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Brava210
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PostPosted: 12:16 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Air Bag Vest Reply with quote

Sorry if this has been asked before.
Does anyone have/use one?
Including the latest "Scam" items as mentioned in MCN

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PostPosted: 12:30 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would you like a wiper on your visor to go with your life jacket?
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PostPosted: 12:40 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

That would be a very friendly thing to have in the rain. A pal, if you will.
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PostPosted: 12:45 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Driving a motorcycle in some places is so dangerous by the time you have read from the start of this sentence to here 2 people will have died in a traffic accident on a motorbike.

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PostPosted: 13:20 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is this a bad time to ask who else is going riding without gear in this weather?
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PostPosted: 13:22 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bhud wrote:
Is this a bad time to ask who else is going riding without gear in this weather?


I've ridden in trainers since 2008, the occasional 'looks like it'll rain, I'll wear boots'

Still have feet. Don't care what people think about what I wear, but I'd be happy to accept abuse if I rode with an airbag jacket. Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:24 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddy. wrote:
an airbag jacket. Laughing

The jackets in question are in the ebay ads at the bottom of the page...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192770237578
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PostPosted: 13:24 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bhud wrote:
Is this a bad time to ask who else is going riding without gear in this weather?


Just curious how low people go in terms of gear? Some people just right with normal clothes and a helmet? I see loads of videos of guys in the USA and they literally ride with shorts, t-shirt and flip flops (not even a helmet) but over here I think people take gear way more seriously.
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PostPosted: 13:30 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fat Angry Scotsman wrote:
Just curious how low people go in terms of gear?


I was in a T-shirt on Monday, was just too hot for a bike jacket. I figured if I'm sweating so rapidly it's going to dehydrate me and effect my concentration then I'm less likely to fall off if I remove the jacket and am not melting myself. Sunburned the shit out of my arms though, the breeze on your skin means you don't notice it as it happens Laughing

I'll never go without gloves though, every crash I've had looking at the palms of the gloves afterwards made me realise how important they are.
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fat Angry Scotsman wrote:

Just curious how low people go in terms of gear? Some people just right with normal clothes and a helmet? I see loads of videos of guys in the USA and they literally ride with shorts, t-shirt and flip flops (not even a helmet) but over here I think people take gear way more seriously.


I am pro gear and wear it when it's not too uncomfortable. But my personal minimum is boots and gloves.
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PostPosted: 14:01 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fortnine did an informative video on this subject a wee while back.
https://youtu.be/N2jZryt607U
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PostPosted: 14:18 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
on this subject

Hand

That's about airbag jackets / vests rather than life jackets being sold as airbag jackets. Razz

MCN article OP is referring to https://www.motorcyclenews.com/advice/buying-selling/fake-motorcycle-airbag-vests/
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PostPosted: 14:25 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
stinkwheel wrote:
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Hand

That's about airbag jackets / vests rather than life jackets being sold as airbag jackets. Razz

MCN article OP is referring to https://www.motorcyclenews.com/advice/buying-selling/fake-motorcycle-airbag-vests/


Brava210 wrote:
Air Bag Vest... ...Does anyone have/use one?

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PostPosted: 15:03 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Paddy. wrote:
an airbag jacket. Laughing

The jackets in question are in the ebay ads at the bottom of the page...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192770237578


What are ads Laughing
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PostPosted: 15:05 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Fortnine did an informative video on this subject a wee while back.
https://youtu.be/N2jZryt607U



I watched that a few months back......I take it from replies that it's a No?
People would rather die then?
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PostPosted: 15:09 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brava210 wrote:
People would rather die then?


You ride a bike, its a 50/50 chance every day.
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PostPosted: 15:15 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddy. wrote:
Brava210 wrote:
People would rather die then?


You ride a bike, its a 50/50 chance every day.


I like those odd's
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PostPosted: 15:30 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was thinking about getting a Helite Turtle 2 after watching Fortnine's video on airbags, but the price is a bit too steep at the moment and I want to replace some of my other kit with better stuff first.

Fat Angry Scotsman wrote:

Just curious how low people go in terms of gear? Some people just right with normal clothes and a helmet?


Personally I wear all my gear whenever I go out, but I do usually wear casual riding boots and jeans that I have no problem wearing all day. I used to ride around in normal jeans and trainers, but there really is no point when you can get the equivalent stuff designed for bikes now.
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PostPosted: 16:42 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brava210 wrote:


I watched that a few months back......I take it from replies that it's a No?
People would rather die then?


I just try very hard not to fall off.

People have been falling off motorcycles without airbag vests and not dying for a long time now.

Which is more likely to prevent you dying in a motorcycle crash. An airbag vest or an IAM advanced riding qualification? Now which do you think is more expensive? (IAM membership is £149).
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PostPosted: 19:49 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Would you like a wiper on your visor to go with your life jacket?


Yes I would and a heated seat
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PostPosted: 19:50 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Brava210 wrote:


I watched that a few months back......I take it from replies that it's a No?
People would rather die then?


I just try very hard not to fall off.

People have been falling off motorcycles without airbag vests and not dying for a long time now.

Which is more likely to prevent you dying in a motorcycle crash. An airbag vest or an IAM advanced riding qualification? Now which do you think is more expensive? (IAM membership is £149).


Thing is you are reliant on not being Killed by a Car, Truck,Dog,Cat,Ice,......
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PostPosted: 19:54 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brava210 wrote:


Thing is you are reliant on not being Killed by a Car, Truck,Dog,Cat,Ice,......


Unless you put yourself in a position to observe the hazard and avoid it before it happens.

There are very few accidents where you couldn't have done something to avoid it.
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PostPosted: 20:15 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:
Which is more likely to prevent you dying in a motorcycle crash. An airbag vest or an IAM advanced riding qualification

But you forgot a third option - an airbag vest AND advanced training.
Other than cost, why are the two apparently mutually exclusive?

stinkwheel wrote:
People have been falling off motorcycles without airbag vests and not dying for a long time now.

Imagine that crash helmets weren't compulsory in the UK, and we were having this discussion about helmets, rather than airvests,,, you could substitute "helmets" for "airbag vests" in your statement above, couldn't you? But maybe that's OK?

I'll happily admit to wearing a Helite Turtle vest; have done for several years now. No it's not particularly cool and people sometimes take the piss a bit, but wearing it affects my enjoyment of riding a bike not one iota.

Every time the topic of airbag vests comes up we get this mantra that training, experience, rider abiity etc is far more important. If so, should we all get trained up and wear T-shirts, shorts and flipflops to ride our bikes all summer? The answer from 99% of riders would be 'no', because there's a recognition that what we do carries a quantifiable risk of at some stage sliding down the road on our arses, no matter how good a rider we think we are, so we wear protective gear to mitigate the outcome of that. All that an airbag vest represents is another level beyond the basic helmet/boots/gloves/riding suit combo that most riders wear - I just think it's simply up to individuals where they choose to draw their own personal line as regards the level of gear they use.

(FWIW - I documented here my own experience of my airvest getting deployed a few years ago. tl;dr - judging by my mashed helmet, the paramedics reckoned I'd have ended up with a busted neck without it, rather than a few sore ribs and a broken collarbone.)
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didn't Rogerborg have one?
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PostPosted: 20:38 - 23 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paddy. wrote:
Brava210 wrote:
People would rather die then?


You ride a bike, its a 50/50 chance every day.


Wear a mask and you'll be fine.
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