List of Approved Protective Cycling Eyewear

While bicycling, dirt, insects, wind, and debris can cause itchy and damaged eyes.  Protective cycling eyewear protects your eye from road debris and protects you from the suns harmful ultraviolet radiation.  Wearing approved bicycling sunglasses helps you see hazardous road conditions clearer.

All products below offer glasses with optional ultra-strong scratch-resistant polycarbonate lenses, air holes for comfort and wrap around styles that stay on while riding over bumps. They also offer these styles in and photo chromatic lenses and with your personal eyeglass prescription. 

The following brands offer approved eyewear for the professional and recreational cyclist.

• Rudy Project:  This is amongst the most trusted and world renowned companies that offer eye protection to the cycling community.  Some styles offer interchangeable lenses that easily pop out and in for different styling and polarization needs.  Many styles and colors (including clear) are available with many options for shield designs with wrap-around’s and optional inserts.


• Switch: This brand is an emerging leader due to its Magnetic Interchange Lens System.  These glasses feature high energy magnets built right into the lenses and the frame.  While cycling it is cumbersome to carry more than one pair of glasses, and it’s unsafe and inconvenient to change the lenses out of the frames.  With these you simply swap the magnetic lenses as the conditions change and the need for different protection arises.


• Bolle: This company offers a selection of approved glasses for under $100.  Like the above brands, they come in many sizes, colors materials, and Rx prescriptions. Bolle is best known for it’s metal frame glass frames that feature precise styles.


• Kaenon: This unique brand features glasses hand crafted in Italy but designed in Southern California.  They are best known for its polarized lenses of extremely high quality.  Polarization is used for improving optical quality of the lenses themselves. This brand’s White Hard Kore’s is rising in popularity due to its emerging fashion amongst top cyclists.