Oakley EVZero reviewed

Oakley’s EVZero’s take lightweight pretty seriously. By removing the frame keeping only the glasses arms and lens, Oakley’s new glasses offer the optics you would expect from the company at the lightest weight they offer for a pair of sports glasses.

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The EVZero are a very simple pair of glasses with familiar features if you have worn Oakley’s before. The Prizm Road lens are unchanged continuing to offer crisp vision in a variety of light conditions. Oakley says the lenses enhance colours, optimizes the eyes ability to track moving objects and improves safety by offering world class optics. The Range lens we reviewed covers almost the entirety of your vision giving an unobstructed view of the road thanks to the rimless design of the EVZero. The large lenses also give extended coverage in the peripheral line of sight, something very welcome to cyclists when in an aggressive position on the bike.

The distinctive lens etchings are perhaps the glasses most prominent feature. The etched lines are not prominent when looking through the glasses. Within the lines, Oakley uses it’s patented High Definition Optics to meet the American National Standards for optical clarity, visual fidelity and impact resistance.

The glasses are also incredibly light, the EVZero with Range lenses weigh in at 24 g a pair. The Path are even lighter at 22 g. With glasses this light it is easy to entirely forget about them when they are on your face.

Due to the minimalist approach of the new glasses they do not offer the ability to swap out the lenses.