Riding Witnout Glasses Due To Fog.

1964johnr
1964johnr Posts: 179
edited December 2016 in Road general
Very foggy in Surrey today. I couldn't see using them so had to take them off. I have never cycled without them in 10 years.
Very Weird. As soon as I took them off everything seemed wrong. It felt like my saddle had slipped down and I seemed closer to the ground. I kept stopping to check it, but it hadn't moved. Put my sun glasses back on and everything returned to normal. Is this my eyes playing tricks with me?

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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Fog alters perceived reality and the space/time continuum - it's a known fact.
  • lincolndave
    lincolndave Posts: 9,441
    The same here in Lincolnshire, I had to remove my glasses as well it didn't make to much difference to me though
  • cycleclinic
    cycleclinic Posts: 6,865
    I have to do this all the time.
    http://www.thecycleclinic.co.uk -wheel building and other stuff.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Sunglasses in fog? Am I missing something?
    What lenses are in them?
  • OnTheRopes
    OnTheRopes Posts: 460
    1964johnr wrote:
    Very foggy in Surrey today. I couldn't see using them so had to take them off. I have never cycled without them in 10 years.
    Very Weird. As soon as I took them off everything seemed wrong. It felt like my saddle had slipped down and I seemed closer to the ground. I kept stopping to check it, but it hadn't moved. Put my sun glasses back on and everything returned to normal. Is this my eyes playing tricks with me?
    Yes I have had that sensation, nothing to do with fog (in my case at least) I am so used to wearing glasses Sun or clear, that on the odd occasion I am without them I feel like I am on a smaller bike, very odd for a few minutes.
  • hsiaolc
    hsiaolc Posts: 492
    1964johnr wrote:
    Very foggy in Surrey today. I couldn't see using them so had to take them off. I have never cycled without them in 10 years.
    Very Weird. As soon as I took them off everything seemed wrong. It felt like my saddle had slipped down and I seemed closer to the ground. I kept stopping to check it, but it hadn't moved. Put my sun glasses back on and everything returned to normal. Is this my eyes playing tricks with me?

    Just need some time to get used to it. The reason you feel that way because everything is a bit bigger so perception changes.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    It's a little known fact that removing sunglasses decreases top speed by 4mph and makes you inherently far, far, far less cooler and less attractive to the opposite sex.

    Dopestrong and Dopeymillar used to ride without their sunglasses and look at them. Do you really want to be like them?

    My advice as a medical man and the coolest person on this forum is to never, ever, ever remove sunglasses, even in the deepest of fog. Maybe at night, but as no one can see you you'll probably get away with it, even though you will be slower.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • animal72
    animal72 Posts: 251
    Just use Mr Sheen on the lenses just before you go out, makes the water bobble up so you can still see.
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  • svetty
    svetty Posts: 1,904
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    It's a little known fact that removing sunglasses decreases top speed by 4mph and makes you inherently far, far, far less cooler and less attractive to the opposite sex.

    Dopestrong and Dopeymillar used to ride without their sunglasses and look at them. Do you really want to be like them?

    My advice as a medical man and the coolest person on this forum is to never, ever, ever remove sunglasses, even in the deepest of fog. Maybe at night, but as no one can see you you'll probably get away with it, even though you will be slower.
    Poty!
    FFS! Harden up and grow a pair :D
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170
    Animal72 wrote:
    Just use Mr Sheen on the lenses just before you go out, makes the water bobble up so you can still see.
    Fairy liquid inside stops them misting up as well :wink:

    I didn't have issues with fog yesterday it was more the damp making everything more cold, ended up using the helmet cover to stop me getting brain freeze.
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  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    It's a little known fact that removing sunglasses decreases top speed by 4mph and makes you inherently far, far, far less cooler and less attractive to the opposite sex.

    Ah - so that's how I can speed up without having to do any training whatsoever - just get some sunglasses to wear ...

    Do they need to be a specific brand? Is like the groupset ranges - ride Tiagra for x% increase, 105 for xx%, Ultegra for xxx% and dura-ace for the full effect?
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Animal72 wrote:
    Just use Mr Sheen on the lenses just before you go out, makes the water bobble up so you can still see.

    Im sure Mr Sheen is full of PEDs . He wasn't called Charlie for nothing
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Carbonator wrote:
    Sunglasses in fog? Am I missing something?
    What lenses are in them?

    Maybe sunglasses with yellow or clear lenses?
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    cougie wrote:
    Carbonator wrote:
    Sunglasses in fog? Am I missing something?
    What lenses are in them?

    Maybe sunglasses with yellow or clear lenses?

