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[Closed] PSA for my fellow speccy four-eyeds - riding specs

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 IHN
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It has been mentioned on here before, but I thought I'd do a quick note about:

http://www.ciliaryblue.com/
Bought a pair of, ahem, 'Ferrari' sunglasses for 8 euros in Greece and sent them to Cilary Blue last Friday (in the box they'd sent me). On Tuesday they came back with Transitions lenses, cost £60.

So that's a pair of Transitions prescription riding specs for about £65. Happy with that 🙂


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 12:48 pm
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Is it a good idea riding with transitions?

I'm looking at getting them to reglaze some Oakley Plates that I've had for ages and which fit beatifully... Just not sure which lenses I'd go for!


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:21 pm
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I've been riding (and skiing) with Transitions lenses for years, but my old pair were, essentially, f*^!ed. They were from Optilabs, and were at least three times the price...

I went for the hard coat anti-reflective ones:

[i]1.56 Reactions Plastic MAR/HC[/i]


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:30 pm
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Cool, will look into that in a few months, prescription in my riding glasses is about 5 years old!!! Seems to do the job though.


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:37 pm
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Any idea if they would do some lenses for my Oakley Flack Jackets? They are removable lenses, at the moment they are non prescription and I wear contacts but it would be good to have another option.


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:38 pm
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what's your prescription, nettles? I'm +4 and +5 and normally pay a LOT for the "extremely thin and light", have been wondering about transitions-style lenses


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:40 pm
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Oh and how do the transitions cope when night riding?


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:46 pm
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They do Jawbones (which are removable aren't they?), so I can't see why they wouldn't do Flak Jackets

My prescriptions only small, +1ish, but they reckon these ones:

[i]1.67 Super Thin Reactions Plastic MAR/HC[/i]

Are good for 3.00+. They're £95.

There's a contact/question form on the site, see what they say.

[edit]Transitions are fine for night riding, 94% transmission


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 1:49 pm
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I tend not to use my transitions for night riding. You can get away with it, but it's not ideal


 
Posted : 12/10/2012 2:01 pm

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