Fading eyesight solutions?
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:07 pm
Happily, I am not too bad as my longsight is pretty decent, but for me off road motorcycle navigation is becoming an issue as the GPS/Tablet or even map becomes increasingly difficult to read at times withgout stopping and digging out glasses!
I tried a pair of Varifocal safety glasses last year with Reactolite lenses, but for me the varifocal is waaaay too high on the lens and while Ok..ish on road use, they are next to useless on trail riding as when standing upon the pegs, the magnification is slap bang in my med/long range viewing.
I was at the Specsaver opticians earlier this week and we chatted about some possible solutions and I thought I'd ask some views here.
1. Sports frame glasses with bifocal safety lenses, as the safety glass frames were all too shallow in depth to put a bifocal mag section in the bottom 1/4 of the eyepiece to be suitable for bike riding. Even the cycling frames were too shallow really to give a large magnification free area, with a 1/4-1/3 magnified area.
2. Contacts. This came as a shock as the suggestion was to use a magnified lens in one eye, and nowt in the other.
2b. Contacts again, but use a varifocal. My suspicion is that these will suffer the same issues as varifocal glasses...
Tell me your solutions please folks...
I tried a pair of Varifocal safety glasses last year with Reactolite lenses, but for me the varifocal is waaaay too high on the lens and while Ok..ish on road use, they are next to useless on trail riding as when standing upon the pegs, the magnification is slap bang in my med/long range viewing.
I was at the Specsaver opticians earlier this week and we chatted about some possible solutions and I thought I'd ask some views here.
1. Sports frame glasses with bifocal safety lenses, as the safety glass frames were all too shallow in depth to put a bifocal mag section in the bottom 1/4 of the eyepiece to be suitable for bike riding. Even the cycling frames were too shallow really to give a large magnification free area, with a 1/4-1/3 magnified area.
2. Contacts. This came as a shock as the suggestion was to use a magnified lens in one eye, and nowt in the other.
2b. Contacts again, but use a varifocal. My suspicion is that these will suffer the same issues as varifocal glasses...
Tell me your solutions please folks...