BF2S Forums Air Jacket

looks like a good idea, but yeah they should try it by running into a few walls or something.

Article wrote:

In one version, the jacket is attached to the bike by a lead which detaches when the rider has come off suddenly.

Endless entertainment when people get off their bikes and forget to detach the jacket lead.

"Hey, good run, Bob.  Let's get something to <POOF> .. eat.  DAMNIT!"

Sliding isn't so bad, if you're wearing the right gear.

It's the whole "limbs bending at angles they shouldn't" and "sudden stops into hard objects" that hurts.

..and having the bike land on you sucks too.  Once it's Happy Fun Crash Time, Mr. Motorcycle is no longer your Friend.. get away from Mr Motorcycle, or he will do Bad Things to you.

rdx-fx wrote:

Sliding isn't so bad, if you're wearing the right gear.

It's the whole "limbs bending at angles they shouldn't" and "sudden stops into hard objects" that hurts.

..and having the bike land on you sucks too.  Once it's Happy Fun Crash Time, Mr. Motorcycle is no longer your Friend.. get away from Mr Motorcycle, or he will do Bad Things to you.

The jacket isn't perfect, nor nearly as useful as a seatbelt and sitting behind the relative armor of a car. It'll protect your vitals a bit, but not if you slam into something, get run over, or, as you say, get smashed by your own ride.

For your limbs, all you can do if leather up. Your neck's on its own.

rdx-fx wrote:

Point.

Just curious how the inflatable system will hold up against the cheese grater asphalt slide.

Probably better than a regular jacket. It would be funnier on I-5. We have terrible washboarding on the road here.

Personally if I could afford this technology I would definitely use it if I'm going to driving a bike.  I think the government should inform bikers when they take their driver's test about these technologies, but I don't think they should be compulsorily.

If we wanted to stop deaths on motorcyclists we would outlaw motorcycles. (20:1 death ratio according to the article).

FatherTed wrote:

when i get my bike i'm buying one of these. Below 60 it isn't the slide that kills you, it's the bounce.

My vote would be the damn oil slick in  the corner of the barracks parking lot , and a bike at 30mph on a 110F Texas day.
That sucked.

Semis throwing retreads at my head .. not so bad, you get a smell of burnt rubber and glue a second before they come flying at you.

Speeding ticket for 105mph+ from the Texas Highway Patrol, when you know you were over 165mph and they're letting you off the hook because they like dumb Army privates and the highway was empty..  not so bad.


A number of interesting incidents on a bike, from 0 to 200mph - and the only one that hurt was at 30mph.  I am most definitely on my 9th life here.