Topic: Helmets

[Bob Wessner]

Einyodeler,

Hurry and patent the Michelin Man suit idea, you never know. Trigger mechanism perhaps some sort of short lanyard when you get so far, it inflates.Theoretically intriquing and for the reasons you mentioned, a fixed airbag doesn't seem practical. It's probably being designed by auto engineers.

[Einyodeler]

Paper work started,patent pending
Just don`t hold it against me if your government makes you wear one in the future

[Terry in Australia]

I don't know Einy, I still reckon my big pink fluffy cushion theory is gonna be more acceptable to governments the world over. The problem with the Michelin Man suit (that I thought of years ago, by the way) is that it's difficult to make people wear one type of "uniform", it smacks of George Orwell's book, 1984.

One thing that people the world over (with the exception of China, North Korea and New Zealand) demand is freedom of choice, and freedom to decide what they wanna wear. That is why the pink fluffy cushions will be "strap on" devices that can be worn with jeans, skirts, shorts or even chaps, (with or without pants underneath, if that's your thing) not to mention whatever upper garments you damn well choose to wear!

The problem with airbags, or indeed my previously patented "Air Suit" is the time it takes to deploy after initial impact. It's quite possible that by the time the bag goes off, you have already left the vehicle on which you were travelling, and are now heading, javelin style, toward the hapless driver of the car that caused the accident, and it could well be that the bag doesn't actually deploy until you have found youself impaled in the centre of the drivers seen mass. Remember, fluffy cushions are already deployed when you put them on. Be safe. Cheers, Terry.

[Bob Wessner]

To avoid the dreaded "sameness" would they be available in colors other than pink, or are you going to take the Henry Ford approach, "any color you want, as long as it is pint." 

[Bob Wessner]

Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me. Seems this inflateable suit was patented already, back in 1976, in Detroit I might add, the city of inovation??

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=48&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1='air+suit'&OS="air+suit"&RS="air+suit"

[mcpuffett]

this is all well and good  but what happens if your suit goes off prematurely exactly it will all end in tears  can you imagine it your winding her on just up to the magic 100  and pop off goes yer suit !!!    mick.

[Einyodeler]

Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me. Seems this inflateable suit was patented already, back in 1976, in Detroit I might add, the city of inovation??

Damn, there goes my millions
Yep,thats me...always a day late and a dollar short.

Alright Terry   sign me up for some pillows, but I want the down filled ones ,might as well go whole hog

[don_m]

Hey Supersport 400F,
If you have trouble getting your 400F up to the ton I could give you a tow with my 350F.
Don Psycle Madden.

[Terry in Australia]

Hey Don, if you need a new speedo for your 350F I'd be happy to include one with your first order of pink fluffy cushions! Cheers, Terry.

[don_m]

I'm talking Imperial units here!  Don't have any in K/h.  Where can I get one of those starter motors or can I supercharge mine?  Will on off a turbojet make my 350F faster?

[Terry in Australia]

Hey Don, the only way you're gonna make that little 4 any faster is by dropping it down a mineshaft, ha ha! Seriously though, they're a great little bike, here's a pic of one I restored back in 1997. I got it up to 100 Mph once, and it loved it!Cheers, Terry.

[don_m]

Hi Terry in Austrailia,
Down a mineshaft you say.  Thought I'd tried about everything but learn something  every day.  How deep does it have to be to reach the ton?  Sounds like you have the experience.  How fast were you going when you bottomed out.  Did you throw a sheep in first to cushion the stop?
I owe you a Foster's but you'll have to come here to collect as my bikes keep me poor.
Cheeers, Don Psycle Madden.

[don_m]

Ah Supersport 400F--I got your goat, but I was after Terry of Australia's sheep!  You were misled by my dry sense of humour, uncharacteristic of my nationality.  Even my British in-laws understood my jokes.  But don't get the idea I'm prejudiced--I hate everybody equally!  Except Aussies--They share our common origines of deported English convicts.

[don_m]

Hi Supersport 400F,
Being a typical American mongrel I don't know where all my genes came from.  I suspect the Madden name was brought by the starving Irish fleeing the potato famine.  My middle name is James, of English origin, but named after my great-grandmother's brother, Jesse.  My dad's name was also Jesse, after his great uncle.  I don't claim any kinship to the the Jesse James who builds choppers for the TV show.  You know I must have a sense of humor--I have been riding British Iron for 50 years!

[loonymoon]

So are the stupid "loptoff" ears as popular in the rest of the world as they are here in the UK - especially with poncey sportsbike riders?



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[mcpuffett]

thought they where for the gay bikers?  the floppy ears mick.

