 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sideshow_Bob, I forgot to post back - yes, that's exactly what I had in mind - pity about the associated cost, but I reckon it would be well worth a try for spectacle wearers like me who already own good prescription sunnies.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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boo22, Your link too - the same idea. I think I will postpone a better helmet until I can afford something like that.
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Megamum, no need for a new helmet, get a Casco Nordic Shield, all the Norway XC team are wearing them.
Or you could wear OTG goggles and stop the draft from below.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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comprex, Thanks - I'll look on the internet and find one to look at. I've actually got OTG goggles (proper ones), but they are just not comfy against the arms of the specs and also the specs tend to fog under the goggles if I work hard. Esp. if there is precipitation in the wind, snow sleet, ice-y bits etc. I think the extra windflow around the specs offered by some sort of visor might just be effective as keeping the specs clear and then if the visor was properly tinted you may not even need prescription sunnies. Or else a clear visor could used if you already had them.
Visors do seem, on sight alone, to offer a viable alternative to the specs/contacts/presc. sunnies issues. I'd be very interested in trying one out.
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I saw a handful of those helmets last week in Italy. I kept looking around to see where the wearer of said helmet had parked their fighter jet.
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rob@rar, OK, very funny. But as reading through the countless threads on the subject easily proves for those of us unfortunate enough to require artificial lenses there is no viable solution that suits us all - this is just a new idea that I hadn't considered and one that I think has mileage in trying. The Casco shields seem to retail at $110-$120 which is enough that I won't be trying them in the near future, but I've had a mind to purchase a new helmet for some time, and I think before I decide to do so I will see if I can get my hands on a visored one to try in shop (though I confess to not seeing on display when I've looked). I must admit that fancying (as I do) a black helmet if I got one with a visor I would suffer countless jokes as you have indicated, but hey! if the thing solved the conundrum of carrying countless different version of lenses up the slopes as I currently do to cope with various eventualities (which if you're a blind as bat without lenses you have to do so) the ridicule might be worth the advantage.
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Megamum, all IMHO, of course, but I do think they look very silly. My girlfriend wears glasses and has never got on well with contact lenses. She has sunglasses with a clip-in prescription lens. The sunglasses themselves have interchangeable lenses so she can swap between dark and orange colours depending on the weather. Her goggles also use the same prescription clip-in lens. None of them steam up, and they seem to make sure she can see where she's going. For occasional forays indoors when she's on the hill she carries one of those very small prescription glasses which are stored in a thin metal case a bit like a large lipstick holder. Sorted, and all without looking like you've just stepped off the set of Top Gun!
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