Road Cycling - Riding glasses on top of prescription glasses

This may be a totally stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway. I wear prescription glasses (the tiny variety) and could really use some riding glasses to keep the wind and bugs out. Are there riding glasses that you can wear without taking your regular prescription glasses off?

Well, you certainly won't look "cool" but you could try a pair of safty classes. They definatly would protect your eyes.

There also used to be ski goggles that were like big plastic bubbles that would probably fit over your glasses. They looked like some kind of insect eyes (which would be somehow ironically appropriate, I guess). :D

Cheers...Gary

I just wear clip-on shades over my glasses. One of these days, I'll either get prescription Brikos/Oakleys/etc, cycling glasses with a Rx insert, or laser surgery. For now, the clip-ons [made to match my frames] work well enough.

Doubling up the lenses you wear is probably a bad idea. Having tried it myself, I can report that it's cumbersome and a recipe for fogging up at the most inauspicious moments...

In this era of cheap eyewear(buy 1 get 1 free), I would suggest you go for a dedicated pair of pairs (1 regular, 1 sun) of the biggest plastic lens size possible and use them for riding.

Happy trails,

Louis Tousignant

Thanks a lot for all your replies. My glasses have transitional lenses (they shade according to how sunny it is) so I'm covered for the light aspect. What I need is protection from the wind.Still not quite sure what the way to go is. I shall continue my search :)

Actually, this post is very fitting. I'm going to get contact lenses tomorrow, the only reason being so I can wear sunglasses while I'm riding (I get headaches from looking into the sun all the time).

I wouldn't recommend wearing any kind of double lense for saftey purposes.

velo

Hi, I've got a pair of Bolle paroles, with the prescription inserts and they work very well for both cycling and skiing. I get fogging occasionally, but rubbing bar soap on the lenses and then polishing it off helps to cut it down a great deal.

I have a pair of Performance sunglasses with inserts. Like them. But even, inserts fog up some. Think defog, used in dive masks would work? When its foggy out or high dew point, double layer glasses fog so easily. Soap? difficult to remove the soap?

I wear prescription glasses - bifocals no less - in both normal and sun configs. They are large, aviator-like glasses with plastic lenses. They work fine - no wind issues at all. Should be safe as well.

When I played ice hockey (goaler, so you know I am missing at least some marbles) I used sport glasses. Like smallish goggles. Worked a treat.

I can't even think about contacts without my eyes watering. ;)

Cheers...Gary

It's easy to remove the soap. You just polish the lenses, as you would when cleaning them normally. I guess it leaves a thin transparent film that won't fog. It may take a couple of extra rubs, but not a lot. You may have to redo the procedure every so often (depending on conditions)to keep it effective.

I learned of this trick here on the forums shortly after I first joined. Other suggestions were solutions used for dive masks etc., but this is the cheapest(except for spitting on the lens, which I used to do to my diving mask - I don't think that would be appropriate here:D)