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miller@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com (Mark Miller) writes:

>More rain questions for the vision-impaired: How do you folks reduce
>fogging/rain accumulation on your glasses? Contact lenses are not an
>option for me, and I *must* (can you say blind as a bat?) wear the
>glasses. These factors have combined to cause me problems, especially
>when riding at night.

How about this then.  

I used to do a half hour communte when I lived in Edmonton and I would keep it 
up until there was snow.  One year it got down to -20 Celcius before it snowed 
and I found that my glasses stayed clear until I stopped at an intersection 
when the lenses frosted up immediately.  I could see nothing through them and 
would peer around and under them and look for green and red smudges though the 
frost to tell me what the light was doing.  I started off completely blind but 
the moving air would have the lenses clear before I reached the other side of 
the intersection.

It's obviously luck and not brains that has kept me alive.

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>>More rain questions for the vision-impaired: How do you folks reduce
>>fogging/rain accumulation on your glasses? Contact lenses are not an
>>option for me, and I *must* (can you say blind as a bat?) wear the
>>glasses. These factors have combined to cause me problems, especially
>>when riding at night.
>

ther is some spray that you can put on the lenses to prevent them from
fogging up.  unfortunatly i forget the name of it but you should be able
to get it at your optician.  it comes in a real small aerosol can.  as for
keeping rain outta yer eyes, i find a baseball hat pulled down real close
works pretty well.

bert

In article <42820002@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com> miller@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com (Mark Miller) writes:

   More rain questions for the vision-impaired: How do you folks reduce
   fogging/rain accumulation on your glasses? Contact lenses are not an
   option for me, and I *must* (can you say blind as a bat?) wear the
   glasses. These factors have combined to cause me problems, especially
   when riding at night.

Well for day time in the rain, find a helment with a brim like the old
Bell Tourist and some fenders. [Unless of course you can find one of
those glasses that comes with the builtin wipers :-)]

As for fogging, use some saliva (always available) and apply
to you glasses (Some commercial concoctions are also available).
Re-apply as required.

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