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calling me back from the past

2009 June 20
by Jen

helmet

I’ve been obsessed with finding this style helmet for forever. I’m fairly sure if I was to track down the exact one I wanted that it’d cost me a little too much. If I really wanted to drop all kinds of cash on a helmet I’d go with the old standby Ruby, of who Cass & I are both obsessed with (with good reason).. but paying between $600-$900+ for a helmet just seems illogical especially with it’s main purpose being to eventually (but hopefully never) save your head from being smashed in.

rubyglitpurple

They do have some nice ones though, I mean, the Pavillon Bastille glitter purple helmet just kind of screams “JEN! TAKE ME HOME!” Shit.

chromehelmet

Anyway, thanks to Jamie, I now know the proper name for a kind of cleaned up version of the one I’ve spent forever obsessing over and at $50 is probably a hell of a lot cheaper than a vintage one. It’s a German style chrome novelty helmet to be exact. Now I’m 100% sure I see these around at bike shops all the time but I don’t think I’ve found one that fits my small skull yet. Talking about ‘learning the name’ is embarrassing considering this should have been an easy one to figure out had I just asked my husband or anyone else I know but OK whatever.

1German-Chrome-Large

What lead me to this discovery was that I was reading this old post Jamie wrote about pulling up on his bike to pump gas when these Hasidic bikers all pull up on silly sport bikes and are asking him all kinds of questions about his completely beautiful 1968 Triumph (crush-wise, it’s right up there with Neil’s).

jamiestriumph2

So one guy asks if the bike still runs.. as Jamie is standing there, helmet still on and hose in hand. He was nicer than I’d be by saying ‘Sure, runs great. Today.’ What Jamie pointed out next was that one of the guys had on an old chrome WWII German style helmet, written in detail and complete with link to one and everything. Making it really easy for me to figure out this was the one.

We pass about 20 bike shops a day so next time I think we’ll have to further investiage this and find one that fits perfectly. You know, unless the Ruby one just falls into my lap somehow. (I’ve totally lost myself in that one now even after writing how illogical the price is. I want both.)

4 Responses
  1. June 21, 2009

    Gnar, I dig every post you put up but this one is THE GREATEST YET!!!

  2. June 21, 2009

    that’s so funny you just did a post on this. . . i was googleing/ebaying chrome helmets just the other day after seeing someone rocking the most awesome one. . . he just told me to search for “novelty motorcycle helmet.” I’ve been finding some for $29 but i think my life is worth more than that. . . $50 sounds like a safer helmet!

  3. June 21, 2009

    I agree, this IS the greatest post yet. Of course, I might be slightly biased.

  4. June 22, 2009

    totally knew you two dudes would be into it. maybe the only ones who read the whole thing ha ha ha

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