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Hey gang.....I hope this is the appropriate place to post this.
I'm finally relegating myself to the fact that I need to buy some Rx riding glasses. Ideally i would love something that wouldn't be SUPER bike specific (not so farking dweeby as some crazy Oakleys or POCs). I would like something that would double as regular day to day Sunglasses as well, for driving, beach etc.
Also curios about people's experience with sites like GlassesUSA and SportRX - and open to any other recommendations.
Thanks in advance y'all!
I'm finally relegating myself to the fact that I need to buy some Rx riding glasses. Ideally i would love something that wouldn't be SUPER bike specific (not so farking dweeby as some crazy Oakleys or POCs). I would like something that would double as regular day to day Sunglasses as well, for driving, beach etc.
Also curios about people's experience with sites like GlassesUSA and SportRX - and open to any other recommendations.
Thanks in advance y'all!
You can get prescription 100%'s in various style and the Oakley Jawbreakers can be done in prescription.
There is a bandaid solution if you are near sighted (myopia) which involves a generic clip in insert. If you have a dark lens you cant see them.
Julbo glasses with prescription and photochromic lenses: really good but quite heavy so they can move around a little during rough sections.
Oakley droppoints: these are big "lifestyle" glasses that I was hoping to use for both riding and around town. I got them with prism road lenses which I actually found a bit too dark for MTB, and they move around way too much. Only use them driving now.
Insert as above with smith googles: this is quite cheap and works well, only negative is that the correction lens is a little bit far from the eyes which can cause distortion (in my case things look a bit smaller, it take a few minutes to get used to it).
Just got a pair of Oakley Jawbreakers with 2 lenses: grey and clear, turns our the grey ones are too dark once again for MTB (riding in forests, would be ok for plains/desert type trails). Much better riding glasses than the droppoints but they look ridiculous, the prescription lense is literally a pair on lenses glued into the large lens. It actually doesn't look that bad with the grey lense, but quite terrible with the clear one.
So overall I would recommend going with glasses with individual lenses, rather than a "shield" type design. And make sure you get a pair with rubberised tips, as the more lifestyle versions tend to move around too much.
Pretty much all of these were paid by my health insurance, gotta love socialism
I got the frames below for $125 way better field of vision than my old ones and also 3 different lenses, I use the yellow one for MTB
BBB Select Optic PH glasses
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