette sunnies that I had some yellow lenses made up for after the originals met the end of their natural life and use those for racing.

Always wear some kind of eye protection. Normally wear contacts but due to recent problems i'll be riding with normal glasses for a while.

I do most of the time, stops streaming eyes & the bugs & flies, have got some of the aldi specials - £5 with 3 lenses (clear, yellow & dark tint), have abused them pretty bad and not managed to break them, yellow lenses make you look a right tool, but good in overcast conditions.

I used to when it got muddy, but since installing a Neoguard last year I haven't felt the need.

Being spack-eyed and not keen on contacts I have to by default.

Fauxley jawbones with cheap prescription lenses.

I wear Bolle Axis - I started wearing them to stop my contacts drying out and then falling out, but they've saved my face from several branches over the last couple of years (sometimes you just don't see branches especially in low light), so now I'd say they were 'essentials'. Also useful on dig days when you are using a pick or a mattock.

The Axis are particularly good as the arms are adjustable... you can angle them up and rest them on the plastic part of the lid harness so they don't press behind your ears. Keeps them on securely without any discomfort.
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Amedias, just reading that made me wince in pain! Ouch.

Got some Bloc that are heavily tinted and polarised. Normally too dark off road in changing conditions and the rims are a bit too thick on the road bike; they obscure quite a lot.

I've recently got some cheap Uvex glasses. SGL204 in clear for using on the road as I was getting concerned about the amount of grit and the number of insects ending up in my eyes.

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So far so good.

Always; have a set of Uvex ones with interchangeable lenses. Clear and orange mostly for MTB, dark for sunny road rides. My favourite were some Merida blue ones given away at the MTB marathon a few years ago. Now broken sadly.

My cyclist optician (who should know better) had to have a month off when he got a metal shard in his eye whilst commuting - ouch! He now wears eye protection on the bike.

Nope it feels crap. I sometimes wear goggles with my full face if its particularly dusty or muddy. I dont like the "disconnected" feeling you have with something in front of your eyes.

I've got about 7 pairs of fakelys from deal extreme - cost anywhere between £3 and £15. Normally wear the jawbones with yellow or mirrored lenses. Also got a pair of Specialized glasses and some others.

Commuting is pretty horrendous without them with all the diesel, pullution and dust. Wear them for mountain biking unless it's dry. Road biking when it's fast, windy or raining.

Bumble bee strikes scare the bejeesuz out of me.

Always for me. I wear glasses to see and the odd occasion i put in contacts in there's generally goggles on top. Feels weird without some sort of protective layer and my specs have saved me from a few nasty eye injuries. I wouldn't mind a prescription pair of cycle styled aerodynamicky glasses though. The wind blast with ordinary specs can be a nuisance.

Contact wearer so always for me. Got a set of M frames with a clear lens and jawbones with transitions and that covers everything

I commute in specs but MTB in contacts. No eyewear as I've never found a pair I got on with, but like OP I guess I should. How do you all keep them from fogging up when you're sweating like a para in a spelling test? Don't they wobble around a bit too?

Many thanks folks.

Will try the Bolle safety specs tomorrow.
If they don't work, I'll go for some posh ones.

Once again, thanks.

How do you all keep them from fogging up when you're sweating like a para in a spelling test?

They only fog up if you go slow 😉

I'm actually serious about that, they only fog when you come to a stop, get going at more than a walking pace and they clear again within a few seconds.

Don't they wobble around a bit too?

Not really no...

Got cheap Uvex with interchangeable lenses. 99% of the time the orangey yellow lenses stay in there. 1% of the time is in Slovenia with very white rocks and lots of glare, so the dark lenses come in handy.

Cost me a load of Airmiles that were about to expire. Or probably about €30 in real money.

supersaiyan - Member

How do you all keep them from fogging up when you're sweating like a para in a spelling test? Don't they wobble around a bit too?

Not really a problem on descents, on sweaty climbs you don't need them- I tend to tuck them into my helmet if they're annoying me though most of the time I just wear them (it's mostly psychological I reckon!)

Won't wobble around if they fit.

No. I've tried various pairs but sweat running down the inside of the lens obscures my vision.

will never ride without glasses, whether different pairs of Oakley sunnies, Madison clear classes or Spy goggles for snow riding

not ever worth taking the chance with your eyesight

whether its a small piece of grit flicking into your eye on a fireroad, mud sprayed into your eyes on a downhill descent, a tree branch trying to gouge your eyeball out on a trail, or simply bright sunlight on a descent, protect your eyes!

you will get the opportunity to buy more glasses. I have never seen eyeballs for sale..or broken limbs rebuilt when something gets into your eyes and causes a crash.

All the time, day and night... bit paranoid because I have lasik flaps on my eyeballs. That aside I dont see why you wouldnt, its not like your vision is unimportant, why risk it.

