Can You Justify the Cost of a Motorcycle Airbag Vest?
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 142 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | While it's all in milliseconds today, that's what we're talking about, |
| 0:04.0 | milliseconds, things that happen in milliseconds that can change the outcome of a |
| 0:07.3 | crash or get-off, what we're talking about is airbags. Airbags that are |
| 0:11.1 | either built into a vest or a jacket and the jacket or vest senses that you're about to crash and if all goes as planned, it inflates and about the time it takes you to blink your eye or snap, that snap, took about 60 milliseconds. We're talking really really fast |
| 0:25.1 | somewhere around that anyway. But what you will pick up in these conversations |
| 0:28.6 | today is that there's a few topics that we as riders need to consider. |
| 0:33.0 | Is an airbag practical for us as riders, |
| 0:35.6 | for your style of riding? |
| 0:36.8 | What type of technologies are available? |
| 0:38.6 | How do they work? |
| 0:39.4 | Which one's best for you? |
| 0:41.8 | And what are the chances of them actually saving you from some kind of injury if you |
| 0:46.0 | were in a crash or get-off? Well, when it comes to airbag technology, airbags have obviously |
| 0:51.4 | been around for a long time. We know them well in cars. We know what they do for us there. But motorcycles are different. |
| 0:57.0 | There's so many variables with a motorcycle and being that you're riding on top of this vehicle. |
| 1:03.0 | Think about this though, airbags have been required in Moto GP since 2018. |
| 1:09.0 | Now, just coming this year, they will be required for riders in Dakar. But these are top-level riders doing |
| 1:14.7 | extreme things. Will they really add that much safety for the average rider? Could an airbag |
| 1:20.3 | actually reduce or eliminate an injury or get off for you. Now I say |
| 1:25.2 | reduce or eliminate and I say could it because there's fundamental differences |
| 1:30.4 | when it comes to the types of crashes and the physics, the types of crashes we have on a motorcycle, |
| 1:34.6 | whether it's a side crash or a front crash, and the physics of |
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