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Tech Information => Technical Discussion => Topic started by: sabat on June 14, 2010, 12:30:05 PM

Title: Airbags for motorcycle leathers
Post by: sabat on June 14, 2010, 12:30:05 PM

Just read this in the NY Times, kinda cool. Probably very expensive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/automobiles/13BAG.html?hpw (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/automobiles/13BAG.html?hpw)

Dainese site;

/http://www.dainese.com/en/next-challenges/d-air (http://www.landracing.com/http://www.dainese.com/en/next-challenges/d-air)

Title: Re: Airbags for motorcycle leathers
Post by: racer x on June 14, 2010, 12:51:17 PM

This is a You tube test of the Dianese air bag.. I don't want to be the test dummy for the hi side test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo9Vlt5tGwY

Title: Re: Airbags for motorcycle leathers
Post by: dw230 on June 14, 2010, 01:21:39 PM

A parachute would be cheaper.

DW

Title: Re: Airbags for motorcycle leathers
Post by: Constant Kinetics on July 21, 2010, 09:25:07 PM

i got hit with the airbag in a Grand Am once. I think the dash would have felt better. The airbags (in cars) use an explosive halide charge that heats the bag up a lot more than you want to put your face on and leaves chemical burns and bruises. They aren't soft either, but are made from a tight weaving of wire mesh. Those are to be filled with helium or nitrogen and make contact with your leathers intead of your skin. I'll call it an improvement in airbag technology.