I saw via the official Oakley person on Twitter that the C Six will be released on 11/1.

Not that most of us will see one, but at least there will be info to drool over on their website!

i am going to buy up all the C-6's and sell them for 8K each

Now that you mention it, I actually hope all the scalpers feel that way and do buy up the C6 at retail price hoping to sell it for a couple grand more. It's a sure bet that it'll be a losing venture for them. Hell, selling it at retail on eBay will be a losing venture.

But then they will forever sit in their 'collection' getting scratched and whatnot.

You can be certain that muscledouchestain or whatever his name is now will grab them thinking he will kill it. HAHAHAHA, I hope they kill his wallet

LOL Travis!!!

Waiting for a Carbon Fiber Romeo 1, now that I'd drool over!

Waiting for a Carbon Fiber Romeo 1, now that I'd drool over!

What, my carbon Juliet isn't good enough for ya!? :)

I have to find a moment to take a pic of those on my face in some good light. Maybe that will produce a small amount of drool from you.

I’m curious, how many people are still excited about the release of the C6?

I was reading this thread again and I found it went from TB II talk to car tuning to the next Co-Pilot event to fine watches to Carbon Pennys to Ameraclemsng to scalpers. Very, very little discussion on the C6 itself. Nothing wrong with that at all, but compared to when the PB pics were released, it does suggest not many are interested enough in it to discuss it. Am I off on my observation?

I assume that 4K make it untouchable for most of us.
I'm sure excited about the release of the C6, but my interest is limited as far as I know I'll never acquire it or even see it in real.

I've got little to no interest in the C6.

I don't think it's all that good lookin for the price.

I'm interested in seeing the aluminum C6. The way they're using the CF in this design, just doesn't make sense to me.They could be using chopped strand material here, because it looks like they've taken the strengths of carbon fiber and thrown it out the window.

Machining a block of aluminum to make it though, that's pretty sick.

I still much prefer the pit boss design over the c6 design.

Mike

They haven't compromised the strength of the carbon. Got that straight from the source.

There's a ton of detail in there you won't see in that picture, from what I hear.

I'm still really excited about them and very much want to handle a pair, but unless they give me a pair I'll never own one.

How can you not compromise the strength of the carbon? Carbon fibre is excellent because of the strands running lengthwise. Layed up that gives you the rigidity in one direction. When you start milling into that, you are breaking up the strands. You are now using the strength of the epoxy resin, more so than the strength of the fibres. At least, that's how I think of it? (It has been a few years since I worked with cf, and things can change rapidly in that amount of time, but, that's my old school thoughts on it anyways)

Mike

You are correct that carbon gets most of it's strength from continuous strands. However, you do not need every strand to be the complete width of the piece to end up with a strong form. It really doesn't take that many fibers to end up with decent strength. With the number of layers you need to get an overall thickness for sunglasses, you can take away a fair amount at the ends and edges and still have a very strong piece.

Oakley is also not necessarily laying out their carbon in a flat block. From what I gather they are laying up their fabric in a very specific way to put strength where it needs to be. I'm doing something similar in my glasses, by actually doing the layup on a curved form, which preserves complete fibers from side to side as much as possible.

I highly doubt the C Six will be fragile. From my experiments, even 10 layers of carbon will give you an incredibly stiff form. I'd bet that the C Six will be many many times stronger than any of their plastic glasses.

I don't know if it's been mentioned in public but they've been working on these for a LONG time. The C Six are akin to some of their other "mad science" experiments where they just want to try something, regardless of cost or time involvement just to see if it can be done. And I think we'd all agree that Oakley doesn't do things halfway.

If I had the cash, I'd buy a pair no question, just to have the first and possibly only pair of glasses made this way.

How can you not compromise the strength of the carbon? Carbon fibre is excellent because of the strands running lengthwise. Layed up that gives you the rigidity in one direction. When you start milling into that, you are breaking up the strands. You are now using the strength of the epoxy resin, more so than the strength of the fibres. At least, that's how I think of it? (It has been a few years since I worked with cf, and things can change rapidly in that amount of time, but, that's my old school thoughts on it anyways)

I think that's most everyone's thoughts on it as well. It's hard to escape once you start milling it. Still, it's a pair of sunglasses and even if the strength is compromised, it's plenty functional for wearing. CF on sunglasses are more for novelty than anything else.

Coming from a standpoint of a complete lack of CF knowledge or expertise - I simply think it is cool to have a pair of eyewear made out CF. Design-wise, I think it looks decently awesome. I remember thinking Hijinx was pretty lame (or at least freakishly big) at seeing the first photos ... so I can imagine the C6 design being perfectly acceptably cool if I ever get to check them out.

The $4k price point, though, makes all of my thoughts simply a hollow perspective as I will most certainly never afford a pair.

I was interested in the C6 for a long time and have been following its development since 2007. At the start of the year, it was the only Oakley product I was even remotely excited about. After seeing all the pics that came out, however, I'm not interested in it anymore. But while I have no interest in the product itself, I'm very interested in the process of manufacturing it, especially with the prospect of more Oakley CF stuff in the future. Very exciting stuff. Baden says that C6 was less about making profit and more about testing their production and manufacturing capabilities. With him saying that, it would completely boggle my mind if they didn't follow up with it and do more work with CF in the future. That's the true excitement for me when it comes to the C6.

I feel so shallow! LOL

I was reading this thread again and I found it went from TB II talk to car tuning to the next Co-Pilot event to fine watches to Carbon Pennys...

#3 has arrived, and it's more exciting than the C6 IMO.

True, but most things would be less exciting than an X-metal.

Really more excited about the TB 2, if I was smart, I would start saving to afford one when it comes out...

Came across a pic of the Armstrong version from Interbike. You can see the cam hinge more clearly in this pic. Looks pretty sweet. If only the price were lower...

http://www.bikerumor.com/2009/10/02/interbike-2009-oakley-mens-sunglasses-including-the-4500-c-six/

Looks like they got wind of the productions counts.

5x - Livestrong CF
50x - Regular CF
500x - Aluminum

Really love that piece of science.

I wish I was able to afford it, even the Aluminium version é_è

"The reported weight for the carbon C SIX is around 52-53 g"

Could this reported weight be a mistake? If it were true, the C6 would be over 20% heavier than Adam's weighing of the X-metals ( http://o-review.com/portal_detail.asp?ID=956 )