Prescription riding glasses
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hellmansam
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It's gunna vary depending on your eyesight correction needs - I started needing glasses for reading in my mid 40's, hardly used them for the first couple of years but now at 56 I wear multifocals all the time because it's easier than taking them on and off. I have to wear safety glasses at work, mine are photo chromatic and I find them great for MTBing.
I could ride without them but if I had to fiddle with something on the bike I'd be struggling to see fine details properly.
I also have a pair of Bolle prescription goggle inserts from my last job where I had to wear mono goggles a fair bit, and I reckon they would go ok in a pair of MTB goggles which I don't currently have.
I could ride without them but if I had to fiddle with something on the bike I'd be struggling to see fine details properly.
I also have a pair of Bolle prescription goggle inserts from my last job where I had to wear mono goggles a fair bit, and I reckon they would go ok in a pair of MTB goggles which I don't currently have.
silentbutdeadly
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My riding glasses are some Oakley sunnies via OPSM that aren't riding glasses... because they are also my driving glasses.
In other news, whatever works, that's easy to source, that is cheap, that you can afford to kill and that fits.
Switch
huskier headed gent
Biggest problem I found with prescription glasses is that they are flat glass, and I don't feel like I have the peripheral vision that I was used to so have gone down the route of wearing contacts with my original riding glasses when doing active sports. I have found contacts challenging to get used to, but they do offer much better range of vision compared to my prescription sunglasses. If you do try them, different brands will feel better or worse depending on the individual.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
I got my eyes lasered and that fixed me for distance. Drop into an Optometrist and get them looked at and see what your options are. My wife is a store manager at OPSM so she could probably get you a deal.
I now struggle up close now, like when putting in new brake pads and putting the pin actually through the hole in the pads. I do have reading glasses, and I really should use them more.
I had contacts for a few years, but my eyes ended up rejecting them along with hay fever symptoms and it just made them to irritable to deal with.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Contacts also depend on the shape of your eyeball. No dice for me because mine aren't round.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Same goes for laser surgery. Too much Astigmatism and they can't do it. An Optometrist will be able to help find a good solution.
Mattyp
Cows go boing
They make contacts specifically for astigmatism. They are great.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Are they the hard type? I remember something about the two types of lenses, and I thought the hard type is the one that can shape your eyeball to the correct roundness.
Mattyp
Cows go boing
Nah soft single use disposable type. I only use them for MTB and moto riding. Mine are identical script to my normal glasses.Are they the hard type? I remember something about the two types of lenses, and I thought the hard type is the one that can shape your eyeball to the correct roundness.
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Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Thankfully I'm 100% comfortable with glasses, and at the moment my eye aren't that bad so I can wear just normal sunnies.
Although I have just recently changed to wearing my prescription glasses for riding in low light, and close in work is a little uncomfortable
downunderdallas
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Bit of a thread dig here. I have a pair of Oakley prescription multifocals with Prizm lenses that were very expensive maybe $700-800, the coating somehow has worn quite badly even though I always keep them in the soft bag and then the hard case and only use them for riding. Anyway I was wondering if anyone has used different brands recently? I was using non prescription Oakleys before but I fear those days are behind me and it's handy to be able to read the bike computer! I tried contact lenses but can't actually get them in my eye after trying multiple types with the optometrist we both decided it wasn't going to work sadly as this would have been a good solution.
silentbutdeadly
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How the heck do you ride with multifocals? I can't even safely navigate my house whilst wearing them! And mine are safety glasses...
downunderdallas
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They work pretty well I think, really have to look through the bottom of the lens for phone/bike computer but it is doable. They are primarily distance lens and my distance in one eye is actually ok. Maybe this should be in the YKYGOW thread...
nzhumpy
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You sure they are degrading, I had a pair of Oakley ski googles in storage for a year and pulled them out and thought they were shot, looked like the coating was peeling off. Gave the a really good soak in dishwashing liquid and a good scrub with a microfibre cloth and they came good.