jose_jimenez

The Official MotoGP Website

What does everyone think of this?

CBRVFR

It's pay per view.. got a different link, or can you describe it? Is it passive, like the one they made us wear racing karts, or is it a portable airbag?

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ONEvcs

I'm guessing is something like this BMW Motorrad Neck Brace System to revolutionise motorcycle safety

and this

BMW Motorrad's neck brace system gets a price - Engadget

650.00 seems a bit steep...

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luvtolean

That BMW bit basically looks like a HANS device laid back for motorcycles; a device terribly overdue to the sport.

I actually got as far as sketching on this...talk to car racers about their HANS device....most swear it has saved their bacon at least once. I watched a young friend of mine do aerial ballet in his sprint car (big enough to make ESPN) and his Dad and I watched the panic in the safety workers until they saw his HANS, which calmed them down quite a bit.

$650 is peanuts if it works.

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jose_jimenez

The link was just to the news item (free). As LTL it's similar but made for bike riders. They are still working on modifying it so you can turn your head to look through turns. It's probably a ways out but I could see major racers start using it before too long.

Pete

I paid about $375 for mine at my local Honda dealer (licensed to sell under the Leatt brand name), and though I have yet to actually test it in a crash, it is quite obvious the minute you put it on that it will "work".

But yes, the curvature of the brace would make it very difficult to "look through the turns" in road-use/track applications.