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If a MotoGP racer misses a race, it can take them out of contention for the season. If you break your collarbone you usually miss a race and that’s one of the reasons this was invented. “It takes eight pounds of pressure to break your collarbone. “The most common injury in MotoGP racing is collarbone injuries,” said Bacon. The street version focuses more on protecting the vital organs in your chest while the racing version has better protection for the rider’s collarbone and rib cage. There are a few differences in the D-air system between street and racing applications.

Both of these high-tech riding jackets cost $1,699.95. The D-air jackets available right now are the Gore-Tex Continental jacket and the Misano leather jacket. We also have an urban version a little bit more geared toward the scooter market, but that’s not very common here,” said Bacon noting the popularity of the urban version in Europe. So, you can get D-air in a racing suit, but what about regular everyday street riding? “In the jackets, we offer a Gore-Tex version and a leather, more sporty, aggressive version.

“You have to be going about 30 mph for it to deploy.” The GPS measures your speed so if you just drop the jacket, it won’t deploy because it will know the jacket isn’t moving fast enough to be in a serious accident. “The GPS is how it understands that you’re actually moving,” said Bacon. “A question we get a lot is ‘is it going to go off in time?’ and the answer is always ‘yes.’” That’s literally more than four times faster than the blink of an eye. When they all trigger and find something wrong, that’s when it deploys.”įull inflation takes about 45 milliseconds. “All of those talk to each other about 1,000 times per second.

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So how does it work? “How it understands if it’s going to go off is three gyroscopes and three accelerometers plus a GPS,” explained Bacon. With current D-air technology, the system operates without any physical connection to the motorcycle. With earlier versions of this technology, you needed the jacket to be tethered to your bike for the airbag system to work. Now we have the first standalone D-air jacket.” What he means by “standalone” is that it can be worn on any bike and still work. “What we quickly realized was that this safety should be accessible for everyday riding. “The racing suit has been on the market since 2015,” said Bacon.

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We walked over to a full racing suit used in MotoGP that is available for any motorcycle racer to purchase. Whenever we make a new product for MotoGP, we try to translate that into everyday riding.” “Like everything we do, it starts at the highest level in MotoGP. “D-air is a project that started at the MotoGP level,” said Bacon.