"Can you say, Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssser?"
: ) --Justin
Wes Dayton wrote:
> This is written in the hope of helping any other vintage racers who are
> also somewhat vintage themselves and who therefore depend heavily on the
> assistance given by glasses to stay on the track. In my case, this is a
> pair of bifocals that allow me to see beyond the front of my helmet
> while at the same time read the gauges (although I have been accused of
> not doing the later during hard fought races).
>
> With the old glasses looking decidedly ragged, I bought a pair of the
> latest technological wonders make of some unbreakable metal that is very
> "bendy" and light. I had purchased them several weeks before the race
> meeting and found them the greatest glasses I ever had, especially since
> they proved unbreakable - sit on them and they just bend, get up and
> they spring right back into shape.
>
> So now we get to the track and I begin my usual pre-race suiting up
> etc. The ritual is strap into harness, then put on helmet without
> glasses. All fine so far. Next step is to put on the glasses by
> feeding the ear-things between my head and the helmet - and this is
> where it all came unstuck! Those nice bendy things, rather than feeding
> nicely in the necessarily tight fit, decided instead to simply curl up
> and go nowhere. The alternative of trying to put the glasses on an then
> the helmet only resulted in bending ears as well as the glasses. By
> this stage of course everyone else was on the dummy grid and I'm
> wrestling with whether to risk going out without glasses or suffer not
> running for the silliest reason yet.
>
> Luckily, after much hand waving and yelling, my prescription sun glasses
> appeared (thank you under-paid pit crew once again), and the only loss
> was, not being bifocals, I couldn't really make out the oil pressure and
> temp gauges. But it was a short race, so what could possibly go
> wrong?!?
>
> Anyway, all's well that ends well, but just in case anyone else out
> there is due for a new prescription, make sure you remember the old rule
> - test everything!
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