motorcycle air bags?

[abcdefz]

....any of you folks ride motorcycles? I think mp does.

Anyway.... this had a photo accompanying the article in the paper, which I really wish they reproduced here. I see no point to this, but maybe I'm missing something.

link (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/industries/automotive/13421107.htm)

[TurdBerglar]

yeah

you're missing compassion you asshole. don't see the need for airbags. fuckn' retard.

[Matt]

without seatbelts or proper back support, I can really only see this causing more injuries than it prevents.

[abcdefz]

you're missing compassion you asshole.




....maybe you could pick up some for me when you're at the store...?

[TurdBerglar]

you got a coupon?

[abcdefz]

without seatbelts or proper back support, I can really only see this causing more injuries than it prevents.



That's kinda what I was thinking. I mean, wouldn't it just cause another big whooompf of imapct from yet another direction, basically?

[Matt]

That's kinda what I was thinking. I mean, wouldn't it just cause another big whooompf of imapct from yet another direction, basically?

yeah. I figured it would just send you flying backward in a head-on collision. that is, if your body even hits the airbag. Motorcycle riders usually fall off their bikes in an accident.

[abcdefz]

you got a coupon?



um..... hang on.....

[abcdefz]

I do not.

I have coupons for Streetlight Records, Rusputin Music, Border's Books, and Vitamin Shoppe.

I also have two adult day-pass tokens for the bus which I don't need.

[Matt]

sorry, I don't see soccer moms riding Honda Goldwings.

[abcdefz]

*sees soccer moms riding Honda Goldwings*



I'm comin' home, Ma! I'm comin' home!!!

[icy manipulator]

well i can tell you that a fucking airbag isn't going to do anything for me to save my life on my R1. if some dickhead in any car so much as taps me i know i'm fucked

[g-mile7]

at least there trying to make them safer, one of my boys died earlier this year in a biking accident guess he lost control and dove off it head first which is pretty much deatrh even with a helmet, them things man you better be ready for whatever.

[icy manipulator]

everyone know;s the risks when it comes to riding. my dad's best friend died of a biking accident a couple of years ago. if country's really want to make riding safer they should make people wear back and neck braces similar to what they use in moto gp

[BangkokB]

I'm not for this
They need to make motorcycles that don't crash

[g-mile7]

everyone know;s the risks when it comes to riding. my dad's best friend died of a biking accident a couple of years ago. if country's really want to make riding safer they should make people wear back and neck braces similar to what they use in moto gp



hopefully everyone does, sometimes you get the nieve though

[mp-seventythree]

well i can tell you that a fucking airbag isn't going to do anything for me to save my life on my R1. if some dickhead in any car so much as taps me i know i'm fucked

Yup, that's why I sold my R1. Too many fucking idiots on the road in SUVs that don't pay attention. I've packed in biking for a car with 8 airbags.

[marsdaddy]

I saw this prototype airbag that actually wraps around the driver and creates a pod, in a collision. Still not safer than a car, but safer than this.

Riding a motorcyle means risking your life to other drivers everytime you ride.

[mp-seventythree]

Yeah, it would more likely project the rider into the air on impact. And can you imagine if it went off in error? I used to have a Saab that had a faulty airbag...fucking thing punched me in the face when I was doing 95mph down the motorway.

[roosta]

i like those ruff ryders videos where they drive on the front wheel

[mp-seventythree]

Like endos? Or the burnouts they do? burnouts are a laugh, until you have to pay £350 for a new rear tyre.