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What is the airbag jacket and how does it work?
After the helmet, the airbag jacket is the most important safety innovation. The jacket is equipped with an airbag to prevent injury upon impact for motorcycle riders. The airbag jacket has two anchoring cables and a CO2 cartridge. One of the anchoring cables needs to be connected to the frame of the bike and remains there. In the event of an accident, when the rider is ejected from the bike the cable will separate from the bike activating the CO2 cartridge to instantly inflate the jacket in approximately a 300 to 500 milliseconds. The jacket provides extra protection to the most vulnerable parts of the body (the spine, neck, ribs, collar-bone).
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The airbag jacket for motorcyclists (horseriders) is a long-standing Hungarian invention. It was officially registered in 1976, published in 1977. It is possible to look at the original documents of the invention here. You can ask for a copy available at the Hungarian Patent Office anytime.
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Interview with Valentino Rossi after hospital release
"...The airbag in my leathers worked very well.."
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Why You Should Consider a Motorcycle Airbag Jacket?
A motorcycle rider, or even an individual that loves to frequently ride horses, is often faced with a dilemma. While on the one hand they adore riding their vehicle or steed, on the other it is a very dangerous pastime or primary means of transportation. In the past even a minor crash or hard landing could cause a major physical health issue. Severe injury and death were quite common from such an occurrence. However, with the advent of the creation of motorcycle airbag jacket technology safety for riders of motorcycles and horses has increased dramatically.
A motorcycle airbag jacket is a device that works via a lanyard and CO2 cartridges to create an incredibly fast inflatable cushion around the rider if they are jerked suddenly off of their vehicle or mount. These devices generally take around twenty-five to thirty pounds of force to deploy so they do not false deploy often. Consequently, leaping off of a stationary bike does actually provide enough force to deploy the airbag. This means that should someone fall sideways in the right manner or the bike somehow jerk out from under them because they weren't appropriately seated the airbag will most likely deploy and help them during the fall.
The motorcycle airbag jacket is not designed to be worn with anything else covering or attached to it. A backpack worn over the jacket might cause it to be unable to function properly, as an example. These types of motorcycle armor come in two general forms. These forms are vests and full leather. They are sometimes fashioned from synthetic materials but the leather armored jackets are the most common.
These devices function to protect the neck, spine, and major organs in the torso. When combined with a proper helmet they offer the greatest protection available to a rider. Most function swiftly and deploy within a half a second or less once the lanyard is pulled with sufficient force. The typical motorcycle airbag jacket will be re-inflatable. This means that after a thorough safety inspection the only thing necessary for it to function properly again if it is not damaged is another CO2 cartridge.
Anyone that is serious about riding safely will want to wear one of these types of safety gear. Due to how useful they are they might eventually become mandatory pieces of equipment in many parts of the world just like a properly approved helmet is.
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Thousands of motorcyclists' lives could be saved every year
if airbag jackets would be used all over the world.
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The motorcycle airbag jackets are already in use by police departments
in Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, Japan and Taiwan.
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Airbag jacket saves motorcyclist's life
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Airbag Vest saves horsrider´s life
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Wikipedia/Motorcycle safety/Airbag devices
Airbag (Légzsák) - link gathering
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