Wow, I clicked through to that link, and the recommendation for cycling is for helmet plus streetwear/fashion eyewear, no impact resistance at all! Yikes!! I'd want ANSI and/or OSHA spec impact resistant for sure. Since they recommend polycarbonate for everything where impact resistance *is* desired, that automatically takes care of UV protection.
Sorry you got doored. - but I have to think it's a fairly uncommon circumstance where the frame would take an impact hard enough to push it into your face. Since the helmet overhangs your glasses, the helmet will usually take the impact. My glasses-mounted mirror hit the ground in my last crash (a hard crash, with significant soft tissue injury and just very lucky I didn't break my neck), but didn't cause any problems - and even though the mirror is glass bonded to a plastic backing, I've never once heard of a Chuck Harris mirror shattering, out of all the tens of thousands of people out there wearing them for the past 40 years.
I guess I might take a look at the certifications on the eyewear the pros wear. You don't have to spend a ton of money to get the same certifications from safety glasses, and some of them aren't unattractive at all. I've been wearing the same style of shooting glasses as my only sunglasses (and the same thing with clear lenses for night cycling) for 15 or 20 years now, and they're $9 a pair.
ETA - I'm going to take a look at the FIM and AMA and see what they require for motocross racers. Road racers obviously wear full face helmets, so they don't need any particular eyewear. Will report back ...
AMA only requires that goggles be "shatterproof" for amateur competition. Doesn't specify any standard.
... Same for professional AMA competition.
... Same for FIM-sanctioned international competition.
Wow.
Last edited by OakLeaf; 01-22-2016 at 03:37 PM.
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler