Motorcycle airbag jacket

[Korumba]

Saw this today http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/airba...bag-jacket.htm

[ital916]

Yeah HIT-air is probably the best known air bag manufacturer. Tried getting a airbag jacket as part of my kit but I didn't find an importer here in nz. Would need to get one from oz and even then they are bout 800 dollars. Good technology though. When I bump up to my full might invest in one. If anyone knows of airbag jacket importers, drop me a pm.

[jimbo]

Yeah HIT-air is probably the best known air bag manufacturer. Tried getting a airbag jacket as part of my kit but I didn't find an importer here in nz. Would need to get one from oz and even then they are bout 800 dollars. Good technology though. When I bump up to my full might invest in one. If anyone knows of airbag jacket importers, drop me a pm.

Strada in TGA stock HIT.07572 1500

[xwhatsit]

In the book Snow Crash, the main character forgoes a helmet on his motorcycle, as he's wearing a rather interesting set of leathers which you wear like normal clothes most of the time. In a crash, they inflate, and a protective section of the jacket shoots up around your head to protect it as well.

I hope the book is as far-sighted and on-target as the rest of the book has been over the past couple of decades; I like riding with no helmet and normal clothes.

[PrincessBandit]

I have two airbags which go with me wherever, and fit under everything I wear.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I have two airbags which go with me wherever, and fit under everything I wear.

pixplzthxbye!!


but would you want to USE them as crash protection? I gather from my partner that they are quite sensitive bits of kit. In the wrong hands ("They're not fucking radio dials, you arent trying to tune in Tokyo on shortwave") well, it can only end in tears.

and the auto deploy racesuit being tested by dainese has doubtless been linked again in this thread.

[HenryDorsetCase]

In the book Snow Crash, the main character forgoes a helmet on his motorcycle, as he's wearing a rather interesting set of leathers which you wear like normal clothes most of the time. In a crash, they inflate, and a protective section of the jacket shoots up around your head to protect it as well.

I hope the book is as far-sighted and on-target as the rest of the book has been over the past couple of decades; I like riding with no helmet and normal clothes.

as does the skater girl character. (or is that in another book. No its in Snow Crash innit?

[xwhatsit]

as does the skater girl character. (or is that in another book. No its in Snow Crash innit?

Yep, she's in Snow Crash too. Was she wearing that too? I thought it was just the skateboard with the über-kewl wheels/suspension.

[Bren]

I have two airbags which go with me wherever, and fit under everything I wear.

oh so you have 2 wives? aint that bigamy???...or is the other one your mother in law???

[Daffyd]

The penalty for bigamy is...........................two mothers in law!

[BiK3RChiK]

Did anyone see the TV 1 sports news where they had a segment on the testing of an air bag for bikers at the Isle of Man?

Looked pretty cool. An air bag seemed to inflate out of the guys jacket as he came off the bike..

[Oakie]

I saw it. I'm not sure whether I like the idea or not though. It would have been useful to know what triggered the bag because having the thing go off accidentally would be hellishly dangerous.

[PirateJafa]

I saw it. I'm not sure whether I like the idea or not though. It would have been useful to know what triggered the bag because having the thing go off accidentally would be hellishly dangerous.

Urine sensor in the rider's pants?

[Boob Johnson]

Urine sensor in the rider's pants?

lmfao!!! bling sent

Yeah wouldn't want that bastard goin off prematurely

Great idea though

[MD]

I saw it. But in the fall that rider had I couldn't say the airbag came between him and the road much at all? It barely brushed the road surface.

The inflated bag circled his neck/throat area and covered the tops of his shoulders..but in how many offs do those body parts impact against the road or whatever?
Still, it might bring shoulder pads back into fashion.