A revolution in road bike safety

Airbags have, for years, been a just-over-the-horizon technology promising to massively elevate impact protection. Top-level road racers are just now taking advantage of the Dainese D-Air and Alpinestars TechAir systems, but as yet, only rudimentary systems requiring a lanyard connection to the motorcycle have been available to road riders. With the releases of Dainese D-Air Street, motorcyclists will benefit from a 75 percent reduction in impact forces to the back over a CE2 back protector and an 89 percent reduction over a CE chest protector. D-Air Street also helps prevent hyperextension, hyperflexion and compression of the neck, all while inflating in as little as 45 milliseconds to guard against frontal impacts. This is the next level of safety. :continue:

Wes Siler. March 30th, 2012 - Permalink - Comments (28)

Testing Dainese D-Air

This is what it looks like to put Dainese’s new airbag-equipped D-Air race suit through its paces. Pictured here is Leon Haslam crashing his World SBK S1000RR at Misano practice last year. Despite landing heavily on his shoulders and back, Haslam walked away without injury. D-Air hides its airbag underneath the suit’s leather, wrapping it around the shoulders and collar bones. Three accelerometers and three gyroscopes determine the difference between an easy lowside and a violent highside, such as this, inflating the airbag in just .05 seconds if it’s needed. :continue:

Wes Siler. March 28th, 2012 - Permalink - Comments (6)

Dainese D-Air: the safety race is on

Both Dainese and arch-rival Alpinestars have spent the past decade developing real-life, airbag-equipped superhero suits and now they’re ready for public consumption (even though no dates have been given on purchase availability). Alpinestars spilled the beans on TechAir back in August and, this week, Dainese did the same with this new D-Air suit, finally ready for public consumption. The safety arms race is on. :continue:

Sean Smith. January 27th, 2012 - Permalink - Comments (42)

A video timeline of Dainese D-Air Race

A couple of weeks ago we exclusively unveiled Dainese D-Air Race. Now, with the official release of the in-suit airbag at Milan’s EICMA show, more material is available and we can take a look back at the 10-year process that resulted in the most sophisticated set of leathers ever. :continue:

Wes Siler. November 17th, 2010 - Permalink - Comments (6)

Dainese D-Air Street: safest suit ever hits the road

Inflating to protect your spine and chest —virtually your entire torso — and limiting hyperextension and hyperflexion of your neck, Dainese D-Air Street reduces forces transmitted to your body by 90 percent over traditional CE armor while providing more coverage than armor ever could. After a decade of development, D-Air Street is finally ready to enter the market and, like Dainese D-Air Race, Hell For Leather is the first to bring you details of it. :continue:

Wes Siler. November 16th, 2010 - Permalink - Comments (22)

Dainese D-Air: satellites, accelerometers and the safest suit ever

This is the final production version of Dainese D-Air, the new airbag equipped racing suits that you’ve seen Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo racing in this year. Dainese’s is the most sophisticated motorcycle airbag yet. 10 years in the making, D-Air incorporates GPS, three accelerometers, three gyroscopic sensors, the ability to fully inflate in .05 seconds, deflate in 5 seconds and it will reduce forces transmitted to the shoulders and collarbone tenfold while also preventing neck injuries caused by hyperextension or flexion. Dainese D-air is the future of motorcycle safety and this news story is exclusive to Hell For Leather. :continue:

Wes Siler. October 27th, 2010 - Permalink - Comments (8)

Dainese's airbag and the two biggest crashes of 2010

Both Valentino Rossi and and Guy Martin are helping develop the Dainese D-Air airbag technology. But, while Rossi was equipped with an airbag and credits it with limiting the extent of the injuries he suffered in his huge Mugello highside, Guy was only equipped with data collection equipment. > :continue:

Wes Siler. June 16th, 2010 - Permalink - Comments (14)

Dainese D-Air: development of road-ready airbag begins

Dainese has begun collecting telemetry data for a road-use airbag motorcycle suit, meaning we can expect to see a consumer product in showrooms in a couple year’s time. Dainese D-Air has actually been in development for race-use for over a decade and the track-only system will go on sale very soon. The road system will be very similar, but will use altered data points that are more appropriate for real world riding in which a crash is just as likely to be caused by getting run over by a dumb bitch on her cell phone as it is a 110mph highside at Mugello. In keeping with company tradition, Dainese’s press release is extremely vague, but it appears that Guy Martin, who is now collecting data for the road system, was equipped with a D-Air suit when he crashed heavily at the TT this morning. If that’s the case, the airbag(s) could be partially responsible for him surviving that crash with what currently looks like only minor injuries. > :continue:

Wes Siler. June 11th, 2010 - Permalink - Comments (11)

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