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Road Racing jackets with prizm/orange depending on sun/cloud. Love em.
I've the Red Iridium lenses on my Prizm Radarlocks, I don't have other lenses to compare against apart from the Orange low light ones - but what I would say is that the glasses are great, albeit a teensy bit dark if it's not blue skies all the way.
Probably going to go for either OO Red Iridium or the new Prizm Road. Black Iridium Polarised is probably too dark for road cycling in the UK. Perhaps for France it might be needed. But I'm hoping I can grab some VR28 BIP by then.
Buy Rainex for you car windscreen in Halfords much cheaper and works the same as nano what's it.
Cheers sounds good, I'll take a look at that as well.
Yes, it works on any glasses.
It's basically polish which fills in any micro imperfections in the surface of the lens. It's expensive and as I say, there are other things which might work just as well, but it lasts for ages and will enhance the see-through clothing effect but only when used on Oakleys...
I think it works very well; when it rains the water just rolls off the lens. I'm sure there is other stuff that will do the same trick, but for rainy rides I would recommend it.
I take it you can use it on pretty much any lenses?
I've got some prescription Rudy Project glasses which like pretty much any glasses I guess are next to useless in the rain.
I got some polarised oakleys for a snowy spring ride in the alps a couple of years ago and they were a waste of money to be honest. My standard lensed pair were far more comfortable on the eye in those conditions.
Never been there but I don't see why not...
Unless there's snow which might cause some weird glare-idk tbh
Are the Prizm road lenses ok when in the Alps?
They definitely aren't the darkest lenses out there, but I haven't found myself squinting with them in the UK yet, so I reckon they'd be fine. I imagine they were developed in California where the light levels must be pretty high.
Ok cool. Thanks. Do you find yourself missing the polarisation on them? Or do you find that it's not an issue here in the UK?
My main two options are between the Prizm Road and the OO Red Iridium Polarised which is why I ask (and I'm currently used to glasses with quite low light transmission 11% vs the Prizm Road which is 18% if I'm correct)
Prizm road lenses.
Clear for dusky track racing at 9:30 or later.
...and can you see ladies underwear or not?
Come on, people need to know!
I bought a pair recently with prizm road lenses. Came with a second set of different lenses and a hard case.
Not really.
Paying a large amount of money for a pair of sunnies does tend to concentrate the mind when using them. In my experience, they do get scratched after a few years, especially when ridden in wet and gritty conditions, but by then there is a new model out which you feel compelled to buy.
Oakleys do seem to last for a good while, probably because you look after them a bit better, possibly because they are very good quality kit.
Taking care cleaning them and not putting them in pockets makes a difference; hence why people put them in helmet vents when they take them off.
Worth it in my opinion, and I'm a right tight bastard when it comes to expensive bike kit...
...and because it's my 1000th post, I'll add that the after market service is bloody brilliant; I had a pair of M frames run over after dropping them; replaced the frame for £15...
Stupid question alert: if you get scratches on your lenses is there anything you can do about it?
...and get some Oakley Nanoclear cleaning stuff when you get your specs; it does what it claims to do, and your first rainy ride will make you happier.
It's half decent then? Read conflicting views.
Blue polarized or Red Iridium polarized seem to do the trick, but try the new Prizm lenses; they let you look right through ladies dresses and see their undies unless I've mixed them up with another kind of glasses.
Black iridium polarised,
My preference is Fire for bright, G30s for not so bright and clear for night.