Agree - I recently bought Roka’s SR-X1 with the Strava promotion and they’re really great! Lenses are fantastic and they stay on your face no matter what!
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Not sure, my prescription is pretty mild, but I’m sure they can help you find out if you shoot them an email, they were super responsive to any of the questions I had.
I generate a lot of body heat and sweat and have issues with fogging and have gone through a bunch of different sunglasses.
Currently I’ve been using the following:
- Road: Bolle Shifter with Phantom Photochromic lens. Pretty good for the price (around $100 USD from Amazon). A bit of minor halo in direct sunlight and lens quality is just ok, but for higher speed riding, they are great and vent very well. They look good without being over the top. I have the black frame, with “green” lens but its actually rainbow colored in real life. Not recommended for off-road, since the color really washes out a lot of the contrast. Slow speed venting is less good due to the upper rim.
- MTB: Ryders Fyre Roam (brown lens). Expensive, but you can get them on sale pretty regularly. Great quality, excellent anti-fog even at lower speeds at least in my climate. Great contrast for trail riding.
- Casual: Roka Barton Polarized. Great lens quality, comfortable and if you can get them on sale, they aren’t bad price wise. Pretty standard look. Probably my favorite casual shades I’ve owned compared to Spy, Oakley, and others.
I’m in the same boat with a couple people above as it depends on what i feel on using. however here’s the two that i currently use:
- 100% Speedcraft (Shop 100% Speedcraft® - Premium Performance | Ride 100%). I like them as they’re big and cover a good area and don’t fog up as much when i ride. some issues for me though when i ride them with my trekz bone conducting headphones as they don’t sit as nicely or i feel like they might fall off.
- Roka GP1x (https://www.roka.com/collections/sunglasses-for-cycling/products/gp-1x-sunglasses). i bought at R&A Cycles as they had it on sale then bought an extra lens from roka when they did the strava challenge coupon. i’ve been liking this more and more as they’re very lightweight and fit better with the trekz/helmet combo. plus they’re very secure and i don’t feel like they’ll fall off
Just did the same thing and got Oakley Radar with the road prism lens. On a 3 day event the first day was very hot and sunny - lots of shade on the roads and the lenses were excellent. Day 3 started with rain and I did not have any other lenses and riding in a group meant I did not want to ride without eye protection, really impressed that despite heavy rain and dull conditions I could still see very clearly.
Ali express 100 Percent s20’s. Strangely they feel less plasticky and better quality than the originals. Fit great for narrow heads.
Roka SR-1s. See Roka Cycling Sunglasses
I have used many brands over 20 years of road cycling, with a little gravel and MTB mixed in. These are by far the best. Ultra light, no sweat slippage at all, great optics, interchangeable lenses for low light, etc.
If you don’t need corrective lenses, you have tons of choices from very cheap to more expensive. Once you need corrective lenses and don’t want to or can’t wear contacts, even the more expensive options will look cheap by comparison. What is more, you will be restricted in the types of frames you can wear and the type of tints you can use (at least in practice).
Many cycling frames are not designed to take corrective lenses. E. g. I really love the design of POC cycling eye wear, but AFAIK none of the frames will take corrective lenses.
On many frames (e. g. some Oakley and Addidas frames) you can get snap on lenses that allows you to use all the standard tinted lenses. But they have a small field of vision that is corrected. That’s extremely bad if you are a cyclist where your peripheral vision is one of the things that keeps you alive (think traffic). I definitely recommend against them, especially if you are a roadie.
That leaves you with frames that can take corrective lenses. The situation here is quite messy. Cycling glasses have very large lenses, and some of them are too large to fit corrective lenses (as the lenses would get too thick). Moreover, given the cost, you need to opt for a single “goldilocks” tint, because you either cannot change lenses on the fly or that would be prohibitively expensive (mine cost 3x as much as the frame). I recommend photochromic lenses, which you can also use in the dark. Moreover, you need to get shatter resistant lenses rather than the usual scratch resistant ones (which are fine for normal use). Mine are made of a material called NXT, which is supposedly also used in helicopter windshields.
This is also a major difference between quality cycling glasses without corrective lenses (e. g. Oakleys or POCs) and cheaper glasses for, say, €20 from Amazon.
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Oakley Jawbreaker with Prizm Road and Oakley Flak Jacket 2.0 XL with Prizm Trail. Use both on the road and in the forrest. Love them!
I primarily use Oakley Jawbones. I love how easy it is to change lenses and the vents on the lenses seem to keep them from fogging up. Racing Jackets are the current equivalent. Might have to try the Jawbreakers next.
Oakley evzero range Road prizm. Can’t imagine rocking anything else, lightweight + frameless is so nice. Also got 100% clone off buddy of mine, lenses are khmmm… Let’s just say not so nice with color shifts and whatnot. Only use clear lens like twice a year since Oakley’s spoiled me.
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So I am alone in my Rapha Pro Team love then…?
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I used to wear glasses but had constant problems with sweat running onto the inside of the lens and imparing visibility. Impossible to wipe them completely clean every 5-10 minutes as well. I don’t wear glasses anymore, though I should because I don’t want some debris flying in my eye, but the sweat problem is infuriating
Fake POC DO Blade’s with Rainbow lenses, because I’m poor.
Adidas’s glasses come with a removable sweat catcher that works as advertised. At least on my head, I have no problem with sweat obscuring my view.
A headband may help if you can find one you like.
I have one that I wear indoors but it doesnt fit under my helmet, and it gets “full” pretty quickly and I get sweat in my face anyway
Not sure if you have enough room, but the Halo headbands are very effective at “re-routing” the sweat and keeping it out of your eyes and glasses. There are a few different styles. I like the tie ones but have to be careful because if I tie too tight it can cause a headache.
I live in Houston where it’s very hot and humid. The standard Halo 2 headband only lasted for about 30 minutes before i had sweat dripping in my eyes. On a whim I borrowed my wife’s larger Halo Bandit model that I think is meant for longer hair, and it really made a huge difference. That extra surface gives a lot more area to soak up sweat. https://store.haloheadband.com/halo-bandit-sweatband-p/hbp.htm
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