Originally Posted by
Boudicca
Those look worth exploring, although I don't know they go up to my severe shortsightedness. I wonder if they ship to Canukistan.
Let me clarify.
If I am going to ride with glasses rather than with contact lenses, I will need prescription sunglasses.
My debate is whether these prescription sunglasses need to be bifocal/progressive, and whether it's even possible.
The joys of getting older.
I've been very nearsighted and somewhat astigmatic since 5th grade (have only been able to focus about 7 inches from my face!), and have worn glasses since then. Now my eyes' ability to change to focus on different distances is nearly nil, so I need multi-range lenses, aka progressives. When I bike I need to look in my long distance range to see the road, traffic, signs, et cetera. I also need a middle range to read my bike computer, HRM, and maps. I have no need for a close distance book-reading lens on the bike.
I'm in the middle of hand-fitting some special struts to put a Mark's Rack on a bike, and I need to do all that essentially without glasses. If I did more fine, exacting mechanical work these days I'd need some special glasses with a large near-field lens.
Mrs. Road Fan bought a set of biking specs with dark wrap-around lenses and her progressive prescription. I tell her she now looks like Tom Cruise or Cycling Woman in Black (CWIB), but its actually quite a hot look on her. She'd have never tried them 10 years ago! And she has no more issues with eye-watering while biking. We didn't look into Transition lenses - I think she heard they are not effective for very bright sunlight.