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 Bez
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I want to get some glasses that I can have reglazed with prescription lenses. Normally I use either good old M-Frame Heaters or Sub Zeros, for one key reason: they both have a good distance from the nose bridge to the top of the lens, so they work for head-down road riding where you're basically looking upwards, where with most glasses I end up looking at (or over) the frames. Problem is, neither of those are any good for prescription glazing.

So I'm after suggestions for conventional-framed bins which extend far above the nose bridge. Preferably stuff that I can either try on somewhere or that I can pick up cheap off eBay or something.

Any ideas?

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Posted : 05/06/2016 12:11 am
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Couldn't you have them glazed upside down...
Then wear them upside down..,
Semi serious answer.


 
Posted : 05/06/2016 12:39 am
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M Frame heaters used to be available with prescription inserts (unfortunately neither cheap nor available now), but they have been replaced with the M2 XL which have a pretty similar shape, apparently as a result of cyclists complaints about the standard M2 lens being too small. Still not cheap, especially as a prescription option, but one i'm going to take in the next few weeks as my (very)old Heaters no longer match my eyesight.


 
Posted : 05/06/2016 8:10 am
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Wonder if you could get Radar EV or Jawbreakers with prescription lenses?


 
Posted : 05/06/2016 8:28 am
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Radar EV or EV Zero spring to mind.

Never found this an issue with normal Radars mind.


 
Posted : 05/06/2016 10:12 am
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Couldn't you have them glazed upside down...
Then wear them upside down..,
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That is precisely what Dennis Taylor had done.


 
Posted : 05/06/2016 10:56 am
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Silhouette rimless with the hinge fitted in a non-standard lower position than normal?


 
Posted : 05/06/2016 1:18 pm