Mountain biking can be fun if you have the right gear.
One item that is in many ways essential is eye protection. Whether your preferred eye wear is glasses or goggles or shields, you can agree they keep the dirt, dust, and bugs out of your eyes.
Another factor aside from keeping things out is improving range of vision. This can be challenging with mountain biking since the sport takes a rider under trees and into the open. The need to block the sun can vary from moment to moment.
This is why the Julbo line of eyewear is so great. They’ve wisely included transitioning lenses on many of their products. Transition lenses change to sunglasses when exposed to sunlight. They also shift clearer in darker spaces.
The functionality of self-transitioning lenses eliminates the need to remove too-dark sunglasses when entering forested areas which are shady. It also makes it so a rider doesn’t have to trade eyewear at each place where the amount of sunlight changes.
Julbo has a website, but I found some at my local REI.
I’ve been using them for a handful of months now and I wholeheartedly endorse them for all the reasons previously mentioned.
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