Goggles Over Glasses

k3lv0v

Sorry if there is such a thread on these forums, but I couldn't find it using the search bar.
I wear glasses due to my poor vision, but as the winter months are closing in, I'm considering buying a pair of goggles, but I'm not sure if these will fit over my glasses. Does anyone manage to fit their goggles over their glasses? If not, what should i do? Thanks

Yukon Lad

depens what type of glasses you've got, if i you're doing DH then get some becos they most likely will fit over, it may be possibly if your lbs stocks goggles to check.

If you're not doing DH then possibly get a pair of prescription glasses but they are more expensive some sunglasses will fit over glasses but check

Yukon Lad

Konahed

Could you not get glasses like Edgar Davids wears playing football?

millster

This has always confused me. Wearing goggles will just provide a larger area for mud to gather on, it will stil need cleaning off (think window-wipers on a car). I would say its not worth the hassle from previous experience. But I now wear contacts, and my god does it hurt when some mud gets in with them little buggers!

dennisn

Lots of snow skiers wear glasses under goggles. I do and my pair has a notch out on
each side to make room for the bows so the aren't pressing on your head.

Dennis Noward

k3lv0v

Thanks you all for the helpful replies, now i just need to choose a pair of goggles Thank you again all

Dax

I used to wear glasses under goggles but I gave up because the glasses used to fog up like mad.
I swapped to contact lenses and they were great unless as mentioned you got any mud in your eye.
I swear contacts multiply the size of anything in your eye by a factor of 50.
Finally I got my eyes zapped by a laser and it was the best thing I have ever done.

allthegearnoidea

i wear contacts and clear safety glasses to stop the mud and flies in the summer!! going in my eye's! but often thoguht about the goggles,
there was a section in mbuk a couple of months ago about prescription goggles! will see if i stil have it or if its been binned!

cee

i also use contact lenses.

I find my peripheral vision is much better than in glasses, where my sight literally stops at the edge of my bins.

chuckcork

Spray sucked up by trucks is mostly my problem, as long as its clean water and not muck, I just wipe the glasses across with a clean if wet finger, and can see again.

Only problem is if I get it of the inside of the glasses, or a stray shot of the nose trumpet sprays back, but for that I carry a hankie.

Still no fun in the dark though.

andrewjoseph

I've got a pair of prescription glasses from optilabs.

allthegearnoidea

here's the link i was thining of for prescription goggles,
wsnt i mbuk but in mountain bike action!
http://www.pro-vue.com/

passout

I always got steamed up doing this. Poticians are going to launch a film on lenses which stops 'steaming' (apparently). I'm going for the laser option next week!

Simon100

I wear goggles over glasses when skiing as others have mentioned. But whatever sprays etc you use it seems that they steam up when you get really hot. Having said that the temperature here will be a lot warmer so maybe not as bad?
Thinking about getting my eyes lasered but still a little worried incase there are any downsides in say 40 years time?

andrewjoseph

As I understand it, the laser option is only good for a few years. your lens hardens as you get older requiring glasses, the laser option shapes the front of the cornea so you don't need glasses... for a while at least. As the lens continues to harden through normal ageing, the laser option cacn't be used again, so you need glasses.

how often do you need a new prescription? I've needed one every year for the last ten years or so.

Depending on your age and eye problem, laser is good for max 3 years, probably less.

And you still need something to protect your eyes when out on the bike etc.

Rich9

i have a pair of Raybans with prescription lenses that i wear for cycling in the summer, and if its not a bright (so that'll be most of the time then), i wear my old specs. I've found that some of the high street opticians sell sports frames for cycling etc Dolland and Aitchison for example. Not cheap though

grado

There are do have some goggles cover the glasses, but they are big, and not looks nice. I don't think you will wear if when you are riding a bicycle. For motorcycle, will be no such problems

clodhoppa74

there was a thread here about bike specific glasses. they are the usual wrap around ones and you get an insert for your prescription bit. were peretty cheap too (i think arounf £60 all in).

anton1r

IIRC the Oakley crowbar style goggles were designed to fit over glasses.

If i'm wrong and it's not the crowbars i apologies but im pretty sure Oakley do frames for over specs.

ahh ha examples (though these aren't crowbars):
http://www.oakley.com/pd/6002/23841
http://www.oakley.com/pd/1319/3117

peter413

anton1r wrote:

IIRC the Oakley crowbar style goggles were designed to fit over glasses.

If i'm wrong and it's not the crowbars i apologies but im pretty sure Oakley do frames for over specs.

ahh ha examples (though these aren't crowbars):
http://www.oakley.com/pd/6002/23841
http://www.oakley.com/pd/1319/3117

Don't think its the crowbars, I think its the enduro's and O frames that have glasses friendly designs

GHill

That's some impressive threadnomancy. Sept 2008!