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[Closed] low price stylish trail glasses with clear lenses - recommendations?

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I'm looking for a set of glasses that are stylish, I have a bigger head.
That are cool, but clear lenses and not break the bank as I will lose them anyway ...below £50? even below £40 ?


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 12:21 am
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Biggish head here and I use http://www.merlincycles.com/uvex-flash-cycling-glasses-69679.html

Not sure how stylish they are but it's not something I worry about...


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 12:37 am
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I had a set of Tifosi's that I much preferred over my Oakley's. They fit and looked better, plus came with 3 lenses for about £30. Not sure on the model, but they were similar to Oakley Half-Jackets.
If you have a look around Mabie forest you might even find mine!


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 12:45 am
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Try safety glasses. There are some decent looking ones out there for <£10
e.g. Google bolle safety glasses and look at the images, and they're usually class 1 optics


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 6:17 am
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About £6 from your builders merchants


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 7:20 am
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What he ^ said!


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 8:29 am
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i use bolle bandidos.

yellow, or 'smoke'.

£4 from ebay.


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 8:36 am
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style is very important when you're hammering down the trail and your face is covered in mud spatters.


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 8:43 am
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Got a set of these in yellow and clear lenses. I prefer them to my Endura Spectrals and at £4.99, no tears or worries about damaging them.

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/arenberg-cycling-sunglasses-category-1-yellow-id_8118519.html


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 8:48 am
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Yes, Bolle.

Don't like the framelessness of Bandidos myself, prefer the Contour myself (bottom left of the image above).

http://www.safety4eyes.co.uk/32553_-Safety-Glasses.html

Quite fancy a pair of Galaxy too - with little leds on the temples. Would be good for nighttime puncture fixing, saving the helmet light, plus you could pretend you're in Orbital!


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 8:49 am
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I'm with davieq - Decathlon cheapies all the way! I've bought each lens type. I've got a few pairs of Oakleys and I now wear the Decathlons more. And at £5 I wouldnt be bothered if I lost them, broke them etc


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 9:49 am
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loving the moody picture there:[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 9:57 am
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Rorschach +1

The glasses in the bottom right of the picture are flavour of the month at work at the mo - if they had changeable lenses I'd accidentally break my lidl specials in an instant.


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 10:01 am
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BOC keep the Bolle glasses in stock and there is bound to be a branch near you, i normally buy 3 or 4 pairs a time. they are so much more comfortable than the cheapo safety glasses and i wear mine in the workshop for machining and also on the mtb, and if i drop them and run over them i dont care its only a couple of quid.

they do clear, and slightly tinted too.


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 10:01 am
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Just ordered some clear Bolle Silium ones, and the ESP lensed contours!

Both pairs £12, worth a gamble


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 10:56 am
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I've always used Bolle safety glasses tbh, I don't know if they're stylish but they're definitely better looking than most of the monstrosities cyclists wear. Jawbones ffs!

But just lately I got some Decathlon ones, I think it's the Arenbergs I'm using just now, they're really good. They do some well priced photocromatic ones too.


 
Posted : 03/09/2014 11:09 am