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Has anyone experience with good cycling glasses for Mrs ginge with a strong prescription at +6 ? I've found inserts steam up so thinking get some lenses made up for a sports frame. Don't think shield style will work so any thoughts on frames / lenses that work at strong prescription please ?
Thanks
Doesn't help but I have 1 pair of glasses and they are worn for everything. Oakley Crosslink frames - about 10 years old and I need to replace them now.
Varifocal lenses in them.
They seem to work reasonably well at keeping most of the crap out my eyes...saying that, I've always worn glasses so they just stay on and I ride.
Think I'm almost -7 in 1 eye and -6 in the other (milk bottles at the edges!).
I have a very similar prescription, so know that choices are limited as most 'sports' glasses have lenses too curved to get that strength of prescription to work. Options I've tried...
- Old pair of 'normal' glasses. Prescription obviously all good but too easy to damage and scratch (as one particularly wet, gritty day at BPW will attest).
- Adidas Evil Eyes with inserts from RX. Nice glasses with interchangeable/replaceable lenses and great service but very prone to steaming up.
- Melon Kingpins with inserts. Great glasses (again with interchangeable lenses) and inserts much less prone to steaming up than the Adidas ones.
I've stuck with the Melons as the best solution I've found so far. Plus they look pretty good in a not-quite-goggles-but-close kind of way.
I guess the other option is contacts and normal riding glasses, but I can't bear even the thought of putting lenses in (couldn't even watch my wife inserting hers before she had her eyes lasered) so have never tried that option...
I use a pair of squash goggles for off road riding. No bouncing and slipping down your nose. I have a +8 prescription. You will need small lenses or they will end up very thick, but she will know that already.
Choice will depend on how fashionable you want them.
Something like these.
https://www.bolle.com/gb/ophthalmic/sport-protective-glasses/baller-strap-1021.html
As one who is +6 in one eye and +4 (with a bad astigmatism) in the other, my answer is daily disposable contact lenses unless there's a reason why she can't/won't try those?
Contacts. i use monthly disposable for less waste. sadly i then struggle to read in dim lighting like sign on. No issue with my garmin.
I’m not quite as bad, but not far off. Another vote for contacts - possibly the single biggest improvement made to my riding, not having heavy glasses bouncing round on your face and instead having actual stable vision.
its a bit weird and uncomfortable getting contacts in and out initially, but after a week or 2 it become instinctive.
I'm +4 and +5, roughly. I used to use contact lenses but now ride everything in just normal glasses - not even sports glasses. I suppose if I was racing then it might be different, but in truth I've never had any issues
I'm +4 and +5, roughly. I used to use contact lenses but now ride everything in just normal glasses - not even sports glasses. I suppose if I was racing then it might be different, but in truth I've never had any issues
What do you do on wet days? I wear my glasses when it’s dry but in rain/mist/drizzle they fog up and I hate it, so I use contact lenses if I think it will be rainy.
What do you do on wet days?
Get wet. I don't use contact lenses at all any more, haveb;t done so since before covid.
To be fair I mostly ride road / gravel these days (in true STW fashion, I have not ridden an MTB in over 2 years) so I don't have the worry of grit etc ruining expensive specs. I did used to find that "sports" spec misted up more than regular specs as I didn't get the airflow becuase I was never that fast, but I did work quite hard
My prescription isn’t quite that bad but since getting some prescription sunnies from rad8 in 2021 I’ve barely worn contacts. Might be worth seeing what they can do?
A workmate managed to get some grit caught between his contact lens and his eye during a particularly muddy biking event in Norway several years ago. Didn't sound too nice.
I've got -6 in both eyes. Evil Eyes with inserts years back - lots of problems with steaming up and also if it was really wet, four streaked / waterlogged surfaces.
I've also got Oakley Crosslinks, which are great. Got them sorted at Cilary Blue / Reglaze Glasses Direct ( https://www.reglaze-glasses-direct.com/ - sorry, the link embedder thing doesn't work when you go back in to edit a post) and am just about to re-order with them