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A few riders using them today in Paris-Roubaix...
Epic race today!
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I flip-flopped on my last post and decided to (pre?) order the Flight Jacket. Navy/Retina. The SportRX videos covered the venting function really well.
I think my bottom line is that this is the next installment in Oakley's 3-year pattern for top-priced items. Jawbone in 2009, Radarlock in 2012, Jawbreaker in 2015, and now this is the premiere product they're trying to push in 2018 with the Field Jacket. I can imagine it was hard for the sport R&D team to find an angle to improve upon the Radar EV and Jawbreaker (and the Flak 2.0), and given that success I think they earned continue trust from consumers to try something new. The Zero EV was more of a retro novelty in my opinion but even that worked really well.
The Flight Jacket can seem gimmicky, and I personally prefer full frames just so they're less delicate to handle, but at the cost of versatility is what sounds like a an even more focused, more dedicated design. The Field Jacket definitely covers versatility now. It's like they took the Jawbreaker and split it in to two successors.
The field had a ton of them! It was a shame to hear about Michael Goolaert despite how good the race turned out.
I'm waiting to get hands on and see what user feedback is before getting a pair. It seems most of their stock is scheduled to be available on Tax Day, coincidentally.Gooalert reminds me of Zeke Upshaw, who pretty much died on court during an NBA G League game. Stuff like that is rough when you pay attention to the fact that they died on the job, and perhaps their passion at the same time. I'm sure I speak for most cyclists when I say there are times when we indulge in a "no holds barred" moment. I'm sure pros have that more times than they'd like because it's their job, and to us it's probably a thrill seeking thing. Either that, or we've all overdone something at least once in our lives.
Anyway, wondering if anyone else put in an order for either new pair. Site says estimated delivery (not estimated shipping) on 4/17, current progress is saying 4/11. Won't count on the latter, but would be cool to see it here Wednesday.