Riding Glasses

[Manguish]

I have Rudy Project with rx insert as I don't wear contact lenses either.

If your prescription is strong, forget about prescription wrap around, they do not do lenses with strong prescriptions. You have to go with rx inserts.

Loads of glasses around with rx though, but I'd recommend Rudy Project any day.

 

[fossyant]

Ebay Bolle Contour £7

These or the Silium. Come in a veriety of Lenses, and if you have an RX insert (for us short sighted sods) you can adapt them to take them.

The glasses are fully safety rated and because they don't have a 'cycling label' they are cheap.

 

[fossyant]

Pescriptions - you've got choises of optilabs or a number of other on-line glasses retailers. Choise of photochromic glasses (Ianrauk has these and loves them) or ones with RX inserts.

 

[yello]

For those that need to wear prescription glasses what do you do?

I got mine from Optilabs in Croydon. Can't fault the service.

I do wear contacts but not for all cycling, and here's why. I'm short sighted and need glasses to read road signs etc. However, when audaxing, I can't read the route sheet and/or the GPS with corrective lenses. I can flip my glasses but removing contacts would be more difficult!

 

[SquareDaff]

but these Kuota are nearly as good and only £22. Superb case and range of lenses included. http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/ro...sses-kuota-5-lense-system-glasses/kuotzgla200

I use these during the winter with clear lenses in. Don't worry about the brand name on the lenses - you don't notice it! In the summer I use Spiuk reactives.

 

[jay clock]

On the subject of prescription, my solution was laser (lasik) - stunning results and has transformed my life.

 

[Steampig]

Having just looked at the Kouta desripton its got me thinking.
I just have a pair from some jet garage i picked up ages ago, i wear em for keeping stuff out my eyes and to stop my eyes from watering when going down hills.
Can somebody explain the different coloured lenses to me??

 

[vickster]

I have considered laser but the 5-6k put me off. A friend worked in the industry and he basically said that there is one clinic on London he would trust! And they were not the cheapest!

 

[yello]

I'd never risk laser surgery. Never. I don't care if there's 99.9% success rate, there's no way I'd take that 0.1% risk. Not with my eyes. But then I'm only mildly short sighted!

 

[jay clock]

I used Centre for Sight (Sheraz Daya) who are basically the best apparently and certainly not cheap!

Re the Kuota lenses, there are Iridium (mirrored and fine for bright sun), tinted (sun), clear (dark or very overcast), yellow (fog etc) and orange ( i use for heavy overcast)

 

[nickg]

Thanks everybody for you help, I've been megga busy since posting this, so will look at links and stuff now. Cheers again.

 

[Pale Rider]

I got these from Wheelies with 4 interchangeable lenses
http://www.wheelies.co.uk/p53312/Avenir-Delta-Cycling-Glasses.aspx?ss=742984

Ordered mine on Sunday, arrived this morning.

So far so good, but would someone - perhaps @GJT - care to tell me how to change the lenses?

No instructions in the box.

 

[mrmacmusic]

For those that need to wear prescription glasses what do you do?

Just to add my twopence worth, I asked here about prescription cycling glasses last year and ended up getting a pair of B'Twin 800 Optic glasses from Decathlon (£25). They came with 4 interchangeable lenses (clear, yellow, brown and mirrored) with an insert which I got my local optician to glaze for me (£40) rather than sending it to an online store. Total cost was much less than the optician's own option (£109) and what Specsavers had to offer on the high street at the time (£99)

The crucial thing is to try them on though – for me, the options on the local high street just didn't feel like a good fit, so I decided to go to Decathlon and was much happier with how they felt. Experiences? The glasses do what they say on the tin really, although the slightly wrapped around positioning of the lenses, and the fact that they are closer to my eyes when compared to normal glasses meant that they took a bit of getting used to at first. Vision is fine with them now though, and I can swap to them from my normal glasses no bother.

I do find that because the outer edges of the prescription insert touch the back of the protective lenses that they get a bit scratched, and they do seem to want to mist up a bit quicker than wearing normal glasses – I'm not sure if that's because I'm cycling "double glazed", or because the lenses are closer to my face, or because I just put so much effort into my daily commute....

Thanks to this thread I now know about Rudy Project though, and will be investigating them further as their photochromic ImpactRX lenses look particularly interesting.

 

[Arjimlad]

I had been using a wrap-around Aldi set with different coloured lenses, but as I wear prescription glasses, asked my optician to recommend an alternative. He came up with the SRX Norvilles which I have been using since November.

http://www.norville.co.uk/acatalog/SRX_2-1.html

They came in a case with clear, dark and yellow lenses. They have inserts for prescription lenses behind the outers. So, it's double glazing !

At the moment I'm using the clear lenses.

They do mist up when I stop, but no worse than my usual glasses, which were taking a battering from road muck etc.

I agree wholeheartedly with the desire to protect the eyes from debris etc whilst riding. With my normal glasses my eyes water like mad at the start of every ride.

 

[normskirus]

A fly in the eye hurts a lot - Ive had one get stuck under my eyelid.

Ive always wanted to buy a pair of expensive sunglasses but never been able to justify the outlay to myself. Im also glad that I havent as in my experience they get scratched, attacked by sun screen or lost. Ive currently got a set of Decathlon Btwin Griffith Pack. Its got four lenses, a case and spare nose bit.
It works for me and costs £19.99.

Normskirus