I always wore a good pair of sun glasses. My new helmet has a built in retractable sun visor. It works OK but is not quite dark enough, so I imagine I will still wear the sun glasses now and then. A major key is to keep your visor and glasses clean. Any dirt will cause the glare to be worse.

 

Yesterday was really bad....but the snow with the sun I think makes it worse! I had my full face on and I can only wear certain types of sunglasses with that one....for short trips I just wear my reading glasses that darken...but that didn't help too much where there was a lot of snow....

I buy a whole boat load of sunglasses at the end of the season and when I can find good deals online...then I throw them all in a case and take them with me on trips....to try out and then you never know ...sometimes they break...so you need a replacement.

I have a retractable in my half helmet but I find it is too dark sometimes....

 

I have 2 visors, one tinted and one plain for my helmet. If I am not going to carry both, then I use the tinted if I will be back before sunset.
If not, I use the plain and put the RayBans on under the visor, til sunset, then just the plain visor.
dc

 

Same here...If I ride to work, I usually bring a backpack, since I dont have bags yet....Ill put the tinted on, and throw the clear in the back pack....My tinted is almost black, its great during the day....

If i go out for a cruise late afternoon, I do the clear/sunglasses combo.

 

I have a tinted visor. Normally I used to hate them because of limited night visibility, but the newer ones are much better.

 

Window tint on the shield. I've got that on the HJC. You can play around with and see how wide the piece would need to be. Mine is about 1 1/2 in. and works great. Stays on just fine

 

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
This really works great and you can do it on the cheap with Sun Spot Window Tint from Wal Mart. When they have it in stock. It isn't a winter item in many stores.
For less than $4 you can buy a sheet about 12" x 16" and cut what you need to the size you want. It is static cling and stays in place even when cleaning your face shield.

 

Sunglasses and the darkest tinted shield they had for my helmet

 

I have sunglasses, and I squint alot.

 

I have 2 visors as well. Tinted visor during the day and clear at night, the tinted one works way better than sunglasses and I have a scorpion helmet, it takes about 10 seconds to switch visors.

 

+1. I used to wear sunglasses but a tinted visor is much more comfortable and a lot clearer than two barriers to look through. At night or dusk, I switch to the clear visor. HJC helmets also have a quick-release system and take about 10 seconds to switch. I carry the not-used visor in a saddle bag inside the soft helmet bag to protect it. Doesn't take up too much room, since you can still fit stuff inside the curve of the visor.

 

I wear sunglasses. Usually if I am planning on being home by nightfall I will take a dark pair of shades and wear them under my full face helmet. If I know I am going to be out after it gets dark I will wear a pair I have that auto tint. They are a bit more expensive but they work pretty well. Two more options for you.

1. Get a set of yellow tints. These work well for glare and at night.

2. I saw a youtube vid of a helemt that has some sort of liquid filled visor that auto tints at the push of a button. I will see if I can find the link. Right now I am at work and the Govt (Man) blocks youtube.

 

+1 on the sunglasses. I wear them with my full face.

 

I wear pair of tinted safety glasses- Smith & Wesson 38 specials red mirror tint. When the sun goes down a pair of photochromic riding glasses. I was hoping to wear the photochromic glasses all the time, but they just aren't dark enough in bright sun light.

 

I find Polarized lenses kill the glare better than anything, since the reflection off the road surface is polarized in the direction the glasses are meant to block.

 

Ray Bans are the original anti glare sun glasses, and also offer infra red and ultra violet protection.
They originally held the patent.
After all General Douglas MacArthur wore them, and he couldn't have been wrong, could he?
dc

 

I do much of the same things others have said, but when the sun is really low on the horizon I try to plan my ride so that I am not facing the sun. The reduction of visibility you suffer when squinting at the sun is enough to make it unsafe to ride. On long trips where I am heading west in the late afternoon I will stop for a few hours if needed and then continue riding at night. If I just want a quick fun ride after work I try to plan a north-south route so that I am not spending much time facing the setting sun.

 

I agree with Rex, scorpion helmet with a tinted visor, no need for sunglasses under it with the North Carolina sun.

 

I need Rx glasses so I use Wiley X's with transitional lenses.

 

When wearing my full face helmet, I use a pair of Ray Ban Aviators, with prescription lenses. I love 'em. When wearing my half-helmet, I wear a pair of Wiley-X with prescription lenses.

 

I ordered a small glue on shade for my Wife's helmet. It's like the little bill on an open faced helmet. That, along with her sunglasses, helped a lot.

 

I have good sunglasses. In fact the other day I broke my clear glasses and had to wear the sunglasses at night. I couldn't see anything. It was like riding without a headlight on a road with no streetlighting. But in sun they are great.

 

fight sun glare

A simple sun blocker for riding glasses can be found at hori-sun.com.
It blocks out the sun and you can see thru the remaining glare.

 

My visor is a transition lens. I ride in before the sun comes up, and home when it is bright and sunny, and I don't have to change lenses.

 

I use a set like these during the day (same dark amber color even)

I would like a set of yellow tinted ones like these for at night:

but currently, I have a set of clear dirt bike goggles

 

I wear prescrip glasses and have a pair of sunglasses.

Not ordinary sunglasses, but seriously dark sunglasses. I can see well enough for any daytime situation which includes covered bridges and tunnels, but they're darker than any regular sunglasses.

The optometrist originally thought I was nuts when I told them I wanted them seriously darker tint, but once he took them outside and looked up toward the sun he changed his tune. I can ride into the sun with the tint we do, without squinting. I've only seen one pair of sunglasses that dark - a cheap pair that Wendy's used to either sell for a buck or give away. Never seen any Oakleys or tinted shields that good.

I just ordered another pair in the newer wrap around style so I can wear them with my dual sport helmet running shield open, yet still have good protection near goggle level. The technology now allows a prescrip grind including bifocal on the more radical curved lense of a wrap around. They ain't cheap, about $250-300, but it will be worth it. The sealing valence around the frame that makes them fit snug is removable for general use too.

It only takes me about 30 seconds to change glasses if I need to do so. I can do it sitting on the bike at the side of the road quite easily. But I also wore them when shopping and stopping for lunch the other day, so even as dark as they are I can still use them indoors if needed.

So if you're a glasses wearer or are willing to spend the money for glasses with custom tint, getting a pair of glasses with very dark tint is a good option. They can change tint too if needed, you can go darker if not as dark as wanted.

One side note. We also did a trick with my bifocal grind. I do regular "lined" bifocal grind because I want maximum in focus distance. For the motorcycle use we actually dropped my near sight grind. It falls right at the instruments with everything above being in the distance grind. Works great.

 

I wear goggles that have 3 different lenses. Clear for night, bark for day, and orange for day or just after sun is starting to go down.

They pop on/off easy. It's always brigther out with snow on the ground and a clear sky. Can't really recall if I ever had a glare issue with the goggles, guess it depends alot od if traveling in suns direction. I don't ride when snow is out with cold temps. But seeing a warm up is coming here starting tomorrow and by this friday even warmer, I might just have some acceptable riding temps this week.

 

Caberg Helmet with built in sun visor.
Best invention since sliced bread.

 

That is one SWEET-AZZED looking helmet! Is that a modular helmet? I have a modular helmet with the internal sun visor as well. (almsot never wear the thing though lol)