WHAT IT IS: Oakley Radar XL
WHY IT'S RAD: Not everyone is in love with the robo-shade look, but I've been on board since mini-truck freestylin' legend RL Osborn got funky with Oakley Blades back in the day. Since then Oakley has continually elevated their sport optics game and made the M-Frame then Radar go-to shades for endurance sport athletes. I love them because I barely notice I'm wearing them, they don't pinch my head (this depends on your noggin size though), they have the most uninterrupted field of peripheral vision of any shade I've tried thanks to the lack of frame around the sides and bottom, and the optics are crisp. My only gripe with the regular old Radar and the M-Frame before it is/was that these shades didn't cover enough of the face above the bridge of your nose. That meant that when you had your head down, you ended up looking at the top of the frame in your bottom field of vision and had sunlight flooding in over the top. The Radar XL solves this problem with more coverage in the exact spot where I (and apparently their athletes) wanted it.
BUMMERS?: The Iridium coating completes the robo-look, but damn, these babies scratch easily. And that's a bummer when you consider that's a big chunk of what you're paying for. I baby mine and still managed to get a scratch directly over my right eye. Fuck.
$: $175
INFO: http://www.oakley.com/pd/6332
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