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Bollé Launches Innovative Approach To Performance Prescription Eyewear

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Bolle 6th Sense (3)

If you’re a four eyed freak like me, chances are you have problems finding prescription sports sunglasses. The difficulty you encounter with these types of frames is that the curved wrap required to make them protective tends to cause distortion at higher prescriptions, and for me, manifests itself in a feeling of claustrophobia or a headache.

In order to maintain the same level of protection but offer prescription wearers who shun contacts a more flatting look, Bollé has come up with an innovative solution for their top tier model – the 6th Sense. Bolle 6th Sense Insert

Rather than using a dorky additional insert, Bollé has fitted prescription inserts directly and permenantly into the oversized lens. They’ve dubbed this technology the B-Thin Active RX, and it can accommodate everything from +6 to -8 prescriptions.

BOLLE 6TH SENSE RX Insert

Like all of their 6th Sense models (which we covered in depth here), the lenses are made from Trivex, which is thinner and offers better optical clarity than the polycarbonate used in traditional sports eyewear.

The company will be offering twelve different lenses in their RX program, including polarized and mirrored options. They’ll also offer eight different lenses that have contrasting colored inserts. The prescription inserts start at $600, while progressives will run $775.

To learn more, visit Bollé

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zombinate
zombinate
10 years ago

is that $600 including the frame, or just the lenses? Either way, spendy.

bergsteiger
10 years ago

And while the option to go to -8 is a good step above most -5, it does not help my blind ass -10.

I have a set of Rudy project exception glasses with the high index inserts. So far one of just a few that will support my level of correction.

Gunnstein
Gunnstein
10 years ago

Cheaper than the Oakley I was considering, and good to see more choice. Though after I quit the contacts I settled on a regual “flat” non-cycling prescription shade and I’m pretty happy with that. Curved cycling shades never offered me “full” cycling protection anyway, I’d need goggles for that it seems.

trek7k
trek7k
10 years ago

FYI: polycarbonate has a higher index of refraction than Trivex (1.58 vs. 1.53), so polycarbonate lenses are about 10 percent thinner than Trivex lenses.

Evan Christenson
Evan Christenson
10 years ago

Check out sportrx.com, their stuff is way cheaper, equally as nice, and available in multiple brands. I love my prescription Radars!

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