Prescription cycling glasses

[jefmcg]

Just for reading, Aldi had some the other day (one of those basket things so I don't know about longevity of stock) +1 to +3 or so in .5 increments. £2.50.
No good for riding if you need variables, but to chuck in an under saddle bag or back pocket and just use for maps or menus at stop or destination they'd be ok I'd have thought.

I've got a poundshop reading glasses in my tube top bag. They are perfectly serviceable. I just wish I could remember what I paid for them

 

[lutonloony]

Do any of the budget suppliers supply “distance lenses"? All of the ones listed above do “positive” lenses - +1, +2, +3 etc - which are for people with OK long vision, but problems seeing things close. But I’m looking for a pair of -1.5s

AFAIK all the cheapies are just "reading" correction

 

[lutonloony]

I've got a poundshop reading glasses in my tube top bag. They are perfectly serviceable. I just wish I could remember what I paid for them

come to Torquay and they would be 90p!! (we have a price war going on between poundland and pound world)

 

[EnPassant]

I've got a poundshop reading glasses in my tube top bag. They are perfectly serviceable. I just wish I could remember what I paid for them

That's another thing that I seem to lose as I age, along with "seeing things". So that's hair, sight and er, the other one...

Besides the only pound world I ever went in made Aldi and Lidl look like Selfridges and Fortnum and Masons. I may only be able to afford tat, but I do like a better class of tat.

 

[PaulSB]

Presuming I haven't misunderstood I'm a bit surprised the OP wasn't offered an alternative my local boots stocks. I have a friend who uses these all the time. I had a look but none fitted me comfortably which was the only reason for not buying.

Boots stock, or at least offer a catalogue of, a range of sports frames which includes at least three types suitable for cycling. The frames look just like cycling glasses. Inside one clips a specifically designed pair of prescription glasses which only have lens holders

The sports glasses come with clear, yellow and bronze tinted covers which clip in and out as per cycling glasses. Cost was around £90 when I enquirer earlier this year. Had there been a set which fitted me I would have bought them.

Sorry I can't recall the name.

 

[gordonrgw]

Presuming I haven't misunderstood I'm a bit surprised the OP wasn't offered an alternative my local boots stocks. I have a friend who uses these all the time. I had a look but none fitted me comfortably which was the only reason for not buying.

Boots stock, or at least offer a catalogue of, a range of sports frames which includes at least three types suitable for cycling. The frames look just like cycling glasses. Inside one clips a specifically designed pair of prescription glasses which only have lens holders

The sports glasses come with clear, yellow and bronze tinted covers which clip in and out as per cycling glasses. Cost was around £90 when I enquirer earlier this year. Had there been a set which fitted me I would have bought them.

Sorry I can't recall the name.

I have had a pair of these for about the past 3/4 years. excellent and a good fit (I have a big heid too..)
I'll check the brand name when I get home..

edited for crap grammer..

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Excuse my ignorance but what is the difference between spectacles & cycling spectacles?

 

[Scoosh]

I usually take 'spectacles' to mean ordinary day-wear glasses, which have assorted frame shapes.
Cycling spectacles are shaped differently, as the wind around the face is usually different on a bike - unless you live somewhere that regularly has wind speeds of >30kph, say - and almost always head-on ...

Cycling/sports specs are also usually lighter, with different arms, as they usually have rubber stuff to grip the side of yer hied. The grip is more on the side of the head than the rear of the ear.

Personally, I have ordinary as-near-to-aviator-type-as-Boots-had-for-least-money varifocals for cycling/ manual working and they are OK - bought for strength rather than 'style'. I can see the far distance, read road signs, see my cycle 'puter ~40cm and ~75cm from my face, depending on which bike I am on (~40 is my 'hamster barred 'bent). The wind does make my eyes water when going a bit quickly though and I'm also put off by the high prices of specialist glasses. I think I need to reconsider my viewing 'requirements'; do I really need to be able to see the radio mast on the top of the hill across the Forth?

I have grey Transition lenses too - but wouldn't have them again. Being reactive to UV light, they darken too much on overcast days, so everything appears very gloomy, until I look over the top and think 'Oh, it's not really that bad' but it just looks depressing.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I have grey Transition lenses too - but wouldn't have them again. Being reactive to UV light, they darken too much on overcast days, so everything appears very gloomy, until I look over the top and think 'Oh, it's not really that bad' but it just looks depressing.

Thank you, I have varifocals, reactolite or whatever if that's he brand name, but they are brown which sort of gives a 'rose tinted' view of the world

 

[lutonloony]

Excuse my ignorance but what is the difference between spectacles & cycling spectacles?

About £150. I think generally it means wraparound X which keep the wind/crap out of the eyes

 

[jefmcg]

That's another thing that I seem to lose as I age, along with "seeing things". So that's hair, sight and er, the other one...

Besides the only pound world I ever went in made Aldi and Lidl look like Selfridges and Fortnum and Masons. I may only be able to afford tat, but I do like a better class of tat.

View: https://youtu.be/K2k1iRD2f-c

 

[EnPassant]

Ha, don't even need to watch that, it's ingrained in my psyche.

 

[steve292]

http://www.sportviz.co.uk/cycle_cores

I use these.
very good, once you get used to the inserts. I've got plain, amber and irriduim lenses.

 

[Scoosh]

http://www.sportviz.co.uk/cycle_cores

I use these.
very good, once you get used to the inserts. I've got plain, amber and irriduim lenses.

Are these inserts custom to sportviz glasses or can they be used for other makes, as I have seen similar inserts before ?
Did the different coloured lenses come with the basic order or are they separate glasses ?

 

[steve292]

you get a plain lens and 1 of the shades. IIRC
I don't know if the insert fits any other make, as I haven't needed to use anything else