More Sunday ride prep! This time, it\’s eyewear. I don\’t want to ride even one block without proper sunglasses.

I have some called Tifosi®. The frame came with three interchangeable lenses: dark; vermillion; and clear. The vermillion lenses are good on overcast days when the dark lenses would be too dark; but there\’s enough light that unprotected eyes would be miserable.

The clear lenses are for riding in the dark. In warm weather, they (mostly!) keep flying insects out of my eyes. In cold weather, they keep the worst of a cold wind out of my eyes; and in any temperatures, they protect my eyes from wherever dust and leaves might be flying around.

Sometimes I guess wrong as to which lenses to wear. If the forecast sounded like it would be overcast; and I wear the vermillion lenses; and it turns out to be bright sunlight; it\’s quite uncomfortable for my eyes. I need more Sunday ride prep than that! So when I\’m going out on a ride of several hours, and wearing the Camel-Bak; I need to pack along whichever pair of sunglasses that I\’m not wearing, so I can change if need be.

Sunglasses alone don\’t provide sufficient protection from overhead sunlight for me. At least, not the ones I have. Maybe some sophisticated wrap-around glasses would keep the overhead light from bothering my eyes; but just now I don\’t feel like spending the money.

That is why I leave the visor on my helmet. I read somewhere that wearing a helmet visor is one of the  signs of a rookie cyclist. Like Rhett Butler, I don\’t give a … well, you know. If I need the shading that the visor provides, I\’m going to wear it.