C h a z II

I have recently taken up cycling again (Mountain biking) and am looking for some sort of protection for my glasses. I used to just wear a pair of clear sunglasses (I know there not sunglasses if they are clear but you know what I mean) however my eyes arn't as good as they used to be so would preferr to be able to wear my normal glasses but have them protected in some way. I fear getting a stone straight through my lenses or scratching them whilst trying to clean the **** off.

Any ideas?

ozzy

what about a pair of those clear ones you get issued with for Skydiving. They fit straightover your binos.

Stefan

C h a z II

Cool. Where from? What are they called so I cam dom a search for them.

ozzy

http://www.skydivepointzero.co.uk/goggles.htm

if they can't supply them I'm sure they'll point you in the right direction.

Stefan

C h a z II

Thank you!

the moose

Wearing normal glasses is fine - they're not entirely unbreakable, but tough nonetheless, and wearing goggles over the top looks, well, completely pants.

The other option - be warned, this isn't that cheap - is to get optically correct mountain-biking eyewear. There are a number of different types around, and I saw a test in either MBR or What MTB a few months back comparing the options. Oakley, I know, do some very good stuff, but the cost is £200+.

Personally, I'd wear normal glasses, make sure I had plastic rather than glass lenses, and pay extra for a good anti-scratch coating. With luck, your lenses will last long enough that your normal replacement cycle (18-24 months?) isn't seriously shortened.

Many of the guys in my cycling club wear glasses, and I've not heard any of them complain about vastly shortened lens life.

ChrisB

http://www.optilabs.com/

http://www.adidas.com/eyewear/catalogue/

The Evil Eye glasses are normal sunnies that can have an insert put behind them to make us blind people less blind

Edit to say... last summer I rode with my prescription sunnies I got from my local optician (an independant). Cost me something like £70 and have survived fine.

C h a z II

My normal glasses are Oakley ones and as such very suited, its just that they were so expensive that I though that I had better offer them some protection. Perhaps I should just stop being such a big ninny and get on with it.

anc-sti

I have a pair of prescription Oakleys, but I tend not to use them that much any more for mtbing. Daily contract lenses are far better, because they are actually attached to your eye and therefore aren't effected by the vibration you get whilst Mtbing. I use the Oakleys on the road bike, while out training.

the moose

<<<shudders>>

Got nicely ignored by some roadies at the weekend - as usual - which has always both amused and disappointed me. I still don't understand why roadies hate mountain bikers so much, or at the very least treat us with derision.

anc-sti

Hehehe they can't understand why we don't shave our legs. Up here in Cumbria most cyclists know each other. I train with roadies in the winter and there always a bit of banter, but we all wave at each other when out on the road.