Scott Sport Shields 60th anniversary sunglasses review
Cycling shades with eighties style
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To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Scott produced a range of limited-edition pieces including these Sport Shields glasses, based on the original design from the eighties.
If you’re a fan of the retro styling that’s the fashion with 100%’s S2 and Oakley’s Sutro cycling shades, among others, then these are the zenith of that style.
The Shields lens is massive at over 60mm at its deepest and the simple over the top frame is stiffer and harder to the touch than most.
Performance-wise they hit all the right notes; the adjustable nose-bridge is grippy and the spring-tension in the arms holds them solidly in place.
Protection is great too and the airflow is decent, though they do fog a little when you slow down if you’re running hot, but quickly clear when you speed up again.
If you can carry off the full-on retro look then these have all the modern qualities we look for: lens clarity, grip and low weight. The price is good too.
Authors
Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).
