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Hattori_hanzo
Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 11:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/yamahas-crotch-air-bag-178217.php

And...discuss!
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Oldog
Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 11:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
reminds me of the "auto pilot" in one of the air plane movies, the inflatable one.
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Aeholton
Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 07:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Is that designed to make sure you bounce up and over the handlebars and clear of the bike into the nice solid object in front of you? I don't see the point.
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Glitch
Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 07:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
I guess if you ride a scooter you would need something like that?
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Rafartist
Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 08:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
No, its to make sure your face goes directly for the handlebar clamps.
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Crusty
Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 08:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
In 1978, I hit a car while running 65 MPH on my CB 750. The next morning, when I woke up in the hospital, my testicles were the size of grapefruit, and I couldn't even sit up, let alone walk. I can't even begin to describe the pain.
If something like that dumb airbag helps to prevent that, great! But I don't think it will really do any good. My injury was caused by me being thrown into the car; that airbag will stay with the seat. Of course, it may redirect the rider so that he (or she)goes off to the side, or ever up higher and over, but that may make a crash situation even worse.
I have to give them credit for trying, though.
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Spiderman
Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 09:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
Yeah I want a rigid bag of gas flying at my boys at over 180MPH!!!
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Firebolteric_ma
Posted on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 09:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)
OUCH..that looks more dangerous than just crashing
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