What type of sunglasses are you guys wearing?

Earlier this summer I bought a pair of 100% glasses that I absolutely love. They work great with my road bike and POC Ventral Air Spin.

I recently bought a POC Tectal Race Spin MTB helmet and it dips down in the front just enough that my 100% won’t work with it. Doh!

Just a warning to be sure you try on your glasses and helmet together and make sure they’re compatible.

Ryders Thorn Photochromic Antifog.
Love these shades.

You can see the difference in how dark they get between the 2 images.

Sandra and John wear Ryders too. Not sure if it helps them nap on the drives home. (Maybe I’m too tough on them?)

The fire technology is also great:

I have a pair of these as well that I snagged on discount. They are my first pair of actual cycling sunglasses, so I don’t have much to compare them too, but I’ve been very happy with them through one season of riding and racing.

Rudy Project! Been wearing them for many years and have some that are even 20 years old still going. They are the first brand I found that allows one to position the lenses far enough away to not hit my eyelashes. That great feature allows me to have one pair set up high on my face for the bike and then another pair set low to run with the glasses lower. Their new photochromatic lenses are amazing as well as they change with the ambient light. I have 7 or 8 pair and every one is awesome, and many come with multiple lens shades. Contact me for a discount code if you like…

I haven’t seen it on here, but I wear Oakley Sutro’s. I have the green lens with black frame with Prizm Jade lenses. Absolutely love them but definitely more of a bright light lens. The frames are awesome, but I will admit a bit loud. I am young so I think they are fashionable windshield for my face lol

I used to wear Ray ban aviator, but I really want a sport style as Oakley Radarlock

Oakley Jawbreaker with Prizm and also the Photochromic lenses which are great for morning rides starting in the dark and finishing in the sunlight.

I love the look of Oakley and like yourself wear prescription lens. However I can’t find anywhere that does my prescription for Oakley +3.75 & +4.75 so I’m stuck with my rather ugly puma glasses :unamused:

I bought mine from a Lenscrafters, and they sent them out to the manufacturer – they said Oakley were the only ones who could actually cut the lenses.

I just went to the Oakley website and you can buy them, there, with prescription lenses. They cost several hundred dollars, but I don’t see any limits on diopter. If you’ve got the cash, give it a shot!

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Check with Oakley first. I got a set through them and the lenses ended up super heavy. They kept sliding down my nose. Since reading is my only problem I now use SL2 bifocal glasses from Dual Eyewear- light, nice lenses, and cheap.

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The lenses on both the Oakley Straightjackets and Flaks that I got have always been super light, plus both of them are very grippy, so I’ve never had problems with them sliding. Still, maybe if you typically wear coke-bottle thick glasses, the lenses on the Oakleys need to be thicker, and weigh more.

Perhaps the problem is that I just need readers. So, either a bifocal or progressive lens. I get the progressive lens through Oakley and that was what was super heavy. Not many people seem to make bifocals.

Picked up a pair of Tifosi Jet sunglasses this summer (from Amazon) and reader lenses (from the Tifosi website). I have a narrow face/pin head and these fit me really well. Great to have the bifocal lenses too and now I can actually read my Garmin 520.

Tifosi has a few other frames that have compatible bifocal lenses. Price is relatively low too, I’m very pleased with them!

I feel you on that front, have intraoccular lenses so I can/technically need to use bifocals as well. Theres a few options out there but IMO the quality of the lenses are not nearly as good as say the Oakley lenses, so I just suck it up and don’t bother with bifocals. You can always add one of those adhesive strips which are magnifiers/pseudo bifocal lenses to the bottom of your lenses. If this voids warranty/will damage the lens you will need to research. I considered doing it for one of my aerohead visors but ended up not bothering as I can still get by without and it would likely just annoy me. Plus with race brain its not exactly the time to start reading and comprehending complex texts :stuck_out_tongue:

ok please don’t hate me and i swear this is an earnest question: what are the benefits of the sport style sunglasses, like the oakley flight jackets or those big ass POCs or tifosi or 100% or any of those brands (especially in contrast to more fashion oriented sunglasses like rayban wayfarers or some aviators)? is it just a styling thing?

i just picture Kenny Powers from Eastbound and Down whenever i see those big wrap around sunglasses! My thinking is that there has to be another reason so many cyclists wear them

You ask interesting question…


We is just suckers…

In fairness for me I can’t stand the peripheral not being covered and I do like the lightness of the sports glasses. The water repellent coatings are great too but only seem to last a few weeks.

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Who knows if they actually are, but they LOOK aero, and everyone knows that is what is truly important.

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There are quite a few: first of all, cycling glasses tend to wrap around your face, which does at least two things, it shields your eyes from the draft, grime and dirt, and it gives you much better peripheral vision since the frame is not in the way. Also the lenses tend to be larger so that, again, your frame does not block your field of vision. Note that because of your position on the bike, you rarely see straight through your glasses and you need taller glasses. To improve your vision sideways (e. g. to keep an eye on traffic), you need wider glasses.

That is also the reason why I decided against clip on protective lenses and went for aspherical lenses. They were ¥¥¥¥¥ (read: expensive in Japanese).

These guys were also using friction shifters, wore flappy clothes and did not wear helmets :man_shrugging:

I don’t think we should emulate them.

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Yeah but check out the shorts and tan lines!!!

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