After nearly taking my eye out on my last Muni ride, I’m gonna start wearing eye protection.
Can anyone recommend something good?
It can take an accident or near accident to force you to put the right protection on, and I’m not taking anymore chances on this one.
I had my eyes glued to the turf as usual and a thin branch grazed the corner of my eye. I didn’t see it at all!
Only scraped the corner of my eyeball - but it could have been VERY nasty.
Joe
I wear (ha, geddit, eyewear!) my glasses all hte time, including for MUni. They are plastic, not real glass, so they shouldn’t shatter on impact. I guess If you don’t wear glasses, a pair of cyclist’s sunglasses would do, although If you are MUniing in forests they would not be good due to the rapid changes in light levels. If you can find some of the only slightly tinted ones, they could be quite good. Try to get some that keep quite close into your face, rather than sticking out and getting caught on branches.
Hey Joe!
I have a great suggestion; I’ve been meaning to post it.
$5 at Wal-Mart. FIVE DOLLARS.
Smith and Wesson Safety/Shooting Glasses. They fit snugly, wrap-around, have a very comfortable nosepiece. They are also very optically correct. I was/still am shocked. When I went to the bike shop the glasses were running $120.
Edit: wrong pic.
Yep. That’s what I was hoping for! I definitely don’t want anything tinted - I would imagine these are strong enough, and if you lose them, buy another!
I called a bike shop the other day and they had something for $100+! Screw that.
Thanks!
Go to anywhere that handles safety glasses (aka: your local hardware store). There are now many different designs and some of them are quite stylish. The best part is: they’re CHEAP and they’re SAFETY GLASSES!!! hehe
Re: Recommended eyewear for Muni?
“merrill” <merrill.p9w9f@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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> After nearly taking my eye out on my last Muni ride, I’m gonna start
> wearing eye protection.
If you are accident prone I suggest one of those big welding helmets. A
bonus is the flip-up smoked glass for cloudy days.
Re: Recommended eyewear for Muni?
“wg bradley” <check@archives.ca> wrote in message
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> “merrill” <merrill.p9w9f@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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> > After nearly taking my eye out on my last Muni ride, I’m gonna start
> > wearing eye protection.
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> If you are accident prone I suggest one of those big welding helmets. A
> bonus is the flip-up smoked glass for cloudy days.
This is the one I use: http://tinyurl.com/erpe
wg,
you is knarly dude,I’m getting me one of those too,LOL
that’s full protection.
haha
I stopped using sunglasses in my early days of MUni in California, because on a sunny day (like most are in the warmer months), the bright sunny areas are contrasted by very dark shadows, which appear black with sunglasses. You need to be able to see the ground at least a little!
But I have also had close encounters with sticks and branches, while looking down at the trail ahead. So a pair of lightly tinted, or non-tinted glasses would be good, especially if they offer UV protection.
There are lots of cheap sunglasses out there, though never in a bike shop. If you lived on Long Island I’d tell you to go to the Roosevelt Field Flea Market. Except it may not exist anymore, as they tore down the Roosevelt Raceway. Flea markets like that are also where you can get the kind of bags I use for flying with unicycles.
Those glasses at Kmart sound like a great buy for this type of use.
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“keaner” <keaner.pajmz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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> wg,
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> you is knarly dude,I’m getting me one of those too,LOL
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> that’s full protection.
not really…I use that for recreational riding only…for off-road full
protection I use something more like this: http://tinyurl.com/ertx
Cheap, shatterproof safety glasses. You can get different coloured lenses for different light conditions. They’re great for winter Muni/bike riding as well.
