Cheap/best value cycling sunglasses

Deedsie

Hi,

Any suggestions for good value cycling sunglasses? UV protection ideally? I can't really justify spending big money.

Thanks

Blue bull

Aldi had decent ones for €2.99 last week. Bought a pair myself and have no complaints with them.

dastardly00

If you want unexpensive, half decent sunglasses then you can't go wrong with the Aldi/Lidl cycling sunglasses.

markusz

ebay "Rockbros"
http://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_odkw=rock+bros&_sac=1&_osacat=888&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR3.TRC0.A0.H0.Xrockbros.TRS0&_nkw=rockbros&_sacat=888

YeahOK

I know you asked for bargain and this is at the total opposite end of what you are looking for, but you cannot go wrong with Oakley sunglasses. I've owned exactly 2 pairs in my life. The first for 10 years. The latest for the last 4 years. They are quite simply indestructible. Sit on them, that's okay arms just snap back into the frames. Bust a lens out, that's okay lens just snaps back into the frame. Kid proof in every sense (bar minor scratches).

I only bought the second pair as the arm rubbers wore out and Oakley didn't support them as a legacy spare part. But in fairness to them, when I emailed them looking for new arm rubbers they apologised, said it was no longer supported and offered me 25% off a new pair. Can't argue with that for customer service.

markusz

another decent brand of which i have the Salice 006's. Photocromatic lens and rims for 85 euro at the time.
http://www.probikekit.co.uk/brands/salice/all-products.list

Dades

I bought these PhotoChromatic ones on Wiggle and am very happy with them.
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-photochromatic-full-frame-sunglasses/

They work best in the bright but not really sunny conditions we have most of the year in Ireland.

I have a couple of cheap sub-€5 pairs and frankly they aren't sharp and the lens are every so slightly warped. Grand if you want a throwaway pair you won't mind dropping into your spokes, but not if you want a good view of the world from your bike.

JamJamJamJam

I have a pair of these: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-pro-triple-lens-sunglasses/?sku=5360308464

Dark, orange and clear lenses (interchangeable), with UV protection (best in the dark lenses)
They fit okay (totally depends on your head anyway)
They're tough enough. Accidentally washed and dried a jersey with them in the back pocket and they came out okay!
I got them because the reviews were generally very good (4.2/5) and they're a reasonable price.

BUT I have never had any other pair of glasses so I can't compare

tigerboon

YeahOK wrote: »

I know you asked for bargain and this is at the total opposite end of what you are looking for, but you cannot go wrong with Oakley sunglasses. I've owned exactly 2 pairs in my life. The first for 10 years. The latest for the last 4 years. They are quite simply indestructible. Sit on them, that's okay arms just snap back into the frames. Bust a lens out, that's okay lens just snaps back into the frame. Kid proof in every sense (bar minor scratches).

I only bought the second pair as the arm rubbers wore out and Oakley didn't support them as a legacy spare part. But in fairness to them, when I emailed them looking for new arm rubbers they apologised, said it was no longer supported and offered me 25% off a new pair. Can't argue with that for customer service.

You can buy a lot of the Aldi glasses (and the bag to carry them in) for the price of a pair of Oakleys

Cee-Jay-Cee

Aldi glasses are fine and perfect to use but what I find is (this is with all fixed colour lens) that especially here in Ireland where you can haveb4 seasons while out cycling that dark sunglasses are no use if it turns dull/dark and vice versa for clear/yellow lens glasses.

I'm currently also looking for good photochromic glasses. Yesterday evening I was out for a spin and needed dark glasses on my outward journey as I was heading west into a bright sun but then it got dull and I took the glasses off as they were too dark. As I was cycling in my local hills/mountains I needed glasses for descending but the glasses were too dark resulting in me sitting on the brakes for the entire 6km descent so as to avoid a mouth and eyes full of midges and flies.

RiseToMe

JamJamJamJam wrote: »

I have a pair of these: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-pro-triple-lens-sunglasses/?sku=5360308464

Dark, orange and clear lenses (interchangeable), with UV protection (best in the dark lenses)
They fit okay (totally depends on your head anyway)
They're tough enough. Accidentally washed and dried a jersey with them in the back pocket and they came out okay!
I got them because the reviews were generally very good (4.2/5) and they're a reasonable price.

BUT I have never had any other pair of glasses so I can't compare

Just to add here, UV protection is not based on how dark a lens is, you can have 100% UVA/UVB in a clear set of lens. So be happy when youre wearign the clear lenses that you have 100% protection from UVA/B

Oakleys are great, SunWise are great, Aldi are great.

Its all about your pocket at the end of the day, as long as they claim it and its marked as offering the protection you want then thats the key. Your preferences beyond that are purely polarised, photochromic or just tinted.

As somebody who tests sunglasses day in and day out I am just as happy in cheaper brands as I am in my Oakleys/Maui Jims/RayBans.

timmy_mallet

If you want slightly non-cheap, with exchangeable lenses - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002BO7IGM

I bought them a few weeks ago, so far so good, the yellow lenses are good for cloudier rides too.

timmy_mallet

timmy_mallet wrote: »

If you want slightly non-cheap, with exchangeable lenses - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002BO7IGM

I bought them a few weeks ago, so far so good, the yellow lenses are good for cloudier rides too.

Bugger, the Wiggle interchangeables above look better - and no P&P.

Why didn't someone ask this question a few weeks ago, eh!?

Bloggsie

I am looking for some wraparounds with prescription lenses in them & I havent had much luck, www.riderseye.com was the best i could find but the postage & customs charges upon arrival made it to expensive!

ILIKEFOOD

have these and quite like em - exchangeable lenses

€15

http://www.swimcyclerun.com/glasses/jetblack-sport-sunglasses.html

clog

fat bloke wrote: »

I've been squaring this particular circle for ages now and have been into most every opticians in Dublin. There is a general paucity of interest and expertise in this segment of the market for whatever reason, certainly outside of the Oakley range, which are fabulous I'm sure but very strongly priced.

I am probably going to go ahead with an optilabs order myself, although there is one more opticians in Maynooth who put a flier for prescription eyewear under my windscreen wiper while I was doing the ROK which I'm going to try as well.

But. In the meantime, I went to specsavers to check out contacts and ended up going through the usual eyetest hoops and then succumbed to their 2 for 1 glasses deal as usual. While I was there I asked about cycling eyewear and they showed me the usual sample specs with the inserts which I wasn't interested in, and then lo and behold one of them pulls a prescription set out of a drawer and says "Or we have these actually". I think they were like 129 euro or something full price but as I got my one pair and my free pair I was entititled to 50% off sunglasses, so I got three pairs of glasses for 220 quid, which made these about 60 quid in the grand scheme of things and I have to say they're grand altogether.
They're quite wrap aroundy, but there's none of the fish-bowl artefacts that lots of opticians wooo (spookily) about, and they're dark enough but not too dark. They cut the glare but don't get dangerous after 6pm dusk or anything like that.

Worth a look if you're not entirely sure about purchasing eyewear online. Personally I like to feel and see and try on things like specs, or pants.

Here are some pics anyway. It was from Specsavers Tallaght I got them.





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On Fat Blokes recommendation I got a pair of these from specsavers. Got the glasses fitted with photocromatic transitions lenses for just over 100 euro all in.
I have had no problems with them at all and if I lost/broke them I would probably go straight out and buy another pair.