Wombat Insights.

Polarised sunglasses for driving cut reflected glare from tar, bonnets and wet roads, which makes daytime driving in South African sun more comfortable and detail easier to see. They are not ideal for night driving, and some drivers struggle to read LCD dashboards through them. Always check for UV400 as well.

Replace the lenses if your frame is still straight, tight and comfortable. Wombat Gear's Glitch 2.0 replacement lenses cost R495 against R945 for a new pair, and custom cut lenses for other frames start at R495. Buy new if the frame is cracked, bent or loose.

It's 11am on a Highveld road ride. The sun is dead overhead, the tar is shimmering and your eyes are already squinting like you've just bitten into a lemon. Sound familiar?

There is a specific kind of rage reserved for the moment your sunnies slide down your nose at 32°C, on a climb, with both hands on the bars. You push them back. Four minutes later, same story.

Every spring, thousands of South Africans throw antihistamines at a problem that is partly walking in through their eyeballs.

Here's the uncomfortable truth: most scratched lenses were not scratched in a crash. They were scratched by their owner, on a Tuesday, with the corner of a t-shirt.

Here's a number that stings: a fresh pair of genuine Oakley lenses often costs more than half the price of the whole frame. So when your Holbrooks pick up a scratch, plenty of Saffas just chuck the lot and buy new. Mad, really.

A stray branch travels at roughly the speed of your front wheel plus the speed of the branch snapping back. On a Jonkershoek singletrack that's a lot of energy heading straight for your eyeball.

Scratched Oakleys or faded Ray-Bans? Our custom cut replacement lenses bring almost any frame back to life from R895. Here's exactly how it works.

The 2026 Sardine Run has officially kicked off along the Wild Coast, and every angler from Port St Johns to Scottburgh knows what that means. Garrick, shad and daga salmon are piling into the surf zone, chasing the greatest shoal on earth.

Quick answer: Wombat Gear now makes Nyoo polarised replacement lenses for the Oakley Flak 2.0 in all three fits, the standard OO9295, the XL (OO9188) and the XLJ (OO9009). 

Here's something most weekend warriors get wrong: winter is not the season to leave your sunglasses at home. On the Highveld, sitting at 1,200 to 1,800 metres above sea level, UV intensity climbs by roughly 10% for every 1,000 metres you go up.