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What Helmets are you guys wearing
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(07-31-2020, 10:40 PM)gudgeonpin Wrote:  There are also motorcycle sunglasses (as opposed to goggles).  For example:
https://www.amazon.com/Motorcycle-Protec...042&sr=8-5

I am not endorsing these- I don't own them- they just illustrate the type with the foam seal around the eyes.
You should wear eye protection, but whatever you wear, make sure you have good peripheral vision.
Oldster in a Speedster and I use these. Can read the gauges and the GPS. I also use an older DOT-blessed polo helmet as it has a real brim on it. Don’t see them any more (except novelty ones), I think they are outlawed now and all you can get are half-shells with a snap on brim that looks like half a squatty bird beak glued to a black bowl. In FL and I’d wear a ball cap but they look stupid with chin straps. Honestly, though, I do wear one anyway. If you get T-boned from the left, the VDH will probably hold up pretty well as it is so light weight and I doubt the bathtub would deform much as it rapidly changed direction from the impact but your head wouldn’t and would embed itself in the grill of that pickup. Same for the right side for the Speedsters with the fairing (and aluminum support struts) by your right ear. Your left shoulder and arm, etc, would get banged up but you wouldn’t be spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair with a drool cup. You could use your good arm to call a lawyer. Frankly, I wish they made a DOT approved pith helmet as I am tired of getting my face nicked for protocancers. I have full-face helmets that I use once in a blue moon on my bikes, usually when near freezing, but man wasn’t made to go through life with his head in a bucket and it certainly whips the joy out of driving. In summer in the SE it’s like ordering a waterboarding to go.

Finally, agree with gudgeonpin, keep your peripheral vision intact. The other drivers aren’t watching so no need to willfully blind yourself.

These have reasonably good peripherals but have a bit of a “Matrix” look to them:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009R7...UTF8&psc=1
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