{"id":2009,"date":"2024-11-14T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/en-eu\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:12:56","slug":"personalised-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/sv-se\/personalised-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalised protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FOR MOST OF their history, motorcycle helmets have been as much about self expression as head protection. Which is good \u2013 because the earliest helmets didn\u2019t provide much of the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back when football players wore soft leather helmets, motorcycles were just starting to dot the American countryside and city streets. Speeds were low, and \u2018heavy traffic\u2019 sometimes meant two vehicles within sight of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, the first \u2018helmets\u2019 were made of thin leather or cloth, and primarily succeeded in keeping the wearer\u2019s hair in place. As it does so often, racing led the way in head protection technology and popularity, and by the 1950s and \u201960s, helmets were worn by all kinds of motorcycle riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first years that Harley-Davidson\u00ae offered a hard-shell helmet, starting with 1958, two of three total choices were aimed specifically at police officers and racers. For the next 13 years, self-expression took a back seat to safety: you could buy your H-D\u00ae helmet in any colour you liked, so long as it was white. By 1971, multiple colours were offered, but the styles remained limited (unlike today, where a variety of styles and colours is available).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leave it to Harley\u00ae riders to come up with their own ways to express themselves through creative headwear. Some of their creations \u2013 such as the helmets pictured here \u2013 are now preserved for posterity in the Harley-Davidson Museum\u2122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see more historical items from the H-D Archives, visit the Harley-Davidson Museum\u2122 in Milwaukee. www.h-dmuseum.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Replica of the helmet worn by Peter Fonda\u2019s \u2018Wyatt\u2019 character in Easy Rider. Matches the motorcycle\u2019s red, white and blue paint.
2) Felix Predko, builder of the Harley-Davidson Museum\u2019s \u2018King Kong\u2019 motorcycle, came up with a variety of custom helmet designs. One is a modified batting helmet with front and rear visors and hand-worked metal trim; another features rear brake and directional lighting.
3) Replica of Evel Knievel\u2019s signature helmet.
4) Early H-D racing team member Maldwyn Jones, about 1915. Helmet appears to be crudely stitched leather.
5) Racer Bo Lisman had a signature helmet with chequered flag motif. (It\u2019s possible that having an utterly unique helmet made the racer easier to spot by team members, crew and racing officials.)
6) Page from the 1920 Accessory Catalogue showing very early headwear.
7) Cover of the 1958 Accessory Catalogue, the first year Harley-Davidson sold hard-shell helmets to the general public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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