wear glasses? (tinted visor or shades?)

I do both on the poll, it depends on the brightness of the sun and what time of day.

[embee]

I wear prescription specs normally.

I use a Schuberth S1 with a movable internal sunvisor.......best thing ever. I usually set it just low enough to shade the sky/sun, but leave the road clear. It's perfect for riding where there are tunnels (touring Switzerland for example), just flip up the sunvisor.

In really bright sun abroad I have used prescription sunglasses and the S1 sunvisor dropped down a bit, it gives a lot of flexibility, but sunglasses are dire when you enter a tunnel!

[mister c]

On the road I wear glasses & normal visor. On the track then it's glasses & tinted visor.
Me & sunglasses dont get on I cant do with them & I dont know why.

normal glasses and normal visor...

although have recently invested in contacts

Originally Posted by Draper

normal glasses and normal visor...

me too, up until now........ i cant be @rsed with contacts.

and i dont mormaly wear sunglasses.....never

[chris8886]

i don't require corrective glasses, but as for sunglasses. i physically cannot fit sunglasses inside my helmet, so i have no other option than to use a tinted visor. i have 3, one black (illegal), one slight tint (legal for daylight use) and one clear. really easy to change and i have one of those visor bags that clips round your waist so it's no hassle taking one or the pther with me in case the light changes.

i only use the black one when it's 'sensible' ie. really bright, so that any copper pulling me over can't really complain too much at it. would they rather i'm blinded by the sun?

Tinted visor every time for me. With regular glasses and a clear visor you've already got a "line", your vision is bordered, good central, reasonable periphery. Use sunglasses with a clear visor and you've now got two borders, a visual acuity border and a light level border. The result seems (personally) to be eyes that don't know whether to adjust for high or low light and have to cope with changing visual acuity at the same time.

Much more comfortable to keep the same visual acuity border you're used to with a constant light level inside your lid.

That said, I'm now torn between clear visor + tinted pinlock versus dark visor + clear pinlock. The newer extra high pinlocks cover the visor much better and don't seem to result in that border effect.

Black visor on black Arai with all black clothing, because I am the biking equivalent of a ninja.

[northwind]

I've got prescription sunglasses (they were free) which I keep as emergency backup but a dark visor is far more effective than sunglasses- no light peeking round the outside, no abrupt contrasts impacting your peripheral vision.

Originally Posted by hovis

me too, up until now........ i cant be @rsed with contacts.

and i dont mormaly wear sunglasses.....never

so you ride around not knowing where you're going then hovis?