Riding With Contact Lens!

[sundial]

Using riding glasses helps tremendously over my normal glasses particularly in eye watering downhills (my max speed yesterday was 44.8mph) and eyes seem better protected against red eye causing pollen.

ALRIGHT!!! Everything came together for you and you'll look oh so polished in your coordinated ensemble.

Now all you lack is this....

[PinkBike]

My very first group ride -- 1998 -- I was very leery, never done anything like this before. Had a new Trek 5200 but didnt know if that was good or bad or what people were really riding, or what was expected of me. Anyway, I wore contacts at the time, and about 10 miles in I lost one. I rode the last 30 miles with only one contact in! After that I always wore glasses to ride. Now I got Lasik and it is so suh-weeeeeet!!

[Mr. Bloom]

Now all you lack is this....

Oh Great! This is reminiscent of the threads encouraging me to get a kilt!

[tulip]

Congratulations, Mr. Bloom!

I cannot wear contacts and I cannot get Lasik, but I love my Tifosi Rx cycling sunglasses. They wrap around and keep stuff out of my eyes. They are Rx, so I can see.

[OakLeaf]

The whole reason I got contacts to begin with was that 20+ years ago when I started racing bicycles, I needed my peripheral vision back.

Now I need reading glasses to even freakin' eat... but I wouldn't consider going back to glasses for my distance correction.

[zia]

Interesting. After 20 years of no contacts myself (I only have one bad eye and never thought I needed it), I just got disposable contacts (1-day Acuvue Moist -- LOVE THEM) and new sunglasses (Tifosi).

I cannot believe the difference it makes in my riding. My depth perception was horrible, and, in retrospect, really impacted how confident I felt on the bike. Never mind how impossible it was to look over my left shoulder in traffic. I am going faster than I ever have, and enjoying being on the roads more than I ever have!

[yellow]

Blueberry, FWIW, after much experimentation on multi-hour rides I came to the following conclusion re: brands of disposables and drying:

Regular Acuvue: the worst
Acuvue Oasys: better
O2 Optix: da best, hands down

I did this experiment after suffering some severe but temporary vision damage after riding a double in the desert with the regular Acuvue.

But that's just my opinion.

[OakLeaf]

It's a tradeoff, though, IME... the higher the water content, the shorter they last.

[arielmoon]

I have been wearing contacts since high school. Being athletic and wearing glasses did not mix. Plus I was around horses and having them swiped across my face a few times cured me of wearing them to the barn.

I wear acuview2 and I do get some problems with wind drying them out. I try to remember to put drops in before heading out but that is not always how it goes I think the wrap around sun glasses help. I tried different contacts that were supposed to be "better" with more water content but when the sweat got in my eye, the contacts became foggy! This was not good.

I was told not to get Lasik. My doctor said in 2 years it would cause me to have to get reading glasses.