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I guess I'm too hard on my glasses. The expensive ones I've bought in the past never seemed to last much more than a year or so. So I went to the always popular Cheap Sunglasses. I buy 3 pair at a time from this guy on Ebay ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BEST-...spagenameZWDVW

The quality is pretty good, especially for a $7 pair of sunglasses. The resist scratches pretty well and are easy to wear. The optics are good (no real distortion) and at that price I don't have to worry about losing or breaking a set ... I carry 2 pair on the road along with a pair of clear for night riding.

 

I have a part of PanOptx. Good but expensive. Also because of the foam around the inside of the frame both the PanOptx and Wileyx tend to stand off your face like goggles. I don't like the "goggle effect" where you have a blind spot all the way around the frame, especially at night. I started testing out safety glasses for night riding, the verdict is still out but they seem to work good. They are clear, the curved design keeps wind out, impact resistant, and best of all cheap. So cheap I bought a few to hand out to my buds to try. Pyramex Safety Glasses

 

I got a pair of clear safety glasses from the shop that I could use. gotta see how they do at keeping out the wind. But I will check out both of the recommended brands. thanks for the feedback!

 

While most bikers' glasses must solve a single problem (i.e: eye protection) I suffer from heavy miopy and I'm also quite photophobic, meaning that a degree of brightness most people find ok is uncomfortable to me, and what's uncomfortable to normal people, causes severe headache or direct eye pain to me (if you suddenly light a lamp in a shadowy room I react pretty much like Count Dracula... )

So I have to find a frame that won't make me look like I'm wearing submarine portholes on my face, is light, offer decent eye protection, wide field of view and light protection.
I tried various type of glasses and obviously no one single type can satisfy all these requisites.
But I can offer you some tips, from my endless testing.

1) If you have to wear prescription glasses, find a type which fits your helmet and possibly a full face. Seems pretty obvious, but a lot of people won't think about it till they try to put on their glasses while wearing the helmet... and they don't fit. I've seen a couple experienced bikers do that expensive mistake...
Smaller is better. You don't need to have ALL your field of view into focus. I do really well with small glasses that keep my main field of view into focus, and the peripheral view clear with a thin frame. And this brings to the second point.

2) most goggles and glasses I've seen (Ray-Ban, Wiley, Panoptics) have thick wide sides. While this is soooo good to keep out light or dust from the sides, it also blocks your field of view. I find this irritating while driving. It can get really dangerous while riding.
Consider how the frame obstructs your field of view when choosing. If you don't need prescription lenses, then you are free to get the wrap-around kind of glasses: good protection and wide field of view. With prescription lenses, this is usually not an option, as prescriptions may stay pretty much flat forward and can't bend around without giving the "fish bowl" effect...
EDITED TO ADD: Wiley offers the wrap around prescription lenses. I don't know how they are, though... never tried them, but I'm looking into it: it could finally be the solution to my problems.[8D]

3) most brands offer polaryzed glasses. Some offer them specifically for riding. Polarized glasses are made to cancel reflection from water so you don't get blinded by the sun reflected into a lake, the sea or such. While they are definitely a good thing if you are in fishing or boating, they will greatly impair you when detecting wet or ice patches on the road!

 

I've got 2 brand new pairs of Panoptx (Diable and Whirlwind) that'll I'll sell you. The Diablo's are polarized and retail for around $200, I'll sell them for $95. The Whirlwinds are not Polarized, I'll sell them for $80

As for what will solve your problem (keeping out dust, keeping your eyes from watering, etc); either the Panoptx or the Wiley X XL-1's.

The XL-1's were on ebay for about $35 (retail around $80). These were a Military issue and a few guys got their hands on some and were selling them on ebay cheap.

 

I have a pair of Wiley's, but they can't and don'thold on to your face like Rayban's do, especially in the wind. Not tight enough.
Not gonna pay a hundred and fifty or more for a pair of sunglasses.

 

I bought the Wiley X glasses for riding in the wide open spaces and they work finebut just use my regular prescription(photo transition)eyeglasses for normal riding.Wedwards remark above about the Wiley X glasses being able toprotect your eye against a rifle (7.62X39 Ak)bullet is just not true. I wouldn't want to test that theory out.

 

I think the Panoptix are the best you can get. Expensive but very good. The day/night transition lense works great, but it's weak point is riding into a direct setting sun. Not as strong as other pure sunglasses.

 

Have had my experiances with the Wiley's. Could never get them to adjust well to my face and had a constant fogging issue when cold. This deployment we went with the Oakley. They do a great job with balistic protection so a bug at 100mph should be a non issue for them, and they are comfortable under a hemet. The kit comes in both grey and clear lenses but are not built for perscriptin wearers. Another balistic wrap around that you can get a perscription insert for is the Sawfly from Revisions. It to did a wonderfull job saving soldiers eyesight but is not as cool looking as the Oakley. Hope some of this helps.

If you are wondering where I am geting my information about the protective qualities of these glasses. I was one of the medical providers from a very busylevelII facility in south east Baghdad for the past 15 months. We treated hundredsof soldiers that were invlolved in coimbat actions.So Im not just guessing, I have seen the protectivequalities and would not say they work ifI had not seen it with my own eyes.

Enjoy the ride.DD