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Old Aug 18, 2006 | 02:45 AM
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Default Contacts or Glasses?

Do You wear a full size helmet, Goggles, are those "Switch Lens Glasses" okay? I just got my contact lenses. before I was of using motocross goggles over my prescriptions, at night. And cocoons with the tint, in the sun. I just want to know what you wear if "Contact Lenses or Glasses".

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Old Aug 18, 2006 | 06:37 AM
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I wear contacts along with sunglasses and clear platic lense glasses at night.
 
Old Aug 18, 2006 | 07:44 AM
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I wear glasses, tinted and regular. I have a full face helmet. I also have some goggles with my 1/2 hemet and sometimes I use just the glasses behind my windshield around town.
 
Old Aug 18, 2006 | 08:29 AM
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Half helmet, contacts, sunglasses. At night goggles. I always carry a little squirt bottle of that "blink clean" contact rewetting solution on my bike in the tour pak.
 
Old Aug 18, 2006 | 11:06 AM
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Contacts, ACC half helmet, and these glasses. Biker Glasses One clear and one tinted. $30 total for both pair of glasses including shipping. I am getting LASIK in January though.
 
Old Aug 18, 2006 | 11:23 AM
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I got pk surgery back in 97 so it's just sunglasses for me.
 
Old Aug 18, 2006 | 12:53 PM
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up until a few months ago- it was contacts/sunglasses for me.

the 'contact thing' got old and i really dont like the possibility of losing a contact, dry eyes, etc... so, i ordered up a pair of Panoptx prescription glasses with the transitioning day/night lenses.

they were about $300 but WELL worth it... i wish i had gotten them years ago.
 
Old Aug 18, 2006 | 01:02 PM
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contacts and the HD profile goggles w/day-night lenses. I love em. No need to switch from clear to tinted.
 
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Full face helmet with contacts. Need to get sunglasses. The glare is really starting to get to me. I have never needed sunglasses before. I guess it is age.
 
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I wear my regular prescription glasses which darken in the sun with my ACC half helmet.

In heavy rain, I switch to yellow prescription googles.

 



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