I find ordinary glasses are perfectly good enough to keep out grit and insects. But two other features can be useful for cycling. First, they should have chromatic lenses, or whatever they are called, which darken in sunlight, because you can't be faffing around with sunglasses as well while riding. Second, rimless glasses are better for peripheral vision, especially at the top. If your head is slightly down when you are riding, the top of the rim of conventional glasses is just visible when looking forward. But with rimless, you will not be aware of the top of the lens.
Specs and Cycling
- Thread starter Kookas
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PpPete
Legendary Member
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- Chandler's Ford
I like your thinking about charging company!! Don't think i'd get away with it!!
Well there are only two directors, and t'other one got a set also
I just wear me specs.
I had to ride with my glasses on today. I found that they'd occasionally slip down my nose but other than that it was fine. I might just buy a set of those straps snorri mentioned to keep them in place. For now though, I'll ride without glasses.
Fortunately, it's only astigmatism as I said earlier, so I can actually see stuff without them. It just isn't beautifully crisp like with the glasses
Fortunately, it's only astigmatism as I said earlier, so I can actually see stuff without them. It just isn't beautifully crisp like with the glasses
numbnuts
Squire
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- Gone over the hill and far away
me too
You can get anti slip nose pads fitted to your glasses for very little money.
I just wear ordinary glasses with photochromic lenses that double up as sunglasses in the sun.
It feels a bit like a video game, all this buying upgrades and new features to level up my glasses.
I'll look into the anti-slip pads too BTW.
Specsavers will fit them for you while you wait. Not even Specsavers can mess that job up. Ask for silicone pads. they don't last as long as the normal hard ones but mine are just over two years and still going strong for a couple of quid.
Jonathing
Über Member
- Location
- Birmingham
I got a pack of daily disposable contact lenses which I use for cycling. I prefer being able to take my shades off when I'm climbing and they start to fog rather than needing to keep them on so I can see, which I can't do because they're fogged up.
Contact lenses are too intrusive for me, really. I wouldn't want to have to stick some things on my eyes every morning and have to take them off before I sleep. Plus apparently they dry out in the wind.
Do you find that they are a hassle sometimes?
Jonathing
Über Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Everything is a hassle sometimes. But lenses are no more of a hassle than glasses are in their own way. I use daily disposables which are the least intrusive I've found so far. And I only wear them days when I'm riding. They do dry in the wind a little but I almost always wear sunglasses over then which cut that down. I find that combination gives me the most flexibility, also there's always the chance one is going to fall out miles from home, just to add extra drama to my day.
Not a hassle, like all things you get used to it.
And no, they don't dry out in the wind.
Mr Haematocrit
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Your local oakley dealer will be able to provide perscription riding glasses.
Roadhump
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted
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- The flatlands of South West Lancs
Before I had to wear specs I used to use cycling glasses and found the lenses would scratch due to getting splashed when I went off road. Then I had to start wearing specs all the time so I was wary of getting them splashed as it would be far more expensive, so I stopped going where I would get splashed. I can't get by without specs now and just wear my specs, but I use the ones from the last but one prescription so that any damage such as the odd scratch doesn't matter that much, and I generally avoid really muddy places as well, which has made me stick to the road a lot more.
