Do you wear spectacles whilst cycling??

[paulw1969]

I do but my glasses are woefully inadequate in keeping draughts out and crap when wet....i often get watery eyes when its cold. Being short sighted i should really wear the glasses although i suspect i could get away without prescription (unlike in the car where i must wear them) but i do prefer to see some detail in what i'm looking at .

Contacts are not really an option for me due to the nature of my work. So how have you got around your sight problems whilst cycling.........anyone out there gone down the prescription sport eyewear route i.e Oakley, Rudy Project (remortgage required for either) and if so was it worth the outlay? How are "proper" cycling glasses in the rain? The trouble i have is i am at an age where my prescription seems to change everytime i go for an eye test.......and this gets expensive if you buy (as i have before) separate sunglasses everytime......

 

[ianrauk]

Optilabs Cycling Specific glasses with transitions prescription lenses.
One of the best cycling related purchases I have ever made.

Though as you say your prescription is still changing, Optilabs also do glasses with changeable inserts.

As to the rain I always wear a cap, either a baseball cap for the commute, cycling cap for leisure rides. It help's keep rain off the lenses.

 

[palinurus]

If I'm in lycra then I wear prescription cycling glasses. For riding in regular clothes I wear my regular glasses.

And I always have a cycling cap about me in case it rains.

 

[Red Light]

Peaked cap to keep the (worst of) the rain off. As for the watering eyes from the cold, I find its just a transient problem and your eyes adapt within the first mile so live with it and keep riding. And I generally wear pretty minimal normal glasses on my bike that I wear all the time off the bike - no wrap around or anything just small lenses and a thin wire frame.

 

[palinurus]

Mine have inserts so I only need change that part rather than get a new pair, the glasses are BBB- not particularly expensive and I've had them four or five years now, maybe longer. I'm on my second pair of inserts- unfortunately I can't remember how much they cost but I'm a tightwad so it's odds on that they weren't that expensive.

 

[Pauluk]

I wear glasses (varifocal) and prescription sunglasses on a nice sunny day. I find the peak on my helmet keeps the rain off (unless its really bad) and I don't seem to suffer any contaminants in my eyes. Having said that, may be I've just been lucky.

Flies in the mouth, now there's a problem.

 

[palinurus]

Flies in the mouth, now there's a problem.

Just wear a stocking over your head.

Take it off if you pop into the Post Office to buy a flapjack tho'

 

[doug]

Optilabs Cycling Specific glasses with transitions prescription lenses.
One of the best cycling related purchases I have ever made.

+ 1 to optilabs, I have the photochromatic lenses so are ok in the dark and in bright sunlight

 

[Diggs]

I've been looking for ages for glasses that I can wear on the bike, final straw came when my old glasses broke on a group ride. Pouring with rain, did the last 20 miles with frame (glasses not bike) stuck with insulating tape. I ended up with these

http://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/fashion/titan-b07/#

on the usual 2-1 deal

Slightly wrap around, so not total protection but I'm happy with them. Only issue now is I'm called Heston Blumenthal, rather than Harry Hill. Can't shift that bald bloke with glasses tag

 

[biggs682]

yes i also suffer watering eyes etc etc and never heard of optilabs

 

[snorri]

I don't quite understand your problem with the draughts.
I just got new, non sport specific, glasses a month ago but have found no probs when cycling. Apart from seeing better I find they keep the wind out of my eyes and prevent the watery eyes that were a distraction for a short time when starting out on cold days. My optician recommended glasses which go dark in sunlight, and although this darkening makes little difference to what I can see it certainly reduces discomfort due to glare.

 

[RAYMOND]

I wear contacts, but still wear sunglasses to keep the flies out and my eyes from watering.
Actually on another point i feel higher up on the bike with glasses on, when ive taken them off i feel lower to the ground.

 

[Pauluk]

Just wear a stocking over your head.

Take it off if you pop into the Post Office to buy a flapjack tho'

That's no good I'd never see where I was going

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I have to wear prescription, and am lucky my glasses keep draughts out well. Just luck of the draw I suppose.
Considering what they cost I'm thinking of looking around for some prescription sports glasses anyway.

 

[SteveBM]

I bought this prescription sunglass set from Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SUNGLASSES-...6CXS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348952815&sr=8-1

Really pleased with the purchase. Very comfortable and good quality