Wombat Insights.

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.

Two pairs. One face. Most South Africans wearing prescription specs and sunglasses spend their lives doing the swap dance: specs hooked into a cap, shades parked on the forehead, smudged lenses by 10am. Or worse, paying chain-store prices twice for two frames that don't even talk to each other.

You will spend more time staring at the N3 tarmac on Comrades day than you will spend looking at your own kids that week. Twelve hours, give or take, with the sun climbing over Durban at 5:30am and setting somewhere over Polly Shortts. If your eyewear is wrong, you will know by Drummond.

With Comrades just 7 weeks out (14 June, Durban to PMB), now's the time to get your eye game sorted before race day. Here's everything you need to know about choosing running sunglasses that actually perform in South African conditions.