Oakley Splice Goggle - 2009 BCS

This goggle is awesome because Oakley designed it so the lens is really easy to change. Someone timed me once before I even changed the lens before on the Splice and it took me about 5 seconds to do it. So if you are looking for a high performance goggle but you change your lenses a lot. This is the goggle for you.

Sweet gogs. Best lenses on the market. More downward vision than the crowbar, less nasal pressure. New colors and same old awesome lenses. H.I. yellow for pow, flat light and night, Fire Iridium for sun shine and high altitude. I've used these lenses twice on Everest and twice on K2.

These goggles rock! I got the pink lenses with the ghost text pattern and I don't think I've ever gotten so many looks due to one article of gear. The vision is superb and the field of view is incredible. The big complaint with a lot of Oakley gogs is that they pinch your nose and are small for people with large faces/heads. My face is on large end of the spectrum and these things fit great! The nose channel is the opposite of restricting. One of my friends is an Oakley Rep and describes them as a "breathe-right" strip for your face. I couldn't describe them better.

Got the black iridium lens which i found to be absolutely perfect for any conditions. These things hardly ever fog and if they do, just remove them for your face for a second and they clear right up. No nose pinch, they are kinda big, so make sure your helmet fits them without any gaper gap (my fits perfectly with the smith maze). Got caught in a huge blizzard at Vail and while I'll my friends were complaining they couldn't see a damn thing, to me it looked as though it was blue bird...

Best goggle on the market. I've had crowbars and wisdoms and the splice is by far the best. no pressure on the nose, and no fogging what-so-ever. This goggle is the savior of the ski-vision world.

I do not like goggles to begin with so please keep this in mind. I am a full time ski instrcutor and wear oakley sunglasses all day long. I purchased these goggles for the snowmaking and snow days when teaching. I have worn them once during a snow storm and found them very comfortable and fit nicely with my Giro helmet. They did not fog up once the entire day. The only drawback with them was in flat light the goggle did not help at all, it actually made it harder to see or contributed more to the flat light. If you can change the lense to an amber for flat light I would. I would recommend them to anyone in the market for a good goggle just use good sense on what you need them for.

Ever get that nose pinch? The design of the Oakley Splice goggle is made so there is no pressure in the nasal area and breathability is at a maximum. Super compy fit!

SICKEST goggle on the mountain this year. Great fit, Comfortable, and so slick looking. Definitely a great purchase.

Noel.A

Great goggles, excellent peripheral vision. Not as much downward vision as i would have liked but they still do the job. Excellent goggles, great buy.

These goggles kick ass. These are my 1st pair of oakley goggles and I am impressed. They were extremely comformtable - didn't even feel like I was wearing anything after a while. They never fogged up and were a perfect fit with my R.E.D helmet. The lens I got had brilliant vision in all light conditions.

If you're not wearing a helmet, a word of warning, they do look extremely big on the face.

Highly recommended.

Yep these are some jewels and here is why. No tears or caked up teared up lenses at speed. I have the Pink Iridium lense w/gloss white frame. Have been a Smith fan forever and own Prodigy's, Fuses, and the Phenom. They all tear up maybe even the Splice will in time but so far after 3 days of chargin they have not. I wore mine with a beanie. They fit inside a G-10 helmet perfect where a Prodigy won't. Have to give the nod to the Sensor lense from Smith on super flat days but I'll be ownin a pair of the H.I. yellow from Oakley soon to compare. These Pink Iridim worked well from the dark shaded areas or even some flat light (not soup) to mixed sun/cloud.

Great fit, although narrower than I expected. Still have great peripheral vision and good airflow. Fogging wasn't a problem in wet near-freezing and subfreezing temps. Kids have no problem finding me on the mountain (I have the kaleidoscope block w/ fire lens). As expected from Oakley, the optics are fantastic - see every detail on the slopes with these goggles!

sweet digs, fit my face well, no more watery eyes. Got the VR50 lens and its perfect for day time boarding. No fogging, comfy and they get all the looks, that's whats good. After biffing it hard a few times this season in the park, causing them to be thrown from my head or being filled with snow, these gogs have withstood my tests and still work like a dream.

Just goes to show it depends a lot on your face. I have a smaller face/head/nose and the Splice actually obstructs my nose breathing more than my old A frame goggles. It doesn't put uncomfortable pressure on the bridge of my nose, but then I've never had a goggle do that.

