Semiframeless glasses and riding

[enjoytheride]

I need new glasses after being very stubborn and not getting a new pair in several years. The ones with frames make me look 12 so I'd like to look a bit more mature. I was looking at semi frameless (with the frame on the top) and wondering about horse durability.

To be quite frank I am a klutz and last week I forgot I rolled my car window up when I tried to put my head out to back up. I also fall off my horse on occasion. My current pair has survived quite well, even living through a horse flipping on me, me falling off hard enough to break a rib, me running into a rake, etc. Will these glasses hold up to my "active" lifestyle?

[nickers@dawn]

I'm just now trying out a pair of progressive lense bifocals with a half frame. I have always worn glasses around horses and have never broken a pair yet. (knock on wood!) The half frame I have now is more dainty and there is no protection for the lense if they hit the ground hard.

The only time my glasses have fallen off is when a horse spooks or freaks and bangs into your face, or crosstie mishaps. I would say though if they did hit the ground they could chip on the bottom edge. I just liked the look of them so I am going to take a chance.

[Chief2]

I wear rimless glasses (gold wire on the top half, clear band supporting the bottom half of the lens, with wire bows). They are fine at the barn, but I wouldn't want to get knocked around or crash land off of a horse while wearing them. The wires are somewhat delicate.

[lesson junkie]

The half frame pair I have on right now are a couple of years old. The frames are light and comfortable-they have held up to the horsey lifestyle very well. The lenses are plastic, and scratched to the point of being cloudy-I won't do the plastic again, I'm just not careful enough with them. The cat chewed one of the ear pieces off about halfway and it's digging in behind my ear-gotta find time to get something done about that.

[copper1]

Mine are totally frameless and have held up quite well for over four years. I have a very heavy prescription plus bifocal so I need something light and so plastic with all it's scratching is my only choice. These glasses stay up on my nose when I sweat so I no longer get those nasty nose rubs in the summer and they ahve survived a number of falls, face smacks, drops, etc!

[greysandbays]

When I got my newest glasses (several years ago), they offered a scratch-resistant coating for plastic lenses. It only cost $15, so I did it.

I haven't abused them too bad, but normal horsey stuff has barely scratched them at all. When I got them, I couldn't believe the huge difference in weight compared to the glass lenses I'd had all my life until then. It was like they weren't even there!

[spirithorse22]

To be quite frank I am a klutz and last week I forgot I rolled my car window up when I tried to put my head out to back up. I also fall off my horse on occasion. My current pair has survived quite well, even living through a horse flipping on me, me falling off hard enough to break a rib, me running into a rake, etc. Will these glasses hold up to my "active" lifestyle?

rotflmao :lol::lol: I like "active" lifestyle...I'm using that phrase to pardon my own ahem, acrobatic lifestyle. :no::winkgrin:

[MistyBlue]

enjoytheride...are we related? :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm a klutz too. I do have glasses...they're only supppposed to be worn when driving at night or when I'm at the movies or watching TV from farther thatn 15 feet away...at least according to my eye doctor guy. I went a few months ago for another pair because I had broken so many I just gave up on them and hadn't worn glasses in about 3 years. (I could still see the TV okay but had a hard time seeing the score during football games) Picking out glasses is HARD! I told the lady there to show me stuff that was tough since the last year I wore glasses when I was supposed to I think I broke 4 pairs. She said the pair she picked for me were tough and trendy...since I didn't care too much about trendy I said go ahead and add the lenses.
Well...they came in a short while later and I look *just* like the verizon wireless guy, LMAO!

[RockinHorse]

last week I forgot I rolled my car window up when I tried to put my head out to back up.

:lol: :eek: :lol:

[enjoytheride]

hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't have shared that.

Or the time I stepped on the end of a rake in the barn and it flew up and smacked me in the head just like in the cartoons. It was sort of funny after my head stopped hurting.

[MistyBlue]

I did that with a snow shovel...dropped it while shoveling and was doing something else and slid, stamped one foot out sideways to catch myself and snow shovel handle came up and almost took my ear off! Why is that move sooo funny in a cartoon or on TV and soooo NOT funny in real life?

I never smacked my face on a closed car window, but I have tried tossing cold coffee out of a coffee cup out of a closed car window. More than once.

I fall UP stairs. All the time. Rarely ever do I fall down the stairs...I fall going up the stairs. My shins have bruises all over them.

[Bluey]

I also have a heavy prescription and bifocals, so have plastic lenses.
I have the extremely light titanium frames, that are just two side pieces fixed to the lenses with two tiny screws each and the nose piece, also screwed to the lenses, no frame at all anywhere.
I have used them now for maybe six years and they are going strong, only changing the lenses every two years because my eyesight has changed.

