Marchrider
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you might have good eyes, but looking at your avater you don't look too healthy
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you might have good eyes, but looking at your avater you don't look too healthy
Fastpedaller
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- Norfolk
Asda Opticians - Buy the frames and any strength/varifocal is included. When I had an eye test at Specsavers they asked where I'd got my (very strong + verifocals) glasses. The Optometrist (is that correct) said 'they are the best lenses available - we just can't compete for your prescription.
Absinthe makes the heart grow older.
Interesting. What brand lenses were they? I get Essilor varifocal lenses from Costco opticians. The top spec, of the ones Costco carry anyway.
Fastpedaller
Über Member
- Location
- Norfolk
They were Shamir Freeform, which have now been absorbed into Essilor IIRC
ETA my first pair (pre-covid) were £39 with 'moderate quality' spring arm frames (my description) frames all in about -7 both eyes with +2.5 on the varifocal. Post -covid (IIRC I used them 4 years) my latest ones were £79 same 'spec' but there would be an additional charge if 'auto- darkening' (sorry I can't remember the term) was added, which was included in the cost pre-covid. So they have increased a bit in price (what hasn't) but still vastly less expensive than other suppliers. As always, service/result depends on the skills of the persons in store.
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Regular.Cyclist
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- South West Scotland 🏴
My current job means I switch a lot from a computer to going into a workshop to tackle issues that the team may struggle with. So, I stand up from the computer, take off my glasses and wander through to the workshop to check on things. If everything is ok then I wander back to my office. Occasionally, I need to help out, remember I have left my glasses on my desk, go back and get them and go back to help out.
There are days that I can take them off and put them back on 15 plus times during a working day.I therefore started a contact lens trial a month ago. I was slightly sceptical of what they suggested, a reading lens in my right eye and one for distance in my left. Howe I need not have doubted them as they have been great.
There are days that I can take them off and put them back on 15 plus times during a working day.I therefore started a contact lens trial a month ago. I was slightly sceptical of what they suggested, a reading lens in my right eye and one for distance in my left. Howe I need not have doubted them as they have been great.
PapaZita
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- Location
- St. Albans
Didn’t spot this thread back in Feb, but don’t think anyone mentioned a product that I find very handy:
e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/ThinOptics-Reading-Glasses-Keychain-Strength/dp/B01KJQ7IKO/
I wear varifocals much of the time for everyday use but am reluctant to replace my nice distance-only prescription cycling glasses while I can, just about, still see Wahoo, etc. The ThinOptics folding readers fit easily in jersey pocket (or glovebox, handbag, etc.) and are brilliant for occasional emergencies such as puncture repairs.
e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/ThinOptics-Reading-Glasses-Keychain-Strength/dp/B01KJQ7IKO/
I wear varifocals much of the time for everyday use but am reluctant to replace my nice distance-only prescription cycling glasses while I can, just about, still see Wahoo, etc. The ThinOptics folding readers fit easily in jersey pocket (or glovebox, handbag, etc.) and are brilliant for occasional emergencies such as puncture repairs.
I've been having neck ache the last few months. I'm wondering whether it's due to indoor cycling for hours at a time and my varifocals need changing. Anyway, just bought three new pairs (new prescription as eyes have worsened) for £650 at spec savers (two new, one set of sunnies), ouch! Hopefully, my neck ache will go away. Anyone else had this neck ache issue?
I'm lucky so far with specs as both my eyes are very similar focus so I've been able to use ready readers since I was about 50, I'm now 72.
The only thing that's changed is obviously the strength has increased from the original 1.25 to 3.00. I only need them for reading so I've bought bi focals so I can look at other things without having to take my specs off when I'm reading.
My optimetrist is happy with the situation, so I'll stick with the bi focal ready readers as long as I can.
At £6 a pair, good value as well - !
The only thing that's changed is obviously the strength has increased from the original 1.25 to 3.00. I only need them for reading so I've bought bi focals so I can look at other things without having to take my specs off when I'm reading.
My optimetrist is happy with the situation, so I'll stick with the bi focal ready readers as long as I can.
At £6 a pair, good value as well - !
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Varifocal (& photochromic) cycling / sports glasses! That's what we do.
It's both. I have been wearing glasses for short sight since I was 7 but from that age, and well into my late 40s wasn't an issue reading anything. Then by early 50s it was an issue.
My first solution was a pair of these plus Specsavers single vision lenses in the inserts. Initially that was fine, then struggled with reading Garmin, so added a pair of these cut down to about half height and stuck to the bottom of the insert lenses. They worked surprisingly well.
Then I splashed some cash https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/p...ed-cycling-glasses.294482/page-4#post-7288153
Then I splashed some cash https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/p...ed-cycling-glasses.294482/page-4#post-7288153
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
I use my old glasses for rdiing around
problem si tha tthe coating on the left lens is falling apart
now I only see a sort of blurr through that eye anyway - but I could do with something specific to riding
I am fine with single vision - my good eye can read what it needs to with the top bit of my normal varifocals
but I am dubious of what to get
are the ones which are like cycling glasses - and have a small prescription lens inside any use??
problem si tha tthe coating on the left lens is falling apart
now I only see a sort of blurr through that eye anyway - but I could do with something specific to riding
I am fine with single vision - my good eye can read what it needs to with the top bit of my normal varifocals
but I am dubious of what to get
are the ones which are like cycling glasses - and have a small prescription lens inside any use??
I can read my Wahoo quite well without my glasses however when I wear my sunglasses I can’t see it very well. So I bought some of those stick on lenses which work reasonably well, apart my eyes start watering as soon I start riding. Unfortunately the tears usually land on the stick on lenses.
Bristolian
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- Bristol, UK
My everyday glasses are varifocal and, therefore, expensive to replace if they get damaged whilst cycling (or falling off). Consequently, I wear the RockBros ones you linked to but had Specsavers put a bifocal prescription into the inserts using my mid-range and far distance data. This works really well with my Garmin on an out front mount and angled slightly upwards. I also tried the stick-on bifocal thingies you linked to but couldn't get on with them.
I found that when editing photographs on a wide screen monitor the varifocals meant I had to keep moving my head to get various parts of the screen in focus so asked Specsavers to sort me out a single focus pair of glasses. It took a couple of attempts to get it right but they were really good about it and it has made my editing much more pleasurable. Excuse the pre-amble - I promise we're getting back to cycling. A by-product of this action is that those glasses are also perfect for me when I'm on the turbo trainer with my laptop on a table just in front of the handlebars - I can see the screen perfectly in focus.
