Icon in Action

Do you have a great photo of you in your Icon gear? If so, head over to the Official Icon Motosports Facebook Fanpage and post it up. We'll grab our favs and repost them on the blog. Then you'll be able to tell everyone your sponsored by Icon, which will be a lie, but we won't step on your game.

Icon Domain Decay

Icon Mainframe

Icon Mainframe

Airframe Death or Glory

Variant versus Dirt

Team Icon rider Ernie Vigil do'in it in the dirt with his Variant helmet.

Starchild

What's that you say? You've got a first generation Icon Alliance helmet that you're looking to spice up? You've been wanting to do a little something different with you're eye makeup? Well Tarina Tarantino has just the kit for you. The Starchild Odyssey Eye Palette has everything you'll need give your peepers a full Ziggy Stardust overhaul. We say lay it on heavy and thick you saucy tart! 

Resistance is Futile

After the apocalypse there won’t be that many people left so efficiency is going to be key. We’ll have to clear the roads of ashed out Escalades, remove the gold from fort knox, and of course there’ll be the matter of fending off the invading aliens/zombies/dinosaurs or what have you. Thinking ahead, the boys over at Raytheon strapped on a Domain Helmet and decided to build themselves an apocalypse preparedness suit. Bring it on Judgment Day...bring it on!

Walk Softly, Carry Big Knife

The Domain2 Ronin from Lukas. It was a cool idea that didn't quite make the cut. Pun intended. Thank you - we'll be performing here all week.

Icon Decor

We would be a lot more interested when our wife is watching HGTV if the interior designers used Icon in their room redesigns. Hello Antonio! We're talking to you!

A craftsmen white trim would set the Krazy Klown/Speed Cretin combo off quite nicely.

Variant Versus Vtwin

A few of the Vtwin royalty rocking the Variant lid. Seriously - if you put down some serious urban miles you will love this helmet.

Motopunk Rob via Quadcam Bastards

ChopperDave via Church of Choppers

Alliance Bonecrusher

Sometimes one idea begets another. Such is the case with the Alliance Bonecrusher. What started as 'Army Chick' graphic on the Domain was warped and twisted into a futuristic Uber-tank graphic on the Alliance SSR. Such is the meandering mind of creative genius Lukas. We don't ask questions - we just acknowledge and march on.

Headtrip

Our buddy Randy down in North Carolina sent us this shot of him railing his 'Iconic' V-Max. 

Knee down G's up

Sportrider Cover

How do you make a MV F4 go faster? Just add a splash of Icon. More specifically a new Alliance HiViz helmet.

The art of speed & the art of being scene.

Eye Without a Face

Hey! Remember that really cool Eyeball helmet that everyone wanted a piece of? It's for sale by it's owner and painter Jason at Garage 31. Dust off the credit card, head over to Ebay, and get to bidding. Jason will be donating all proceeds to a former employee of Icon who had a nasty get off a few weeks back.

The all knowing....

....Airframe Eyeball Construct

Alliance - Dixie Chick

In the summer of 2003 the helmet game was changing. A young company started applying real artist work and design skills to streetbike helmets. At the time there was very little available besides 'racer replica' or a generic curvilinear designs. Enter Icon. One of our first 'game changing' helmets was the Alliance Dixie Chick, designed in association with Dark Horse Comics. Only available in a limited quantity, there are few of these helmets still around. If you have one, keep it safe - it's a piece of motorcycle history.

Early concept sketches by Dark Horse Comics

Finished artwork executed in Photoshop prior to being vectorized

Initial rough layout of the graphic elements - quick & dirty works well at this stage

Refined Illustrator artwork to start the work on scale, placement, and proportion (sidepipes were dropped at this stage)

The first round sample complete with masking tape and marker revisions around the girl and upper flame area

The finished helmet - 1000 total helmets were made 

Krazy Klown Kaption Kontest

Time to give away another Icon helmet! Up for grabs this time is the brand new Alliance Krazy Klown helmet. All you need to do to win this head turning lid is to provide us with a caption for the below photo. Leave your witty reprise in the comments section of this post. We will pick a winner in a couple weeks. See site for official rules and regulations

Give us your best caption - winner gets a new Krazy Klown Alliance!

Alliance Krazy Klown

Coulrophobia, or in laymen's term, a completely rational fear of clowns. It's an extremely common condition usually initiated by a childhood spent near carnivals, hobo encampments, or fast food restaurants. Whatever the cause there is no known cure. Some will tell you that clowns are merely actors with face-paint. Wrong. All clowns are evil demonic demons and desire nothing more than to eat you alive - you know, for fun. Those aren't idle ramblings of the Iconic mind, those are facts.

A Premonition

The Crossbone Racer

An Airframe Crossbones Racer helmet prepares for a less than glorious dismount. 

We've got a new t-shirt this guy may be interested in...

Coulrophobia

So we have a box here at the Icon office filled with 750 red foam clown noses. It's not often that a company has such a large quantity of red foam clown noses in their possession. But then again there are not many companies like Icon.

Me thinks there is something truly disturbing on the horizon.

Icon Saves Face

We are asked on a repeated basis - "Why don't you guys put your killer graphics on an Icon open face helmet?" This question is usually followed by "You'd sell a ton of them!" Yes, we know open faced lids are all the rage right know. Yes, we probably would sell a ton of them. Yes, we are aware that other 'mainstream' brands are producing 'sweet' retro versions of their old 70's open face helmets. The fact is we refuse to make any type of helmet other than the full face variety. Team Icon has crashed - many times in fact. We have personally experienced grinding our chinbar and eyeshield across the pavement. And we are not alone. We receive daily emails, many reposted on this blog, that show our customer's helmets after the exact same type of face grinding accident. We therefore, as a matter of principle, will have no part in producing anything other than full face helmets. Don't get us wrong - we're not here to preach. Wear a helmet - don't wear a helmet. Buckle your seat belt or say screw it. It's your life (and your face) - do whatever you like. At the end of the day the Icon staff wants to rest assured that we have done everything possible to make and sell the most effective helmet.

When life knocks you down make sure to keep your chin up

Apocalypse Gold

Looks like the crew over in Japan is busy wrapping another bike. Could this be the cover image from the next Hammerfall album? A long since forgotten tee shirt graphic from Ozzy's 1984 world tour? Or just another new helmet design from our secret stash of wicked howling wolf and skelehorse art? Only time will tell...

Giddy'up

Concept & Execution - Carbon Dreams

When editing together a movie, scenes are sometimes cut if they don't further the story of the film. That is the best way to describe the fate of the Airframe Carbon Lifeform shot from the Spring 2010 campaign. It's a compelling image that does what it was supposed too. Unfortunately it didn't quite live up to the level of shots like the Metal God, Zipperface, Street Angels, Sacrifice and Etched...so it was cut. Sometimes valiant photos must be sacrificed for the good of the whole.

A location with great possibility and a Carbon Fiber upper custom painted to match the Airframe Carbon helmet.

Positioning the 848 amongst the metal trestles and powdered asbestos

Checking levels as the model throws down mad blue steel

Up close and personal with the Airframe Carbon Lifeform

Final test shot as we get the model situated

The finished shot - very cool, but would never be used