Airbag jacket

Real test of motorcycle HELITE airbag jacket

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Helite
• airbag

[Magnulus76]

Looks interesting but I'd like to see more evidence that an airbag jacket has any more real effectiveness vs. regular leathers or textile jackets.

[gthelite]

Quite easy, try to let you fall back on an air matrass and then do the same without the matrass but with a leather jacket.

If you can still walk try the second test, inflate a 15cm diameter tube at 1.35 Bars around your neck under your helmet and ask you friend to jerk violently your head side way or backward, then do the same without the tube.

[CptTuttle]

Does anybody know why there is so much resistance for the motorcycle airbag jackets? Because I think that it might be a pretty good invention that can save many riders?

[Freshjonng]

Fatal motorcycle accident *clap clap clap clap*

[adman475]

lol, dont you hate it when you crash into a big 4x4 carrying loads of boxes on the one side.

[geoffart]

thats not true: Most bikers actually come off due to drivers that cut across their path in urban areas, when biker has ride of way and is riding correctly. Only a small minority of accidents are due to riders doing what you say they do.

You could argue its not the drivers fault because bikes are hard to see and you cant stop everyone driving unless they are fit to fly a fighter jet, so people will find bikes hard to see, but stats dont agree its mostly bikers riding style.

[adman475]

If bikers didnt drive so dangerously and stupidly fast along small roads then there wouldnt be a need for a helmet let alone an inflatable lifejacket. Peace.

[geoffart]

they are good, but every time something comes out a bunch of people say they should be compulsary. At 500 a time, thats a serious brick wall in the way of many new young (and often low income) riders, who are just starting out. I'd buy on of these though, but i will wait till the internet is full of reviews.

[geoffart]

so does this thing inflate on leaving the bike, or does it need to be inflaited before riding on the bike?

[azogue79]

Yeah, I saw it too, but don´t think it matters a lot. The important thing is that the mechanism will activate about half a second after the wire connected to the bike´s frame snaps loose.

[azogue79]

My airbag jacket is from a different brand, Hit Air, but if this brand should be any similar to mine, its fabric is mesh, so you don´t transpire to death on it. Then, for rainy/cold times, it has an undervest that is completely water-proof (I love this feature, since in Costa Rica rains a shitload 3/4 of the year).

[sickmefistofeles666]

the boxes were there not only safety but to counter the time it took away from him standing on the pegs.