When To Wear Cycle Goggles Rather Than Cycle Glasses
For all cyclists, proper head protection is a must. This is true whether you are a road racing cyclist or just somebody commuting to work or college. It also applies just as strongly to BMX riders and mountain bikers. But a very much overlooked extra piece of safety equipment is a good pair of cycling glasses. These are important for anybody riding at speed. Car drivers don’t need to worry about it because they have a windshield. That protects drivers from getting hit in the face or eyes by assorted random flying objects either thrown up from the road by passing traffic, or thrown out of the windows of other cars.
For cyclists on the road, a pair of cycle glasses can often be the only protection against such flying debris, and not wearing them could result in serious eye injury or accidents. So road cycling glasses are as important as bike helmets. If you are on the road for any extended period of time, most glasses also have coatings to absorb the suns UV rays, which is also very important.
For the off road cyclist, the BMXer or mountain biker, the nature of the terrain is very different to the generally smooth surface of the highways. These guys will be doing jumps, they will be on rough and bumpy mud tracks and there will be trees all around them. For these reasons eye protection is of critical importance. But because the tracks are bumpy, often a normal pair of cycling glasses will not be satisfactory, as they can fall off the head very easily after a crash landing from a stunt. The answer is to use cycle goggles instead. They offer all round eye protection as they fit snugly around them tight to the face, but they are held on by an elasticated strap. This means it is far more difficult for them to fall off, and usually it’s the crashes that remove normal glasses where you need your eye protection the most; for example, imagine hurtling up a hill doing a jump and flying into the branches of a tree!
So the general rule is that cycling glasses are fine for riding the roads, but if you want to go off roading and onto the dirt tracks, switch over to cycling goggles instead for extra protection.
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