Posted on Jun 20, 2015
What sort of eye protection do you normally wear when riding?
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Yeah, I'm curious. In the past 10 years, the Army has issued me about 3x different pairs of Revisions, and about 5x or 6x pairs of Oakley M-Frames - full kit... Never had to return any of them. I still have several of pairs of the Oakleys (though most of the lenses are pretty banged up and scratched), and a pair of the Revisions. Basically, I've never really needed to buy a pair of safety glasses to ride with, but I am considering the new line of Oakleys. What do you wear? If you also answer my survey, I'll give you a prize: The sound of me clapping with one hand...
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Since catching a June Bug in the throat at well over 80, I never went out again without a full face helmet.
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Capt Seid Waddell: I have a windshield to stop the lower flying ones... I occasionally catch a big one in the forehead-temple region, and I once had a wasp fly right into my jacket sleeve - inside the jacket - stung the crap out of me.. was all I could do not to dump the bike right then and there! Had to keep letting the bastard sting me while I tried to get slowed down on a curvy road at 65, so that I could start smashing him through the jacket - that was not a fun ride that day! Thank God I'm not allergic! That would have made for a worse day...
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Capt Seid Waddell
Maj Richard "Ernie" Rowlette, I can relate, sir. When I took one in the throat I thought I'd been shot.
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I wear my Oakley shades but not because I want to look like a bad ass, LOL. I prefer Oakley anyway because of their durability, and I figured "Why buy new riding glasses when I already have a perfectly fine pair of sunglasses?"
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I have Oakley and Wiley-X. I need sunglasses to be optically correct. The cheap ones cause distortions that give me a head ache
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I purchased a pair of Panoptx Diablos back in 2005 when I bought my Harley. I really like them. They look cool and have a removable foam insert so I can use them as regular sunglasses. But I prefer a full face helmet so now I mostly just use them as sunglasses.
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Other than on my range training students I never ride without a full face helmet.
I think it's great that In America people get to choose whether they want to have a 67% increased risk of severe brain injury or 37% increased chance of death when they crash without a helmet. ..
Me, I'll wear a Full face helmet with face shield
I think it's great that In America people get to choose whether they want to have a 67% increased risk of severe brain injury or 37% increased chance of death when they crash without a helmet. ..
Me, I'll wear a Full face helmet with face shield
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SGM Erik Marquez: It wasn't really a question about helmets... ;) That being said, I never ride without a helmet. And I also never ride without eyepro, even when I'm wearing my full face helmet, I still have on a pair of eyepro under it...
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SGM Erik Marquez
SFC (Join to see) What problem or concern are you addressing by wearing Eye Pro behind a full face shield?
Have you considered the risk of injury by wearing those glasses INSIDE your helmet? You may want to do some research on the topic.. Injury to the bridge of the nose and eyes, areas around the eyes is a common occurrence when glasses are worn inside a helmet. Additionally, assuming you're wearing a quality DOT / SNELL approved helmet, the face shield is tested and certified for impact protection far exceeding what you're going to incur on the road short of blunt force trauma where eye pro would not guard against in any case.
Have you considered the risk of injury by wearing those glasses INSIDE your helmet? You may want to do some research on the topic.. Injury to the bridge of the nose and eyes, areas around the eyes is a common occurrence when glasses are worn inside a helmet. Additionally, assuming you're wearing a quality DOT / SNELL approved helmet, the face shield is tested and certified for impact protection far exceeding what you're going to incur on the road short of blunt force trauma where eye pro would not guard against in any case.
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Whatever I wear they have to seal around the eyes so they don't dry out on a long ride. I've done it with just a face shield, but my eyes hurt bad at the end of a 800 + mile run.
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I have lots of Army Issues (APL) glasses, and my favorite are Wiley X Airborne, Jake, or Romer - 3s, all are from the "cool guy' collection. Lately I have been wearing (since my free Wiley Xs are almost gone) are Oakley SI Fuel... also from their "cool guy" line.
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I need corrective lenses, so I went to Lens Crafters who has a contract with Oakley to sell prescription Oakley glasses. I have the Bottle Rocket frames with two sets of changeable lenses; one sunglasses and one clear glasses that change in sunlight. I love my Oakleys!
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PO1 John Miller
You can also get a membership on http://www.govx.com/ and get prescription Oakley shades. Just email them a copy of your DD214 (both myself and the website suggest you send a copy of your Member 2 since it doesn't contain your SSN) and they'll verify/approve your account. Once you have an account you can email a copy of your prescription and they'll customize your glasses with it.
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PO1 John Miller - Thanks for posting that! I am a member. I did not know that they could do prescription lenses though - I always thought you had to go through an eye doc that had a contract with Oakley... :) Thanks again.
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SFC (Join to see), I don't ride, but I've been wearing American Optical aviator sunglasses since 1973. Since no one bit on your "one hand clapping", I will. "We know the sound of two hands clapping. But what is the sound of one hand clapping?" This is a Zen koan that first gained a lot of traction in the U.S. in 1953 when J.D. Salinger used it as the epigraph for his book (collection) called "Nine Stories".
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LTC Stephen C.: Interesting. I had heard the phrase of course, but never realized the significance of it. Wiki(sometimesright) says (Under the heading/search phrase "Kōan"): "The monk himself in his seeking is the koan. Realization of this is the insight; the response to the koan [...] Subject and object - this is two hands clapping. When the monk realizes that the koan is not merely an object of consciousness but is also he himself as the activity of seeking an answer to the koan, then subject and object are no longer separate and distinct [...] This is one hand clapping." (Hori, Victor Sogen (2000). Koan and Kensho in the Rinzai Zen Curriculum. In: Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright (eds)(2000): "The Koan. Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press., p. 288-289. )
Thanks for the enlightenment! ;)
Thanks for the enlightenment! ;)
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LTC Stephen C.
SFC (Join to see), I had read virtually everything Salinger had written and published before I graduated from high school. He was a great writer, but a very strange man.
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CDR Michael Goldschmidt
Bart Simpson covered the one-hand clapping issue, but I couldn't find the clip on Youtube. It's from an episode called "Dead Putting Society".
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