this is hands down the best tip i can give you about riding with glasses
hello bike family and fellow blind writers today i'm covering a topic that i've been
getting questions about since pretty much the day that i started writing how do you ride with
glasses fear not my blind friend i've been riding with glasses for six years and i have mastered
the art when it comes to riding with glasses there's generally two problems one how do you
actually get them to be comfortable inside of your helmet and the second problem is how do you stop
them from fogging up when you're riding especially in cold weather these are both problems i've
encountered when riding with my glasses inside of a motorcycle helmet so what's the girl supposed to
do i'll tell you this is hands down the best tip i can give you about riding with glasses
these glasses and these two are all glasses that i've had to ride with there's two main reasons
why these ones are better to ride with than these are the ones that i'm currently wearing
this pair has a much thinner side frame thinner the frames are on the side the better it's going
to fit inside your motorcycle helmet and the more comfortable it will end up being inside
of your motorcycle helmet you're kind of fighting for space so if you can get something that has a
really thin side frame that doesn't take up a lot of real estate between the padding and your ear
that's gonna be a much more comfortable and i can attest these are not so comfortable inside
my motorcycle helmet and these were it's the same scenario with the glasses that i have right now
they have a much thicker side frame than the ones that i prefer to ride with another reason glasses
with thinner side frames are generally beneficial is because they're also going to weigh less
overall than a bigger heavier frame and that's going to translate to being more comfortable
on your face actually inside your motorcycle helmet and off of it actually an even better
option than these ones would be something like this where you have a very very thin metal frame
these will work the best because they're also very lightweight so yeah tip number one choose
a thin side frame all right the next tip along those same lines is to pick a pair of glasses
that isn't actually wider than your face you can see these ones aren't super wide on my face
these ones aren't either i've done a pretty good job of figuring out how wide my glasses
need to be so that they don't kind of protrude on the outside of my face because that's going
to be hard to get inside a motorcycle helmet and then they're not going to be sitting on your face
right and these ones that i showed you earlier are actually junior's frames they're not adult frames
i have a small face so it makes no sense for me to get really wide glasses that i'm gonna have a
really hard time fitting inside of my motorcycle helmet okay here's our motovlogging helmet
glass is number one can you tell they're not really wider than my face so i don't really have
a problem with these these ones are also not wider than my face but they do have thicker side frames
so they kind of border on insufferable inside this helmet and i really have to be careful how i'm
positioning them behind my ears in order for them to actually feel comfortable and same scenario
with this third pair it's a little bit of a thicker frame so i find myself having to position
it inside of my helmet a little bit until i find a spot that kind of works but i'd rather not have to
do that i'd rather just have something with a thin side frame that will slip in the sides easily okay
this is a problem that almost every single rider has had to experience if you ride with glasses
it's your glasses fogging up how the heck do you stop that this one's annoying to answer because
there's several solutions and they only work partly well from my experience when it comes
to trying to have my glasses not fog up while i'm writing i've tried everything from anti-fog sprays
to rubbing soap on my glasses to holding my breath while i'm riding to opening all my vents and
it's a struggle but it's better than doing none of those things at all so let me break them down
for you first of all understand the weather that you're riding in if you're going out and it's cold
outside your glasses are going to fog up almost no matter what you do it's just something you're
gonna have to live with water will condense on your lenses whether you like it or not
but there are steps you can take to reduce that i'm gonna start with the most ghetto
tip and just go up the list and hopefully they become more progressively useful as we go on
the first thing i've done if there's no airflow going so if i'm not moving or i'm at a stop sign
or something like that is i've just held my breath for a few seconds i mean it works your breath is
why your glasses fog up i can't say i recommend this for extended periods of time like at stop
lights maybe maybe don't do that just open your visor and that's my second tip if you have to stop
somewhere just crack your visor open don't keep it shut kind of on that same topic if you know
a route that has like heavy traffic on maybe your morning commute or something like avoid that route
if there's an alternate route you can take some country back roads where you don't have to stop
at stop signs or stop lights choose a route that kind of lets you keep moving on your motorcycle
instead of having to stop go stop go your best friend when it comes to keeping your glasses
unfogged is actually just to have constant airflow going and there's things you can do to keep that
airflow going one of them is to make sure that all the vents on your motorcycle helmet are open
especially the bottom one now a subscriber actually suggested that you can also try to take
your chin skirt out i've never done that and i won't because i moto vlog and the wind noise would
be annoying but he does have a point the chin skirt is mainly there to reduce the wind i guess
inside your motorcycle helmet so removing it might actually help if you have all your vents open and
it's still not doing it for you maybe try to just keep your visor open just a hair like on the first
click or the first setting whatever it is just to get some air that will hit your glasses and
hopefully stop that condensation from happening on them long ago i was browsing the motorcycle
subreddit and one person on there suggested that you can actually rub a bit of bar soap on your
glasses and then just buff it in with a cloth and that will help it actually did help me a
little bit but i wouldn't say it made such a huge difference if i had to guess a number maybe like a
20 reduction in fogging but i'd still have to keep my vents open and maybe the visor cracked a little
bit another thing you can look for if you're really committed to riding with your glasses is
to find anti-fog lenses anti-fog lenses typically come with a coating on top of the lens and you
activate the anti-fog coating by buffing it in with a cloth that they give you now this does mean
that every couple of hours you're going to have to rub your glasses with the cloth to activate that
anti-fog property so keep that in mind for longer trips but by far the thing that people try the
most is just anti-fog sprays i've tried a couple of them myself throughout the years i will leave
my favorite ones linked down below although i will say their degree of effectiveness really depends
on how cold it is outside so if it's really really cold and i just want to go for a ride
doing an anti-fog coating on my glasses isn't gonna help me out that much i would say maybe it's
a little bit more effective than just putting soap on your glasses but i wouldn't consider it a 100
and all be all solution if you want to hear more about how i make my rides more pleasurable
you can check out this video otherwise i will see you all in the next one bye