[Hop on a Honda]

I have been wearing helmets of one kind or another as a Royal Australian NAVY SAR Diver Winchman in their 'Choppers' and also in Vietnam 135AHC US Army and also "Chook Chaser" driver and other bikes for what ever reason.
"Brain Bucket" "Bone Dome"  "Skid Lid" "Crash Helmet" and they go on & on.
They (helmets) are esential to say the very least.If you do not have a brain then why have a helmet.

I always wear a open face version.
NOLAN is my favourite.
BUT the new NOLAN open faced helmet is better than the older one BUT the chin strap is not worth a bucket of cold water in the face on Xmas day. I have nightmares whilst trying to do them up and I have convultions when undoing them.
NOLAN
Wake up to yourselves and look after the chin strap .
Make them stiffer (thicker) and use a quick release unit on them.
Dave
Australia.
PS Ever tried to remove your helmet whilst a bee is using the inside of your helmet for a attacking zone on your head.
That should be the test, not for drinking out of!!
DB.

[Terry in Australia]

Well when you've got a face as pretty as Dave's (Hellooooooooooo Sailor!) it'd be a crime to cover it up, ha ha! Suck it up Princess! Cheers, Terry. 

[Terry in Australia]

I went for a ride this evening, and every bug and his dog were out enjoying the warm weather. We've had plenty of rain this year (we've been in drought for the last seven years) so I had the little buggers splattering themselves all over my handsome face, and at 60+ Mph, it's not all that much fun! I had to wear my sun glasses just to stop 'em knocking my eyes out! I think I'll wear my full face helmet in the evenings, from now on............. Cheers, Terry.

[Quail "Owner of the comfortable k8"]

I wear a full face but because I wear glasses "had a tough time leaving it alone when I was a young lad my mom said"
I sometimes forget to drop the shield after i put my glasses on.  Today I ate the sweetest bug!  Man if i could have had a box of them I would have eaten the lot of them.  Butterflys are kind of good but the wing powder taste bad.  Had a sparrow dive bomb and I lower my head in time to head but him into the afterlife on monday.  Came over a rise to find mister farmers combine had sprayed 1/4 inch of corn on the road while loading his trucks on Tuesday.  I looked like a Ice Bike racer dragging my toes through that corn.  Kind of a funny week when i looked back. Hey this will make for a good thread.  cut and paste here I go.

[Kelvin8]

I think if you don't wear a helmet (full face for me) your insurance company should be exempt from paying any of your medical bills if you have an accident, and the gov't should be able to say, "Sorry, you weren't wearing a helmet so we're not picking up the tab on your medical bills."

Years ago, on a Halloween, I was driving near Universal Studios (Barham and Cahuenga West) and I saw an ambulance. No one was in a hurry. As I approached closer I could see that it was a motorcycle down, and the rider looked like his face was in a pothole ... but there wasn't a pothole. His helmet was locked to the holder on the side of the bike.

[loonymoon]

I'm buying an HJC flip up full face pretty soon. Under $200 but seems decent enough

I've got a HJC flip-up lid. Pretty good for the price the flip up is great- especially for glasses wearers.
 A little bit noisy at high speeds ! Of course it won't matter to me unless I start throwing myself and my CB350F down a mineshaft for fun....

[Quail "Owner of the comfortable k8"]

I'm buying an HJC flip up full face pretty soon. Under $200 but seems decent enough

I've got a HJC flip-up lid. Pretty good for the price the flip up is great- especially for glasses wearers.
 A little bit noisy at high speeds ! Of course it won't matter to me unless I start throwing myself and my CB350F down a mineshaft for fun....

Must be a stiff headwind to get windnoise on that 350

[loonymoon]

Must be a stiff headwind to get windnoise on that 350

Well actually I was talking about the wind coming from behind me....

Now stop it, I used to get all the jokes about flies squashing on the back of my helmet from my dad when i used to ride a 100cc scooter, don't you lot start as well......

[Terry in Australia]

Must be a stiff headwind to get windnoise on that 350

Well actually I was talking about the wind coming from behind me....

Now stop it, I used to get all the jokes about flies squashing on the back of my helmet from my dad when i used to ride a 100cc scooter, don't you lot start as well......

Ignor that "Birdman" taking cheap shots at your CB350F Loony, your bike would kick his obese "fatboy" in the twisties, and looks a lot prettier too! I restored a CB350F back in 96/97, it was a beautiful little thing, not all that quick off the line, but I got it up to 90+ Mph on the freeway, and the good thing was that it sounded like it was doing 100 Mph at legal speeds! Ha ha, Cheers, Terry.