ENDURA CHAR

The Char glasses from Scottish apparel brand Endura have photochromatic technology on their smoke lenses, and you get clear ones for ‘foul weather riding’. Add in a hard case and pouch/cleaning cloth and it’s a good value package. Like the Lazers, you have to grab the centre and yank to change lenses, which we found quite fiddly. The temple tips have some adjustment, but of all three on test these were the least comfortable on our head, and dug in slightly under a helmet. The same can be said during our run testing, where the tips were noticeable on the temples and those thick frames tended to gather a fair bit of sweat on the brow. The nosepiece is large and too flexible, and when we hit a monster pothole we actually felt some movement from it and had to move it back into place. Overall we’re a fan of the lenses and value offered from the Char shades, but just feel the frames let them down. endurasport.com