BMW teams up with Alpinestars to develop an airbag motorcycle jacket – BMW Tech Air

BMW Motorrad and Alpinestars will reveal airbag-equipped motorcycle gear based on Tech Air MotoGP technology. The airbag-equipped jackets are used by many riders in MotoGP. Alpinestars and Dainese are the main players, and they came up with Tech-Air and D-Air technologies. The airbag deploys as soon as the motorcycle suit anticipates an accident. And that […]

Alpinestars Tech Air crash test. Video

Alpinestars shows us a crash test of its Tech Air jacket. Convincing enough? The speed of the motorcycle in the crash test was 48 km/h. The speed of crash detection: 59 miliseconds. The airbag inflation speed: 25 miliseconds, according to visordown.com. According to Alpinestars, Tech Air is the first independent airbag jacket. It doesn’t need […]