Mark_Robson said:
I always wear eye protection when I'm cycling, I have safety glasses in clear, orange or tinted, so all options are covered. If you are going to wear glasses then I would advise wearing impact resistant glasses with polycarbonate lenses.
Wouldn't it be amusing if there were an anti glasses faction that tried to argue against the use of glasses by quoting some wonderful statistic like, more people are injured by foreign bodies entering their eyes on a beach in high winds than receive eye injuries whilst cycling and posted a picture of a toddler sitting on a beach in safety goggles, just to get the point across.
...and someone could try and enforce glasses wearing on bicycles.
They could suggest that only the eye injuries on the road were the ones that counted and all the ones on the beach were somehow acceptable.
Then they could, claim that suggestions like wearing wider glasses that offered all round protection, didn't come off when involved in an impact with grit, were properly fitted and of a high standard was "anti glasses"
Then as a piece de resistance....we could have the suggestion that only pro-glasses evidence was valid and must be acted upon.
If someone suggested that sand in the eyes from a windswept beach was as dangerous as grit on a road and both would benefit protection, these people would then could then quote press reports to prove that cycle glasses were neccessary. Yet if the same safety organisations and professional groups suggested that the beach gasses would save injury - we should hypocritically ignore the same organisations and professionals - when it didn't meet their pro-compulsion agenda?
That would be even more amusing.