Cycling in rain while wearing specs!

[Tony Raven]

Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
>
> You can get el-cheapo distance glasses online. I'm using a £20 pair as
> my sole glasses at the minute. I find them very little different to my
> previous £150 pair. Except they're still in one piece and unscratched.

I suspect shipped from outside the UK - it would be illegal to sell
them in the UK unless it was fulfilling a recently issued (less than two
year old) prescription of a registered optometrist

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

Simon Brooke <[email protected]>typed

> It might be worth buying a pair of the el-cheapo glasses you can get in
> chemists or garages which don't have coated lenses anyway, and
> experiment. Obviously get a pair which matches your distance
> prescription. Even if you only use them for cycling in the rain, it
> would be worth it.

El-Cheapo specs are reading aids, *not* distance specs

Myope of Middlesex

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[Helen Deborah Vecht]

David Nutter <[email protected]>typed


> Beware if you have coatings (high refractive index, anti-glare etc etc) on
> your specs. Mr Sheen and other products may well damage such coatings;
> certainly I get Dire Warnings from the opticians about cleaning my glasses
> with anything other than plain tap water and a lens cloth.

<pedant>
high refractive index is NOT a coating.
<pedant>

Tints, anti-glare and anti-scratch are coatings.

Myope of Middlesex (whose opticians just rang to say £400 of spex for
self and partner are ready)

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Edgware.

 

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email protected]>typed


> Tony Raven wrote:
> > Simon Brooke wrote:
> >>
> >> It might be worth buying a pair of the el-cheapo glasses you can get
> >> in chemists or garages which don't have coated lenses anyway, and
> >> experiment. Obviously get a pair which matches your distance
> >> prescription.
> >>
> >
> > The ones sold in chemists and garages are reading glasses only AFAIK
> > so not much use for cycling or driving.

> You can get el-cheapo distance glasses online. I'm using a £20 pair as my
> sole glasses at the minute. I find them very little different to my
> previous
> £150 pair. Except they're still in one piece and unscratched.

Probably not much use if you have -2.5 dioptres of astigmatism (cyl) though.

Myope of Middlesex

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Edgware.

 

[Ambrose Nankivell]

Tony Raven wrote:
> Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
>>
>> You can get el-cheapo distance glasses online. I'm using a £20 pair
>> as my sole glasses at the minute. I find them very little different
>> to my previous £150 pair. Except they're still in one piece and
>> unscratched.
>
> I suspect shipped from outside the UK - it would be illegal to sell
> them in the UK unless it was fulfilling a recently issued (less than
> two year old) prescription of a registered optometrist

Shipped from the UK. I typed my prescription in, and probably ticked a
disclaimer saying it was less than two years old, even though I don't recall
doing so.

Ah well. They work and my corrected vision is more than acceptable.
--
Ambrose

 

[Ambrose Nankivell]

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
> "Ambrose Nankivell" <[email protected]>typed
>
>
>> Tony Raven wrote:
>>> Simon Brooke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It might be worth buying a pair of the el-cheapo glasses you can
>>>> get in chemists or garages which don't have coated lenses anyway,
>>>> and experiment. Obviously get a pair which matches your distance
>>>> prescription.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The ones sold in chemists and garages are reading glasses only AFAIK
>>> so not much use for cycling or driving.
>
>> You can get el-cheapo distance glasses online. I'm using a £20 pair
>> as my sole glasses at the minute. I find them very little different
>> to my previous
>> £150 pair. Except they're still in one piece and unscratched.
>
> Probably not much use if you have -2.5 dioptres of astigmatism (cyl)
> though.

The form said it was an extra fiver for extreme prescriptions. But my
prescription's spherical and not extreme (I'm road legal without glasses)
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Ambrose

 

[Tony Raven]

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
>
> Myope of Middlesex (whose opticians just rang to say £400 of spex for
> self and partner are ready)
>

Double specs? I'm having trouble visualising it ;-)

--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[Tony Raven]

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
>
> <pedant>
> high refractive index is NOT a coating.
> <pedant>
>
> Tints, anti-glare and anti-scratch are coatings.
>

<pedant squared>

Coatings are generally alternating high and low index layers. "High
index coatings" is frequently used to refer either to high index coating
layers or to coatings on high index lens material.

</pedant squared>


--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[stupot]

Tony Raven wrote:
> I suspect shipped from outside the UK - it would be illegal to sell
> them in the UK unless it was fulfilling a recently issued (less than two
> year old) prescription of a registered optometrist
http://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/
I know a couple of people who have used these suppliers and are very
pleased with the results. Havent tried them myself yet. I read an
interesting interview (in one of the broadsheets) with the MD of
glassesdirect about his difficulties in getting a lense suppier - MD
thought that there was a bit of a high street cartel operating - but
then he would.

 

[Tony Raven]

stupot wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote:
>
>> I suspect shipped from outside the UK - it would be illegal to sell
>> them in the UK unless it was fulfilling a recently issued (less than
>> two year old) prescription of a registered optometrist
>
> http://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/
>

Who correctly say:

"Before you order with Glasses Direct, you need to have a copy of your
prescription. You may already have a copy from a previous eye test, and
providing it is less than two years old, you may use that one to order
from us. Alternatively, you will need to go to your local optician and
have your eyes tested. Following the eye test, your optician is obliged
to give you a copy of your prescription, and you shouldn't feel under
pressure to purchase glasses from that same shop."

Personally I find that trying on frames is essential. Some which look
good on the rack look dreadful on the face and vice versa. If you don't
care at all how they look I guess it doesn't matter.


