NGC - Sunglasses & Riding Gloves

[SIR REAL ED]

What are your favorite sunglasses for riding and non-riding?

Same question for riding gloves?  Anyone prefer a deer skin or kangaroo skin glove?

Enquiring minds want to know!!!

[chuck peterson]

The neatest trick i learned, hat tip George Pautenaude, was to put a piece a black electrical tape along the bottom of your face shield. When faced with a blinding direct in front low sun that can blind you, raise the shield just so the tape acts like a visor in a car…what a difference. Moving your head up and down in small increments can hide a blinding sun

Otherwise Raybans, preferably in the Navy pilot version in black. Makes you look CIA.

Deerskin gloves because….drumroll….they still grip when wet, unlike any other leather. Buy them tight and expect them to “shrink to size” with rain and use. Wonderful feel on the on all the contact surfaces.

Usually in stock at your local hardware store at a more expensive $30-50 range while all the others, pigskin, goat, cow are more like $12-25.

A step up in protection armored gloves would be $100 or more, but really much more protective then plain deerskin hardware store gloves

[kingoffleece]

Doesn't work so well in AZ at 110 degrees.  The air will cook your face.

[Perazzimx14]

Sunglasses - Prescription glasses with transitions lenses. Prior to that Dewalt tinted safety glasses.

Gloves - Tillman 1470 TrueFit kid skin gloves or cut/abrasion gloves similar to the Tillmans's.

The gloves and safety glasses are cost friendly and you do not have to feel bad about replacing them when worn, scratched or misplaced.

[AJ Huff]

Regular prescription glasses with built in drop down sun visor in helmet.

Icon armored gloves

-AJ

[Dr. Enzo Toma]

The prescription eyeglasses that I have offered clip-on sunglass lenses as an accessory, which I wear hiking but never use while riding. All my motorcycle helmets have an internal flip down sun visor, as a separate lens than the main one.

As for gloves, Aerostich Competition Elksin Ropers were my favorite for comfort, but one didn't stay on in a slide and they haven't restocked them in years for me to get a replacement pair.

I've been using Held Rodney II perforated gloves for warm weather riding, and then for cold weather I picked up a pair of Harley-Davidson clothing company gloves in Durango last year after freezing my hands in sleet going over the Continental Divide (I've since installed heated grips on that bike).



https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/shop/willie-g-skull-graphic-leather-riding-gloves/p/97109-25VM

Both of those are relatively comfortable gloves for me, though they are not top tier protection. I used to wear wool insulated gloves in winter but mostly replaced their use with hand guards, bar mitts, and/or heated grips.

[kidsmoke]

Full face rider (haven't used a modular in a few years now. So ability to put the glasses on is paramount.

Randolph Aviators with bayonnette temples. Premium lenses and the temples mean the go straight in.

Made in Massachusettes. Built like a tank. Have held up when Maui/Ray-Ban/Costa Del mar all failed



Gloves. I stumbled upon this brand when looking for winter gloves. Harssindanzar. They were less dosh than the standard Revzilla fare, and excellent quality. Several years in, still going strong, so I bought a perforated leather summer glove of the same brand. I've been super happy with both pair. In both cases these are armored knuckle moto gloves.

[cliffrod]

I wear starlite safety glasses and typically wells Lamont work gloves with tape adjustment, fully saturated with sno-pruf.    Always wanted “better” gloves but still wear what I wear.

I used to be a dedicated Ray-Ban Balorama wearer.  Then a potential romantic interest who was an eye dr in real life handed me a pair of similar glass-lens Ray Bans that suffered impact damage equivalent to a small stone while riding & asked me where I thought the numerous tiny glass shards might go while I was riding my bike at speed.   That promptly ended my Ray Ban interest and I generally avoid wearing any glass lenses now.

[draco_1967]

I use Arclite sunglasses. Interchangeable lenses, ANSI rated, "frame" is slim and nearly indestructible, made in the USA (here in Utah), and their "motorsports" lens is fantastic for riding.

For gloves, I like Racer Gloves.

[Motormike]

Modular helmet with a drop-down sun visor.  Sunglasses (Oakley) don't go on until the helmet comes off.

[SIR REAL ED]

thanks for the responses so far.

Now that helmets have entered the thread.  What brands of helmet are you guys buying and wearing?

I recently bought a 1storm from amazon, and I am very impressed with comfort and ventilation.

Flip up chin protection, flip down internal visor.

I bought the orange one so it would match my safety green mesh jacket....

[aklawok]

 Coincidentaly, I just ordered these:
https://opticalfactor.com/products/hunter-prescription-safety-rectangle-glasses?variant=40940991807673
$86, photo chromatic, in my script. W/bifocals. Made in China, taking a long time to get here.
As for gloves I use Milwaukee Tool 48-22-8733 Demolition Work Gloves. Not armored or waterproof, but darn comfortable and durable.

[Dr. Enzo Toma]

I have two HJC F-70 helmets in rotation right now. It is a light weight full face helmet with a very large field of view, replaced my use of a modular helmet as I don't feel claustrophobic at stops with it. They are intermediate oval in shape. There are a lot of other helmets that would interest me if they fit comfortably, like Schuberth's helmets, but they don't comfortably fit my noggin which puts them outside the realm of consideration.

[Anomaly]

I like to ride on the back roads with the visor on my full-faced helmet fully raised (I suppose I should just get around to taking it off...). But then I need something to keep the bugs out of my eyes. I find that Baruffaldi glasses do the trick nicely. Those and Held ventilated summer gloves and I'm good to go.

[Huzo]

I guess you could make the case that (glass) glasses, are hazardous from the point of view of an accident.
I suppose the glass shards could damage the eye if impacted.
Having said that, I used to wear them a lot…

[John Ulrich]

WilyX with gaskets.  Prescriptions available. 

[MikeP996]

I have worn full face helmets since the days of the original Bell Star!  Used Shoei's for many years but a few years ago decided to try a Shoei Modular and became a convert to that style BUT the Shoei modular was quite heavy and was tiring after extended periods.  I then tried a Schuberth modular and that is what I prefer nowadays.  My wife has a carbon fibre AGV modular that she really likes and it is very light.  I tried one and loved the (lack of) weight but it didn't fit my head shape very well.  I suppose if I rode with it for a month or two it might "conform," but it would be an expensive test if it didn't.  :(

Never paid a lot of attention to gloves as far as type/brand.  I have a pair of Richa gloves with the plastic knuckle armor but don't like them because they are uncomfortable across the knuckles over time.  I prefer soft padding over the knuckles and my current pair is a brand I can't recall that I picked up at a stall at Jurby on the Isle of Man last year. 

I don't wear sunglasses while on the bike; I use the flip down sun visor.  Ray Bans off the bike.

[Ncdan]

Prescription aviators style sunglasses and Kevlar lined LE duty shorty gloves.

[tommy2cyl]

I prefer modular helmet and wouldn't get one without the flip down sun visor.  So convenient when transitioning from bright sun into darker areas with
tree cover, easy to flip up and down when needed.  I use tape on the visor but at the top not bottom.  This helps immensely when riding into a lowering sun at the
end of the day and you still have facial protection.  This is an old racer's trick and it works very well reducing serious glare.

[Vagrant]

Many years back one of the writers for a magazine (I think Road Rider RIP) got hit by a rock while wearing glass sun glasses. Trip ruined with a trip to the emergency room.