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Are you an Iron Horse Helmets customer?  If so, you are cool.  These pictures prove just how cool you are!
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Graphene motorcycle helmets

By now, just about everyone has likely at least heard of graphene. It's made up of a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms, linked together in a honeycomb pattern – it also happens to be the world's strongest material. With that in mind, it's only fitting that someone has recently gone and used it in a high-end motorcycle helmet.

The Graphene Helmet is the result of an 18-month collaboration between Italian luxury brand Momodesign and the Italian Institute of Technology's Graphene Labs division – the latter is in turn a member of the Graphene Flagship development project.

Because graphene is so thin and also relatively expensive to produce, the whole helmet isn't made of it. Instead, a coating of multi-layer graphene flakes has been sprayed onto the outside of the helmet's shell. This takes place on an existing production line, at a manufacturing plant in Northern Italy.

The main effect of adding the coating is an increase in the helmet's strength, as it distributes the force of impacts across a wider area. Because graphene is an excellent thermal conductor, however, the coating also helps to boost rider comfort by dissipating heat. Additionally, because of the heat dissipation factor, the helmet's impact-resistance isn't significantly affected by high ambient temperatures.

A limited initial run of 3,000 Graphene Helmets is being produced for sale at the end of this year – a Momodesign rep tells us that they will be priced at approximately $260. The company plans to expand its line of graphene-augmented helmets in the future, and to continue working with the Italian Institute of Technology on methods of adding graphene to the helmets' inner plastic materials.

As a side note, while this is reportedly the world's first graphene motorcycle helmet, Catlike does already offer graphene bicycle helmets.

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Biker up

Winter is here.  We can hook you up and keep you warm.  

Keep you fingers warm with our skeleton gloves. 

Keep your nose warm with our biker masks. 

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Jason Hates Us

Check out this customer email:

I ordered 1 Sweater and 1 shirt and neither are made in the USA. I would like a refund. I'm very disappointed in this , i read the man who started this business was a marine and put an American flag on a made in Honduras shirt and sweater. What is that ? And both say you're not black, white, yellow or brown You're an American start acting like it. Someone at that company should read that a couple more times and take the advice START ACTING LIKE AN AMERICAN AND YOUR BUSINESS !

Oh, and here is the email he sent us 12 minutes later:

I ordered a shirt and sweater and neither of them are made in the USA. From my understanding a marine started this business and he has a American flag on a made in Honduras shirt and sweater. I would like a refund ?

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Fiber Optic Motorcycle Helmet

We have been playing with fiber optic strips and we made this monster.  What do you think? 

The fiber optics are rechargeable and sewn into the helmet cover.  

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Iron Horse Helmets Employees

Iron Horse Helmets is not a big fan of employees leaving.  We like our employees to stay here and never better themselves.  I tend to think of them as our own little slaves....and we want them to work for less than minimum wage...forever.

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3D Neoprene Face Masks

Our 3D Skull Neoprene Face Masks are pretty special masks. They are a lot like our other masks, but we use a special ink that is really thick.

That's it people...Just thick ink, but they look great.

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