I remembered Bugz and recommended them, mildly surprised we still carried them. A medical issue called вЂSteven Johnsons SyndromeвЂ™ had made his eyes extra-vulnerable to becoming too dry. Recently, a friend was looking for a great goggle to protect his extra-sensitive eyes. Earlier full-face helmet shields were soft plastic that quickly became scratched and cloudy simply cleaning off the shattered exoskeletons of road-killed insects, so the market for street-riding goggles disappeared almost overnight. Everyone else on more sporting rides had switched to full-face or modular helmet styles, partly because these types now all came with hardened Lexan clear-as-glass face shields. The original Bugz were much nicer, but most motorcycle stores became packed low priced Bugz knock-offs.ДЄt about the same time as store shelves were loaded with inferior copies, open-face вЂjetвЂ™ style goggle-compatible helmets pretty much stopped selling, except to a few sunglass-wearing older riders with windshield-equipped bikes like Gold Wings. So much that within a year or two numerous Asian-made cheaper copies were available everywhere.

Well as you might have expected, Bugz initially sold like hotcakes. Before Bugz, riders had a choice between ski-type goggles or old-fashioned World War One-ish metal-framed aviation style goggles with dangerous glass lenses. Bugz were radically lighter, better fitting and draft-free. This was the first all-new thinking about goggles since the earliest days of riding. They were called вЂBugzвЂ™ because you looked a bit like you had bug eyes when you wore them. Back sometime during the mid-nineteen eighties an all-new type of motorcycle goggle was created.

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