--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[David Nutter]

On 2005-08-25, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Nutter <[email protected]>typed
>
>
>> Beware if you have coatings (high refractive index, anti-glare etc etc) on
>> your specs. Mr Sheen and other products may well damage such coatings;
>> certainly I get Dire Warnings from the opticians about cleaning my glasses
>> with anything other than plain tap water and a lens cloth.
>
><pedant>
> high refractive index is NOT a coating.
><pedant>

I stand corrected.

> Myope of Middlesex (whose opticians just rang to say £400 of spex for
> self and partner are ready)

Ow. At least mine only cost about 90 with a spare pair of specs.

Regards,

-david

 

[Helen Deborah Vecht]

David Nutter <[email protected]>typed


> On 2005-08-25, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> > David Nutter <[email protected]>typed
> >
> >
> >> Beware if you have coatings (high refractive index, anti-glare etc
> >> etc) on
> >> your specs. Mr Sheen and other products may well damage such coatings;
> >> certainly I get Dire Warnings from the opticians about cleaning my
> >> glasses
> >> with anything other than plain tap water and a lens cloth.
> >
> ><pedant>
> > high refractive index is NOT a coating.
> ><pedant>

> I stand corrected.

> > Myope of Middlesex (whose opticians just rang to say £400 of spex for
> > self and partner are ready)

> Ow. At least mine only cost about 90 with a spare pair of specs.

> Regards,

> -david

We received spares 'free' too.

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[Mac]

"Adrian Boliston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Mac" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys!
>>
>> I was just wondering if any of you guys had any ideas about a slight
>> problem I have when I ride to work in the rain. I wear specs and most
>> of the journey to work is downhill so when it rains I cant see where
>> I'm going properly which is a bit risky.
>>
>> Do you know of any liquid or such like that stops specs from becoming
>> a hazard? I would take them off, but I cant see past the end of my
>> arm clearly without them, so either way I'm a bit stuck!
>>
>> Your help would be most appreciated!
>
> Since getting a/r coated lenses I find rain just drips straight off rather
> than
> sticking, another benefit is that a/r helps you see better when it's not
> raining
> as well.
>
>

Thanks for your hints guys!

I've got an opticians appointment coming up soon so I'll ask him for his
opinion while i'm there.

Thanks again guys!

Woady

 

[Bill]

In message <[email protected]>, Mac <[email protected]>
writes
>Hi guys!
>
>I was just wondering if any of you guys had any ideas about a slight problem
>I have when I ride to work in the rain. I wear specs and most of the journey
>to work is downhill so when it rains I cant see where I'm going properly
>which is a bit risky.
>
>Do you know of any liquid or such like that stops specs from becoming a
>hazard? I would take them off, but I cant see past the end of my arm clearly
>without them, so either way I'm a bit stuck!
>
>Your help would be most appreciated!
>
>Woady
>
>


As a specs wearing old fart with loads of rainy rides in the bag, I
don't think there is a magic solution, or at least I've never found one.

My way of coping is to wear a cap with a peak, cycling cap or baseball
cap, surprisingly effective. Or when the vision gets really bad, squint
over the top of my specs!!

I think rain is a problem which us myopics will always encounter and
we'll just have to make the best of a bad job.

Such is life.

All the best


--
Bill

 

[Roos Eisma]

Bill <[email protected]> writes:

>As a specs wearing old fart with loads of rainy rides in the bag, I
>don't think there is a magic solution, or at least I've never found one.

For me that magic solution was contact lenses

Roos

 

[wafflycat]

"Roos Eisma" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Bill <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>As a specs wearing old fart with loads of rainy rides in the bag, I
>>don't think there is a magic solution, or at least I've never found one.
>
> For me that magic solution was contact lenses
>
> Roos

I usually wear contacts when cycling, but I then do wear shades too - stops
the eyes being hit by kamikaze bluebottles, dust, grit... still get droplets
of water on the clear shades I use as eye protection. But they are less
expensive to replace than prescription eyewear when damaged.

Cheers,

 

[Tony Raven]

Roos Eisma wrote:
> Bill <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
>>As a specs wearing old fart with loads of rainy rides in the bag, I
>>don't think there is a magic solution, or at least I've never found one.
>
>
> For me that magic solution was contact lenses
>

When its raining hard enough to affect glasses, don't you find yourself
screwing your eyes up against the rain incoming without the glasses?


--
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon

 

[Roos Eisma]

Tony Raven <[email protected]> writes:

>Roos Eisma wrote:

>> For me that magic solution was contact lenses

>When its raining hard enough to affect glasses, don't you find yourself
>screwing your eyes up against the rain incoming without the glasses?

Some types of sharp rain do that. But at least one blink clears up the
view again.
I suppose it helps that I don't ride fast most of the time

Roos

 

[Graeme Dods]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:49:41 +0100, Tony Raven wrote:

> Roos Eisma wrote:
>> For me that magic solution was contact lenses
>>
>
> When its raining hard enough to affect glasses, don't you find yourself
> screwing your eyes up against the rain incoming without the glasses?

I find that I blink a lot more, but that's about it. Mind you, I can't
remember the last time I cycled when it rained (more a comment on the
local weather than my cycling habits)

Graeme

 

[David Martin]

Roos Eisma wrote:
> Tony Raven <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >Roos Eisma wrote:
>
> >> For me that magic solution was contact lenses
>
> >When its raining hard enough to affect glasses, don't you find yourself
> >screwing your eyes up against the rain incoming without the glasses?
>
> Some types of sharp rain do that. But at least one blink clears up the
> view again.
> I suppose it helps that I don't ride fast most of the time

I find falling snow the worst. Then again I only wear glasses for
reading. Ski goggles are great, but don't wear orange tinted ones at
night on snow - the texture of the ground completely disappears and you
cannot see the bumps.

...d