'Air Bag' Jacket for Motorcyclists.

[svo68]

And if you're ever riding with one of the Kennedy's, you can use it for a floatation device.



Multi-use product.



Think it's great and hope it works.

[Holy_Kaw]

"It is easy to criticize what we don't understand!"



Well sure, if that's going to be the standard, I don't know squat about them. Still, it sounds to be an emerging technology, I'll keep my eye on it.



And... Don't you KNOW that the MOrons I ride with would be yankin' that lanyard at every opportunity? They might even forget about my kill switch for a bit.

[bbtowns]

For the past month I've walked away from my bike with the heated vest cord still plugged in at least 10 times. I wonder just how close I'm getting to 25 lbs. of pressure. For sure I'd go Michelin Man in the parking lot of work one day. They should power the harness such that when the bike is off the thing won't activate.

[ksquid]

thanks for the insight.

[briangorrell]

With the Hit-Air Jacket, it only takes about 10 minutes to deflate the air out of the jacket, repack the airbags and put in a new CO2 cartridge. Doesn't have to be sent off anywhere. The CO2 cartridges are about $10 each.



And, accidental inflations simply do not, or can not happen with the Hit-Air Jacket - it will only go off with sufficient force as in a unscheduled get-off. Not only sufficient force, but the mechanism is designed in such a way that it also has to be yanked out extremely fast - again only conditions in an accident.



Thanks,

Brian

[fumanchu]

after watching a few spectacular crashes, it would appear to me that in some situations, if riders were not able to successfully/accidentally through the good graces of physics separate themselves from a cartwheeling 500-pound bike, they would not be able to safely skid to a stop off by themselves away from their spinning/flipping bike which is now in projectile mode. at high velocity, ounces and milliseconds, while seemingly small units of measurement in most situations, can vastly influence the outcome of attempting to manipulate the laws of physics at speed.



thus, i would be very interested to see some studies on how the 50lbs of pressure necessary for release from the teather would influence the rider's ability to sucessfully separate from the bike in a catastrophic crash, or how this additional pressure-for-separation would change the course of travel of a rider as they are being flung from their bike - and i look forward to reading more about this product.



that concern, as well as the fact that it still takes 400 milliseconds to inflate (let's be clear, everyone...this is still .4 seconds - functionally one half of a second; just putting it in milliseconds just makes it sound faster) makes me very cautious. that said, i welcome anything that could eventually make sport touring safer for me. i am inclined, however, to let consumer testing put this product through the gamut of real world use for a while before i try this out for myself. it looks like it has promise.

[TaLT]

Originally Posted by yossef

DAINESE - D-Tech - D-Air

nice one like the way