I hadn’t paid a whole lot of attention to the Rudy Project Defenders when I first received them in the mail. Don’t get me wrong, I dig the fighter pilot look of the eye protection, and they appear to be a quality pair of sunglasses, but other than that, I didn’t expect much from them.

Then, one afternoon when they were sitting inside my helmet on the counter in front of a window as I was getting ready for a a ride, I put them on and noticed something. Parts of the lens were tinted and other parts weren’t. It looked like the pattern of sun rays coming through window blinds cast onto the glasses.

“Well, that’s new,” I thought.

I threw them on my face and pedaled out from my house and the entire lens quickly adjusted to a full tint in the afternoon light.

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