My New Lid
 

Just ordered this bad boy for the New season...I LOVE my scorpion...Doesnt fog EVER and Fits great...So switching to Icon has me a little leary...But I ride with two guys who use Icon and they dont have many complaints.

The Fiancee Fucking Hates it...So I naturally Love it all that much more :)

:boobs:

http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/r...burn_helme.jpg

She's even a Ginger ;)

You like girls with big metal strap on's? :lol

LMAO....Its a Spark Plug Slappy :)

DAMN PHOTOBUCKET! Dammit.

Wow..Marko I didnt use photobucket...Its a direct link...

Here Ill attach it for you.

Thanks dude.

only two? me, tom, jackson, holly, and vic sport icon lids :P

Holly barely rides same with victoria...And I forgot about jackson bc he just started to wear that lid.

IDK, I have a few friends who have crashed within the last year in Icons that will never put one on their heads again. It does look nice though.

:lol: awesome

I thought the same thing, what a ginger squid

I hate ICON, had a helmet of theirs a while back and it fell apart on me. All the plastic stick on parts cracked and fell off, the vents all stopped working, and it fogged up any time there was a little bit of moisture in the air

Um are they dead or have head injuries? Well, I guess that the lid did it's job!

That being said, I don't like Icon lids either... It's actually one of the only types of helmet that I don't own (other than a passenger lid) that I don't want to own. My passenger lid, top of the line Icon at the time, has had parts fall off it, quit working etc. I'm sure that it would protect someone in a crash but I expect more than that from a $300+ lid.

Like Tigger said, if they have the ability to make that descision then it did its job.

BTW, no helmet should be used after it has hit the ground, so if your friends won't buy icon because it can't be crashed and reworn, maybe it is the perfect helmet for them.;)

Disclaimer:I have never owned anything from Icon.

Shoei FTW :lol:

Still love my rf1000, only knock on it is it foggs up some, thats the only advantage my shark has over it since I use that as my witner helmet, alsmot wish I would crash it it so I could toss it :lol:

Does anyone wear ICON in racing? AMA, WSBK, BSS, or any other level?

I agree with what was said here, but for the money that Icon cost it shouldnt fall apart before it hits the ground.

I love a lot of the graphics but I'm going Scorpion for my next lid.

better question: does ICON pay anyone to wear their lid in racing?

Haha that is one way to look at it. One of the guys has been in quite a few wrecks track riding and he said for how lightly his head hit the ground, the helmet was all but destroyed. Wasn't sure the helmet would have done its job if it had been more than a simple lowside at the track.

I think just the stuntas, never saw them in racing.

Yeah I've NEVER seen an Icon lid worn in a professional race.

Dont seem to see any race replicas from them either so I would think they dont.

Exactly. Paying someone to wear your gear doesn't make it good. It's just not the focus of that company. They're all about the street. :idk:

it does to an extent, I dont know of many racers who will wear crap gear on the track just for a few bucks, whereas guys on the street, thats a whole other story.

Some others may be able to add to this but a few years back the LRRS banned a certain type of hjc helmet due to safety reasons.

Every racer I know will wear anything they're paid to wear. Whether that means taking a good helmet and putting another brand's stickers on it...well that's a different question. You don't go poor racing for nothing!

I don't know...I've seen some crap brand lids on racer's heads, bro...

I just find it funny that ICON doesn't support nor does anyone support ICON at the racetrack.

Also I was always under the impression HJC sucked because they weren't $700 Arai/Shoei's, but then I learned as of last year a 3-time AMA champ Ben Spies rocked them for his rookie WSBK season. Lesson learned, and I would LOVE to have one of their offroad full carbon helmets. I think only 1 of 2 manf to make a full offroad carbon headcase.

A few racers wear the hjc and lesser brands. Did you ever try on the CF helmet. Its super light obviously but i hated the fit for my head.

I'm on my second one, first was an exo400,, now I have an exo700, love them both, more comfy and better than an icon, and it doesnt fog up.

Fits ok for a dirt helmet. They always feel different to me than full-face street though.

I thought you meant the street helmet, musta missed that part :lol:

Yea I have the stupid HJC CF street helmet...not so good...

man...next time i wont tell you guys about my new lid

good, what do you think this is, a motorcycle forum?

youre just cranky because you didnt get any cookies :lol:

Oh so now you are going to get all preachy on us?

you got that right

http://www.moonbattery.com/cookie-monster-diet.jpg

exactly, contingency and sponsorships are KING. it costs an ungodly amount of money to run a race team and if a company isint paying to get their name out there you can bet you wont see their stuff represented.

id wear flip flops if it payed enough for me to race

No...you guys just went in a totally diff direction with this thread :boobs:

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooootorbooooooat!

Icon always seemed like the lid of choice for the squid set. seems to be the helmet of choice to wear as a hat (resting on top of the head vs worn on the head)

I always ignored them. However one of these days I might actually buy a helmet that matches my motorcycle so maybe when that time comes I'll try one out.

Icon does make 1 piece leathers now. Not sure of their quality...but it's probably fine.

They do?!?!?!?!

Searching...

Dude in Sport Rider has worn them a few times in their pics.

Well then SportRider must be the only ones who even own the ICON suits because their not even available on the ICON website.

may be a rider that is sponsored by Icon, but wants a one piece, so he sews Icon patches on another brand suit.

Could also be prototypes/r&d stuff they're testing. :idk:

I'm thinking it's a patch or logo piece stitched on too. I mean, Yoshimura has big logo's on certain ICON jackets, and those could be mistaken for the jacket manf. I mean a rider or person "in the know" would know otherwise, but someone could think different based on the blatant advertisement.

I wish somebody other than Icon had come out with the "Variant" helmet. I like how it looks, but I've never been an Icon fan.

ICON tends to attract the early 20s guys....squids. lol

I'll agree ICON makes the best looking gear by a margin, but their lids just fit strangely and I feel the padding used it far less then the other mainstream high end units.

I like Suomy the best...for fit and the lack of fogging up.

i wish shark had cooler schemes

I don't care how much you spend on a helmet. If it doesn't fit its not going to do its job. I owned two Icon helmets (I still have one) and one HJC dirt. I have been down on the street and in the dirt. I don't think my head hit on the street. But I also had on an Icon jacket and it didn't have a mark on it. I didn't really slide, I kinda bounced. I did have a zipper break but not from the accident.

In the dirt I hit my head on a rock and had only a small scuff on the HJC. Both the HJC fit my perfect, from the first time till the last.

I think I might have been the first to buy an Icon helmet at my dealer. The reason I looked at them was because of my HJC. I tried on almost every helmet there and that fit the best.

My Icon did fog up from what I remember.

James

That could be.

You're telling me you would mistake these for another brand? I dont buy that for a second, holmes.

http://image.sportrider.com/f/265627...C8R+riding.jpg

when hes railing on an rc8r you can easily miss it:rockwoot:

I can definately see myself buying a KTM in the future. Probly not the RC8...but maybe a Super Duke.

For 15-16K? I'd much rather have a 1098/1198 base model or maybe a used MV Agusta.

Yeah, you would. Let me know when you get to decide how I spend my money, fella. :owned:

Have you ridden a SD? They are not worth the money but whatever, like you said it's your coin.

shoulda kicked the guy off the ktm down by centralia then it would have been free :rockwoot:

No I haven't. But the 1098 doesn't interest me much...and the MV doesn't interest me at all.

No kidding. What a douche, but he had a good line through that turn.