Leah: Your tale sounds like something from a horror movie (bees in your eyes!! spiders in your ears!! worms in your brain!!) and I'm glad that there was no major or permanent damage.
All: I am following this list with interest; I've raised the same question on the iBoblist, and Oakleys are the standard response (as Sidis are for shoes). I have a semi-Asian* face with small nose bridge and many glasses don't stay up -- though I've found that having a professional adjust what seem to be ill-fitting glasses can make a very big difference. Currently using 2 pr of Tifosis but will probably one day spring for Oakleys ... ... which raises another but related question: which model or "system" for both very bright sunlight and night-time riding? Photochromatic or swappable lenses? *WASP father (with big Anglo nose) and Filipina mother (with smaller one). On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 3:27 PM Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! <jonasandle...@gmail.com> 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/00536717-a76f-493c-a8c7-ea38195c00b1%40googlegroups.com. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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/CALuTfgtEZ0WAZ9XbbUZ4SmTgREbsR56iz6T%3DwxwEvQftixdhzg%40mail.gmail.com.
