Minnesota Motorcycle T-Shirts & Apparel

Fifty-seven miles of pavement through boreal forest, starting at Grand Marais and running northwest until the trees swallow everything - that is the Gunflint Trail, and it is the reason riders put up with Minnesota's five-month winters. Then there is the North Shore, 150 miles of two-lane above Lake Superior from Duluth to the Canadian border, mist off the water in the morning and the Sawtooth Range at your back. May to October, the riding here is clear and cold and like nowhere else in the Midwest. Original Minnesota biker shirts, printed on heavyweight ring-spun cotton, shipped to riders in over 70 countries.

The Loon, the Lakes, and the North Woods Run

Ride the Gunflint Trail into Boundary Waters country or the Superior shoreline at dawn and you learn why riders here put up with five-month winters. That is the map this gear is drawn from. The mark you wear is the common loon, low on still water at dusk, head cocked, the checkered black-and-white back catching what light is left - the flat float it does on a lake nobody has named. Around it we set what puts Minnesota on a rider's map: the Gunflint cutting into the north woods, the shoreline at dawn, and the drag strip at Brainerd where the Midwest motorhead crowd rolls in every summer. The banner reads 'Land of 10,000 Lakes', off the license plate since the 1950s. The real count is 11,842. Nobody argued.

Materials & Who It's For

This one is built for the Twin Cities rider who makes the north woods run every summer, the Minnesota native living somewhere south who still counts the lakes, and anyone who has ridden the Gunflint Trail or the North Shore and wants to carry it home on their back. It works as a hometown piece and reads as a real souvenir to any rider who knows the territory. Tees are heavyweight 5.3oz ring-spun cotton, side-seamed and pre-shrunk. Hoodies are 8.0oz cotton-poly fleece with double-needle stitching at the stress points. Caps use raised embroidery on a structured six-panel. Every piece is checked by hand before it ships and tracked to your door in over 70 countries.