Bicycle airbags?

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This doesnt sound too comfortable or lightweight for warm weather bicycling though:

It *seems* like a good idea for motorcycles. I don't know how well it would actually work. I think
that would require a study.

I can't imagine it for a bicycle though. It would get too hot most of the time. Cold weather cycling
if at all.

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It's been my (unfortunate) experience that the area covered by this airbag jacket is not the area
that most needs protection in motorcycle accidents. The jacket won't do much for necks, legs, hips
and hands. There already exist armoured/padded motorcycle jackets that do a pretty good job in those
areas (other than perhaps cracked/broken ribs). Plus, they don't "explode" when you stop for gas at
the pump and forget that you're attached to the dead man's switch.

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Quoted message said:

This doesnt sound too comfortable or lightweight for warm weather bicycling though:

It *seems* like a good idea for motorcycles. I don't know how well it would actually work. I think
that would require a study.

I can't imagine it for a bicycle though. It would get too hot most of the time. Cold weather
cycling if at all.

--Bill Davidson
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Motorcycle airbags exist:

This doesnt sound too comfortable or lightweight for warm weather bicycling though:

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STRUCTURE OF OUR SAFETY AIRBAG JACKET Our airbag system consists of jacket and airbag vest:
- Jacket: The motorcycle jacket is attached by an airbag system in the type of vest, removable
easily from the jacket. The jacket is wearable without air bag system but installed by optional
CE certified protectors
- Air bag vest: Our jacket consists of liner-type vest and the vest contains the air bag so that
it is very easy and quick to assemble or dismantle. This liner-type vest is installed with air
bag system, easily attached and removable, in order to protect neck, body, and hip.

FUNCTION As soon as a rider wearing a jacket equipped with airbag being thrown away from a
motorcycle by the impact of a sudden accident, the trigger in the key box hits the gas cartridge
pulled by a coil wire fixed to the motorcycle, to release the CO2 gas into airbags installed in
the vest within 0.5 second like the air bag in a car working by impact sensor. The swollen airbag
protects a rider's neck, body and hip by buffering from the impact of crash, and the swollen
airbag becomes deflated through gas release valve, to make a rider feel comfortable. One of the
features is that another airbag runs beneath the gas distributing compartment in order to protect
the rider's breast from the projecting objects in case of an accident. The swollen airbag becomes
deflated gradually through gas release valve within 10 seconds, to make a rider feel comfortable.
In case of difficulty in tightness or in breathing, unfasten the front zipper of your jacket.

Bicycle airbags? Check alt.mountain-bike. That's where a lot of them, er, us hang out.

I can see one problem immediately. How is it set off? On an automobile, sensors detect sudden
deceleration (such as in an impact). On a bicycle (or even a motorcycle), in many cases this
would not work.

Sure, if you plowed head on into something, it would sense the deceleration, but this type of
accident on a bike is rare in the overall scheme of things. Even then the sensor would have to be on
the bike, and the jacket somehow connected to the sensor.

But what about slide out type accidents? In this type, the only sudden deceleration is when the
hapless rider hits something. Usually the pavement. And again, this sort of impact may be too
gradual to set off the sensor.

Or maybe I have the entire concept wrong?

May you have the wind at your back. And a really low gear for the hills! Chris

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May you have the wind at your back. And a really low gear for the hills! Chris

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Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman said:

I can see one problem immediately. How is it set off? On an automobile, sensors detect sudden
deceleration (such as in an impact). On a bicycle (or even a motorcycle), in many cases this would
not work.

Or maybe I have the entire concept wrong?

In the original post, it was said that the air bag would trigger when a string tied to the bike and
the rider was pulled.

Sounds to me like a lot of easy ways to false alarm.

It's like the concept of the key in a snowmobile, tied to the rider, so that if the rider is thrown,
the snowmobile turns off.

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May you have the wind at your back. And a really low gear for the hills! Chris

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