[Closed] Cycling glasses with strap and no arms

Look up goggles for playing squash - a mate has some that he got for doing the Spine Race ultrawotsit along the Pennine Way. Available with a prescription too if you need it.

Was thinking straps, ski goggle style might be the solution

Great for descending, terrible everywhere else. It would be a Motorcross/Downhill goggle you'd be looking at unless you need a fancy/expensive coating and double-lens

Could it just be that you need to try different glasses?

Sunnies or proper seeing specs?

Bolle seem to do a few safety glasses which you might be able to get regalzed with proper lenses.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bolle-tracker-smoke-lens-goggles/8515F?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bolle-cobra-safety-goggles/9484F?

Think Adidas evil eye used to have a strap option as well....

Smith elite boogie regulator.

It's what we use at work.

Think there's one that uses magnets or something similar to attach to your helmet straps. Can't remember which brand now

There are also glasses like Ombraz but they're not available here

Was thinking straps, ski goggle style might be the solution

If only there was a bewildering array of googles to choose from

Or have I misunderstood?

When you phrase something that is clear to you but misunderstood.

I am not after ski goggles.

I am after cycling glasses, possibly with a strap like those on ski goggles.

Have seen the bolle safety glasses. I might go and check them out.

As for fit, yeah fair point. Means going out in public to them their shops but I will

I am after cycling glasses, possibly with a strap like those on ski goggles.

Ah gotcha! Don't spend too much, I abought a pair a while back to see if they sorted a similar issue (clash of design between helmet and glasses arms meant they wouldn't sit right), and a couple of problems started pretty quickly for me.

1. they steam up at the slightest exertion (I'm pretty sweaty, your results may vary obvs) and as they're essentially smaller googles, they don't let air in, so remain fogged

2, unless the strap was done up pretty tightly; they moved/bounced around, and when the strap was done up tight, they put quite a bit of pressure around your eye socket, so much so that I removed them midride as they were getting uncomfy.

I used to have a pair of Adidas Evil Eyes where you could remove the arms are fit a strap - great for over a hat in winter. This style of glasses with the winter sports XC ski and biathlon - you may get more luck checking a German online sports retailer where the sports are more popular

1. they steam up at the slightest exertion (I’m pretty sweaty, your results may vary obvs) and as they’re essentially smaller googles, they don’t let air in, so remain fogged

I can only assume that ones for sports like squash must be better vented to avoid this problem, as squash is pretty energetic, and like I said, my mate ran the Spine Race in them which involves a fair amount of exertion...

@IHN, yeah these were a pair of much cheapness type Amazon bolle thing  (to just try out the concept) It was the straps that really put me off, I did think about maybe trying to cut some vents in them, but couldn't be bothered in the end.

I suffer same problem but bought my mates Rockbros glasses of him
Can wear them for hours and not feel the leg pain causing issue
Only £20 or under so not a bank breaker

Nickc I too am of a sweaty disposition, you are putting me off the concept.

My other issue, I call it a design flaw, is that I have an incredibly narrow nose bridge making a lot of glasses very uncomfortable. As a spec wearer that is a real issue. Think I came out of the Friday afternoon shift .

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Shirley you're just using the wrong glasses (and/or possibly with the wrong helmet)? I never notice my riding glasses and they certainly don't give me a headache, although I do get a bad headache when my helmet or cap is too tight.

I used to have a set of decathlong shades that did exactly this. pretty surethey were snow sports.

How efefctive they were... not sure some swine knicked them from a race transition on their first outing.

rudy project rydon with insert to resolve the "blindness" but steam up badly in colder
weather due to 2 sets of lenses ..... no pressure though as you can bend and shape the arms
quite a bit.

I used to have a pair of Adidas Evil Eyes where you could remove the arms are fit a strap –

I have a pair of these too. I've never bothered with the strap though so can't comment.

I have cycled for years with oakley prescription sunglasses. They just work. They don't slip, they don't exert any pressure on the sides of your head, they don't steam up. they have adjustable nose pads. Might be worth taking a look at getting a pair glazed with the lens tint of your choice. There's a reason half the peloton on the TdF are wearing Oakley.

as NickC mentions anything with a strap doesn't have the support that arms do so flops around.

Try RxSport.co.uk for a good selection of prescription and stock frames/lenses

As a 16 hours a day, 7 days a week four eyes I think the answer is buy some glasses that fit. Certainly with opthalmic frames there can be quite wide variations in arm spread and shape and I think sunglasses are the same. My non spectacle wearing children complain bitterly about certain brands (one doesn't get on with the Decathlon range, the other does for example).

I've had just a few pairs over the last 25+ years that really haven't been comfy but bad glasses show themselves up quickly.

I've never had a bad pair of Oakley frames and before my prescription effectively prevented wrap arounds that includes their prescription offering.

Google ‘Nordic ski goggles’ - these are the closest things to what you decribe, fit with a strap but smaller than ski goggles and designed to be worn during high output activity and not fog (skate skiing is similar type of output to riding hard) can be had for non silly money.

rudy project rydon with insert to resolve the “blindness” but steam up badly in colder
weather due to 2 sets of lenses ….. no pressure though as you can bend and shape the arms
quite a bit.

I have some of these from Rxsport - prescription, so no insert, but v expensive. They are absolutely fab though, are very adaptable to your fit, and have very low profile arms.