    Sunglasses for use in the absence of sunshine are called

    GLASSES
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    SmoggySteve wrote:
    cougie wrote:
    Carbonator wrote:
    Sunglasses in fog? Am I missing something?
    What lenses are in them?

    Maybe sunglasses with yellow or clear lenses?

    Sunglasses for use in the absence of sunshine are called

    GLASSES

    Ah - but the yellow tint ones can make it look like it's sunny ... so you could call them sunglasses ...
  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    If you replace the lenses in your oakleys - do they turn from sunglasses to glasses ?
    Persimmon lens - sunglasses or glasses ?

    It's a nightmare !
  • LukeTC
    LukeTC Posts: 211
    Fenix wrote:
    If you replace the lenses in your oakleys - do they turn from sunglasses to glasses ?
    Persimmon lens - sunglasses or glasses ?

    It's a nightmare !
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  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Fenix wrote:
    If you replace the lenses in your oakleys - do they turn from sunglasses to glasses ?
    Persimmon lens - sunglasses or glasses ?

    It's a nightmare !


    Its a difficult one that. Can you use a day sack at night? Can you go into a winter garden in the summer?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Step83 wrote:
    Animal72 wrote:
    Just use Mr Sheen on the lenses just before you go out, makes the water bobble up so you can still see.
    Fairy liquid inside stops them misting up as well :wink:

    I didn't have issues with fog yesterday it was more the damp making everything more cold, ended up using the helmet cover to stop me getting brain freeze.

    Rub a potato (inside of, obviously) on the inside of the lenses also - bizarrely - stops them fogging up.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Slowbike wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    It's a little known fact that removing sunglasses decreases top speed by 4mph and makes you inherently far, far, far less cooler and less attractive to the opposite sex.

    Ah - so that's how I can speed up without having to do any training whatsoever - just get some sunglasses to wear ...

    Do they need to be a specific brand? Is like the groupset ranges - ride Tiagra for x% increase, 105 for xx%, Ultegra for xxx% and dura-ace for the full effect?


    No specific brand but the cheaper cost to coolness ratio comes into it.

    If you burn off someone who is wearing some ghastly fashionista Oakley or Rapha glasses while you are wearing a pair of Camden Market Foakleys/wrap arounds you got from the local chandlery or Millets then not only are you benefitting from the extra sunglasses speed thing but you can also laugh at them because you spent £10 on your glasses and the remainding difference on pork scratching, ale, drugs and girls, whilst he (or she - all is equal in the sunglasses mocking world) spent £200 on a pair that they will only look jeffy in a year and will make them cry when they sit on them/their children break them/they get stolen.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Just remember - James Dean wore sunglasses and apart from stacking it into a tree and decapitating himself he is (and will always be known as) one of the coolest people to ever step foot on the earth.

    Tony B Liar didn't wear sunglasses and he'll always be remembered as a lying two faced cheating war criminal who dragged Britain into a war to try and get a legacy who deserves to be convicted by The Hague and sentenced accordingly.

    Sunglasses and history don't lie kids........ remember: be like James and not Tony.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Thinking of which, Farage doesn't wear sunglasses and he's also a khunt, so there is definitely something in the theory.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    Loving the theory.

    I've never seen Trump in shades either. It's convincing.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Sunglasses wearers:
    James Dean
    Audrey Hepburn
    Nina from Nina and the Neurons
    The Blues Brothers (and they wore them at night)
    Marilyn Monroe
    Elvis (especially during the '68 comeback special. It's actually a little known fact that when he shat himself to death it only happened because he took his shades off).
    Viper from Top Gun



    Those who don't wear sunglasses
    Farage
    B Liar
    Hitler
    Stalin
    Mad North Korean dude
    Pol Pot
    Dopestrong
    Dopeymillar
    Ian Brady
    Myra Hindley

    I can only point out the facts and let you choose which camp you are in..........
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    TDLO wears sunglasses and she's ridiculously hot.

    Cherie Blair doesn't and she's a money grabber munter.

    The theory that proves itself.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    TDLO ?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Fenix wrote:
    TDLO ?


    Bracketeers - please assist. I cannot type about TDLO without remorse and loss crossing my soul.

    John McGuinness wears sunglasses. Nico Rosberg does not.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • meanredspider
    meanredspider Posts: 12,337
    Paolini wore those fabulous (ly ridiculous) Assos shades and was done for coke use.

    I know this because I have the same shades - they are brilliant because:
    a. They're the best cycling glasses I've ever worn
    b. I'm the only person who can't see me wearing them
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  • joe2008
    joe2008 Posts: 1,531
    meanredspider wrote:
    a. They're the best cycling glasses ever

    FTFY

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