Crazy heads

Take a look at these hot helmet heads that we found during our ride across Iowa for Ragbrai!

Back in the city

Back from Ragbrai with pictures to share! Here are some You'd look hotter in a helmet sightings that we found along the trail...

Sporting the hippie flower look, very groovy.

Found on a fixed gear - nice placement!

Young boy biking behind his mother throughout the ride.

Nice skid lid!

This man was carrying everything on his bike, including the kitchen sink!

en route

Day 2 and things are going well. Check out the Des Moines Register and follow us on the road. Below is Jim Toillion, Jr. of Eagle Grove with his flowered helmet.

Photo courtesy of the Des Moines Register

On the RAG

Greetings! The Safety is Sexy Campaign is taking a break and hitting the road! We'll be biking across Iowa with 10,000+ people for RAGBRAI - check it out: www.ragbrai.org.

We'll be passing out stickers along the route - come to Iowa this week and cheer on the crowd - or join in!

Cheers, The Safety is Sexy Campaign

p.s. This is a photo of a poster hanging in the hallway at Back Alley Bikes.

Back Alley Bikes

Jack, Detroit bike courier and Back Alley Bikes mechanic, contemplates where to place his newly acquired You'd look hotter in a helmet sticker.

Back Alley Bikes is Detroit's free bike shop and community center. A little bit more about them, from their website:

Back Alley Bikes is a collectively-run community bike space that aims to repair bikes, provide education and empowerment, promote creative expression, and address issues of our time with bikes as a tool of transportation and liberation.

The shop was started by Detroit Summer volunteers in 2000 to provide transportation for youth involved in community gardening and mural projects. Since then, the shop has grown to fill a void in the Cass Corridor and greater downtown area as a neighborhood bicycle community center. Currently, our main projects are as follows: Community Drop-In, Adult Earn-a-bike, Back Alley Bikes Academy, Youth Earn-a-bike, Women and Transgender Night, Mechanics-in-training, Bike Art

Some of the helmets they fit and give away to youth.

Gears galore!

The bike junkgle - hundreds of donated bike are stored in the back of the shop, ready for fixing up by the community

The bike art room - an opportunity to take unusable bike parts and transform it into art (notice the tire chair in the background)

Working on fixing up an old bike in the shop.

Helmet or Braindamage?

Hjelm eller hjerneskade – hvad er mest cool?

Helmet or Braindamage – which is more cool?

See more here.

Are you still stylish if you smash your head?

Holder stilen, hvis du smadrer hovedet?

Are you still stylish if you smash your head?

egg head

The text reads: Be careful when transporting fragile goods

From a Berlin-based campaign that advocates bicycle helmet use. Found at Frederick Samuel's site.