Sunglasses For Motorcycles
Everybody remembers the cool Terminator style with dark sunglasses on, day or night. Definitely dark shades look great on motorcycles, but what about real life usage? Well, the kind of sunglasses matching the Terminator style are practical for casual wear and not for motor riding, no matter how cool they may look. Motorcycle sunglasses have to be compatible with the helmet and protect the biker at high speed traveling. Durability, quality and rigorous protection represent the criteria for the design for quality motorcycle sunglasses. Lens and frame durability is justified by the impact with road debris that often happens at high speed.
Shattering and chipping result from the contact of poor quality motorcycle sunglasses with small pebbles for instance. Glass lenses are a no-no for bike riding because of the risk to break and injure the biker. The best lenses for motorcycle sunglasses are made of polycarbonate that is resistant and very lightweight matching extreme travel conditions. All the companies that produce eyewear for motorcycle use pass their products through very rigorous testing so that the resistance to temperature variations, wind and impact with debris is assured.
Moreover, motorcycle sunglasses include special anti-glare coating that is a form of polarization for the elimination of the contact between eye and reflected light. The vibration of light waves is an element that poses no kind of problem with other types of eyewear, but in the case of motorcycle sunglasses the shock has to be absorbed by the polarized coating. Squinting against the sun or road brightness is unacceptable for a biker. From this perspective motorcycle sunglasses play a major role for road safety and health protection given the eye damage that the glare may cause.
As for the ultraviolet protection in the entire light spectrum, motorcycle sunglasses should have a filer UV level of 400. This means that polarization should combine with ultraviolet protection. You don’t really need anti-glare features on overcast days, but the presence of clouds does not exclude the action of the ultraviolets. Bikers use motorcycle sunglasses even on not so bright days both for eye comfort as well as for protection. Eye disorders and the risk of getting cataract or macular degeneration have a reduced incidence if the eyewear is right.
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When the author isn’t motorcycle riding, he also enjoys psychic readings, the BMW Z3 windscreen windblocker wind deflector, and follows the Seattle HCG Diet.