Also they say downward vision is increased with the Splice, but for me it's not the case. It's a taller goggle than the A frame, so I get more upward vision, but the cutoff on downward vision is in the same place. The splice offers slightly more peripheral vision as well. However due to the much taller/wider nose pad foam it obstructs my vision more than on the A frame. So where on the A frame I have a nice even lower limit to my vision the Splice as a noticeable "obstruction" area around the nose. It makes looking downward odd and I find myself frequently turning my head to get around the dead spot in my vision around the nose area. With the extra upper vision and peripheral vision the Splice does have less of a "tunnel" vision effect than the A frame.

Also while I think the splice works better with a helmet than the A frame due to the wider strap bars, it does not work nearly as well without a helmet as the bars don't move at all as on the A frame to conform to a wider range head/helmets. I always wear a helmet so no big deal for me, but for those that don't it may keep the goggle from sealing well.

Overall a nice goggle, but I wouldn't say they are anything impressive compared to the old A frames.

I absolutely love these, i had some older Smiths which were good, but i decided it was time to really get a good pair of goggles. I chose these and they are just amazing, so comfortable and let me breathe just wonderfully. They also fit my Giro G10 awesome. Very happy with this purchase, used em on some small slopes, but cant wait to get out to utah and really put these to the test.

I wanted to love this goggle, but the nose design is not suited for people with big beak-like noses (like I have).

The goggle comes down far on the bridge of the nose. For most people this is probably preferred, and probably works well for wide noses that don't stick out far as well. But if your nose sticks out far, it can create discomfort due to a lot of pressure on the bridge of the nose.

I had to return these after wearing around the house to try out the fit - never even took them out on the mountain becasue they were so uncomfortable on me. Oakley's optics are fantastic, so I'm sure they would be great in that regard (as usual). Only giving the low rating to alert other big-nosed folks considering this goggle.

I love these, they really protect the eyes.

I've been a fan of Oakley ever since I got my first pair of M Frames on my 11th birthday in 1990. Their goggles have always been my go to since the O Frame was the it goggle that guys like JP Walker & Bjorn Leines were rocking in Mack Dawg's Decade.

I've been using the Crowbar for the past few seasons and there are some significant upgrades that make it worth upgrading to the splice. The first is that the new shape in the nose area gives you better peripheral vision looking down & the new shape acts kind of like a breathe right strip and opens up your nasal passage a bit more.

The new shape in the nose area also gives you a new lens that only has 5 contact points with the frame and is 100 TIMES easier to change lenses than any other Oakley Goggle. I personally didn't have a hard time with the Crowbars, but did change quite a few for some people that weren't too into it.

Lastly, the outriggers (the plastic pieces that connect the strap to the frame) have been moved back. So what that is going to do for you is give you more helmet compatibility and takes away the pressure that you sometimes get on your forehead when you where your goggles with a helmet.

If you're a fan of Oakley Goggles, the Crowbar in particular, it's a no brainier to upgrade to the Splice as you're going to get everything you love about the Crowbar and a few extras that are more than worth the upgrade.

Just got them in the mail and they fit smaller than I expected. I still have nose pinch (similar to Oakley Wisdom), but I think that's going to be a personal issue. The concept is nice, but not really original. Dragon Mace sort of applies the same anti-nose pinch structure to the frame and for me, the Dragon mace goggle fit much better. To compare range of vision, the easiest for me is to do the same technique when trying a new dive mask. Put it on, turn your head down and try to see your feet. I can see my feet and a lot of stuff on the sides when wearing the Dragon mace. I can more easily see the ground when looking around. This is not true for the splice. I put them on, look down and cannot see my feet. To me that's a problem because ultimately you want to easily see what you're riding over or through. Dragon Mace also fits much better with a Giro G10 helmet- no gaps, spaces etc. The Splice does not fill the goggle area of the helmet as well and actually pushes it up slightly for me. Again maybe a personal issue, but something to consider. I'm returning the Oakley splice and sticking to Dragon.

If you have a medium to big nose, i'd might recommend another goggle. Don't get me wrong, these are quality goggles. Though if you have any gerth to your schnoz, you might want to re-consider.

I have used the A-Frame, Wisdom, and Crowbar consistently over the last few years. I love everything about Oakley goggles, and this is no exception. They fit very similarly to the Oakley Crowbar, but with an increased field of vision both downward and peripherally. The nose bridge is soooooo comfortable and makes it even easier to breath. And because the lens only has 5 contact points it is easier to swap the lens out. I am thinking about selling some of my Crowbars in order to buy these!