tarwheel 

I have a real problem with my eyes watering while riding in cold weather. I have one pair of glasses with wide arms and my eyes don't water as much when wearing them, but they are old glasses and their prescription is out of date. I recently bought some new glasses for cycling and was hoping they would block the wind better, but my eyes water worse than ever when wearing them. A friend of mine suggested getting some clear eyeglass sideshields, which are primarily used for safety purposes. Has anyone ever tried these shields on their cycling glasses? Do they help at all with blocking wind? I can buy a pair for only about $5 so will probably try them out one way or the other, but just curious if anyone else has experimented with them.

Leebo

A couple of options. I use contacts and safety glasses. Would that work for you? Also they make sport/ goggle glasses for stuff like racquetball with prescriptions.

kaisersling

I do the same thing. I use my contacts and super cheap clear safety glasses. The arms have a bit of a sharp edge so I sand that down.

fietsbob

How about Goggles over your Glasses?

jrickards

After a few minutes of eye watering, my eyes settle down and I'm fine for the rest of the ride. It doesn't matter whether or not I wear glasses although none of them are as sealed as goggles so all of them will allow some air flow around them. I take it therefore, that waiting it out a bit doesn't work for you?

Atvar

Unfortunately, I never used these shields.

I use cheap clear safety glasses over my prescriptions instead, and they work perfectly fine in preventing eye watering.

Andy_K 

I have a pair of prescription glasses with clear lenses in a sports sunglasses frame. They're great for wind protection, but they fog up terribly in a disconcerting range of temperatures.

tarwheel 

The side shields are inexpensive, so I figure it's worth trying. I'd rather not use goggles, and it seems like they would fog up. I wouldn't mind the watering so much if that's all there was to it. However, when my eyes water it causes the lenses on my glasses to get all splattered with teardrops and harder to see out of.

RidingMatthew

i have the same as @andy k clear lenses with prescription inserts. I have found them to fog up i have recently started taking the prescription part out and it clears up for the most part. I think the problem you will find if you block the wind you will eventually be fighting the problem of fogging.

InTheRain

I've struggled with the same issue as the OP. I've tried a few different motorcycle glasses... one set is OK, the other set is no different than regular glasses. I bought some $10 ski scott ski goggles for Sports Authority... they work well. I haven't tried them in below freezing temps. I bought a second set of lower profile ski goggles... they work as well as the $10 Scott goggles, but they have a dual lense to prevent fogging (I use this same technology on my motorcycle helmet... works very well.) My only complaints about goggles - the front of the bicycle helmet pushes the nose bridge down to the tip of your nose... it's a bit uncomfortable. 2nd, the dual lense goggles... they were only available in a tinted lense - I prefer clear for all my bicycle glasses/goggles.

Walter S

I don't wear any eye cover.

tjspiel

On the better goggles the lenses are replaceable/changeable. You can find clear ones online.

no motor?

I used clear safety glasses when I wore contacts and rode at night. I had a pair of the big bulky ones with the side covers that I wore in chemistry class and they worked well even if they did inspire some horrible organic chemistry flashbacks.

CliffordK

I'm surprised you can legally sell/buy those side shields without buying safety glasses. They are also typically custom fit to the safety glasses frames and temples.

A while ago I was required to get safety glasses for work. I'm no longer doing that job, but I decided that I do enough odd stuff that I might as well buy glass safety glasses (which also require a safety glasses certified full wrap-around frame). There are usually quite a few models to choose from. St. Louis has a wonderful store on Arsenal Street with lots of styles, but any glasses store should have a few styles to choose from.
Prescription Safety Glasses, Eyewear Protection, Spectacle Kits, Eye Safety Programs, RX Eyewear
Oh, did they move? The old store was great, but their store location was odd... how many stores have you gone to that keep the door locked 24 hrs a day?

Anyway, I've worn them. I found them annoying as they blur the peripheral vision. I usually drive with the window down, and have driven with them in to protect the left eye from the wind.

Browsing the web, I came across these.
Tennis RX
Review: Tennis Rx Prescription glasses : Tennis Connected

They look nice. Many of the other "curved" lenses I'm seeing apparently have flat glasses inside of goggles.

gna

I don't have cycling glasses, but I wear my work-issued prescription safety glasses with the sideshields when it's colder and windy. Helps quite a bit.

InTheRain

I paid $10 for the Scott's (msrp $30.) The dual lense, no name brand goggles, I bought at a clearance outdoor store for $24. Doesn't sound like I have the some of the "better goggles." I haven't had a problem with the $10 Scott's fogging up. But, I haven't used them in below freezing temps. They will probably be fine, except when I have to stop at a traffic signal.