"Roger Buchanan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Well, I guess it's a sure sign of old age, not being as
young as one used to be, being over the hill, all that
aging rubish.
Fortunately it's not me. Linda is getting bi-focals in a
couple of weeks (the progressive kind)
Any advice from any of you folks as to what to look out
for when riding with these kind of spectacles? I
understand that stairs can be a bit of an issue right
early on...
As for me, well it won't be long. The eye Doc says I'll be
getting glasses myself by this time next year.
Bi-focals are a bad idea for bike riding, especially off-
road. The lower part of these specs (progressive or
traditional) are for reading and seeing things up close, not
for distance. When you are riding, you need your entire
visual spectrum for seeing distance: up, ahead, AND down. I
rode with bifocals once; that was all it took to know I had
made a big mistake. I was constantly having to put my head
in unnatural positions to be able to see where I was going
and what I was riding over. What a pain; a near disaster.
Tell her to wear contacts or get distance only sports
glasses for bike riding and such. With contacts, you can
experiment with mono-vision (one eye for distance; one eye
for close). The optometrists don't recommend this for
driving or sports, but you adapt to it pretty quickly,
surprising or weird though it may sound.
