 Poster: A snowHead
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I have tried and tried with this sort of thing but none are satisfactory due to the fogging issue (the goggles basically with the inserts). Can anyone tell me if there is a manufacturer and retailer who'll sell a goggle with the prescription actually built in to the goggle lens?
A couple of years ago someone said Uvex do such a goggle but I haven't been able to find it!
Any help much appreciated!
Kevin
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I use contact lenses nowadays so don't have the faff with glasses, but I reckon someone must do this... a few years ago I had my scuba diving mask lens replaced with a prescription lens - worked a treat but now that i don't dive it's a bit of a bummer for it's resaleability on eBay!
If they do it in diving masks, someone must do it for ski goggles..
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I think Bolle were the first to produce cycling glasses (in the early 90's IIRC) that you could add lenses to. Might be worth checking them out to see if things have advanced.
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I haven't found anyone who does a completely built in lens, altho I can't believe they don't exist. My son has just had a prescription insert made for his Adidas googles but hasn't tested them out yet but we're aware that there will probably be fogging issues.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You wouldn't think this would be so difficult to find, but i've had a good search round and can only find inserts.... odd.
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Megamum, thanks for the links, I'll have a look at them, I can't believe it can't be done!
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steph, I've always felt the same, the links above seem to favour the lens inset into the 'pane' of the goggle lense, and it looks too contrived for my liking. I too have never seen why they can't just make an optically correct 'pane' to the entire goggle. Mind you with any of them the cost is soooo off-putting, which is why, although such a creation is my 'holy grail' of ski gear, I resort to the contacts that my optician tells me I can use on high days and holidays and a standard pair of goggles.
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I became a convert just for skiing to the daily disposable contact lens for exactly the reason you are having ie. fogging and also having to scrabble in the snow after a head plant looking for glasses that had come off. I now have normal goggles and sun glasses a joy.
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I had my eyeballs lasered and I can highly recommend it. No fogging there 
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You know it makes sense.
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Megamum, i guess the frame is too flexible. has to bend to your face?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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ChickenDhansak, Perhaps, but I'm surprised that technology can't cope with the curve to fit the fame of the goggle, which after all by their nature hold the lenses at a fixed distance from the face, some mathematical adjustment to the thickness based on the 'curve' must surely be possible.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I just wear Bolle OTG goggles over my normal glasses. Clean both with scott anti fog solution. Dont have a problem with fogging as long as I'm wearing my helmet (which I always do). Tried it once without helmet and instant steam up
If you dont have antifog solution, clean them with washing up liquid or rub raw potatoe on them (old scuba trick, that works well)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Megamum, Strangely enough I spoke to our mutuelle company today and they confirmed that should I be able to find a company that makes them and should our optician give my son a prescription for them, they will pay the whole cost! I already have the prescription for the inserts so I know they are covered but our optician doesn't think you can get the whole pane as a prescription. I'm not sure why it can be done for scuba diving masks but not ski googles, or ar the mask inserts too. All very confusing now!
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Cos scuba masks are made from 2 flat panels. Ski masks are a single curved panel. Easy to make flat lenses, curved the same as a ski lens very difficult
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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madmole, Yeah, but NASA put a man on the moon in 1968, I can't believe that the technology couldn't cope and relatively cheaply too. Look what they do to make a contact lens, its only a giant reversal!
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