Arf! Pfff... beauties!


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I also have a Mumbo with Heater sticker. I will check out the number.

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Nosepiece and ear socks kits pffffouah... I have neon yellow, neon green and neon pink but... I still miss too many. I have never seen a red one selling anywhere. Anyway.

Yeah, to have all the frame color ways that ever were available on the market is also my affordable goal.

Good luck to us!

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I know only one collector in south of France who has got a blue iridium strip.

I have kinda given up on that one. I only a really good state grey strip and am happy like that.

Still on the chase for a carbon and black rain frame and I will feel like my Mumbo/M Frame quest is over. Well maybe.

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PS : I would love a heater fire iridium, a +red sweep... an M Frame box which I still dont have as amazing as that seems to me... what else! A red nosepiece/earstem kit, a transparent one too... Oh dear, its not over!!!

@ Dann : ok then.
@ Paul : do you have a blue iridium strip?

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Thanks Dann for the precise detail. I didn't remember about the USA/Europe difference for the boxes.

Just thinking about it now. Have we ever seen a Mumbo lens box?

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Waouah! Really nice! A french collector? Who can that be? I never saw these pics on O-Review but I have an idea maybe where they can come from though.

I actually was wondering if the "strip" lens was already available at Mumbo time, in grey or iridium, but feather in grey I imagined.

This picture seems to prove that yes. But, still, no sticker apparently on the strip box. And a M Frame era nosepiece.

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Btw, on the last picture I posted, you were supposed to recognize... Lance Armstrong, in the late 80's when he was a triathlete and sporting a nice pair of iridium Razor Blades.

Today, a duathlete, Ken Souza, at the Zofingen Duathlon in 1993.



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Why does it say "Razor blades"on the micro bag! These aren't Razor Blades?!


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And what about that one? Recognize him?



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Well its 00h05 here in Paris! Time for the picture of the... day or nite?

Found that one, quite rare too to see Splatters in such situation! Hawaï Ironman 1991 I think.



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Well it seems Allen probably had a good contact with Oakley to have a pair of these. He was just wearing these off race of course (sporting a pair of classic sea foam blue mix of blade/razor blade that year). Also he had that "custom" M Frame lens I put a picture of in the Mumbo/M Frame discussion.

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Ok that makes sense then.

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Yeah it seems indeed that the frame is covered by something like snakeskin. The ear stems aren't though.

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Sorry for the poor quality but I found it nice to see Mark Allen wearing these back in 1989!



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Ah! Great! Never saw a "strip" sticker on any box before!!! Super!!! Even wondered if that ever existed!

@James : your Gen 1 collection is really nice! Indeed. I got a Fingerprint one recently and "only" seem to miss a carbon print and blackrain!

By the way, I am coming back with that again.

I really wonder what is that lens shape Mark Allen was wearing in the Hawai Ironman 1993. It seems to be a non-commercialized M Frame lens shape that is a mix between a sweep/heater and Strike maybe!

Would love to find infos on that!



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Oakley house at the Hawaï Ironman in Kona 2013.

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Also maybe this picture should be in here :



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Would love to find the red kit now!!!

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Thanks! Can't remember if I posted these already or not :



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Thanks, done.

Waouah, never saw such a green shade on a +red iridium lens even though I know it can tend to green sometimes! Really quite strong here.

Also to add a bit to the previous classification of Mumbo/M Frames, I confirm gold mine 1st gen existed. Rare to find but I've got one. I didnt know cobalt existed too! Any pictures?



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Arf, I had that brochure back in the days but lost track of it. Would really love to get one again someday.

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Thanks for all the nice comments! Next step is, if the opportunity comes, to get a simple tower or something like that...

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