[Closed] Has there been a massive increase in cycling related eye injuries recently?

Has there been a massive increase in cycling related eye injuries recently?

nope. Because everyone is wearing goggles.

STOP IT!

Good rant 🙂

mate... cycling glasses or goggles? Cycling glasses or goggles?

which makes you look more ridiculous?

who knows?

neither are 'cool' as such are they..?

I suppose you could always go full bender and wear some sort of Oakley sunglasses

I wear a pair now; kinda guarantees my eyes won't get teary at high speeds and cause me to blink out a contact lens. No fun at all when that happened to me last year wearing normal cycling glasses, maybe other folk have it the same? Having said that, yet to see another biker wearing goggles this year!

You mock, but several years ago I went for a p1ss in the bushes whilst out on a night ride, and grazed my cornea on a hawthorn bush. It really really bloody hurt, and then got infected for good measure.

Had I been wearing goggles, it wouldn't have happened. It also wouldn't have happened if I had my head torch switched on.

The lesson here? Dunno. I don't wear goggles in any case.

Noticed more people wearing goggles on the Quantocks too, probably down to more debris being thrown up by their giant, clown sized wheels.

Goggles ?

Pah

I have a visor ziptied to my road helmet 😆

It's the same with helmets int it

Sorry, but i detect an underlying tension with the OP. Probably he deep down knows he just isn't cool enough to carry off the "open face helmet and googles" look, and he wishes he was..........

😉

I like that someone called "binners" is posting about optical devices. very fitting.

You look like a dick!

Personally I've never seen a dick with goggles so I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion.

I've used Oakley goggles tbh till i managed to loose them ;-(

But my excuse was that I had eye issues at the time (i.e. 6 hrs use and they was fekd')but
i still wanted to ride as couldn't handle being in a car or train and tbh life was pretty miserable 🙁

Personally I've never seen a dick with goggles so I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion.

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Normal helmets and goggles?! I know you think you look all 'Enduro' and all that...

But just stop it!! You look like a dick!

Really don't get why people get so worked up about it, I wear goggles when its muddy and I'm riding steep, fast and technical descents. I look like a moron with them on, yes, but I'm able to ride faster as my eyes tear up, or I get mud and grit in them, which I spend the next couple of days picking out.

Was sat on the uplift bus last week, and some XC chaps were behind me saying how stupid people look with goggles and a open face. While I was sat there with my open face and goggles.

Most people who don't ride a bike think that people wearing helmets look stupid. Being prejudice is pretty well defined by having an unfounded hatred of something you don't understand.

I'd pose to you, if you've got such a problem with the way people choose to protect their eyes that you need to be abusive about them, then youre the one with the problem.

Ive just started wearing them because my eyes water so bad its unreal, to the point where i was having to stop to wipe my eyes or blink massively. Which isn't fun.

I do feel pretty self conscious wearing them tho, you do look a bit of a dick.

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Goggles encourage you to ride faster as you feel less wind in your face, ergo you judge your speed as being lower than it actually is.

Not only that, goggle offer better protection for your eyes in a crash and on the whole better ballistic protection.

So my question is, why do some riders go out with kneepads on, when your eyes are clear far more important?

Besides, wearing goggles with a half lid is snowboarder style and they are way ****ing cooler than most mtbers.

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^^^^ WAIIIIIIII coooler than nerd glasses.

Doubt if many have my excuse, but i've just had eye surgery that leaves the inside of the eyeball open to anything that gets in the eye, so shall probably be wearing goggles for anything remotely wet, please accept my apologies.

I've got Steve Buscemi eyes (almost), so I've got an excuse as well. Don't scare off other trail users if I've got them on or rip my eyeballs out in a crash. 😆

Besides, wearing goggles with a half lid is snowboarder style and they are way **** cooler than most mtbers.

I'll have you know I am both an mtber and a snowboarder and I am far too old, fat and crap to be cool

FWIW I wear goggles and pisspot on the board, glasses and xc lid on the bike. This may guide you in knowing what look is not (or no longer) cool

Hi Binners. I love goggles. I wear them around the house sometimes too. So there.

I hadn't considered wearing goggles before, but now you mention it I might give them a go.

Also great for chopping onions.

