Dan loves his new shirt

Dan Lewis wanted a custom shirt that did not seem funny at the time.

Now, Iron Horse Helmets salutes Dan as being the funniest man alive.

I wish I had balls as big as Dan's, but we will let Dan be the life of the party for now.

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2015 Balaclava List

2015 is right around the corner and we are getting our product line ready. Here is a secret list of our new Balaclavas.

No, you can not get them now...This is for the 2015 season!

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Was gonna look at the washing instructions at my t-shirt. I did as it told me.

Check out the washing instructions on this shirt.  We need to steal this idea. 

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Customer Photos

Check out this months customer photos!  Where is yours?  Get your photos to us and we will do our best to make you famous.  

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Batman Motorcycle Helmet

Please take a look at the first prototype of Batman helmet.

We are working on symmetry and finishes to close the mold.

It is far from finished helmet, but you can already see how it will look before we finalized the project.

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Photo Contest

The contest is for the coolest, most creative, unique, hardest to get or in an exotic place on Earth. If you can be the first to get a picture with one of the famous comedians Don Rickles or Chevy Chase or Jackie Chan, Joe Namath, Henry Winkler or Alice Cooper standing on your motorcycle helmet or a pic of a motorcycle helmet in the country of Irkutsk, Russia, on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro or at the North Pole, then you automatically win $500 credit on the website. It is also important that it be verifiable that it is in those places. For the rest of the pictures, there will be one winner on June 21st (my birthday, first day of summer and longest day of the year) and one winner on Dec. 7th (Pearl Harbor anniversary). The winners will get a $200 gift certificate good for anything on the Iron Horse Helmet website.

There are usually so many cool pics that we can hardly decide who wins, so we give out prizes to runners up too. There will also be a $100 credit for the best picture of a child with the motorcycle helmet and another $100 for the best picture of a pet with a motorcycle helmet. Even if you don't make it to the top of some cool mountain or never even leave your state, we really want to see your pictures.

Email us your picture.

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Child passengers and motorcycle helmets

Illinois is one of the few states that doesn't require a helmet while riding or operating a motorcycle.

While the topic remains up for debate, some think that children should wear a helmet while on board.

Across the state, children are riding on the back of motorcycles without helmets.

Although there have been attempts to establish a law to enforce wearing them, people have fought for the right to decide themselves.

"Due to people fighting for the right to have the option and lobbying efforts or whatever, however you may call it, they've voiced their opinions and made known that they do not wish to have a helmet law and that's, like I said at this point, Illinois has not passed one," Adams County Sheriff Brent Fischer said.

While children are spotted on the back of motorcycles daily, most of the injuries are found with adults.

However, if you do face a head injury, there can be severe consequences.

"If you injure your head seriously, than you can suffer a permanent brain injury that could affect your ability to function later on in life permanently, so uh, serious head injuries is a real issue so helmets can really help prevent that I think," Antony Wollaston, an emergency room physician at Blessing Hospital, said.

There is no law currently in progress, but some parents, do enforce their children to wear a helmet.

"I believe that every child that's riding on the road, uh, should have to wear a helmet, uh, it's, it's safer, the child can't make the decision on their own and whether you know, they're wearing a helmet or not so the parent needs to essentially make sure the kid has a helmet on, whether it be on road or off road riding," Andrew Smith, sales manager at TNT Action Sports, said.

Wollaston says in the past year, there have been over 100 injuries and multiple deaths due to motorcycle accidents.

Click here for more information on helmet laws around the country from the Governors Highway Safety Association.

Story by KHQA Multimedia Journalist Lauren Kalil.

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