Re: eyewear for visually challenged riders

["Joe Long" <jlong@mti.net>]

On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 22:35:48 -0400, "Susan Swope"
<PARROTPLACE@prodigy.net> wrote:

>I'd sure be interested to know what all the visually challenged distance
>riders out there wear when on a ride.  I made the mistake of wearing my
>contacts on my first two LD rides.  WOW!  The agony of "peeling off my
>corneas" (as my husband calls it) after those rides.   Those babies really
>dried out drastically during those rides.  I'd surely be blind after a 50
>mile ride!

I switched to soft contacts after my first ride in rain in 1979, and
have been using them happily ever since.  I use the disposables, and
leave them in around the clock a week at a time.

If your eyes dry out, use wetting drops before removing the lenses.

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