My eyes have finally rejected my contact lenses now that I am in middle age. I was told by Rudy that they can’t make inserts for my cycling sunglasses. My diopter is minus 9. Has anyone had success with other options?

[image] sjkottke: I was told by Rudy that they can’t make inserts for my cycling sunglasses. I strongly advise against inserts, especially for people with very bad vision. You will not have any peripheral vision, which is essential to stay alive. [image] sjkottke: My diopter is minus 9. …

This is one of those things where it depends on the user. I pretty much gave the opposite advice. Wraparound lenses gave me vertigo. Inserts solved that problem, and allowed me to have a perfectly clear lens and a nice dark lens that I could swap as needed. Not saying you’re wrong, just that, un…

[image] Pbase: Wraparound lenses gave me vertigo. Ok, didn’t know that was a thing. :+1: I had regular glasses with curved lenses a few years back and fell in love. Independently of your preference, the limitation (which goes against frames for curved lenses) remains, your prescription stren…

[image] OreoCookie: Yes, but inserts have a severely limited field of (corrected) vision. If your prescription strength is not all that high, then you rely on your bad, uncorrected vision for the periphery. At +9 I can tell you from personal experience your uncorrected vision is zero Yeah, th…

[image] FergusYL: Yeah, the hard part with vision at that diopter is that you’re balancing good vision against lens thickness. Yup, and this really sucks. I was the proverbial nerdy kid with coke bottle glasses. It was really easy for my lenses to get knocked out of the frame (I was a kid aft…

Oakley Radars? I also have a pair of their Holbrook glasses which are large lens and thicker bows. The Radar frames also have interchangeable bows and nose pads.

Yeah, bodies are super weird. I was the same kid with coke bottle glasses. I was probably on my 7th or 8th pair of glasses in a single school year after my main pair of glasses, along with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pair of backup glasses were all broken from sports and/or really bad decisions. At that p…

I ended up having a congenital issue that overruled contacts, so they found the most hideous glasses for sports. The hinges bent both ways, and they had a builtin elastic ‘leash’. I looked like I should be playing demonic rugby. I think I scared people wearing them. I thought I tossed them years ago…

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Prescription sport eye glasses for those with horrible vision, need ideas

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FergusYL June 9, 2023, 1:15pm 20

Hah! I tried a pair of those, too! Didn’t they kinda look like 80’s racquetball goggles? And fogged up all the time?

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Prescription sport eye glasses for those with horrible vision, need ideas

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