As you may have noticed from the Latest purchase thread, my new R2's arrived today. There's been a few mixed reviews so far but here is what I've found after wearing them for the last 6 hours (yes, the sun came out in London!)
I guess I'll outline the main points...

Size/Weight: Being half frames they feel noticably lighter than a pair of juliets (juliets = 42grammes and R2's = 38grammes) but the nosebombs on the R2's are quite narrow which means after wearing them for a while I found they tended to leave two red marks on my nose. Other than that, the frame and lens size feels just right for me.



Quality of X Metal Casting: I've noticed a couple of tiny pits in the frame but they don't detract from the overall appearance of the glasses and from anything less than a very close up inspection you would never spot the flaws.



General Frame: The frame itself is nicely symmetrical with the only downside being that the right side earstem touches the lens when you close it, however the left side doesn't so if you close the left first this isn't a problem. It's just a bit annoying. Also the frame doesn't fit either the single or double display stands, having tried every possible position to get them on the stands it just won't fit. Thats a minor issue really, I just need a different stand for them.

If anyone has any other questions just ask...
Here are some more pics...













adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/14/2005 5:13:59 PM)
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they really are something special. Nice one Adam. The earstems look very elegant (for lack of a better word)

Do they flex more than the other x-metals?
Are you not concerned about the exposure of the lens if the earstem is touching it? I take it you arent to bothered about the pitting. It didnt bother me on my x-metal juliets but it shows up better on the carbon finish.

Certainly if I were in your position I would be exstatic.

PS, wasnt trying to cheat you out of your glory thread, just thought it deserved its own section.

Oh and what does 1mao mean

william brown (O.T.T. - 1/14/2005 5:23:51 PM)
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Adam,

Thanks for the great review and all the pictures. I hope you enjoy your Romeo2. By the way, that is one nice scale you have.

William - if I'm not mistaken, lmao means laughed my @$$ off.

Ed Chiu (eddyc - 1/14/2005 12:32:43 PM)
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thanks for the translation ed :)

william brown (O.T.T. - 1/14/2005 5:38:54 PM)
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Great review, Adam, and even better pictures

Thanks William, I can't say that I noticed the frame flexing anymore than my juliets if anything I'd say it actually flexed less. I am a little concerned about the lens but as long as I close the other earstem first they never touch it, it's just when I forget and have to open and close them again in the right order!
The pitting doesn't really worry me too much, if anyone was to say anything I probably make some remark about it being a side effect of trying to control 25000 watts of raw power when making my glasses! ;)

As for the thread thing, don't worry about it mate, I just found it funny when I thought about my 'glory thread'!!
Oh and lmao = Laughing my arse off!

adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/14/2005 5:41:47 PM)
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Thanks all, and watch out for more appearances from the scales...!

adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/14/2005 5:42:42 PM)
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very cool shades Adam...nice review enjoy!

p.s. nice scales too

ReGs x-metal (addicted2o - 1/14/2005 7:28:06 PM)
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despite adams cool pics, and the fact they look very cool i think im gonna wait for some more colour combos before grabbing a pair.

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 1/15/2005 12:56:52 AM)
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you looking for something with a bit more colour?

william brown (O.T.T. - 1/15/2005 1:25:16 AM)
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yes i am,
ive got a carbon and a polished frame so those are out, that just leaves x-metal with boring black iridium polar and plasma with gold.
id much prefer a metalic bronze with a bronze polar lens.
i shall wait and see what oakley comes up with.

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 1/15/2005 1:41:24 AM)
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I remember seeing a pic of some bronze hatchets. Were those a special make up or just an impressive photoshop effort?

william brown (O.T.T. - 1/15/2005 2:01:31 AM)
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Photoshop effort on the Hatchet.

Adam, they look spectacular. The Carbon looks real smooth, so does the Polished. I am really liking them but I'm in Lex's boat on this one. I need more colors, and more bronze based lenses.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 1/14/2005 10:14:57 PM)
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cool glasses adam... congrats! hos does the size of the R2 compare with the Juliets?


W.B. Ng (bong - 1/15/2005 2:37:28 AM)
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I have some side by side comparision shots but they're on my home pc (I'm at work at the moment) so I'll put them up when I get in tonight.
As for the colour thing, I agree with Phil and Alexis that there aren't enough light coloured combo's, I certainly have a lot of 'dark' frames (X metal/Black/Carbon etc) which is why I think my next pair will have to be Plasma/Gold R2's or maybe some new gold A wires...

adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/15/2005 7:48:50 AM)
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thanks adam! look forward to seeing those pics. maybe this will be the first X-Metal that'll actually fit me... one can hope.

have a great day at work... ^_^ it's three in the morning here and i shoud get some sleep! that's another thing about The Oakley Review... loss of sleep!


W.B. Ng (bong - 1/15/2005 2:57:27 AM)
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fook Adam your after another pair of Romeo II's already?
they must be as cool as they look, i must say they look better on you than the juliets.
dont you wanna wait for some more colours till you go for a second pair?.

Phil, how bout we do a shawshank redemption and write 2 letters a week to oakley asking for some different R2 colours.

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 1/15/2005 7:34:30 PM)
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Here are the comparision pics as promised!














adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/15/2005 11:27:22 PM)
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Hey Alexis, something strange just happened, just before I read this post someone commented on the pics I was uploading and told me exactly the same thing, that the R2's look much better on me than the juliets! Looks like I'm definitley getting those R2's now!
Mind you, I'm pretty sure I look badass in whatever oakleys I'm wearing... right...?
; )

adam moore (adamjmoore - 1/15/2005 11:31:13 PM)
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LOL, i think i look most badass in my dark frames. the mag fours especially and also the carbon/ice juliets.
but my GF likes me best in the hatchets so i guess i know nothing.

Alexis Watkins (LEX7 - 1/15/2005 11:43:44 PM)
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Lex, I am already hitting them up twice a week for larger Hatchet nose bombs. I am sure we'll get some new R2 colors, but it may not be for a year. Do they really want 8 combos avail at once? Well, maybe, but even all the Juliet combos didn't hit at once.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 1/15/2005 11:07:10 PM)
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They should have been called The Juliet 2 because those damn things are an upgraded pair of Juliets with the lower half of each orbital missing.

Andrew Ford (ford - 1/16/2005 1:45:27 AM)
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Saying that makes me wonder what they have in store for Juliet 2. If at all. I would hate to see the intake ports on the orbitals go away. They're one of the defining features.

Phil Barket (kingphilbert - 1/16/2005 1:54:13 AM)
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Has a Juliet 2 been announced? I don't think there is much to improve on in the way of the 'inaugral' X-Metals. Leave the names alone, and name any new X-Metal design a new name.

The Romeo 2 is a unique design. They should have called it...X-Metal Fifty, as in 50 percent of the orbital is missing or some crap. I dunno. Anything would have been better than Romeo 2. They are wicked glasses. But lets be honest, they have absolutley nothing to do with the original (same material maybe).

But I've had this argument before. I think the X-Metals are prestigious enough to skip the whole 'sequelisation'.



Andrew Ford (ford - 1/16/2005 1:59:23 AM)
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thanks for the pics Adam! i'm really going to have to try the Romeo 2 once i see them in the stores. i dying for a pair of X-Metals that fit me.

W.B. Ng (bong - 1/16/2005 4:20:48 AM)
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