Prescription direct glazed cycling glasses
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vickster
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Did you get hold of Extreme Eyewear?
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kingrollo
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Yeah - looks like he can do them for me. Only decision is if to go for the tried and tested Rudy project s or try something different.
Probably when the weather improves next year I'll be procuring a spendy set of cycling glasses: varifocal, wraparound, photochromic. For now I'm making do with the Rockbros with single vision inserts with stick on bifocals! The inserts have snapped about half a dozen times and are now nearly as much superglue/baking soda as original plastic! 
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kingrollo
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Transitions lenses - single vision - expensive enough without throwing varifocal into the mix....!!!
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Probably when the weather improves next year I'll be procuring a spendy set of cycling glasses: varifocal, wraparound, photochromic. For now I'm making do with the Rockbros with single vision inserts with stick on bifocals! The inserts have snapped about half a dozen times and are now nearly as much superglue/baking soda as original plastic!
Bear in mind the lead times will probably increase over the summer .
Bristolian
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I was very tempted by direct glazed glasses but I need bifocals as a minimum and varifocals ideally so the cost was pretty high (£350+) - much like my normal prescription glasses actually. The thought of falling off the bike and scratching/breaking something of that value decided me against it so I started looking around for alternatives. Eventually I purchased these from Amazon and went to Specsavers to have the insert glazed. They did a really good job of some custom bifocals using my distance and reading prescription but making the reading area larger than normal. I'm now only risking an £18 pair of wrap around glasses and £60-odd lenses, which I think is reasonable.
Ming the Merciless
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Not had that problem (yet) but my eye lashes do just touch the lenses when I blink.
No such option for me. They'd be pretty much useless without varifocal or at least bifocal.
For daily wear I go for the top tier varifocal lenses. No point skimping on your primary sense, and something I wear every waking moment. As a specs wearer since the age of 7 I cannot abide blurry vision.
ebikeerwidnes
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I had a talk with the optician a few months ago
He agreed with me that, in my case anyway, I didn;t need the lower part of the varifocals
My long distance vision is good enough to see the speedo (ebike) and other things I need
probably get a problem if I get totally lost and need to use the phone to navigate back home but I would have to stop anyway so would just get the normal glasses out of the bag
I was going to get them and use them as sun glasses on holiday - but didn;t get round to it
really must give them a try but I can;t remember the brand - but they were inserts
He agreed with me that, in my case anyway, I didn;t need the lower part of the varifocals
My long distance vision is good enough to see the speedo (ebike) and other things I need
probably get a problem if I get totally lost and need to use the phone to navigate back home but I would have to stop anyway so would just get the normal glasses out of the bag
I was going to get them and use them as sun glasses on holiday - but didn;t get round to it
really must give them a try but I can;t remember the brand - but they were inserts
