Prescription Wrap Cycling Sunglasses suggestions ?

[sevenfourate]

I fancy some (Wrap around) sunglasses. They must be prescription. And I already have ‘normal’ Sports type. Any experience or suggestions ?

*Photochromatic / Darkness adjusting also sounds good for typical changing UK light conditions during a ride: as per these:

https://suosooptics.com/products/suoso-cycling-sports-glasses-new

 

[Drago]

Buy some cheap reactolite sunglasses and see how you do with photochromatic lenses first.

I personally dont get on with them at all, find them never quite right and annoying, but Mrs D loves them.

 

[sevenfourate]

Buy some cheap reactolite sunglasses and see how you do with photochromatic lenses first.

I personally dont get on with them at all, find them never quite right and annoying, but Mrs D loves them.

…….right. Not a bad idea perhaps.

I’m certainly likely to be at the fussy end of the spectrum as to what will bug me. And I’ve had no issues with straight ‘fixed darkness sunnies until now.

So - Perhaps BORROW some reactolite fur 1/2 hour. Might be enough to call it a day in that respect there and then……

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Last year I bought some mail order through
https://www.optilabs.com/product-category/sport/cycling-sunglasses/
They were very easy to deal with. I was able to order a trial set of 3 to try out. Having made my selection I sent them my prescription and they quickly made them up and despatched them. I’ve been very happy with them, the price I felt was reasonable, the photochromic lenses work a treat, and generally they don’t fog up.

 

[Elybazza61]

It may depend on your prescription on how "wrap around" you can go, I looked in to some Oakleys a few years ago and my prescription wasn't doable; I did get some Rapha Wayfairer style ones done but again due to the prescription it was a compromise so they are a loose fit.

I just use daily contacts and normal cycling sunglasses (Oakleys and Madison; the Oakley lenses are way superior) mostly and get on fine with photochromics even with varifocals, my normal non-cycling Oakleys are excellent and I have ridden with them too although you do loose some peripheral vision compared to contacts.

 

[VinSumRox]

I used Optilabs for a pair a few years ago, pleased with the result and service.

 

[Sea of vapours]

A surprising number of the Oakley 'shield' (wraparound) style lenses are available in prescription, and that includes photochromic ones.
https://www.oakley.com/en-gb/category/prescription/sunglasses .

 

[Mike_P]

Another Optilabs user. If you use varifocals or bifocals normally a distance prescription for cycling might seem okay but then you could find smaller text on your Garmin/Wahoo etc is unreadable.
IME definitely preferable to have a proper lens rather than an insert as I had flies walking across the insert or the back of external.

 

[Jenkins]

I've used Extreme Eyewear a few times. Don't know about wrap sunglasses, but they've got a very good selection including photochromatic options.

 

[T4tomo]

Sure there is another thread on this somewhere, anyway this who I used for photochromic/ transitions varifocals. I love them

https://sportsglasses.online/

I got mine from here, he had a stand at a cycling show. He's not the quickest at making them up, but the lens / vision quality was excellent.

 

[vickster]

I'm on my second pair of Oakley direct glaze with Oakley transitions lenses, they're great, expensive though (probably £350+ now with a fairly standard distance prescription).
First pair came from RX sport eg https://www.rxsport.co.uk/product-c...hi2u2PaENtFrF7tMovGH6bc6#AJAXProductContainer
Second pair were from
https://www.extreme-eyewear.co.uk/p...on-sunglasses/oakley-prescription-sunglasses/

You can always go try the styles on somewhere like Sunglass Hut

The Optilabs styles were all super ugly at the time and no cheaper (I did go to their Croydon showroom and try some on)

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Just one thought - if your prescription tends to change over time, look for glasses with a prescription insert, not prescription lenses. It'll potentially save a lot of £

 

[T4tomo]

Just one thought - if your prescription tends to change over time, look for glasses with a prescription insert, not prescription lenses. It'll potentially save a lot of £

but balance off with the fact that inserts are more likely to steam up than a prescription lens. Additionally if you have varifocals, because an insert is necessarily a smaller piece of glass, its more compromised, the bigger the lens the better with varifocals (within reason)

 

[oxoman]

I did optilabs and couldn't fault them.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I've had two pairs (buy one, get another half price) of Kyusu KSUMN-1802 wrap arounds with clear prescription lenses for ~1.5 years. I've used one set for cycling and the other for everything else except browsing my mobile and being at the pc, but I wanted a spare set as I've had more glasses accidents in last few years than the previous ~20 put together.

From '17-'24 I simply used Lidl cycling specs with clear non-prescription lenses, but my eyes have got a bit worse and these KSumn stay in position so I'm actually looking through the lenses while on my road bike or newer gravel ebike.

IIRC Boots sold them for £120 with prescription lenses, think that was with UV and anti-scratch.