Can anyone recommend a good prescription riding sunglass. Does HD make any prescription glasses?

 

HD will make em for you if want but its gonna cost ya, SportOptics gets mentioned alot, had good luck with them myself in the past. Right now I've been using RX safety glasses that have a bifocal lens so I can read the gauges again.(gettin old sux but it's bettter than the alternative)They're only $8 a pair and they work great

 

I use sport x . com. My first pair melted on my pipe so they gave me a deal on my 2nd pair. If you call tham ask for Bambi, she knows what she's doing.

 

Check out this web site, they sell motorcycle glasses, goggles etc and can do prescriptions. Have a pair of their RX goggles with transition lenses, not cheap but you do get what you pay for.
http://www.prescriptionmotorcycleeyewear.com/

 

They were the cheapest price I could find for Wiley X prescription sunglasses. They are very knowledgeable about the different sizes they carry to help you get glasses that fit. They have great customer service. The'll give you a discount if you tell them you heard about them on this forum.

 

I jsut use my ole safety ones

 

There is a previous thread (probably) more you could do a search.

Personally OAKLEY. They do prescriptions also.

 

I have a very high prescription, I talked to a dozen shops at least, including my reg eye doc, walmart, specialty local shops, and several online dealers...

The ONLY place I could find to do a nice wrap frame in my prescription was heavyglare.com, it wasn't as cheap as sport RX or similar, but they guaranteed they could do my script in the wrap frame I wanted and not have be distorted or bulge out from the frame (as scripts get higher, especially my kind of script, the lens is flat and the larger it is the thicker it becomes at the edges especially and sticks out in front of the frame because the frame wraps around and the lens can't do that w/ traditional methods)

They used digital surfacing to make very nice and light lenses truly wrap into a set of Wiley X frames, I got the one called Blink.

I went this route because I could go to local shops, like a local harley dealer, and try on different sets of glasses from Wiley X, since they make regular sport sunglasses. Then, once I found a few frames I liked, I wrote their names down and contacted the various dealers to see if they could put my script in the frame I wanted. Wiley X is common brand for people to put their rx into. Other options include brands like Panoptx / 7 eye, but I found the Wiley X frames to often allow for higher rx than Panoptx.

For example, my script is a negative 5.25 in each eye. Many of these wrap frames can only take a -3 or -4 at most w/ traditional methods, finding a frame like that, then doing the digital surfacing on it, allows me to get the -5.25 into them.

I say do whatever you can to try some on, then see who can do your rx in those frames. I got transition lenses, and I used a newer lens material called Trivex, allegedly lighter and thinner, while being more durable than polycarbonate. I got the kind that start out a little tinted and then get darker from there, rather than starting out clear and then getting darker.

I heard too many people say theirs were not dark enough in full sun, so I opted for starting a little tinted. They are lightly tinted in dormant mode, and I can use them at night w/ no problem. However, because they're a wrap frame they let very little light in around the edges, so they appear darker on my head/eyes than they appear to me looking at other people, so at night everyone gives me a hard time about wearing shades, they think I really have sunglasses on and am tryin to be cool or something. Whatever, but I like them. Also, the Wiley X's I got have foam around them that you can remove. I didn't think I would use the foam much, especially w/ the wrap frame and not having contacts in my eyes while wearing the rx glasses, and on my own bike w/ the windshield I don't generally need the foam. But while traveling on a rental bike w/ a lower windshield, boy I needed that foam or I would have gone insane, and I used the straps that come w/ them too to secure them to my head and the foam kept em nice and comfortable while the foam and straps both made them very stable, w/out them on that particular bike my glasses would have been all over the place. I started that day out w/ contacts and regular sunglasses I ride w/ at home, and I had to stop at a gas station to take out the contacts and put the glasses on, and I didn't take them off the rest of the trip, about 900 miles in 2 days.

I like the transitions coz in varying light conditions, I didn't have to fool w/ anything to change.

Good luck.