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Callistus Valerius wrote:
> > Until you ride in very hot weather where the sweat gets into your eyes
> > and moves the contacts and then you are in the middle of nowhere
> > without vision in one eye and dirty sweaty hands and no mirror to see
> > what you are doing. Been there, done that. No thanks. Contacts might
> > work for the stylish wanna look like a racer biker with sunglasses
> > stuck in the helmet vents.
> >
> >
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> Are you talking hard lenses? Soft lenses work fine with sweat and dirt.
NO. Soft lenses do not work fine with dirt and sweat. Like I said,
been there, done that. When you put contact lenses into your eye do
you wash your hands before you touch them? Or do you work on your
bike, shovel dirt, go to the toilet, and then mess around with your
contacts? I suspect some people probably do.
> The problem with soft lenses is if you do endurance events >200 miles, your
> body dries out, no matter how much you drink, and finally your eyes dry out,
> making vision difficult. One solution is to put eye drops in every 20 miles
> but that gets tedious after a while. So I just switch to my sunglasses with
> an rx insert in it. I carry the clear lenses for night riding and switch
> out the tinted ones.
>
> I commute with my plain old glasses, the problem with that is those snap
> on sunglasses thing you get at drug stores, suck in my opinion. So I spend
> my commuting time squinting into the sun.
> > Until you ride in very hot weather where the sweat gets into your eyes
> > and moves the contacts and then you are in the middle of nowhere
> > without vision in one eye and dirty sweaty hands and no mirror to see
> > what you are doing. Been there, done that. No thanks. Contacts might
> > work for the stylish wanna look like a racer biker with sunglasses
> > stuck in the helmet vents.
> >
> >
> ------------
> Are you talking hard lenses? Soft lenses work fine with sweat and dirt.
NO. Soft lenses do not work fine with dirt and sweat. Like I said,
been there, done that. When you put contact lenses into your eye do
you wash your hands before you touch them? Or do you work on your
bike, shovel dirt, go to the toilet, and then mess around with your
contacts? I suspect some people probably do.
> The problem with soft lenses is if you do endurance events >200 miles, your
> body dries out, no matter how much you drink, and finally your eyes dry out,
> making vision difficult. One solution is to put eye drops in every 20 miles
> but that gets tedious after a while. So I just switch to my sunglasses with
> an rx insert in it. I carry the clear lenses for night riding and switch
> out the tinted ones.
>
> I commute with my plain old glasses, the problem with that is those snap
> on sunglasses thing you get at drug stores, suck in my opinion. So I spend
> my commuting time squinting into the sun.
