Alleycat

From: $135.00

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  • Nose Rubber
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  • Frame : White Matte
  • Lens : Violet Chrome (trail)
  • Nose Rubber : Neon Yellow
  • Icon : Black Gun Metal
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    Our low-light lenses are a customer favourite (just read the reviews!) and perfect for winter/evening rides. Add one to your pack and save over 45% off the regular price

1 x Alleycat Sunglasses
1 x Protective Hardcase
1 x Microfibre softbag
1 x Low-light lens (optional)

All custom eyewear orders placed weekdays before midday GMT are built and shipped the same day. Choose a shipping method to suit your needs at the checkout 🤘

Head size: Medium - Large
Gender: Unisex
Best For: Mountain Biking, Cycling, Running, Hiking
Measurements: 146mm (width) x 63mm (height) x 133mm (arm)

30 days any reason returns are accepted for all products that are unused. Check out our full returns policy here.

It's simple. If you break your eyewear due to a manufacturing defect, we will either repair or replace it, free of charge.

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Awesome Clarity meets wild style

How the Lens Tech Works

Using technology developed by one of the world’s top lens manufacturers, the Alleycat features lenses from ZEISS’s Performance lens range. Developed with trail and road riding clarity in mind the performance lens range filters light to give you the optimum view of the environment ahead.

If you’re a MTB or gravel rider, you’ll want to check out our trail lenses. These are perfect for when you’re riding trees, tracks, or around vegetation, where the environment has a predominance of green and orange light that can overwhelm the eye. The trail lens filter reduces green and orange light, giving you greater clarity of the environment, improved depth perception and view of the trail like no other lens can offer.

If road is your vice, you’ll want to check out our road lenses (no surprises there!). In these environments there is a lot of neutral light reflected from the tarmac and a predominance of blue light from artificial lights that can overwhelm the eye. Our road lens filters out some of the blue light, whilst providing an equal distribution of neutral light, improving the road definition, your ability to see potential hazards and levelling up your colour balance perception.

Alleycat Paintsplat with Smoke lens
Alleycat Turquoise with Silver Lens

ALLEYCAT features

ZEISS PERFORMANCE LENSES

increased contrast & improved clarity for the best view of the trail or road

INTERCHANGEABLE LENS SYSTEM

Switch up your lens to match weather conditions in a matter of seconds

HYPERFLEX TR90 FRAME

Strong, Flexible & lightweight for total confidence

SMART VENTING SYSTEM

Maximum airflow to keep your view fog-free

RUBBERISED NOSE PIECE AND ARMS

For comfort and stability

RIPEL COATING

Keeps dirt, dust and sweat off of your lenses

UV 400 PROTECTION

Keeps your eyes protected from nasty rays

ABOUT THE ALLEYCAT

The raddest and baddest pair of performance riding shades on planet earth! We combined the world’s best lens manufacturer, years of riding experience, and a heavy dose of pure radness to create a pair of glasses that are built to perform with the best whilst looking better than the rest!

The Alleycat uses Zeiss’s proven 100 years of lens manufacturing experience to offer riders a choice of interchangeable, shatterproof, environment-specific, lenses suitable for all conditions – come rain or shine, forest single track or open mountain side trail, gravel track or open road, we’ve got a lens that’s perfect for you.

Built from super flex, super tough TR90, and featuring a rubberised nose piece and arms for ultimate comfort.

What are you waiting for? Go customise yours, then Go Ride Wild!

FAQ’S

The Alleycat has easily interchangeable lenses. If you want to grab some extra lenses, you can do so here and if you need just an extra low light lens, you can grab it here. You can see how to change your Alleycat lens here

The Alleycat lens ratings are as follows:

Low-Light = S0 (86% VLT)
Amber = S2 (29% VLT)
Violet Chrome = S2 (25% VLT)
Red Chrome = S2 (28% VLT)
Silver Chrome = S3 (19% VLT)
Smoke = S3 (19% VLT)
Photochromic = S0 – S3 (85% – 18% VLT)

The higher the category (and lower the VLT %) the more light the lens blocks, so an S2 lens is often good for if you’re riding in varying light conditions, whilst an S3 lens will perform best if you’re mostly riding bright conditions. You can check out our in-depth video on the lenses further up this page or you can access it here.

Our photochromic lenses are not made by Zeiss, as Zeiss currently doesn’t make a photochromic lens in a shield option. However, they are from one of the worlds leading photochromic lens makers and the optical quality is also fantastic.

We offer a lightweight, low profile optical clip that connects to the Alleycat nose bridge. This can be purchased on its own or with prescription lenses from Zeiss included. You can check all of our prescription options here

The main difference is in the lens technology. The Alleycat trail lens optimises for orange/green environments whereas the snow lens filters out more blue light, as there is a predominance of this in snowy environments. As a result, you’ll get much better definition, contrast and depth perception when in the snow.

Reviews

Customer Reviews

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Kath Obrien
Great clarity

Super happy with the Alleycats. I wish I hadn’t put it off for so long. The clarity of vision compared to my old ones is really noticable. As is the lack of fogging up. Love them. I’ve only needed to use the low light lens so far cos whether has been crappy.

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Ryan Bentley
Fantastic Glasses

These were a great find! I’ve always typically bought Oakley but these have been incredibly good. Great quality and incredibly comfortable. Now to buy more lenses

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Adam Butler
Beautiful Riding Glasses! Top draw customer service!

Beautiful Riding Glasses! I love mine so much I ordered the S for my wife

Top draw customer service just tops it off! Thanks again keep shredding!

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Garry Christoffersen
They do what it says on the box

The Melon Alleycat glasses with photochromatic lenses excel in adverse conditions, maintaining clear visibility through rain and mud. While they may fog up briefly during stops in cold weather, they quickly defog once on the move, making them a reliable choice for mountain biking.

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Dean
Alleycat with photochromic lenses

Used these whilst riding a few times since purchase. Comfortable fit, lenses seem to react reasonably well to changing light conditions. Good for keeping dust, pollen and insects out of the eyes as well as mud or grit!
Have to say for the price they don't have the quality feel I would expect hence only 3 star rating. Good case and soft slip included but no cleaning cloth. Not as impressed as I thought I would be but may be swayed if they prove to be durable.....

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