Those titanium glasses are the preferred type for most in construction and fabricating work, because they are so strong and light on your head.
They also come in all colors, I have the darker pink and they look nice.
They are great to ride, first time I didn't have to take my glasses to ride colts, because the old kinds slid to the end of my nose.;)

[MistyBlue]

Bluey, you don't notice the screws coming loose often? My husband has the frameless just like you describe and his ear-pieces are also coming a bit loose. At least once a week I'm tightening them back up for him.
He never wears his outside to do work but wears them inside and for work. BUT...he takes them on and off about 100 times per day. Not because he needs to, more of like a habit. He just removes them, holds them a second and puts them back on. I keep telling him that's probably what's loosening his screws all the time (LOL, he has other "loose screws" too but then he did marry me :winkgrin: ).

[kdow]

Bluey, you don't notice the screws coming loose often? My husband has the frameless just like you describe and his ear-pieces are also coming a bit loose. At least once a week I'm tightening them back up for him.
He never wears his outside to do work but wears them inside and for work. BUT...he takes them on and off about 100 times per day. Not because he needs to, more of like a habit. He just removes them, holds them a second and puts them back on. I keep telling him that's probably what's loosening his screws all the time (LOL, he has other "loose screws" too but then he did marry me :winkgrin: ).

I have that kind of frame also, and I did have trouble for a while with one of the nuts coming loose ALL the time, until it actually fell off. I went in to have it fixed, and when she put a new nut on, it seemed to fit better- I've been wearing them for a year since then and they're only just now starting to loosen up a bit again. So possibly changing the nuts or nuts/screws for new ones would help? I think maybe when they get loose and wobble around a lot, there's actually a bit of damage to the threading, and so then they never hold quite as tightly again.

(On mine it's just nuts, because the nose-piece has threaded rods fixed into it, which poke through the lenses, and then you just put a nut on to hold everything tight.)

There may also be a product you can buy which would tighten things up- not a glue, but something similar. If mine start loosening up all the time again, I'm going to look into it.

[MistyBlue]

Thanks...I'll tell hubby to look into that at his next eye appointment. He gets really worried about his glassdes falling apart.

[copper1]

Thats how mine are and I have, to date, had no problem with them coming apart.

[Bluey]

Bluey, you don't notice the screws coming loose often? My husband has the frameless just like you describe and his ear-pieces are also coming a bit loose. At least once a week I'm tightening them back up for him.
He never wears his outside to do work but wears them inside and for work. BUT...he takes them on and off about 100 times per day. Not because he needs to, more of like a habit. He just removes them, holds them a second and puts them back on. I keep telling him that's probably what's loosening his screws all the time (LOL, he has other "loose screws" too but then he did marry me :winkgrin: ).

No, have them for many years now and never had those come loose.:confused:

I may have other loose screws and nuts, just not on my glasses.;)

[ReSomething]

I had the wire on top, fishing line on the bottom style. Thick lenses. I skated down my horse's shoulder with my face and the glasses got dragged off. The nosepad dug a chunk out of my lip and the edge of the lens gave me a scrape. The nosepad came off and got lost in the footing. I've had the glasses bashed into my face and the lens gave me a two stitch slice before also. I did like them, but right now I have plastic all around and use plastic all around sunglasses also. Usually when I fall off I get thrown clear but not that time.

[shakeytails]

I recently found this on another forum- www.zennioptical.com . Glasses as cheap as $8/pair - the most expensive ones I saw were about $50. Sounds like a great place to get spares...

[sk_pacer]

Never had half frames but do recommend memory metal (assorted brand names) and polycarbonate lenses. I know the memory metal and polycarbonate is a tough combination - cousin had a pair like that, and said pair escaped his pocket, and made an escape close to the combine tire. No need to say what happened next but the end result was frames and lenses survived intact, only one small scratch on one lens and we are talking a huge combine, the biggest one Case made at that time. I also went to memory metal a long time ago, and even in the days before memory metal, titanium and polycarbonate, I don't recall losing a pair of glassos off my face, no matter how bad the wreck was, and the wrecks ranged from coming off when the horse zigged and I didnt, to getting rolled on by a bronc to assorted training wrecks on the track as well as assorted bashes while working on machinery. The trick is to make sure the frames are fitted properly (I know, have been wearing the blasted things for over 50 years now). The only thing that ever damaged, well, damaged isnt the right word, totally destroyed is more like it, a pair of frames was a lowly softball, no speed on it, but it hit just right, snapped the plastic frames (no metal frames then) and blew the lenses somewhere - they are still probably in that ball field....a stupid softball if you can believe it!!!