:googles laskik flaps:

not pron 🙁

Always wear glasses - had enough flies, stones, branches hit them to know its the way to go. I use -
Bloc shifters
Tifosi dolomite fototec
Oakley Split jacket transitions clear/black

Yup I'm a glasses & goggles tart par excellence. Have got a drawer full of them everything from safety specs to Oakleys and Rudy Project and lenses for every condition

Am lucky enough to have pretty good eyesight and I do everything I can to protect my eyes

Always had problems with fogging lenses but now put washing up liquid on the inside surface, then put them in the airing cupboard overnight and then polish them and don't fog at all now

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Yep always. Only one good eye and want to keep it that way.

Goggles or shades depending. Shades are some endura interchangeable lens jobs, clear, orange, light or dark.

Mostly just sunglasses when it's sunny. I do have some clear lenses that I wear occasionally in the mud but they're a bit scratched.

The tales of metal shards etc in this thread have made me reconsider though. Eyesight is pretty important come to think of it! I'll be ordering some of this Bolle ones I think...

No. I've tried various pairs but sweat running down the inside of the lens obscures my vision.

+1

The cure for dripping sweat issues is a Buff, or similar alternative. They do fog up if you stop but I just take them off or slide them down my nose till I get going again. I guess it also depends on the type of trails you ride. I ride alot of woods where you do ride through lots of foliage, clouds of little insects and other things that can get in your eyes. If you ride open trails then I guess the risk of getting stuff in your eyes is less.

No, & I should really know better...I had a splinter go through my eye as a child, while peering over a train bridge. Had a 4 hour op to try & fix it, but to this day I can't read with that eye.
We've started using Bolle at work now, & the sports style wrap around ones I picked up are actually very good for riding in, better than the Uvex ones we used to have. I have some of their prescription safety glasses & they are as good as the £350 [i]designer[/i] specs I have. Next year I might order some prescription sports style ones.

Having to scrape dog shit out from under my eyelid convinced me that eyeware all the time is a very good idea.

More often than not yes. I tend to use my Oakley's that have a changeable lens and a mirrored shade.

I'm officially [b][i]the[/i][/b] sweatiest rider known to cycling and yes, sweat trickling down and fogging is annoying, but still pales against getting something nasty in your eye.

Always.

Oakley Photochromic Split Jackets at the moment. They deal with varying light conditions really well.

One or two pairs

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Houns - Member

One or two pairs

😯

I knew you were a fan!

^^ that's ridiculous 😆

It's minuscule compared to some!

Yep always wear sunnies. Currently got some crap Endura ones, a pair of Oakley Radar's are on my Christmas list.

Clear radars almost always for me, although I find the clear ones a right bugger to keep clean. Might try something else off road over the winter, but on the road the radars are amazing.

Ever wear the 'Over the Tops' Houns?

I always do, Radars or Jawbones. Tend to take them off if its raining and tuck them into my helmet vents or put them on the back of my head.

Yes always, set of Jawbones with various lenes.

Not when riding 😛

What good timing for this thread 😀

I am a religious glasses wearer while riding, mainly because I feel I can descend faster without worrying about the muck getting flung up in to the eye. Maybe climbing in the pouring rain I might remove them.

Anyway...

I managed to get a small splinter embedded in my eyelid and eye on the one ride I haven't worn glasses this Summer. Sods Law. I got some muck in the eye but didn't think much of it at the time. Gradually over a day or two the eye got redder and more sore to the extent of the socket swelling and not being able to open the eye. I had it checked out very early (before it got anywhere near that bad) and the scratches to the cornea were evident but the docs could not find a cause. Then it got worse as above but still no cause found. Eventually when it got really bad the docs were thankfully able to find the very small splinters. Touch wood (not splinters!) it now seems to be on the mend.

A rare and freak accident but painful none the less! I really wouldn't recommend anyone messing up their eyes and even if you do not do any damage, getting flies/ muck/ whatever in the eye riding off road isn't much fun

Can't believe this subject is even under discussion. It's up there with 'do you use a saddle?'

Houns, that is ace 😀

Always wear glasses, after expermimenting with various saftey glasses but found the scratched too easy I splashed out on oakley racing jackets, also have a pair of endura mullets...

Eye protection. Do you?

No. I'd like to but have yet to find a pair of glasses that don't mess with my short range (couple of metres) depth perception, including the prescription glasses I use for driving and TV. It's a bit of a problem actually because for mid/long range the prescription glasses are a real benefit.

In short - yes..

I have some clear, yellow and normal tinted glasses.

Never go out without them

which make me feel I'm floating above the bike.

Cheap ones do that.

Suffered with dry eyes since my accident three years ago. Tried glasses, but found the optics bad or the glasses just plain uncomfortable. Went to Oakleys a few months ago... and haven't looked back.

oldgit - Member

Cheap ones do that.

Not so much about price, just about design- some safety glasses are really just designed to give good central vision, so there's a fair bit of distortion in the peripherals, which is weird and distracting... But they're not all like that. (and some "proper" bike glasses are just not very good)

Generally don't bother with them - too much aggravation with fogging and cleaning them on rides IME of loads of different types. Obv they're a good idea, just never found the right pair.

Quite like yellow tinted ones when I do wear them - v late 90s look but they works wonders on mentally warming up a slate-grey British morning ride.