Busted and Broken - Detroit Brother

You can include one of the Detroit Bros. crew to the "I was wearing icon gear and it saved my hide" list.... read the full story here

Sacrifice Stickers

For all you sticker hungry fans out there who've sacrificed everything - your stickers are on the way. 

Sealed with a special kiss

Frantic Scratchings

I'm often asked about my design 'methodology' - Where the ideas comes from and how those ideas get turned into actual products. It's not an easy question to answer. Mostly the ideas come from my life experiences - my likes and dislikes. They come from traveling around the US and the world - observing & experiencing. They come from a myriad of dreams, both good and bad. And most importantly - they come only when they want. They won't be forced or mandated or scheduled. So I've learned that when the ideas start flowing one must be willing to forsake everything else and submit. The result are pages like this - frantic scratchings - an effort to capture as much as possible before the faucet is turned off. -Kurt 

Icon Customs

In the ever continuing spirit of ‘what’s the weirdest sh*t we can come up with?’ Icon unlids and plucks out the subsequent son in our hierarchy of custom lids. We’ve heard it again and again from our well intentioned and ever wise oligarchical Excel aficionados in Janesville that ‘it’ll never sell’ but it’s not about that. Satiating the deviant’s appetite that we usually bury deep inside, these experiments in futility, exercises in application, are the kind of deviant sh*t that we need to get us off.

Presenting - The Airframe Construct Eyeball Helmet

This looks really weird coming at you in the rearview mirror of a car.

What it looks like when you pry open your third eye

Road Rider

Can't be stopped, won't be stopped. Akira & J-Style dropping yet another custom Icon creation. Icon's Japanese connection, AFG Moto, with their R1 CMYK bike - more photos coming soon.

Check out  Road Rider  magazine blog for more happenings

Full Tilt

Bling Glove ad outtake - circa 2005. This was one of the first Icon photoshoots done in Portland. We shot it one July evening under the Morrison Bridge. Previous to this photo we shot mainly in SoCal. The model is Greg 'Thinker' Hall, National President of Full Tilt Riders.

No Limittt

Word on the street is Britton's got a new scoot.

Jet powered - glory bound

Busted and Broken - Street Sign

Hello Icon,

My name is Don R.  I was riding with a friend on some of the local backroads about a week after a hellacious storm.  Needless to say, there was some left over gravel and other debris waiting for us at one of our bends.  I hit the bend at around 85 and slid with my tires hitting the dirt mound where the curb should be catapulting me up over my bike through the air.  I hit a street sign with my side, slid up it bending it in half, ripping it out of the ground, and sheering off the name of the street on the top.  I rolled along the ground before stopping and when the world stopped spinning I did a bit of a self analysis while spitting blood.  All told I broke 5 ribs, fractured 3 vertebrae, collapsed my lung, and lacerated my liver and kidney.  Thanks to your original Icon Mesh Jacket and Devil Dog helmet (did I mention I am a Marine?) the sign did no external damage.  The paramedics and flight crew said your gear saved my life.  Unfortunately I never recovered my old gear (they cut it off of me), but I enclosed some of the photos from my recovery.  On behalf of my wife, kids, and family, thank you Icon.

Semper Fi,

SGT Donald R

Not quite as comfy as an airfence

Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark...wait a sec

I  think it might need some new plastics...and everything else

Speaking of Zombies...

We recently ran across this short film - I Love Sarah Jane. Being full blown Zombiephiles we were quite taken with the quality of this production. Nice story line, great acting, killer make up, and hardcore Aussie accents. Best zombie based entertainment we've seen in months. Well worth the watch. 

Australians getting all Robin Hood with their Undad Undead problem

Dark Hand, Iron Head

Cold Dead Fingers is near completion. Like good poetry, she is an eloquent combination of thoughts, statements, feelings, and ebay buy-it-nows. Her first flattrack event is next month at the illustrious Jantzen Beach Container Yard Classic. Gravel, guns, and fourty-footer's stacked six high - it's a short oval'ish track with plenty of North Portland character(s). Granted, it's more George Romero than Gene Romero, but you take what you can get. 

A little something we learned about in Helsinki...it's a Finnish thing 

A personal outlook on living the motocentric lifestyle

Don't get it twisted, this isn't meant as an insult - we like the ladies with some meat on their bones. This is actually a warning that the tail section isn't as structurally sound as it may appear.

Drilled drums are so race

We like to hit the Diet & Crow's before loading our Mack 00's (cool biker speak for drinking copious Jack & Cokes prior to performing freehand lettering and pinstriping)

Team Icon only uses K&N, ask for them by name

A lot of guys like the Z Bars - Icon likes the V Bars, preferably wrapped in some California Lites

Real mens' motorcycles have pedals - as do most mopeds

Oury - there is no finer grip, ever (Hey Oury dudes - Icon sends a friend request)