Sunglasses & Rx

"jalex" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter. Looks
like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does anyone
have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be rather
unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

Don't know about the Tifosi Stevilo. I use Bolle Vigilante model with Rx
insert. It works great for me and I have "no line bifocals". Insert has a
press fit only but looseness has not been a problem. Fogging not a problem.

BobT

jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does
anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

I tried them several years ago with Smith Optics. I think if you have
a prescription that isn't too thick, you might be able to get by. My
left lens was way too thick, and never really fit right. I ended up
getting contacts, which have come a long way sine I wore them in the
1980's.

jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does
anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

I have a cheap pair I got from Performance years ago. I normally wear
bifocals, but these inserts are only my distance rx. Never had any
problems with stability or structural integrity or anything else. I do
use an elastic strap to keep them securely in place, especially
because I have a mirror clamped to them as well.

R

jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does
anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

I have been using the Rudy Project RX now for the last couple of months and love it. When I moved to Canberra I started to have a lot of problems with pollens and itchy eyes which ment that I could not wear contacts any more. RX solved the problem and in most cases is better then contacts.

jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does
anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

For whatever it's worth, I just wear my prescription sunglasses.

Pat

quote='Pat Lamb'jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does
anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

For whatever it's worth, I just wear my prescription sunglasses.

Pat[/QUOTE]
dont you find that all the wind gets around the glasses and into your eyes?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

For whatever it's worth, I just wear my prescription sunglasses.

I do the same. I got them for 1/2 price w/ a new pair of eyeglasses I
needed anyway on special. A similar special can usually be found in
any Sunday paper.

Quoted message said:

dont you find that all the wind gets around the glasses and into your
eyes?

Not really. I use the same Rx shades for boating & the motorcycle,
and find them fine up to about highway speed limits. With my normal
eyeglasses this isn't the case, but I bought the shades with my
hobbies in mind and chose a "wrap around" models with the appropriate
options on the lenses.

Dan

jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience does
anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

I have my second pair of Rudy Project Skeey Uno's with an adapter; the
first was lost on a trip to Italy. The adapters are OK, but the
adapters tend to be close to your eyes and hit the lashes, etc. a
lot. The other issue is the orphaning of the glasses by the
manufacturers. The Skeey Uno was orphaned about the time I got the
second pair and it is impossible to get replacement parts. Same thing
happened to me with a pair of Smith's damaged in an accident; Smith
had parts, but the glasses were orphaned and they would not sell me
the replacement parts on a discontinued product.

Last year I bit the (expensive) bullet and had a pair of Oakley Half-
Jacket's made with my Vari-Focal prescription. Optically they are
the best glasses I have ever had. Re-read that: best glasses, not
just sunglasses. They fit better than the glasses with adapters, are
lighter, etc. When I need a new pair, this is the route I will take:
these are my prescription sunglasses! I have tried contacts with non-
prescription glasses; the problem is my eyes tend to dry out and get
rather irritated so I cannot keep the contacts in for long, so I bite
the bullet and pay the cost for quality.

- rick

jcjordan said:

Pat Lamb said:

jalex said:

I'm planning on purchasing a pair of sunglasses with the Rx adapter.
Looks like the Tifosi Stevilo is a match for me. What experience

does

Quoted message said:

anyone have using the Rx adapters? My concern is that they will be
rather unstable and loose.

Suggestions welcomed.

For whatever it's worth, I just wear my prescription sunglasses.

Pat

dont you find that all the wind gets around the glasses and into your
eyes?

I have Bolle wrap-around prescription sunglasses (progressive lenses and
polarized, as well). The extremes of the lenses are not prescription,
which is how they manage that one.

--

David L. Johnson

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welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and
benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but
a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" --Dickens,