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Nike Pivot Six & Eight Sunglasses Review | Nike Sunglasses
August 29, 2018
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I’m considering getting my next set of glasses from SportRx and I have some questions.
First, background: I currently wear Nike Tour EV0744, a discontinued frame, with a progressive prescription and Xtractive transition lenses. I find these glasses to be great all-purpose for me, with enough sport wrap for my athletic needs (running and quite a lot of cycling), with a style that is reasonable to wear in all occasions, indoors and outdoors, even at the office (although I do have other glasses), and with suitable minor tinting for driving. I can even wear them spring skiing (when I’m not wearing goggles). I could get full-on cycling glasses, but then they would not be as flexible to look reasonable to be worn everywhere. It probably doesn’t matter much, but I’m a pretty active (semi-competitive) athlete, although getting up in years at 68.
I called Nike vision (which turns out to be marchon.com) to ask what frames are now closest to the old Nike Tour and they said the Nike Pivot Six and Pivot Eight. My questions:
1. First, for my purposes as described above, would you recommend consideration of any other multi-purpose frames similar to the Nike Tour or Pivot Six/Eight?
2. What lab/technology do you use for your progressive lenses? I have previously obtained my glasses thru the optical shop at Kaiser-Permanente and they use a Zeiss laboratory with a range of progressive lenses with varying field of view widths (and customization of these digital lenses). I want the best (widest) field of view. I don’t think your website explains your lens technologies, and I’m also a little nervous about having lenses made just with my home measurement of PD. I always had someone at the optical shop marking the location of my pupils on lenses. So, can you tell me more?
3. I have a relatively narrow face, and the Pivot Eight with greater (“8-base”) wrap might be better for me. However, I understand from both the optical shop and your very good SportRx youtube video review (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_H1dJy9zb0), that the optics might not be as good with the Pivot Eight. Can you comment or advise?
4. The frame colors do not show very clearly on your website. I trust that what you call “Satin Pewter” is the same as what the nikevision website calls "Pewter/Obsidian/Thunder Blue 043” (with blue temple arms)?
5. Is there any difference, outside of esthetics, in the Xtractive grey vs brown lenses? For esthetic purposes, I’m guessing that grey would go best with the pewter frame.
Incidentally, I did go through the online ordering procedure in order to see what the price would be for a possible selection of features (for the Pivot Six, I think). You can probably look it up under my name and email address.
Thanks for your help.
Paul
Thanks for reading and commenting! We hope Tim and his team were able to answer all your questions via email. Feel free to reach out anytime if we can provide you with more info! Happy riding!
I just want to ask if this pivot six or eight has eye protection from sunlight's UV? Is this pair of glasses good?