Seven months ago, I wrote Finally: Cheap Prescription Cycling Sunglasses with Optical Factor, giving early impressions of their Luke Prescription Cycling Sport Sunglasses.
I’ve now used them for about 1K miles, including 12+ hours on the Davis Double Century. Photos from that event during different times of day below. My rides this spring with them have span from 50F to 90F. My takeaways:
- TLDR: I’d buy them again.
- They’ve been great. While the Davis Double Century ride was cooler (85F) than in most years, I still felt very hot in spurts during the climbs (close to 9K feet total). I didn’t feel distracted by the glasses despite reduced air flow. This might change as the weather gets warmer and I do more stressful (peak power) climbs. My helmet doesn’t have a good spot for holding the glasses, otherwise I’d take off my glasses during hot climbs.
- I thought that the outer lenses picked up a lot of scratches but I learned these all came off with lens cleaner. I just applied some and the lenses look brand new again. I’m still using the original wraparound outer lens but the glasses come with multiple replacements of various tints. The glasses do pick up fingerprints / blemishes like crazy – I don’t know how expected this is for Oakleys or other premium cycling glasses.
- Prescription vision has been great, no headaches or other issues. Again, these were $50 per pair (I bought two).
- The only area of improvement I’d like is a stopper against the forehead – you can essentially put these glasses into your eyes – this sounds worse than the reality. The glasses don’t really move during riding, sometimes I’ll push them slightly up so they’re covering more of the vertical vision area.
I Spit Hot Fire 