Spy Optic Efficiency Sun shades Assessment

Spy Optic produces sport eyewear for excessive athletes. Walkers can profit from the know-how to get a pair of sun shades that cuts the glare, protects you from all ultraviolet gentle, and stays in place regardless of sweat and wind.

The Spy Efficiency line has a number of designs. I bought a pair of the Quanta design to assessment, and I took them out for some good walks to place them to the check.

The Frames

The frames are constructed from Grilamid, which they promise is just about unbreakable. I didn't do a breakage check for this assessment. The frames are available in many colours, together with matte black and matte white.

Extra essential for me with any body is whether or not it stays in place on my face regardless of sweat and wind. The Spy Efficiency sun shades have Hytrel rubber nostril pads and temple ideas. I wore these by means of a really sweaty half marathon the place I had rivulets operating down my face and a headwind. No slippage. But neither have been they too tight on my temples. With this full-frame design, the decrease a part of the body met my cheeks, and I might even have a build-up of sweat below the glasses, which might lastly run off down my face earlier than creating an issue.

Fogging is all the time an issue for walkers. I gave these the massive check—I used to be out on a cool morning, strolling the half marathon with a excessive coronary heart fee, and utilizing porta-johns alongside the best way. These glasses say they’ve a patented Scoop venting system to fight fog. I bought fogging going into and popping out of the porta-john as I do with my normal Ray-Bans. However the fog cleared inside a second or two relatively than requiring me to take away the glasses and wipe them off. I used to be impressed.

The Lenses

The ARC polycarbonate lenses promise to be affect resistant. I didn't need to take a face plant to check that, as my strolling buddy did whereas I used to be sporting them. She destroyed her Maui Jims as face met concrete because of a toe-catching, upraised sidewalk. I'm not going to ask her to strive the identical factor with the Spy Optic glasses.

Trident Polarizing Lenses can be found for a number of the frames for optimum glare discount.

All the lenses take in 100% of UVA and UVB rays to assist scale back growing old and cornea harm.

The lenses are replaceable and obtainable in a number of mixtures. I used to be intrigued, however the Spy website online and promo supplies did not inform me why I might need the totally different lens colours. I discovered that by way of our Imaginative and prescient Information’s hints for selecting tints for sun shades. I have been sporting grey lenses for 25 years and did not know why I might need something totally different. It seems that the rose lenses of the assessment pair are good for overcast situations, as I typically encounter right here within the wet Northwest USA.

Ideas for Deciding on the Proper Lens Tint

• Grey and inexperienced polarized lenses work greatest in sunny situations.
• Bronze gives good distinction, particularly in low gentle situations.

I noticed there is perhaps a cause to order replacements to vary out between totally different climate situations.

The Backside Line

I used to be impressed with these glasses in a number of methods. First, that they didn't slip throughout a real check that might have had me pushing my glasses again up my nostril for another designs. Second, they honestly did defog quick and doubtless resisted fogging to start with. Third, I sort of just like the rose-colored glasses, even in brilliant daylight. Now I'm involved in making an attempt out totally different alternative lens colours in several gentle situations.

Nonetheless, I might in all probability select a much less Bono-like design when looking for them myself. Our Information to Style gives the rule of thumb that you really want a lens and body form totally different from the form of your face. The square-ish Quanta design is an excessive amount of like my sq. face. I ought to search for a design the place the lenses are extra oval. Nonetheless, it's the efficiency greater than the model I care about. I don't need crow's ft from squinting and from UV harm.

Product samples have been supplied by the producer for assessment functions.