5150 said:
I bet they have an MP3 player version. I don't know if he would use it in the tour however, but it sure would be cool to have for a training ride.buildyourown said:An MP3 player? I'd be curious to see the source on that info. It's not like he is listening to music while racing. It would make more sense to be an ear bud so he could communicate with the team car/manager. They all wear them and it woul be cool to integrate them into glasses.
I don't care much about these ones and don't care much about the over the top model either. But I do like their other models such as the Monster Dogs and Jackets. Their goggles are also well priced - even at Retail they are pretty cheap. Their optics are pretty good as well...but I guess other sun glasses also have as good, if not better optics, but at a price I'm sure.ssaddict said:Am I the only one who thinks they are kinda dumb and look like sh*t?
About as lame as their huge glasses from a few years ago that go over the top of your head, or the M-frames which don't even close. I'm not to big on their storm trooper camo fad either.
I've had a few pair of Oakley's (glasses and goggles) over the years and they just never have impressed me... not enough for the 2x retail price you have to pay over other quality glasses. They scratch and break just as easy as everything else.
Is that what those big over the head looking things were called?partsbara said:schweett... but can i wear em with my oakley medusa ??
no...those were a different thing...it's this leather hat that has long leather dreads on it. Pretty funky!ssaddict said:Is that what those big over the head looking things were called?.
I'm sure after that, the next thing will be mp3 implants...Acadian said:
Matt D said:I agree that the sunglasses aren't any better than any others and not worth the extra charge. Luckily there are a lot more manufacturers than there were 10 years ago when you HAD to have a pair of O's. Never like them much.
It's BS. It costs them about 5 cents to make their little injection-molded pastic frames, and then they charge $150 or more for them. My A-wires may have cost around $5 to make since they are made out of metal, but they ain't worth the $120 or whatever that they cost...there's just no way.DS Dom said:Check out some of the independant testing that was done on sunglasses. Oakley scores WELL ABOVE the other name brands in all categories. There are a lot of little things that make the Oakley lenses worth the added price.
check out some of this..... http://oakley.com/private_pilot/ i know that its on oakley's site but thats just so the rest of the world can see it, i actually have the magazine and its legit.
yeah, but it's dirt cheap to do, people have been making optics like that forever, it's no big deal. Almost any eyeglass maker can make excellent curved (perscription even!) lenses for oakleys, it's not rocket science.DS Dom said:As far as Optics being a "wash" thats BS. Take a pair of heavily curved lenses from any other manufacture and hold them up in the air and look through them at a straight line, the line wont be straight anymore because the lenses distort them. There is a reason that all oakley glasses use the same basic lense curvature and its not because it looks good. And the reson the High End ones are so expensive is because some of them contain over 30 peices which is a lot compared to a basic sunglass that contains at little as 5 peices.