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ICON MOTO

Don't JUST look at the pix! READ ON!!!
So, last week I got a package in the mail from Icon Motorsports.
I now have a brand new Variant motorcycle helmet, jacket and gloves!
But it looks like Randy stole it for a few.

Sweet ass stuff!

She didnt want to give it back...

But it prompted me to think, besides the fact that a beautiful girl is wearing JUST the helmet, gloves and jacket, ok well, she took the jacket off, but why am I so stoked with it?

For years and years there has been the huge debate over helmet laws, "We don't want to wear them!" the bikers yelled. Personally I agree, not with the fast that I have to wear one being in california, but with the fact that the government already has too much control over all our lives. If someone doesnt want to wear one, fuck it, they shouldn't have to. Period.

But for me, I will always wear one, ALWAYS, and it will always be a full face, I dont care how fuckin hot it is, thats a fact of my life. I tend to ride faster than I should on a daily basis in one of the most dangerous citys in the USA, that is just a fact of life. A while back one of my best friends Denver Dan went down on his sporty, at 70 MPH, know what hit the ground first??? the chin of his helmet. If it wasn't there he might not be talking right now. Everyone who says they they are only for racers, hasn't really thought it through. If you go down on a track, be it dirt bike or road race, you might end up hitting a hay bale or another rider, but generally the crashes aren't fatal. You ride on the street you have too many other assholes in cars tryin to kill you. How is that safer than the racetrack??? IT"S NOT!!! So for me I will always wear one, but you do whatever makes you happy, it's your life, not mine, to live as you want.

With that said, this Variant helmet fuckin rocks!!!! A little wind noise is ok but howling isn't and this one is quiet. It has the killer cheek pad system that is washable and has 6 different adjustable vents. It also has more visibility than any helmet I have EVER worn. That in itself makes the helmet worth it. Bad ass I fuckin love it! thank you Icon for makin such a killer helmet.

Now to the jacket and gloves.
First off, I cant ride with out gloves either, it just freaks me out to ride without em! These Icon Sub Stealth gloves rule!
Ok, I am not good with change, in case you hadn't noticed. I have been a normal leather jacket guy since I started riding. I have seen all the new fangled jackets and clothes out there and always was like, "Whatever, my leather is fine."
Until I wore this jacket, it's the standard Icon rain jacket. WOW, this jacket is amazing, it weighs nothing and NO AIR GETS THROUGH IT AT ALL! Now with this said, I am a total pussy about the cold, I HATE being cold, hate it, hate it, hate it. The day the jacket showed up was in a break of the rain, I put it on and rode to the gas station, damn this fucker is warm! WOW
But then I took my sweat shirt off and rode to Lowe's to get some wood glue, (I was making a few new patterns) with just a tshirt and the jacket on over it, (yes, with pants etc, shut up.) I wasn't cold AT ALL!!! Amazing, and with it being fully adjustable it really fuckin works. My hats off to Icon you made my day, week etc!
So, now Im fully sold on the "New fangled riding gear" thanx to them! Try the stuff out, you won't be disappointed!

THANK YOU ICON!!! For EVERYTHING!

Norrtaile 2010


See you there!

My Music Post for the Week

High on Fire.
I like a lot of music, I spent years listening to nothing but hardcore and punk rock.
It was the whole hardcore/crossover/metal stuff that was my favorite from that period. DRI,
COC (Before Pepper), Cryptic Slaughter’s first record.
It was bands like those that really made me appreciate metal. There were some killer metal bands then as well, Ludichrist, Carnivore, stuff like that.
Then I spent years listening to rockabilly and psychobilly, I still like all of that even tho now I listen to rockabilly rarely anymore.
But it was 1996 that I first heard Sepultura’s record Chaos AD. It fucked my whole world up. Once Roots came out I had really started listening to a lot of metal, Slayer, Sepultura, and a ton of other bands of that style, from thrash to grindcore, but damn Naplam Death sucked live when I saw them.

Enter 2000, my ex wife is in New Orleans and while she was there she saw a band, she got me the CD. It was High on Fire “The Art of Self Defense”, she told me that I’s like it.
I listened to it and it was like nothing I ever heard before, the first song off the cd, Baghdad is heavy as fuck and I wasn’t really ready for it. But it was the second song: “10,000 years” that blew my fucking mind. High on Fire has a way of going from mellow but heavy to fast and unbelievably heavy, so heavy that it fucking shakes your core. Matt Pike’s guitar work is double fast and heavy as you can imagine.
I like every single Cd of High on Fire’s, I don’t have a favorite, I have favorite songs off each record, 10,000 years and Master of Fists off the first record.
Then ”Surrounded by Thieves” came out, I finally got to see HOF they opened for Motorhead 3 times I ended up at each show, sorry Motorhead, you aren’t the loudest band on the planet anymore. “Speedwolf” and “Thraft of Canaan” are fuckin amazing.



Ok how can it get better??? Well, the next two cd’s “Blessed Black Wings” and “Death is this Communion” are both epic records. All they did is get tighter and heavier, as if that’s even possible, but they did it.





Now comes the CD that I got last week “Snakes for the Divine” I first put it on in my van and I wasn’t too sure about it, generally HOF is too bass heavy to sound right in my van, so I was bummed. But then I got home and listened to it, but it was late and I couldn’t do it loud, Dre was asleep and I didn’t want to wake the neighbors up.
But then, I took it to work and put it on. Holy fucking shit, this is the heaviest CD yet by them, its fuckin brutal, GET the CD NOW. The title song hits so hard that I had to stop was I was doing and just listen, that song and “Bastrd Samuri” I tend to lose myself in HOF, one of the few bands that I can listen to that will bring me back to normal. One of the few bands I will just listen to at full volume by myself. Go get the cd, go see them live. This shit will change your life.

Matt Pike is a pagan god.

Not to mention the band Sleep or Kalas or Asbestos Death...
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