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 Post subject: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:18 
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Airbag Jackets.

So, you're riding along, and then you fall off. The airbag jacket inflates and makes you safer. And makes you look like a fatty.

I'll be being told I can't ride around in jeans and trainers, next.

I'm currently unsure of the benefits of such a device, though. Educating road users seems to be a better idea, and, by and large, motorcyclists are a fairly self selecting bunch.

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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:44 
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They seem like a pretty good idea but I don't see why they should be compulsory, but then I can't see why helmets needed to be either.


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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:55 
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Get on bike, plug pull corn into bike.

Travel, arrive at destination, get off bike, walk away.

BOOF!

New jacket please.

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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:56 
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Surely the doctors would be arguing against them, as we need those lovely young organs?


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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:41 
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Kern wrote:
Surely the doctors would be arguing against them, as we need those lovely young organs?


It's to stop the organs getting mashed. You'll still be dead from a broken neck.


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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:47 
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kalmar wrote:
It's to stop the organs getting mashed. You'll still be dead from a broken neck.



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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:50 
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MaliA wrote:
Get on bike, plug pull corn into bike.

Travel, arrive at destination, get off bike, walk away.

BOOF!

New jacket please.

Ah they should definitely be mandatory then for a new fun sport of running up to bikers at lights and pulling their airbag cords.


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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:11 
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markg wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Get on bike, plug pull corn into bike.

Travel, arrive at destination, get off bike, walk away.

BOOF!

New jacket please.

Ah they should definitely be mandatory then for a new fun sport of running up to bikers at lights and pulling their airbag cords.



Hahaha, that would be amusing. Almost as fun seeing a dog in an open top car stopped at lights on the other side of the road and waving a sausage.

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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:12 
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MaliA wrote:
Almost as fun seeing a dog in an open top car stopped at lights on the other side of the road and waving a sausage.


You can get arrested for that sort of thing Mali. Also, isn't it a bit difficult to do on the spur of the moment, if you're wearing leathers?


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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:13 
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kalmar wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Almost as fun seeing a dog in an open top car stopped at lights on the other side of the road and waving a sausage.


You can get arrested for that sort of thing Mali.



is OK, I painted a face on the end of it and made a little cloak out of a kerchief, so it looks like a borrower.

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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:39 
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Need(ed), please.


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 Post subject: Re: Airbag Jackets
PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 13:51 
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markg wrote:
They seem like a pretty good idea but I don't see why they should be compulsory, but then I can't see why helmets needed to be either.
More than anything so that the police, ambulance and random passers by don't have to look at all the little pieces of your head after it's been smeared 30 down the road under a truck's wheel.


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