Lance's Oakley Sunglasses/MP3 Player in one...
- Thread starter 5150
- Start date
5150 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 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:
It would be cool if they could have the ear bud in there, but that would meen that he would have to have the glasses on the whole time. If he swapped for a different color lens or if he took them off for a climb then he would be radio less. I would guess he was just wearing them as a novelty after a stage and someone got the shot and info
Pretty cool. I am huge Oakley fan/user. And Armstrong is a realy good guy to.
It's looks a bit like a Half Jacket, with added on mp3 player. But knowing Oakley, they don';t compromise on how it will look.
It's looks a bit like a Half Jacket, with added on mp3 player. But knowing Oakley, they don';t compromise on how it will look.
Neato. I want one!
not for $450 though......
not for $450 though......
I was just looking at the videos on letour.fr and they have a whole video about them. It looks like there are only 3 in the world and Lance doesn't even have a set yet!
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.
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.
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:
I think they're pretty awesome. Good for them for innovating. The flip up lenses thing is dorky, but oh well.
Franky was showing them off during the OLN coverage yesteday.
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.
Franky was showing them off during the OLN coverage yesteday.
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.
schweett... but can i wear em with my oakley medusa ?? 
Is that what those big over the head looking things were called?partsbara said:schweett... but can i wear em with my oakley medusa ??
I don't mean to rag on Oakley, they do make some awesome stuff, and I use to swear by their glasses for shooting because they were bullet proof. But some of their styling is a little over the top sometimes.
no...those were a different thing...it's this leather hat that has long leather dreads on it. Pretty funky!ssaddict said:
I'm currently working on the Giro helmets that have the headphone built in for MP3 and cell phones. I'm sure they will have integrated MP3 players soon.
I wonder if they have replaceable batteries or do you have to buy a new one when they run out like I've heard about the I-pods?
V
Vermont
Guest
flip ups may be dorky but if you've ever had your glasses steam up while climbing and you take em off only to have to fumble around at top of hill to put em back on. I 've been using flip ups for 2 years on the trails and i think nothing beats the way they handle the fogging...Dorky or not..very functional. MP3's however...i'm not a big fan of biking with tunes on...i like to hear my bike or traffic or my buds crashing behind me..lol.
Peace
Peace
Matt D 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.
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:
And about optics, yeah, that's a wash as well. Polycarbonate is dirt cheap, and the polycarbonate that is good enough for everyone that uses perscription glasses is dirt cheap, and it's free of distortion and anything crazy, and to cap it off, it usually only costs about $30 to get prescription lenses made.
Oakley is overpriced to the extreme, they are in no way the first company to do this in the sunglasses/eyeglass area. My dad worked with some 3rd world countries to provide perscription glasses to them, so I have a good idea how cheaply glasses can be cranked out, as well as the intricacies of actually making the lenses. Yes, some glasses are a little harder to make lenses for when they are curved more, but it's not that much harder.
By and large, they may make some nice sunglasses, and they work well, but the reason that the top end ones cost $300 and not $30 is because they've found enough people that will pay $300.
For something that costs them from about a dollar to maybe 10 dollars to make (depending on the materials they are using to make them), they are making insane amounts of proffit....hey, anyone noticed how oakley has been able to enter a lot of new markets in the last few years....wonder where they got all that cash??
I wear perscription oakleys cause my insurance covered most of it. Oakley is not doing anything that is out of line with the rest of the "eyeglasses" industry, but the whole industry is a farce in terms of what you get vs. what you pay.
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.
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:
30 peices? yeah right...mine cost like 194 or some crazy **** and there's like 9 parts, and "parts" aren't any indicator of how expensive something is.
6 hour battery life and 128 meg memory? weak features. stupid idea. impractical too. But I bet they'll sell bucketloads.
They're putting MP3 players in EVERYTHING, it's getting boring. I want to see an mp3 player with integrated sunglasses. That'd be a better idea.
They're putting MP3 players in EVERYTHING, it's getting boring. I want to see an mp3 player with integrated sunglasses. That'd be a better idea.
I'm not pulling my iPod out of my jersey pocket anytime soon...