Introduction From Wisconsin.

[rmontez]

My name is Rene and I am from Wisconsin. I found this site while doing a search for replacement lenses for my Romeo 2's. To say the least I am very surprised to see the amount of people dedicated to the Oakley brand. Since I have been a teenager I have worn Oakleys, now 38, started out with frogskins and as I could bought my way into M frames. As an adult I have only worn X metal style Oakleys and I think I'll stick to this style. Reading all these posts makes me want to buy more Oakleys!! lol.

 

[Oakle y]

Welcome to the forum. Do you still have some of those vintage frogskins? We would love to see pictures of them.

 

[Nortika]

Welcome to the forum, I to started with frogskins and went to Juliet's, which are the best glasses ever made!

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

Hi Rene! Welcome to the forum! I'm sure you will fit right in here too.

 

[rmontez]

Thanks everyone. Unfortunately I do not have any of my older Oakleys any more. I've lost more pair of Oakleys than I care to think about. My favorite pair now are my Juliets, I bought them about 14 years ago and have still them today. I have lost them twice where I thought I wouldn't find them again but got lucky. Once a kid pushed me off a floating dock while I was playing king of the dock with my boys and they flew off my head into about 8 feet of water with a mucky bottom. They sat on the bottom of the lake for a week before I was able to get back to the lake to look for them.

 

[Teetogreen]

Welcome a board neighbor.

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

You would be an inspiration to one of our other members who lost a pair of his sunglasses in a lake

 

[Oakley-olic]

Welcome to the forum. Love the X Metals.

 

[rmontez]

leaving them in the lake was pretty hard to do but there were 100's of people swimming all around. We were at a campground. When I went back the following weekend I went out at 4:30am when I knew no one would be in the lake and I started looking with long dives and feeling through the bottom of the muck with my feet. I searched for about an hour with no luck then the water was pretty stirred up so I just decided to make big sweeping movements with my hands and arms. just as I was about to give up I felt them hit the tips of my fingers and I had them back. The rubber was all corroded but that was a small price to pay.

Thanks for the welcomes.

 

[Christown]

Welcome to the forum mate.