Cycling Glasses
Eyewear is essential when cycling, not only in the form of sunglasses but as eye protection from nature's elements, wind, dirt, grit and rain.
What makes a good pair of cycling sunglasses / glasses in principal sounds easy, as long as they stop the wind, dirt and are comfortable? Not quite!
The cycling glasses frame material is important and should be of the highest durable quality which is light-weight but the main area of concern is with the lenses. Before we look at colour you need to understand how the manufacturers have made the cycling glasses lenses. Cheap cycling glasses may look similar to an expensive pair but underneath the first impressions you will find weak and distorted vision, with poor peripheral view. If we go back a few years it's for this very reason that Oakley started making sunglasses, the owner of the company saw a large market for wrap around distortion free vision and he was right! After getting a few patents drawn up the rest is history. It's taken some time but other company's are now starting to catch Oakley up, some of which include Adidas, Rudy project, and Maui Jim.
Getting the best eyewear means you can be assured when cycling and looking through your biking lenses you will see objects as they should appear, with no object shift. Poor quality lenses often cause objects to shift or be distorted, causing your judgment to be wrong. Lens colour can vary from no tint to dark grey with mirror coatings. Mostly you will find sports performance tints on cycling glasses which are somewhere in the middle, having a red / orange base tint with a mirror coating, giving the wearer a usable lens for most conditions.
Goods tints to look out for include:
Oakley VR28 Black Iridium
Oakley G30 Iridium
Oakley VR28 Black iridium Polarised
Oakley Tungsten Iridium
Oakley Tungsten Iridium Polarised
Adidas LST Active
Adidas LST Active Silver and Gold Mirrors
Adidas Orange Mirror
Adidas Bright (on sports performance eyewear)
Rudy Project Racing Red (come with a slight blue mirror)
Rudy Project Smoke Brown and Black
Rudy Project Photochromic Red
Recommended Cycling Glasses
Oakley Flak Jacket (Rx Available) Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ (Rx Available)
Oakley Radar - Path (Rx Available)
Oakley straight Jacket (Rx Available)
Oakley Jawbone (Rx Available)
sports prescription glasses for cycling
The great news is that if you're a spectacle glasses wearer your options are still huge, with two methods of sight correction being available. Looking through the list of
cycling glasses above you will notice there is only one sunglass not available in prescription!
1) Direct Glaze, where your lenses are fitted into the sunglasses / Glasses
2) Prescription Optical Insert, where your lenses are fitted into an insert that neatly clips behind the sunglasses
There are pros and cons with both methods which we will go through. Direct Glaze sunglasses are the most popular choice for customers who wish to have one good pair of glasses for everything, cycling, walking, driving and holidays. This is simply down to cosmetics, with the prescription fitted into the sunglasses they will look like non-prescription sunglasses. The disadvantage is that the sunglasses are made up as one unit and so the lens colour can not be changed for different light conditions. There are a few specialist models where you can purchase different direct glaze lenses and fit them into the same frame, if interested in this please check out;
Oakley Flak Jacket (Rx Available)
Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ (Rx Available)
Oakley Radar - Path (Rx Available)
Optical inserts are a growing market, with cycling enthusiasts seeing their advantages and them being more cost effective.
The insert enables a cyclist to interchange the cycling glasses main lenses as their prescription is housed with in the insert, enabling the sports eyewear to be worn in any condition. The other benefit is for contact lens wearers, with the insert being easily removable. The disadvantage is cosmetically you can see the insert behind the cycling sunglasses when using light tints.
Eyewear is essential when cycling, not only in the form of sunglasses but as eye protection from nature's elements, wind, dirt, grit and rain.
What makes a good pair of cycling sunglasses / glasses in principal sounds easy, as long as they stop the wind, dirt and are comfortable? Not quite!
The cycling glasses frame material is important and should be of the highest durable quality which is light-weight but the main area of concern is with the lenses. Before we look at colour you need to understand how the manufacturers have made the cycling glasses lenses. Cheap cycling glasses may look similar to an expensive pair but underneath the first impressions you will find weak and distorted vision, with poor peripheral view. If we go back a few years it's for this very reason that Oakley started making sunglasses, the owner of the company saw a large market for wrap around distortion free vision and he was right! After getting a few patents drawn up the rest is history. It's taken some time but other company's are now starting to catch Oakley up, some of which include Adidas, Rudy project, and Maui Jim.
Getting the best eyewear means you can be assured when cycling and looking through your biking lenses you will see objects as they should appear, with no object shift. Poor quality lenses often cause objects to shift or be distorted, causing your judgment to be wrong. Lens colour can vary from no tint to dark grey with mirror coatings. Mostly you will find sports performance tints on cycling glasses which are somewhere in the middle, having a red / orange base tint with a mirror coating, giving the wearer a usable lens for most conditions.
Goods tints to look out for include:
Oakley VR28 Black Iridium
Oakley G30 Iridium
Oakley VR28 Black iridium Polarised
Oakley Tungsten Iridium
Oakley Tungsten Iridium Polarised
Adidas LST Active
Adidas LST Active Silver and Gold Mirrors
Adidas Orange Mirror
Adidas Bright (on sports performance eyewear)
Rudy Project Racing Red (come with a slight blue mirror)
Rudy Project Smoke Brown and Black
Rudy Project Photochromic Red
Recommended Cycling Glasses
Oakley Flak Jacket (Rx Available) Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ (Rx Available)
Oakley Radar - Path (Rx Available)
Oakley straight Jacket (Rx Available)
Oakley Jawbone (Rx Available)
sports prescription glasses for cycling
The great news is that if you're a spectacle glasses wearer your options are still huge, with two methods of sight correction being available. Looking through the list of
cycling glasses above you will notice there is only one sunglass not available in prescription!
1) Direct Glaze, where your lenses are fitted into the sunglasses / Glasses
2) Prescription Optical Insert, where your lenses are fitted into an insert that neatly clips behind the sunglasses
There are pros and cons with both methods which we will go through. Direct Glaze sunglasses are the most popular choice for customers who wish to have one good pair of glasses for everything, cycling, walking, driving and holidays. This is simply down to cosmetics, with the prescription fitted into the sunglasses they will look like non-prescription sunglasses. The disadvantage is that the sunglasses are made up as one unit and so the lens colour can not be changed for different light conditions. There are a few specialist models where you can purchase different direct glaze lenses and fit them into the same frame, if interested in this please check out;
Oakley Flak Jacket (Rx Available)
Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ (Rx Available)
Oakley Radar - Path (Rx Available)
Optical inserts are a growing market, with cycling enthusiasts seeing their advantages and them being more cost effective.
The insert enables a cyclist to interchange the cycling glasses main lenses as their prescription is housed with in the insert, enabling the sports eyewear to be worn in any condition. The other benefit is for contact lens wearers, with the insert being easily removable. The disadvantage is cosmetically you can see the insert behind the cycling sunglasses when using light tints.