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Y�:- a:-::r::-e� ' equal in their devotion to optics. high-performance frames and style. Their lenses utilize a polaric ellipsoid geometry (PEG) that minimizes distortion at all angles of vision. Translation: PEG corrects the distortion you get from having two eyes looking at one point and curved. wrapping lenses distorting that point. Most curved lenses don't line everything up perfectly. This means your eyes get tired and you get tired. Oakley has the only lens that mimics the eye and always lines up. Frames have a grip system that provides more friction as you sweat. They subject their sunglasses to the same durability standards as motorcycle helmets and they come in assorted shapes and colors-what more could you ask for? Remember Run DMC? Remember BUGZ: huge. round sunglasses that only he could pull off? that's what Bugz are like. They are utterly Admittedly. there is something special about wearing a pair of Revos. REVO: may have more to do with the price than the glass. The starting price is about $1 95. This is a company that believes it makes the finest sunglasses around and they price them that way. The lenses do. without a doubt. make the world look better. The tints are wonderful. Your eyes feel good wearing them. but sadly that feeling doesn't last. The glass lenses and the frames are heavy-after an hour the weight takes a toll. And I don't know about you. but having a plate of glass millimeters from my eyes when I'm skiing or climbing doesn't leave me with an able-to-leap-tall-buildings kind of feeling. I ing off a cornice and spread myself over 100 yards of chute-a proper skier's burial. impractical. but cheap and crazy and that's a pretty good combination. In smaller models the Bugz hybrid goggle-glass design hinders periph eral vision. That said. the larger models worked pretty well on a deep powder day in Chamonix. In the end they bounced off my head and disap peared in five feet of fluff when I missed my land