Originally Posted by
TimothyH
My guess is that you don't wear prescription glasses, that you don't need them to see. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm not sure if those who don't wear prescription glasses can understand the level of anxiety those who need them to see live with on a daily basis. Every time they come off my head they get smudged or twisted, or set down and forgotten, or fall on the floor, or shoved in a pocket...
It is far less stressful to just keep them on my face where they belong and allow the helmet to go on and off without messing with something which I am blind without.
-Tim-
I wear prescription glasses for distance sometimes, but not on the bike, as I have a fairly weak prescription and I haven't as yet bothered to get sports rx glasses. Also wear reading glasses sometimes depending on the material, but again, not on a bike.. I can still make out the important stuff on my garmin.
That said, I put my helmet on once, and my sunglasses on once when I get on the bike and ride. Then take them off when I stop. Then put them on again when I go again. Not sure I understand where the stress level you're intimating exists would come from? Stress would be having shards of broken glass or plastic shoved through my eyeball in the event of a bad accident. ymmv