Check out Smith glasses with interchangable lenses. Also, I have always found yellow lenses better for low light conditions than clear since they seem to increase contrast.
Steep and Cheap has Smiths on sale quite often (just about always) and Smiths' warrantee and customer service is amazing. On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 3:26:58 PM UTC-6, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > I’ll get to the sunglasses part, but first just let me say all the words I > need to get out. > > Lately I’ve been shuffling over the practical side. I would love to have > beauty and utility both present, but sometimes it doesn’t work out. The > summer months have come to Vegas and as I have greatly increased my miles > in 2020 (in May alone I rode 310.4 miles!), I have had to make some changes > to withstand the sun. I’m not riding in Lycra, but I do have synthetic, > white arm sleeves that keep you cool, covered, and shielded from the sun. > I’ve taken to wetting and tying a bandana around my neck and wearing riding > gloves on my hands. I apply a nasty white mineral sunscreen at times, but I > never leave without sunglasses. > > A few days ago I went out for an evening ride. It was dark enough that I > took off my sunglasses and was soon after hit in the eyes several times by > bugs. That was annoying but workable until the final one, which managed to > get IN my eye and then repeatedly bite or sting. Oh my gosh, the pain. I > pulled over but I was using the stripped down Clem H (my Clementine is in > the shop getting dyno lighting, another thing I needed with all this extra > riding) and it has no mirror. The bathrooms at the park were locked, so I > had nothing but my phone camera to use and try and fish this bug - which > was still ferociously stinging me - out of my eye. It must have died > because the pain stopped, but I never did find the bug carcass. 🤢 I was > pretty sure all that biting/stinging was going to leave me with swelling. > Was I going to have to ride home after dark, up the mountain with one eye > swollen shut? (Spoiler alert: I made it home with 2 good eyes.) > > Well that was when I decided I wanted clear riding glasses for night. I > ordered Tifosi from Amazon but was really disappointed. They slid down and > didn’t offer good eye coverage. I ended up on Oakley’s site, which I was > hoping to avoid for 2 reasons: > > 1. $$$ 2. I’m not rad. > > It’s really hard to find fit info and product reviews, but I finally > settled on creating a custom pair so I could tone down the rad. There’s a > sale going on right now, so while it’s not cheap, it’s not outrageous, > either. They’re Radar EV Pitch, I think, and might still be a little too > rad - but who’s going to see me? Well, now I’m going to have great eye > protection at night, but what about sunglasses for daytime? I have 2 pairs, > and while I think they’re fetching, they aren’t providing great coverage - > esp. the Warby Parkers. The sun comes down into my eyes from the top of the > glasses, and I don’t want to put up with it anymore. At least not on my > bike. > > *I want to know: What do you all like to use for sunglasses while riding? > I want good coverage, but I don’t want to look like a cyborg, either. * > > Lastly, I feel like I am morphing from something that once resembled > Practical Cycle Chic into what The Bike Snob would call The Lone Wolf. > Picture the polka dot helmet, white arms sleeves, Keen sandals, neck > bandanna and Oakleys - it’s not lookin’ good, it’s lookin’ Lone Wolf-y. > > *Should I just embrace it and get wild Oakley’s for the sun? Or do you > have a more reasonable suggestion? Is there a gold standard for cycling > sunglasses? I have 20/10 vision, they tell me, so prescription is not a > factor here. * > > Attached is the night glasses I am having made. It’s going to be a couple > weeks before I get them. Go ahead and laugh. I am. > > Thanks! > Leah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1066fac4-9a84-44a5-941c-30a3792dd847%40googlegroups.com.
