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 Posted: 16:14 - 08 Jul 2014  Post subject: Airbag Vest - suits you sir! |
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I remember a recent(ish) thread on safety and airbag vests were mentioned (for horse riders iirc).
Anyhow GetGeared/Held have one, about £650 of your English pounds.
Inflates in 0.1 seconds so the blurb says. Comes in black or black+hiviz.
Video of it is here.
...bit worrying the guy seemed to take two attempts for it to deploy 
GetGeared site is here.
Present for the biker who already has everything perhaps?
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| Posted: 16:16 - 08 Jul 2014 Post subject: |
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We were discussing them way back in 2006.
They were not popular, the Dainese one had potential as it wrapped around your neck.
IIRC Busters were trying to get rid of theirs and they went down to £150 and nobody touched them for quite a long time.
Poking around BCF were discussing them in 2004.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=226553
And they couldn't get rid of their stock for ages.
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| Posted: 16:19 - 08 Jul 2014 Post subject: |
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If I had that it would blow up every other time I got of the bike. 
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| Posted: 16:21 - 08 Jul 2014 Post subject: |
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Also £650? Fuck off
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| Posted: 22:05 - 08 Jul 2014 Post subject: Re: Airbag Vest - suits you sir! |
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| map wrote: | Present for the biker who already has everything perhaps? |
Try harder, I have one, a Hit-Air vest.
It cost me ~£160 delivered from 'Murca, including duty and Parcel Farce mugging, back in 2010. That was and I believe still is much cheaper than you can get get them for over here at retail. They were flogging them primarily to horsists.
I never wear it now, it's just hanging up in the mancave, pining away.
Should probably eBay / Gumtree it, although I expect I'll have to more or less give it away.
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| Posted: 22:10 - 08 Jul 2014 Post subject: Re: Airbag Vest - suits you sir! |
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| Rogerborg wrote: | | map wrote: | Present for the biker who already has everything perhaps? |
Try harder, I have one, a Hit-Air vest.
It cost me ~£160 delivered from 'Murca, including duty and Parcel Farce mugging, back in 2010. That was and I believe still is much cheaper than you can get get them for over here at retail. They were flogging them primarily to horsists.
I never wear it now, it's just hanging up in the mancave, pining away.
Should probably eBay / Gumtree it, although I expect I'll have to more or less give it away. |
£200, for it, no no I mean you give me £200 to take it off you 
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Posted: 23:01 - 08 Jul 2014  Post subject: Re: Airbag Vest - suits you sir! |
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| map wrote: | I remember a recent(ish) thread on safety and airbag vests were mentioned (for horse riders iirc).
Anyhow GetGeared/Held have one, about £650 of your English pounds.
Inflates in 0.1 seconds so the blurb says. Comes in black or black+hiviz.
Video of it is here.
...bit worrying the guy seemed to take two attempts for it to deploy
GetGeared site is here.
Present for the biker who already has everything perhaps?
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Not really, I'd find that more reassuring actually because it means it won't accidentally deploy if you forget to unclip the lanyard.
In a crash fast enough to warrant an airbag, there will be a lot more force applied than in the video.
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I have the Helite Airnest https://www.helite-motorcycle-airbagjackets.co.uk/motorbike-air-vest/20-airnest-air-jacket.html
it is pretty easy to get £50 off. It looks exactly like the Held one in the video, but all black, the airbag shape looks the same.
I sometimes forget to unclip and it doesn't go off, it takes quite some force to set it off, apparently you can have the activation for adjusted if you are a cardboard cut out.
The guy is trying to activate it with his arm and not his body weight leaving the bike.
I can't tell I'm wearing mine now, I wear it for track days and road riding, every time, without fail. Downside with these vests that use a cord, they'll not go off if you don't leave the bike. So the initial impact of a low side will likely not be cocooned in air. |
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