Oakley glasses for cycling, which ones with multiple lenses?

daniel_b

Hello all,

I have some casual Okleys that I simply love the quality of, and bagged some Oakley Bottlecaps as posted on the bargains thread.

Rather tempted by a 3 lens set of the Half jackets (I have a smallish face) and the set I have seen come with Grey, G20 and Persimonn lenses - never used any of these before, the ones I have are G30, Black Iridium Polarised, and Gold Iridium polarised.

Can anyone comment on the above lenses, and whether they would be useful enough for cycling?

I love the Gold iridium lenses for driving, so would be tempted to get an additional set of these lenses for the half jacket if I were to get it.

Probably end using these for a spot of running also.

Any thoughts on these from anyone?

Any other brands/models I should be looking at, I assume Rudy Project perhaps, and or model of oakleys?

Additionally, should I even be looking at multi lens setups? I was dissapointed with my bargain wiggle ones, as despite taking great care they soon broke, I have a set of madison ones which seem ok at present - and then of course there is the other option with Oakleys of going for a transistion lens - any views on these?

Cheers

Dan

Paul E

I have half jackets and a small face and love them, I have the standard black iridium lenses, some G30's and some persiminions and have never has weather I couldnt wear them in, I even wear the persimion ones at night as they take glare off car headlights but leave more than enough light coming through to see fine.

phillipjohnson

I have Oakley Split Jackets... they have the jawbone technology... really easy to open and change the lenses.

They are a bit more casual looking than the JawBone ones which just really look like they can be used for sport... these look good on holiday etc as well (or so I like to think :-) )

I would definitely recomend the Split Jackets.

Mine came with Black Iridium lenses and Ruby lenses.

daniel_b

Thankyou gents,

wasn't even aware the Split jackets existed :oops:

Thanks for the heads up!

The reason the half jackets are pretty appealing, is that the eyewearoutlet has the array for £89 delivered - quite a saving.

Might hang on for some split jackets though, they do look rather nice......

jonny_trousers

Quality specs. I had the half jackets myself until I lost the feckin' frames. I'd get some again, but would probably go for the XLJs or the jaw bones next time around as they would probably be better for cycling.

I didn't like the Persimon lens at night (clear felt better), but Grey and G20 were great. Oakley are a quality brand and you can't go far wrong with them.