Watch The New Gold Wing Air Bag In Action!!

[NoCage]

So, yet again, Radman, I find myself in total agreement with you--this is getting too weird...

Yep, two peas in a pod... as long as you're not discussing politics, religion, race, welfare... oh, never mind.

 

[Pjturbo]

You guys all sound like the bunch that claim only a v twin is a real motorcycle.

Phil

 

[radman]

You guys all sound like the bunch that claim only a v twin is a real motorcycle.
Phil

And how, pray tell, did you come to this conclusion? Seems a little early in your forum posting career to be throwing bait like this out, eh?

 

[jestal]

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[radman]

Well jestal, I have a little tale for ya. In 1978, while with a friend in a freshly built 69 6Pack Superbee, I, unbelted in the passenger seat, held on through 2 complete rolls, and pulled the left side seat bolts out of the floor and supported the door when we were t-boned by a car whose driver had lost control when we were drag racing. This occurred at about 110 mph. I was hospitalized with head trauma from the bumper of the other car striking my head as it was lifted by the force and went by my open window with my head hanging out, and a collapsed lung, as well as several cracked ribs. You might be surprised what the human body is capable of when the **** hits the fan. Mortal fear of death can give one immense strength I found.

 

[twowheelnut]

twowheelnut.....the air bag in the Porsche did not inflate and smack you in the face. The car was decelerating due to the crash in a direction that would have propelled you into something hard inside the car. The airbag inflated before you moved an inch out of your seat and it inflated into dead air space between you and the impact point. YOU then hit the air bag....it did NOT inflate and hit you. The fact that you impacted the air bag is mute evidence that you were propelled out of your seat and were on your way to hitting something. Bent glasses and scuffed face.....???....better than cuts and stiches and closed head injuries. Air bags do not prevent all injuries...they protect against the worst trauma from hitting something stationary inside the car with your head. That is what it did. If you look at the airbag inflation space of ANY production air bag it is always designed to inflate into the dead or free space between the occupant and the protected surface. The inflation happens in milliseconds before you even move from your seat. You then leave your seat due to inertia and hit the bag. That is how airbags work. They do NOT inflate into the passenger and smack them. No way.
You think you were "braced" and could hold on...???...LOL. At 10 or 20 G's at impact you cannot possibly hold on or brace yourself. Think you can hold your head up when it weighs 500 pounds suddenly?? That is why you flopped into the air bag despite bracing. Write a thankyou letter to Porsche and quite believing that you could have saved yourself.

Porsche does a great deal of contract engineering work for other manufacturers and other automakers. I have personally seen a lot of their airbag development in automotive situations and they do know what they are doing so I suspect they have their own product in order. If the air bag deployed the car was decelerating at a rate that would have propelled you into a hard surface so the air bag inflated and you hit it.

Scuffed face and bent glasses...LOL....better than a closed head injury and/or stiches and cuts and broken bones that would likely have happened otherwise. Air bags are no panacea. They protect well against the most traumatic injuries...but they may bend your glasses in the process. Those glasses might have penetrated the windshield without the air bag.

Jestal, no disrespect, as I said you offer many valid points, but you weren't there. The car hit sideways. My head jinked left with the impact. The bag came at me not visa versa. Too, if failed to deflate at a rate I feel was fast enough to allow quick egress from the car.

And don't get me wrong, I'm all for airbags... in cars, not bikes.

 

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[radman]

I guess you didn't read closely enough. I pulled the bolts through the floor of the car . I have been through a couple racing crashes, enough to know the forces can be indeed stupendous. But, when all else fails, the facts simply speak for themselves. I did indeed hold on well enough to survive incredible g-forces. Now, don't get me wrong, I am a spokeman for seat belts. Building and setting up vehicles designed for wheelchair bound drivers (including a B/SSA Big Blk Camaro) larn't me good that seat belts work and should be used. But the dynamics of a car crash can never be duplicated, anything is possible. Wear a belt, bag goes off in a 35mph head on and a body is removed. Flip an SUV 5 times, driver is thrown through the windshield and runs from the cops. Taint no explainin' it......

 

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[radman]

No, you read my post aga.....oh, wait a minute here..... The drunk surviving where no mere mortal could is the strangest phenomena of all, yet it happens all the time. Still. The Superbee lives on, and the door has a spot on the shop wall, with the imprint of my body still in it as it reformed using me as the stamp. And it's always cool to dis Honda for some of the wacky **** they come up with, innovative or not

 

[Bounce]

The fact that you impacted the air bag is mute evidence that you were propelled out of your seat and were on your way to hitting something.

My understanding is that they aren't quiet at all when they deploy.

 

[Bounce]

You were simply lucky. Period. No human can hold on strong enough to counteract the G-forces in a crash. Watch enough crash films and you will become a believer. I have in my line of work.

You sound like those engineers I worked with at FHWA. They all got pissed when I pointed out that seat belts don't help the occupants at all. They're there simply because the ambulance drivers are too lazy to look for the bodies.

 

[radman]

And folks say I read too much into some things.........

 

[Randy]

Am I the only one that was hoping the dummy was going to land the stoppie after hitting the car?

 

[Bearly Flying]

My .02 cents: If seatbelts and airbags save So Many lives, Why are the fatality rates the same or higher than 20 to 30 years ago, when nobody wore seatbelts?????

And as far as drunk drivers go, according to the stats, 25% of all accidents are caused by drunk drivers... Right?... Well then that means 75% are caused by SOBER drivers... Therefore you are 3 times safer driving drunk.......

Things that make you go HUMMMMMM............

 

[Woodstock]

My .02 cents: If seatbelts and airbags save So Many lives, Why are the fatality rates the same or higher than 20 to 30 years ago, when nobody wore seatbelts?????

More women drivers now.

J/K

 

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