Interbike 2011: Oakley

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Oakley showed us its new range of packs and goggles and glasses but also revealed that it will no longer be making cycling clothing. Apparently it’s not a big enough market and it wants to concentrate mainly on its core markets of (can you guess?): snow, surf and… golf… So no more Oakley shorts.

Once we’d been ushered into the Oakley trailer of pumping music, we were shown some of the new range of stuff that we will get to see:

Big trailer, many glasses (and also Oakley’s ‘shoot them in the eyes’ test rig…

Here's a huge day pack...

 

More sensibly sized and garish pack

 

And the smallest, most practical size

Oakley is releasing a limited amount of products with its old-school logo on, including goggles in fully retro colours – and matching summer gloves

 

 

Old enough to remember wanting things with this logo on?

 

There are road gloves in women's (top) and men's (bottom)

 

Troy! There are some goggles designed in conjunction with Troy Lee Designs

And some lifestyle glasses for the terminally cool…

 

 

Girls only on these ones - very 50s!

One of the most interesting things we were shown was a prototype of the new women’s Razor. It’s a hugely popular riding glass for men, but it’s a bit big and chunky for women’s faces. So here’s a look at the women’s Razor.  Production ones won’t have the bent arms, but will feature the same, smaller vented lens and very spiffy mint colour among others.

It's mintier than it looks in this shot

 

Arms will be straight in production, but the lens shape is how it will look.

 

 

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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