Icon Airmada Sensory: The Eyes Have it!

Unlike most kids out there, I remember my bus rides to middle school quite fondly. My buddy Brandon and I would trade CDs back and forth, introducing each other to new bands. I will never forget the day he brought me a copy of Green Jelly’s “Cereal Killer.” If you are not a child of the 80s, you probably do not remember this comedic band. Green Jelly, whose rotating cast of members included Maynard James Keenan of Tool, infused their heavy metal sound with ridiculously goofy stories and deranged comic book album covers.

The designers at Icon have created a helmet that would work perfectly as part of the artwork for a Green Jelly reunion album. The Icon Airmada Sensory Helmet is the newest graphic in the Airmada lineup. The Portland-based manufacturer of motorcycle apparel is releasing some of the wildest helmet designs in the industry and the Sensory Helmet pushes that envelope even further.

The body of the helmet is made up of what looks to be green slime with multi-colored eyeballs swimming in the mess. The mass of slimy eyeballs meets the visor of the helmet with pink gums baring a solid row of jagged yellow teeth. If all of this madness is not enough for you, turn off the lights and watch as the eyeballs glow in the dark.

Icon Airmada Sensory Helmet Review:

Underneath the Icon Sensory graphic lies a standard Icon Airmada helmet with an intermediate oval shape produced using four different shell sizes and five different dual-density liners. The Airmada is a lightweight DOT- and ECE-rated helmet available in sizes ranging from XS to 3XL.


Although some of Icon’s designs are a little too wild even for me, this one hits a nostalgic nerve. While writing this, I actually dusted off my old copy of Cereal Killer and blasted titles like Three Little Pigs, Electric Harley House (of Love), and Obey the Cowgod at full volume through my stereo speakers (much to the dismay of my neighbors). In the same way Green Jelly can create an album so bad it is timeless in its own right, Icon can create unnervingly odd designs that are so weird they are actually cool.



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Don't become a Statistic! New Icon Airframe Graphic.

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Don’t become a statisti . . . nah, that joke is too easy.  We’re better than that.  Right?

You’d think a helmet plastered with crash metrics would be a bad idea - reminding you and your loved ones how dangerous motorcycles are.  That might be true.  But if you put the Airframe Statistic on and listen closely, you can hear Icon laughing in the face of bad ideas.  Muahahaha!  If gallows humor is your bag, now you can remind all your skid-lid wearing friends that 34.6% of all motorcycle crashes wind up offering involuntary chin-reduction surgery.  You don’t even have to memorize any numbers.  It’s all written on the chin bar that they don’t have.

Icon has a penchant for unique designs and slick looking graphics - the Statistic is no different.  Besides the Danger Zone (think Kenny Loggins) markings, this Airframe has a “black construct” finish.  It’s much more than just a matte paint job.  Look closely.  It’s a dark, sinister take on Icon’s other “construct” lids - which come in both Airframe and Variant Construct flavors.  With words like “temporal” skulking behind the crash statistics, you’ll be reminded just how much your helmet is protecting you.  If Icon’s mission was to make a stylish advertisement for the 1981 Hurt Report, we think they did a good job.  Hopefully the Hurt Report will cease to be a minor footnote in moto history. Hopefully there’s a new study done with modern motorcycles, modern gear, and modern bikers. Hopefully it’s called the “Hurt?  No, But How’s My Bike? Report.”

If the Icon Airmada Statistic Helmet is going to do anything besides save your skull, it’ll stir up some conversation.

“Hey, what’s with all the numbers?”

“Oh, these?  I was a statistics major.  You know correlation doesn’t mean causation, right?”

Hopefully those conversations will be few and far between, but you may get high fives from ATGATT disciples and dismissive glares from brain bucket wearers.  Either way you’re guaranteed to get some attention.  That’s why you bought an Icon helmet in the first place, right?

Icon Airframe Statistic Helmet Review:

Underneath all the graphics and all the style, Icon is still offering a solidly built helmet.  It’s just the tried-and-true Airframe with another facelift.  Do you think they should fire their plastic surgeon?