^ really great to hear some details from a rider who has had the experience of dropping their bike/rolling at what sounds like some pretty decently high speeds.
Yes I am by no means attempting to create a groundbreaking jacket that would be a protect-all type of system.
There are a number of existing quite high tech materials out there such as the Klim d3o non-newtonian "rubber" which is really incredible stuff. Kevlar alone would provide some level of blunt puncture resistance, ballistic resistance as well as some level of abrasion resistance. Compounded with an outer leather shell to a jacket it should serve nicely for low/medium speed fall protection.
You can augment the kevlar with impregnation with a non-newtonian fluid so that it hardens ever so briefly on high impact/impact points and thus becomes even more puncture resistant as well as now it can absorb and distribute impact energy.
My thoughts and designs are revolving around not just lining a jacket but constructing the jacket out of panels both inside and out that "build" an anatomic structure in jacket form. My attempt is not to hide the function, but to create an amalgamation between form and function.
There will be no airbags in my design ;)
... I've also been following the startup company Skully and their HUD helmet system. Waiting for that to hit beta testing and hopefully they'll grant me the chance to give it a go. I have a number of ideas revolving around electrical conductive material(s) and integration into leather/garments so any wearable electronic devices right now on the cutting edge are very fascinating to me.
Yes I am by no means attempting to create a groundbreaking jacket that would be a protect-all type of system.
There are a number of existing quite high tech materials out there such as the Klim d3o non-newtonian "rubber" which is really incredible stuff. Kevlar alone would provide some level of blunt puncture resistance, ballistic resistance as well as some level of abrasion resistance. Compounded with an outer leather shell to a jacket it should serve nicely for low/medium speed fall protection.
You can augment the kevlar with impregnation with a non-newtonian fluid so that it hardens ever so briefly on high impact/impact points and thus becomes even more puncture resistant as well as now it can absorb and distribute impact energy.
My thoughts and designs are revolving around not just lining a jacket but constructing the jacket out of panels both inside and out that "build" an anatomic structure in jacket form. My attempt is not to hide the function, but to create an amalgamation between form and function.
There will be no airbags in my design ;)
... I've also been following the startup company Skully and their HUD helmet system. Waiting for that to hit beta testing and hopefully they'll grant me the chance to give it a go. I have a number of ideas revolving around electrical conductive material(s) and integration into leather/garments so any wearable electronic devices right now on the cutting edge are very fascinating to me.
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