Premier Helmets is an Italy based company producing some nice, less common, boutique designs. All their helmets are ECE rated (read more on that here) and this particular model is moulded from carbon fibre. Featuring a flip-down visor (with either a smoked or tinted finish), the helmet looks a lot like something you’d find on the head of an Apache chopper pilot.
California based Xetum Watches produce some very interesting timepieces, the relatively new company uses modern, American designs and powers them with ETA 2824-2 Swiss…
I’m convinced that if I had a pair of Tractor Skis and a Colt 45 I could take over most of Canada in less than a week.
These leather and canvas briefacases/courier bags from Deus Ex Machina are perfect for those days you need carry more than your cellphone, helmet and keys, they’re big enough to carry up to a 17″ MacBook Pro and they come with detachable shoulder straps.
The Serpico range by Smith Optics falls into the retro aviator catagory, not a bad thing nowadays as many new sunglass-styles leave you looking like a surprised, futuristic bumblebee. Smith uses carbonic lenses (it’s a hard polycarbonite, not glass) to avoid the risk of getting broken glass thrust into your delicate eyeballs should you perform an accidental dismount off of whatever it is you were riding.
Gas Gas bikes are said to be the best trials motorcycles in the world, the small Spanish manufacturer named themselves “Gas Gas” because in…
Originally designed for the men who were trekking into the Klondike in search of gold, these goat skin gloves with a wool liner can…
Finding motorcycle boots is a matter of balance. At one end of the spectrum you have the hyper-modern-flashy-graphics boots with carbon fibre toe guards and dayglo neon logo’s emblazoned across every inch of available space and at the other end of the spectrum you have the “I’m a hard-core dentist wannabe biker” boots that are generally all black with lots of shiny chrome studs (and maybe even spurs).
I like Belstaff Jackets, I own two of them and I always feel they can make anyone look that little bit cooler. Hell, I…
In 1880 Eugene Jeantet founded the Jeantet company, ten miles west of Lake Geneva in the quaint French town of Morez. The Jeantet company created and sold mostly the pince-nez style of spectacle for motorists and cyclists until 1929 when Eugene’s son, Léon, invented the aviator goggle.
Leather jackets and heat go together like politics and relatives. They really aren’t the best bedfellows. Icon is seeking to amend this problem by…
Buying a full face retro or vintage helmet to match your new retro café racer is harder than actually building the café racer in…
