A Closer Look At Alpinestars’s New Airbag Vest Unveiled At CES A closer look at Alpinestars's new standalone airbag vest. By Sabrina Giacomini Gear - Jan 9 2020 -
Alpinestars To Debut Standalone Air Vest At CES In any textile jacket, on any Sunday. By Jacob Black Gear - Dec 26 2019 -
Motorcycle Gear Company Helite Introduces Electronic Airbag Management Cutting the cable. By Jacob Black Gear - Nov 28 2019 -
Ixon Launches Universal Smart Airbag Vest Fits any jacket and learns along the way. By Sabrina Giacomini Gear - Mar 28 2019 -
Dainese's German Injunction Against Alpinestars One heck of a court battle between two motorcycle gear companies. By Kate Murphy News - Feb 8 2019 -
Major Safety Breakthrough for Motorcycles - Alpinestars Tech-Air Street Airbag Alpinestars release the commuter friendly Tech-Air street airbag system By Titus Coleman Gear - Nov 10 2014 -
Why We Should Care About The Hövding While airbag technology for motorcyclists has not reached mass consumption, Hövding points towards wearable airbag technology for everyone. By RideApart Staff News - Dec 16 2013 -
How Airbags Protect You In A Motorcycle Crash Learn how the latest motorcycle airbags protect you in a motorcycle crash. Plus, see video of them in action. By HFL Staff Gear - Dec 3 2013 -
Pictured: the future In the future, our race suits will be capable of predicting crashes, inflating prior to impact in order to absorb forces exceeding even 23g without injury. In the future, those suits will sync to mobile devices more powerful than the computers used to put men on the moon. In the future, all those components will add only 450 grams of weight and require no additional space in the suit. In the futur... By HFL Staff Reviews - Jun 13 2012 -
Dainese D-Air Street: A Revolution In Street Bike Safety Not just for the track anymore. By HFL Staff Safety - Mar 30 2012 -
Dainese D-Air: the safety race is on Both Dainese and arch-rival Alpinestars have spent the past decade developing real-life, airbag-equipped superhero suits and now they're ready for public consumption (even though no dates have been given on purchase availability). Alpinestars spilled the beans on TechAir back in August and, this week, Dainese did the same with this new D-Air suit, finally ready for public consumption. The safety a... By Sean Smith News - Jan 27 2012 -
The universal, retrofittable motorcycle airbag While Dainese and Alpinestars have only shown track-use airbag-equipped racing suits, the other big gear maker in Italy has been busy selling airbags for both road and track, fitted to both leathers and jackets. Now, Spidi is releasing an airbag vest that promises to be work with anything you’re wearing. The Spidi Neck DPS Vest is the first universal motorcycle airbag. The big difference bet... By HFL Staff News - Nov 8 2010 -
Dainese D-Air: satellites, accelerometers and the safest suit ever This is the final production version of Dainese D-Air, the new airbag equipped racing suits that you’ve seen Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo racing in this year. Dainese’s is the most sophisticated motorcycle airbag yet. 10 years in the making, D-Air incorporates GPS, three accelerometers, three gyroscopic sensors, the ability to fully inflate in .05 seconds, deflate in 5 seconds and it will... By HFL Staff News - Oct 27 2010 -
Alpinestars TechAir race suit available July 2011, $2500 over the "Race Replica" Shoulders and collarbones can leap for joy as The TechAir is a 6 staged system using sensors located in secret positions throughout a suit designed not to trigger unless a series of criteria are all met that meets a kind of mathematical definition of a crash. Here's how it works.During Stage 1 the sensors placed throughout the race suit record data and then that data is used for a diagnostic check... By Grant Ray News - Apr 30 2010 -
