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AOL and the black/silver models look so spiffy too. While they can be a little hassle to wear I reckon it would be easy to fit them permanently into a jacket.
OK, I'll try... <removes hat> <pulls out rabbit> Girlfriend: "Oi! Stick it back, I'm not done yet!" Aye thangu. Look, I don't do mornings, ok? -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
Well, one almost certainly saved me a bit of grief once (apart from anything else, the bike flipped fifteen feet in the air and came down on top of me as I tumbled). Couldn't save my neck from the 70 mph face-plant though. :-( (Last time I looked the site hosting my report had folded; I think there were mirrors but I guess I have to hunt through my archives for the original some time.) -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
The honeycomb is meant to collapse under impact, thus attenuating impact energy. What happens, however, if it fails to collapse? Then one needs a shield between honeycomb and wearer which will prevent the edges of the honeycomb cutting through to the wearer. A layer of thin plastic, backed with foam, or a layer of thicker foam alone would probably suffice. This would add cost, however. How much does the Dainese back protector cost? The link says £109. I wonder how much it would cost for a product which has addressed the potential failings - not that I'm suggesting a Dainese product of that price point could ever be "substandard". ;-) Certain of the Italian clothing companies are reportedly lobbying for a dilution in the severity of the European Standards (source: RiDE magazine); presumably because the kit they would prefer to sell doesn't meet the standards.
I heard you got walloped. what happened? feeling better? -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ keeper of the ukrm faq for my sins Triumph 955iSS (for sale) / ZX9R E1 / GSF1200 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
I seem to recall a Ride test where a Dainese BP came out top above the Knox though? I don't knock all Dainese kit. My current leather jacket is good and all the seams properly constructed. Some of their waterproof jackets are great. The Assuan gloves uttterly rock, the most waterproof, warm 4 finger gloves you can get IMHO. Other stuff they do is clearly shite, boots and helmets come to mind.
Hi Adie. Feeling much better thanks. My spine still has a kink in it and my ribcage and back hurts like hell when I've been upright for a while, but I'm on the mend. I just have to lie down a lot for the next month or two. I was riding home along a country B road around 10.30pm and as I peeled ino a right hander I got confronted by a shiny silver 4x4 coming the other way on my side of the road.I picked the bike up straight and squeezed leftward between him and the verge and fence and left the road narrowly missing the alloy chevron signs and lost control on the downsloping grass bank. I managed a 180 degree pirouette parking the bike against the fence, and did a wonder woman off the high side, and landed about 6 feet up in a sturdy bush/tree. I lost consciousness and apparently the emergency services came along with a saw and pruned me out an hour later and carted me off to hospital. No sign of the driver, who left the scene without stopping as far as I know. They scanned me for internal injuries which is when they spotted the busted vertebrae. I was in the hospital for a couple of weeks until I stopped taking pain killers for long enough to convince them it was ok to let me go home.
#Death & tallbloke sitting in a tree #K-I-S-S-I-N-G -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
not nice. continue to get well soon will ya. there's enough crippled folk around. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ keeper of the ukrm faq for my sins Triumph 955iSS (for sale) / ZX9R E1 / GSF1200 bandit (for sale) / CG125 MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
