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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2006, 01:04:49 PM »


Motorcycle test dummies.  On the left, me, and on the right Twolane.  ;D

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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #31 on: February 11, 2006, 01:05:48 PM »


Another shot of the bike in a real life test (Don was riding this one) . . .

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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #32 on: February 11, 2006, 01:09:53 PM »

So your body gets to make a sudden stop but your helmet weighted head gets to keep going and snap your neck as your face wraps around the quickly deflating restraint system and smashes against the top edge of the wind screen?



Ain't technology wonderful.....
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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #33 on: February 11, 2006, 01:11:43 PM »

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Another shot of the bike in a real life test (Don was riding this one) . . .




When you look at the impact zones in this image I just wanted it stated for the record and for posterity that I was wearing a cup !!
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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2006, 01:11:45 PM »


Now that you point it out, the neck sure does look hyper-extended in that simulation.

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« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2006, 01:12:31 PM »

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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #36 on: February 11, 2006, 01:15:09 PM »

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Now that you point it out, the neck sure does look hyper-extended in that simulation.



That was the first thing that caught my eye.
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Re: Gold Wings to have air bags
« Reply #37 on: February 11, 2006, 03:02:45 PM »

[highlight]Many of the Gold Wing riders I've met could really use an air bag.....  [/highlight]

Lord give me strength !
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