Helmets and spectacles

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Fr Jack said...

Don't talk soft, ya big fuckin' Jessie. What lid have you got at the
moment? If you want a light helmet then expect to pay quite a bit more
over the cost of a heavier one. That's just the way it is with helmets
and weight. There's a 30 quid difference in cost between our 1250g model
and our 1540g one, I can't tell the difference when I'm riding with
either, even though the 1250g one feels much lighter when I pick it up.
I have excessive wear and tear on my neck, so I'm told after having an
MRI scan last year, but never have neck problems on the bike.

 

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I never use varifocals for driving/riding now at all.

You can be totally deceived if you look out of the sides of them, so I
use a pair of ordinary ones to compensate for short-sight, and the
varifocals will be worn again for everyday use when the borked
memory-metal frames are fixed.

 

Good move as far as I was concerned. Adjusted (more or less) to them in
a couple of hours, and they've been a real boon.

I've one eye much more short-sighted than the other, and using normal
glasses I can't read a book/screen with them on because I have to view
from several feet. Middle-distance and distance are OK, so I used to
remove my glasses for reading, but because of the imbalance, in vision,
this wasn't ideal, and even middle distance was blurry.

As I age, the short-sightedness is getting less, though, but ||
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fortunately, both seem to be changing proportionally.

 

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Bit of (in)judicious crossposting mayhap?

 

Ah - that may be the answer.
I tend to be hairy in place you shouldn't be hairy - or summat like that.

 

From experience, any AGV, any Arai and any FM. I'd be surprised if I
ever
really found a lid that wouldn't let me put specs on afterwards.

The only exception being if you've got memory wire frames. They're
designed to be flexible, so difficult to push inside the lid. But that's
a problem with the specs, not with the lid.

 

Is there such a thing?

The closest thing I found was a static-cling reading lens so I can see
the radio and GPS displays.

 

I must have missed them too

Yeah, I end up taking mine off to read anything close up

??

 

I tried some memory metal frames and could get the buggers on with my
helmet on, they bent and twisted all over the place...

 

The pikey ones maybe. I have Nikon lenses in Porsche frames and a big
hole in my bank balance

Took me a week or so to get used to them, even got a headache for the
first few days. Going downstairs and tying your shoe laces is tricky
to start with until you learn to move your head more than your your
eyeballs.

 

Ay say you cheps, how about a brace of monocles?

 

610V, which is 110g lighter than the Caberg I had and has made a huge
difference.

Unfortunately, I do....
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
B12S (The Red Mist), CB450DX (The Moped)
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
Red death, to set you free

 

Actually, that put me to thinking of those prescription goggles that
that footy player wears ... Can't remember his name for the moment
.... short fellah with a short fuse .... Dutch, I think.

Edgar Davids ?

 

Rusty Hinge 2 wrote

No thanks.

 

Rusty Hinge 2 wrote

If ever I buy varifocals again they will be the reverse of what I have
at the moment and they will be optimised for outdoors with a pair of
single focus for staring at square screens.

Although I am tempted to try sticking me fingers in me eyes like other
people do but I know where my fingers have been.

 

Ah that's my problem then , all my specs have thinnish arms.
At least a new helmet will be cheaper than new specs...

Steve

 

Laura was once asked this, when she was about 2 or 3. Completely
unprompted, she came out with "Abracadabra!"

 

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