Not sure I'm that bothered by goggle wearing folk, but great rant buddy! 😀

You haven't seen the bloke near me regularly seen using a full face motorbike helmet on his commute then? 😯

If I was wearing contact lens I'd wear endura specs. Goggles are too enduro for me 8)

FTW !

If you are going to do it, do it properslike.

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I think she forgot to put a seat on her seatpost!

Fashion...goggles, 6 foot wide bars, 1x setups etc.

There are lots of reasons why people "need" them and are not simply following the trend but it comes down to what is in the magazines and cycling press.

The bigger issue is that goggles are crap for riding anything other than full on downhill in. If you put in even a moderate amount of effort then they mean you can't breathe, they often steam up, they're a pain to take off to wipe clean, they make your face hot and sweaty and they're generally a pain in the arse.

If goggles are a pain in the arse, you are applying them to the wrong area of the body...

You do look a rodney in them and a mushroom helmet - I've got a set I "won" at a race (stuff thrown into crowd at the end of the race and a set landed in my hands).

However they are really handy for lashing down muddy fast long routes, I normally wouldn't wear any eye protection and suffer with bits of grit in my eyes etc. If we are doing a more "enduro" spin I'd take them with me for the downs, pain in the bum for long ranging xc rides though.

I'll take your goggles and raise you rip offs.
Really, are you really that moto? get back on the estate then:-)

You mock, but several years ago I went for a p1ss in the bushes whilst out on a night ride, and grazed my cornea on a hawthorn bush.

I am never leaving the house without goggles again. 😯 8)

[i]"I am never leaving the house without goggles again"[/i]

But most accidents happen [b]in[/b] the home. I really think you should wear the goggles indoors too, BigDummy 😉

You make a good point...

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I scratched my cornea on a holly leaf once, also whilst going for a piss..
It was ****ing agony

What goggles for taking a slash?

If I see a potential eye-threatening trail hazard coming up I just quickly whip out one of these, unpackage it and hold it up to whichever eye seems most likely to get hurt.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-gentlemans-single-use-monocle/description

Works fine, don't know why anyone uses glasses or goggles TBH.

It's not really about eye injuries is it? It's about visibility. Same as people say "Why have you got a mudguard on, afraid to get a dirty face?" "No, I like being able to see"

STW gets annoyed at people riding how they want to shocker...

Binbins... didn't you turn up to a BMX session with a pair stuck to your lid?

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i met some bloke doing the sustrans C2C a few months ago who was wearing goggles together with full colour co-ordinated troy lee attire & riding a hybrid thing with panniers - no 27.5inch wheels in sight! plus it was dry with no rain & no mud. shame he was a nice guy otherwise would be easy to call him a twunt

Look a bigger tit if you lose your eye sight. Do t wear googles but Oakleys, clear in winter dark summer. It's the crap coming up from the wheels and the odd bush, branch and bramble that they have saved me from. If your off piste in woods forest they make sense. Besides its a free country wear what you like

I always have goggles on back of my helmet ready for DH sections both open and in the woods. I get watery eyes and that in turn loses speed. I've actually measured times and the clock doesn't lie.

Fact is, for me at least, goggles stop my eyes watering up like they do in glasses, which in turn lets me go considerably faster. Extra eye protection is also good as well.

Plenty of people ride all day where they go up a hill, stop, get ready, blast down, get sorted, ride back along/up and repeat. Slightly different way of riding than non stop XC.

Given that even goggles aren't guaranteed to stop 100% of shit, all of the time (ask anyone whose rides DH), glasses - however fancy and cycle-specific - are always going to be worse.

Especially if you ride off piste or in woods, rather than rockier or man-made stuff, you're eventually going to have some dirt/eye interface with just glasses. Then there's the wind and eye watering issues.

Why not wear goggles if people want to?

digga - Member

Why not wear goggles if people want to?

Because we raised the matter with the Council of Binners and he ruled against.

Saccades - Member

If we are doing a more "enduro" spin I'd take them with me for the downs, pain in the bum for long ranging xc rides though.

Do people really define rides as being 'enduro' or not? I thought it was just a race format?

bit of a necro post but, yes.

If we are going to practice the local Enduro trails prior to a race I'll take them.

If we are going for bog std spin I won't.