Another reason to wear cycling glasses

[Zog The Undenia]

Coming back to Swindon today on the A420 (my least favourite
road in Britain), our car's windscreen was liberally sprayed
with raw diesel by a truck going in the opposite direction,
which presumably had sprung a very severe leak in its fuel
system. The smell of paraffin was overwhelming. I wouldn't
have fancied it in my eyes!

 

[Zog The Undenia]

Trevor Barton wrote:

> You have to be careful with cycling glasses, though.
> They can increase the risk of eye injury if they shatter
> in an accident. Statistically, they have a negligable
> effect on injury rates, the slight increase in eye
> injuries is compensated for in whole population studies
> by the slight decrease in overall mortality bought about
> by people taking up cycling because they think they look
> cool in them.
>
> It just goes to show that anecdotal individual evidence
> does not neccessarily reflect to statistical benifits. You
> can't use a single incidence of cycling-glasses related
> evidence to draw conclusions abount their overall
> efficacy.
>
> Of course, they won't help in a collision with a cement
> mixer, unless they are peril-sensitive in which case they
> will instantly go black and you'll never be entirely sure
> what hit you.
>
Nice analogy. Seriously, they've been made out of
shatterproof plastic since Bernard Hinault crashed wearing
his glass shades and bled all over the finish line of a TdF
stage (it wasn't serious, but might have been).