Recomendations: night glasses

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I've got a pair of amber and clear saftey glasses for the night -- the $22 ones that every bike shop has on a cardboard stand up display on the counter. But neither really helps with glare at night. I also bought a pair at the bike show that tints with the sun. That pair is worse than the others at night.

Has anyone found a pair that significantly cuts the glare of headlights at night?
 
No such animal - I just use clear safety glasses - much cheaper and optically very good - at any safety store.

If you are wearing them behind another visor it makes reflections way worse.
 
go to a real optician, you can order and frame and lens, no prescription lens, just what ever tint you like ( or none) and an anti glare coating. I started buying the anti glare lens a couple yrs back and would never go back.
 
call me crazy but....
i bought oakley jawbones for $250,prescription yellow ballistic lenses for another $170 and then $200 polerized smoked for day.
good news is since they are prescription they are a tax write off.
yellow work great at nigt and for dim lighting, i actually find i can wear them under my irridium visor at night as long as there are street lights.
origonally i was planing to just keep a clear visor and wear the glasses under it...but i decided i wanted a mirrored visor.

they are also for target shooting though..

sure i could throw my normal glasses under the visors...but i dont like them lol
 
the military uses clear at night. that's good enough for me.
 
crankcall said:
go to a real optician, you can order and frame and lens, no prescription lens, just what ever tint you like ( or none) and an anti glare coating. I started buying the anti glare lens a couple yrs back and would never go back.
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^^this!
but absolutely NO tints at night. not even the yellow or amber.

get a good quality lens with good anti glare. best i've found so far.. Trivex with crizal or equivalant anti glare. if u have a minor prescription for distance, get it. its usually the same price if you get them with a little bit of Rx or none at all (some conditions apply ofcourse). i dont need my rx glasses for day time most of the time but at night, it does make a huge difference. i never ride without them at night anymore.
 
silent_vik said:
^^this!
but absolutely NO tints at night. not even the yellow or amber.

get a good quality lens with good anti glare. best i've found so far.. Trivex with crizal or equivalant anti glare. if u have a minor prescription for distance, get it. its usually the same price if you get them with a little bit of Rx or none at all (some conditions apply ofcourse). i dont need my rx glasses for day time most of the time but at night, it does make a huge difference. i never ride without them at night anymore.
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im the same way..i passed my eye exam and got perfect but i have trouble seeing at night.
im actually going to be gettin clear lenses for my oakleys in october, it takes a week or 2 to have them sent out and custom made and i dont want to go without them.
 
canuckerjay said:
I've got a pair of amber and clear saftey glasses for the night -- the $22 ones that every bike shop has on a cardboard stand up display on the counter. But neither really helps with glare at night. I also bought a pair at the bike show that tints with the sun. That pair is worse than the others at night.

Has anyone found a pair that significantly cuts the glare of headlights at night?
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I dunno if you wear prescription glasses or not, but if your prescription isn't correct or if you need corrected vision but aren't using any the affects are far worse at night. I can get by without glasses during the day but the bright lights at night are fuzzy and blind me.
 
Thanks guys; that prescription thing might be an option. Always had wicked vision, but 37 has me squinting sometimes to read fine print. So while I get reading glasses covered by benefits, might as well get something for night riding.

appreciate the advice.
 
Why would you need glasses at night time? Doesn't you helmet have a visor?
I would only wear clear glasses if riding without a visor.
If you don't need prescription glasses, anything else you add between your eyes and the world would make things worse.
 
Many like me detest visors - there is no comparison between the optical clarity of good safety lenses and a visor.

The thicker the plastic the more the internal reflections and it's way easier to keep the lens clean on a pair of glasses than a a visor and replacing safety glasses is an $8 option.

Visor only comes down in rain or dust for me.
 
I've been looking for night glasses same as the OP, but didn't want to invest $200+ into a pair of glasses from optician, since I'm not sure it they will work.

I normally ride with contacts, and they can cause minor starbursts and halos at night. If I ride with my RX glasses that have an AR coating, and things are alot better.

I stumbled upon www.bikershades.com, and just order a couple of pairs. I"ll let you know if they were worth the money or not.
 
Just buy a pair of clear lenses to swap out on whatever oakleys you have, they make clear for like every frame because of their military contracts.
 
Back in the old days ( 1970s) when dinosaurs roamed the earth , there was a brand of yellow tinted night driving glasses that worked verey well , "Night Owls " was the brand. I did most of my driving out in the country where there was no street lights so a car coming over a hill with high beams on would temporaily blind you if you didn't have some tinted glasses.


I think the amber glasses worked well with 1970s seal beam headligts , the new technology is brutal for oncoming drivers and the fact that having the tint in front of your eye opens your pupils more than normal , when hit with the new high powerd laser beams that cars are all rocking today the tint probably does make it worse.
 
Zaneris said:
Just buy a pair of clear lenses to swap out on whatever oakleys you have, they make clear for like every frame because of their military contracts.
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if you are referring to my last post, mine are RX lenses and i only need them at night.

the oakleys i got are the jawbones. great frames and convenient to just swap the lenses to whatever one you feel like using.
 
I know its already been said, but the anti glare coatings really work. I have some vision challenges that make night driving hard. I spent a couple hundred on frames I really like and antiglare coatings, the headlight starbursts are gone, the streetlights dont reflect and those bastards with the mecedes bluelight headlamps dont blind me anymore. The technology works.
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