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AllistonGT said:
Buy the appropriate helmet. Many are eyeglasses friendly. I wear invisible bifocals. My Shoei GT Air is glasses friendly. Never been an issue.
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How do you know which are eyglass friendly? I was lucky enough to (by fluke) purchase safety glasses with very thin frames so they slide in under the padding, but sometimes it takes some wiggle and they bend.

Need to buy new glasses that'll fit comfortably under a full face, so also looking at options. Been wearing glasses since I was 10 or 12 years old.
 
mimico_polak said:
How do you know which are eyglass friendly? I was lucky enough to (by fluke) purchase safety glasses with very thin frames so they slide in under the padding, but sometimes it takes some wiggle and they bend.

Need to buy new glasses that'll fit comfortably under a full face, so also looking at options. Been wearing glasses since I was 10 or 12 years old.
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Took my full-face helmet to the vision store and wore it while sampling frames.
 
I'd give those stick-ons a try, but if they don't work then the only other option I can think of is vision correction surgery. There are a few options from single eye laser to full lens replacement (essentially the same as cataract surgery). The single-eye treatment is the cheapest and pretty effective. The idea is that you only get one eye corrected for reading vision, and leave the other alone. When both eyes are open, your brain automatically favors the eye that can focus most clearly. I've basically been doing this my whole life since I refused to wear glasses as a kid. My left eye is fine, but my right has astigmatism. With both eyes open, everything is clear. With my left eye closed, everything is blurry.
 
Relax said:
I've basically been doing this my whole life since I refused to wear glasses as a kid. My left eye is fine, but my right has astigmatism. With both eyes open, everything is clear. With my left eye closed, everything is blurry.
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And depth perception no work so good.
 
Relax said:
I'd give those stick-ons a try, but if they don't work then the only other option I can think of is vision correction surgery. There are a few options from single eye laser to full lens replacement (essentially the same as cataract surgery). The single-eye treatment is the cheapest and pretty effective. The idea is that you only get one eye corrected for reading vision, and leave the other alone. When both eyes are open, your brain automatically favors the eye that can focus most clearly. I've basically been doing this my whole life since I refused to wear glasses as a kid. My left eye is fine, but my right has astigmatism. With both eyes open, everything is clear. With my left eye closed, everything is blurry.
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Yes a stick on is what I'm looking for....any suggestions?
 
My regular glasses are progressive and my riding sunglasses are bifocals. The line on my sunglasses are exactly at the line of my windshield....so above is distance and below is near and the dash is perfectly in focus.
 
I would start with a sports optometrist.
 
FullMotoJacket said:
And depth perception no work so good.
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You know, I recently realized this was the reason why I sucked at sports when I was young. Could never catch anything. But I eventually adapted.

And as mentioned, that's the cheap option for someone who can't afford lens replacement and still refuse to wear readers.
 
MacDoc said:
might work for you
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I tried these with no luck. They don't stick very well and fall off my sunglasses.
 
basmn said:
Us blind guys who need reading glasses but don't ware them while riding....I find it impossible to read the small stuff on the gps mounted on the bars. I can see the routes on the thing but can't make out the small stuff on the bottom such as road name's. I'm thinkin to buy a flexible magnifier strip to install on the bottom of my visor, just large enough along the very bottom of the visor were it doesn't interfere with normal sight line while riding. Anyone done something like this ? I don't want to ware glasses while riding as I don't need them to see down the road.
Fire away gang ✌️
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I wear trifocal lenses in my glasses. It takes a bit of getting used to at first, but now it's completely natural.
You can probably get them in a bifocal format as well, but the distance to the GPS might be a bit too far for the "reading" part of the lens.
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