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Safety: Eyewear, Gloves and Helmets

Lakeside Bicycles stocks glasses from Assos, Rudy Project and Tifosi

If you are still riding without a helmet, you are either deaf, insane or stupid.  That is not necessarily a bad thing, we are big fans of Natural Selection.  Good Luck!

While enormous attention has been lavished on the 'whys' and 'wherefores' of bicycle helmets, there has been little or no attention to two other important cycling safety tools:  Gloves and Glasses.  Gloves not only keep you warm and improve comfort, they isolate your hands from road vibration which can cause pain, numbness and (in extreme cases) nerve damage.  Gloves also protect your hands from painful and very slow healing injuries in the unlikely event of a fall.  Trust us, when you scrape up your hands the wounds will re-open every time you try to brush your teeth or type an addition to your website.

In addition to improving vision in bright light, glasses protect your eyes from U.V. radiation and from stray objects that come hurtling to meet them as you innocently ride down the road.  Getting hit in the eye by a flying rock or beetle is almost guaranteed to knock you off your bike.  

We stock Glasses from Assos, Rudy Project and Tifosi, Gloves from Assos, Specialized, Gore and Giordana, and Helmets from Specialized, Kali, Nutcase, Catlike and Lazer.  Additional brands can be found in our catalog.

Tifosi Optics Alliant—Crystal Black
$50.00
Sleek angles and premium materials define Alliant as a performance sunglass...
Assos RS Aero SF Gloves
$59.00
Articulation and comfortable protection take center stage, made possible wi...
Tifosi Optics Crit—Black/Red Fototec
$80.00
Crit Fototec is equipped with a photochromic Clarion Red lens, a tint that ...
Specialized Tactic 4
$110.00
It's All in Your Tactic. With an unprecedented combination of fit, ventil...