A year ago, I was riding my bike down a set of steep hills near some loca backroads and all of a sudden, the handlebars were vibrating like crazy and my vision and line of site was a blur. Next thing I knew a collection of medium and small branches was right in front of my face in an instant, with no time to think about getting out of the way. I felt the impact shock on my goggles, and then realised I was on the ground looking up.

My decision to wear eye protection was not a natural one - growing up riding without helmets, padding and eyewear was not condusive to fun riding. It wasn't something I worried much about, until my sister suffered a similar incident, only without the eyewear. Her right eye's vision is impared and probably will never return to 100% - something we all take for granted. Since then, I have notticed that my eyewear has protected me from branches and bugs quite a few times, in fact, more times than I have ever had to clean my helmet from scrapes and the helmet thing is the first thing we drill into everyones safety focus, right?.

So if you don't have eye protection, do yourself a huge favor and get some before you ride next. They're cheap and effective, plus they look pretty decent. If you ride in heavily shaded areas like forests drops or woods, get clear or yellow wrap arounds fromyou local sporting shop.Yellows are great for daylight hours, but get another pair of clear glasses for late day, early evening rides.

Don't take your eyes for granted.

Eye safety is something most people take for granted - until it is too late. This website is here to allow people to ask questions about general eye care and vision issues. If you have a question, please submit it to us and we will add it to our pages and if you feel you can answer other people's questions, then we encourage full participation!

Thank you and enjoy!