Motorcycling: The Dainese airbag system

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Dainese D-Air®

From dainese.de:

Dainese D-Air®

There was a strange hum in the air in Valencia around the Racing Service on the season’s last Grand Prix race, just like when you hold your breath waiting for something to happen. Then something really happened. In the mere space of seconds, the time required to fall off a bike, first Simoncelli fell, then Giorgi, and then Ranseder, and the tension pent up in the hearts of more than a few observers exploded into the deepest and most authentic enthusiasm when the long-desired reaction occurred: the D-air® racing air bag system developed by Dainese was triggered into action for the first time during a Grand Prix race in Valencia! The system was tested by Marco Simoncelli (250 cc division) Simone Grotzky, and Michi Ranseder (125 cc division).

This extraordinary result represented the richly deserved reward for all the effort, determination, perseverance and conviction of work team constantly committed to research, experimentation, data collection, and reliability testing around an extremely ambitious project that began more than ten years ago that has now reached a decidedly high advanced state of prototype configuration. The accomplishment also represents the starting point for keeping concentration levels high and focused on the next steps that envision many other specific tests in both the laboratory and on track for the perfection of a system that may be placed on the market in the next few years, in this way making an instrument that has become the symbol of the mission of “providing people with head-to-toe dynamic sports protection” that Dainese has pursued ever since 1972 available to a wider number of users.

The history of the Dainese airbag system

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O.k. it may be ugly, but if it helps with safety it gets a big

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More here as well, from when this came up last year:

http://www.australianmotorsportforums.com.au/forum/index.php?topic=66.0

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Sorry about that I must have missed your original thread.