All Things Bikes and Tacos! (...and every vehicle imaginable)

For your bars:

NiteRider Lumina Micro 750 USB Rechargeable MTB Road Commuter LED Bike Light Lumens Water Resistant Bicycle Headlight, LED Front Light Easy to Install Cycling Safety

https://www.amazon.com/NiteRider-Lumina-Micro-750-Black/dp/B071FKT3NT
For your helmet:

$49 NiteRider Lumina 900 Boost USB Rechargeable MTB Road Commuter LED Bike Light Powerful Lumens Water Resistant Bicycle Headlight, LED Front Light Easy to Install Cycling Safety

https://www.amazon.com/NiteRider-Lu...CYKDN7ZNJ17&psc=1&refRID=X9HA6XE7QCYKDN7ZNJ17

 

lol well it's not necessarily the dark keeping me from riding, just so much going on in life right now.

but..I haven't ridden at night and it kinda scares me. I don't see well at night.

 

Good lights help a lot. I don't have great night vision either, but with handlebar/helmet quality high-output lights it's great. Makes the trails feel brand new again.
I really enjoy it, but it is cold and out here the kitties are a real danger when riding at night alone. Think of how cats react to the laser pointers, but you're the light...

 

haha I can only imagine!

my issue is actually the light. let me explain..maybe..

I have bad astigmatisms in both eyes. I wear glasses everyday, not necessarily to see, but to focus. I'm not blind and barely have a "prescription", it's 99% to fix my astigmatisms. That being said, contacts don't do as well for my focus as my glasses do, which is ok when biking because there isn't a ton of focusing so I wear my contacts when I ride. The issue with that, the contacts don't do enough to the light for me. I have to wear my glasses to drive at night, not my contacts.

I don't really want to wear my glasses biking because I'm afraid I'll break them. So night riding, even with lights, with contacts, is kinda out..

I guess a question is, what do folks recommend for wearing actual eye glasses to bike?

 

Prescription sunglasses?

 

sunglasses wouldn't help with the night riding. my contacts suffice for daytime riding.

 

I have astigmatism and wear glasses full time. I've crashed more than I'd like to, have broken helmets, concussed myself and have never broken or lost my glasses for what it's worth.

 

hm. that is good to know. do you wear like the strap thing or whatever to keep them from falling off your head?

 

Never.

 

you are blowing my mind. do you have glasses that "flex" on the ear pieces? I have a fat head so I sorta have to have those haha

 

Eye pro companies like ESS make prescription inserts for their glasses that clip on to the nose piece. You could rock a dark / clear lens combo with the clip ins and have the best of both worlds.

 

wow.

I'd love to look worse than I do in X-Tigers by wearing those...

 

The ESS Ice series pictured are a bit smaller and not nearly as distinct as my X-tigers

 

@jjones.yota

be like this guy:



not like this guy:

 

I might even talk to my eye doctor who is one of my good friends and see what options she has, or recommends. I'm just a super weird case...sunlight doesn't affect me like at all so I hardly wear sunglasses, and they actually hurt my vision on the trails...but then manufactured lights bother the ever living hell out of me.

 

hey!

stop that..lol

 

I miss Scotty on here

 

he seemed like a freaking awesome guy.

 

Regular glasses with a hard plastic ear piece. Not sport glasses, not cool Oakleys, just regular eyeglasses