Sun glare from clocks

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Sun glare from clocks

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It was a lovely day for a ride today, so it would have been rude not to have popped down to West Sussex for a Round Britain Rally landmark (= social distancing par excellence). The ride south was nice (how is the A29 such a nice road, when it's so straight?) BUT, on the way back I was horribly afflicted by the sun reflected from the clocks. It was almost as if no matter where the sun actually was it found a way to reflect itself directly into my eyes.

Does anyone have a solution for this? I have some polarising clip-on sunglasses, so I could try those, but I don't really like sunglasses on a bike as they are too dark much of the time. What about this anti-glare cover?
https://speedo-angels.com/product/yamah ... 00-tracer/

Any thoughts on that, or other ideas?
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Re: Sun glare from clocks

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Can you still get anti glare spray?
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Re: Sun glare from clocks

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You need a dark visor. Not only will it reduce glare, but you'll look cool and be more attractive to women.
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Re: Sun glare from clocks

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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:13 pm You need a dark visor. Not only will it reduce glare, but you'll look cool and be more attractive to women.
You're dishing out the insults lately, that's another person you've called ugly 😁
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Re: Sun glare from clocks

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:19 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:13 pm You need a dark visor. Not only will it reduce glare, but you'll look cool and be more attractive to women.
You're dishing out the insults lately, that's another person you've called ugly 😁
Especially as I live in a glass house.
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Re: Sun glare from clocks

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You need a Street Triple as you can angle the dash up or down and it has an adaptive backlight 8-)
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Re: Sun glare from clocks

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Trinity765 wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:31 am You need a Street Triple as you can angle the dash up or down and it has an adaptive backlight 8-)
Advice much appreciated, but buying a new bike wasn't really very high up on my list of solutions :)