Anyone here wear glasses?

I'm kind of a blank slate in this regard . . .

I went to the eye doctor for the first time ever yesterday for an exam . . . I thought the exam was great but then everything was crazy-rushed and I didn't have time to explore the options.

Anyways, I'm the only one in my family who never had glasses, but it seems I'm having normal age-related changes. I'm getting more far-sighted . . . having the most trouble reading small print especially in low light . . .

The doc said I could get by with standard reading glasses for the small print situations, and said I have a very slight prescription for far.

So I can get one pair of glasses covered mostly by insurance. They can be bifocals (near/nml, near/far, far/nml) or regular . . . things like trifocals or progressives come with a significant upcharge.

How do you folks who wear glasses while riding handle it? Do you just wear your regular everyday glasses? Have you got prescription riding glasses of some sort?

I'm probably not even asking the right questions so any clarifying questions appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by Michael A on October 18, 2011 at 5:12pm

I used to use a progresive lens on my cycling glasses, but they give you some distortion on the lower edges. This yr I purchased my bifocals set up as a small circle, standard distance vision everywhere else and this small dot that is my reading script. This works out great for riding, no more distortion when looking back at traffic while still being able to read street signs from a distance and my bike computer. My ins pays for a small portion of them , I think out of pocket was over $300, but they are also transition lenses. I wear them for riding and as my primary glasses.