Handlebars and Spectacles?!?!

[Cuchilo]

I don't need to wear glasses . The only time i wear them is to ride my road bike or TT bike so i don't get flies in my eyes .

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I wear glasses and have ridden 667 miles since buying my bike last October I very rarely use the drops (only on downhills) the hoods are a comfortable position for me

Mine are varifocals too

Varifocals only with with butterfly bars. Everybody knows that.

 

[KneesUp]

There's bloody Laurent Fignon winning the 1984 Tour in his specs. The big French show off. They've cropped the bike out so you can't tell he's riding his mum's shopper because it had flat bars.

 

[Dogtrousers]

This may be controversial, but my opinion, and that's all it is, an opinion, is that he's an imbecile.


(Speccy drop bar bike rider)

 

[tyred]

I do admit to having an issue with glasses sliding down my nose and ending up looking over the top of them (and yes it can cause a stiff neck) but it happens on all bar types. It even happens when sitting eating dinner.

No pair of glasses I've ever had has fitted me properly no matter how much the optician (different ones used over the years) adjusts them so I must have an odd-shaped head. I guess I need somewhere to store my huge brain!

 

[HLaB]

I now wear contacts when I'm group riding but I'm a glasses wearer and I still wear them for commuting and solo rides as I have never had a problem with them and drops :-/

 

[ChrisV]

Imbecile?

 

[winjim]

Yeah, imbecile. From the brief discussions we have on here from time to time I get the impression that I ride on the drops more than average, and I'm a speccy four eyes. To be fair though I did pick my specs specifically so they would be wearable on the bike. My old pair were less suitable.

 

[Sharky]

It is a bit miss guided to quote spectacles as a reason for not buying a dropped bar bike. I have always ridden drops and consider them to be "flat" bars with an additional bendy bit, giving you more varied hand positions.

But the sales man I think was referring to a consequence that spectacles may introduce, namely bad fitting glasses and lack of suppleness could cause a rider to be looking over the top of their glasses or to be straining the neck too much causing neck ache. None of which are strong enough reasons for not buying a bike with drops.

I wear glasses for short sight and have worn them for cycling, but it was night time riding and in damp conditions, causing them to mist up that resulted me riding without glasses at all for most of the time. Should my eyesight deteriate it would probably make me consider contacts as a solution.

 

[steve50]

It is a bit miss guided to quote spectacles as a reason for not buying a dropped bar bike. I have always ridden drops and consider them to be "flat" bars with an additional bendy bit, giving you more varied hand positions.

But the sales man I think was referring to a consequence that spectacles may introduce, namely bad fitting glasses and lack of suppleness could cause a rider to be looking over the top of their glasses or to be straining the neck too much causing neck ache. None of which are strong enough reasons for not buying a bike with drops.

I wear glasses for short sight and have worn them for cycling, but it was night time riding and in damp conditions, causing them to mist up that resulted me riding without glasses at all for most of the time. Should my eyesight deteriate it would probably make me consider contacts as a solution.

Used this a lot when i rode motorcycles, works a treat on visors so should work just as good on glasses.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/2811...rlsatarget=pla-258198432223&adtype=pla&crdt=0

 

[Accy cyclist]

I sometimes wear my glasses when cycling (i have drop handlebars). If i didn't wear one of those wrap round the head stretchy bands on my glasses they would constantly slip down due to the lens thickness/weight, with me being poor sighted. So my sight would be affected, especially if i was riding on the bottom of the bars. The sales assistant has a point i'd say.

 

[lutonloony]

I do admit to having an issue with glasses sliding down my nose and ending up looking over the top of them (and yes it can cause a stiff neck) but it happens on all bar types. It even happens when sitting eating dinner.

No pair of glasses I've ever had has fitted me properly no matter how much the optician (different ones used over the years) adjusts them so I must have an odd-shaped head. I guess I need somewhere to store my huge brain!

I'm impressed that you can eat your dinner while cycling

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Instead of assuming he's a dim-witted imbecile, with nothing to go on but 1 interaction. Maybe it would be fair to suggest he is misinformed rather than uneducated.

Or perhaps had personal experience with poor fitting glasses, or a poor bike.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

I've just been wandering around a high street cycle shop wondering whether to get a proper road bike to replace my MTB when I was approached by a sales assistant. I explained what I was looking for and he told me he would recommend I stay away from bikes with drop handlebars and go for a straight bar hybrid type bike. I asked why he though this and he told me, "because you wear glasses."

Is this and issue? Has anyone had difficulty seeing the road in front of them because they are looking over their glasses and not through them?

I think most sales assistants want to look as if they are "experts in the field".
True,they should have good knowledge about the products(some don't),but to give you advice on something entirely different is just trying to look clever.