It’s still in the experimental stage, but Ivan Capelli’s company Motivegeeks Labs (an ICT company) in collaboration with the Italian Motorcycle Federation has decided that this year’s CIV riders will be using a medical safety bracelet in order to improve response by track side first aid personnel.

The bracelet dubbed Sa.Me.Da.® L.I.F.E.®, the acronym for Safety Medical Data - Local Infomed For Emergency” and has two basic functions; one is solely adminstrative, which allows riders to manage calendars, race registrations and engineering controls aimed to simplify the work for them and the Federation, while the second function probably the most important, will contain the medical history and records of the rider in order to have the data immediately available and help provide emergency personnel with better information in case of an accident. The data will be accessible via web, from any place in the world.

Source | motoblog.it

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Passing a good looking babe while riding may want to make you turn your head to eyeball and give her the once over, but sometimes it isn’t a great idea as this Chinese guy riding a scooter - and without a helmet - can testify.

Next time he’ll do his ogling in a safer atmoshere and avoid an epic fail caught on camera and shown to millions of viewers.

Source | masmoto.net

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After seeing this video of a motorcycle airbag sphere invented by Canadian Rejean Neron, we think that Dainese nor Alpinestars needn’t worry about the competition in this sector of protective motorcycle gear.

Essentially this airbag sphere suit (which fashion wise makes you look like a DOC escapee) inflates in five hundreths of a second and completely envelopes the rider and cushioning him in the event of a crash.

We wonder how many secondary accidents will be caused while you’re safely bouncing and rolling around the road and oncoming traffic will swerve and hit the brakes to avoid you, and not to mention the fact that you could knock off a fellow motorcycle rider from his bike.

Source | mcn.com

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Mike Werner over at Bikes in the Fast Lane has an interesting post on one French motorcycle rider’s compaign (check out the above video) against guardrails that are more like guillotines than safety features on roads and highways in France.

Unfortunately France isn’t the only country in Europe that has problems with these dangerous type of guardrails, Spain and Italy are in the exact same boat. Placing the guardrail killer symbol (Dani Pedrosa carried the guardrail asesinos flag back in 2008 when he won the Catalunya GP) on motorcycle blogs and forums followed with up with complaints and some very low profile requests by motorcycle action groups asking governments to replace them and install safer types have been met with the usual litany “we don’t have the money.”

Apparently the death or maiming of tax paying motorcyclists is irrelevant and sadly probably cheaper than changing and fixing thousands of miles of guardrails.

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The Monza Research Institute is developing full face electronic safety helmet that throws out a distress call if a rider crashes.

The helmet is part of DARS (Decade of Action for Road Safety), and a world wide campaign launched by the UN with the objective to improve road safety and it was presented during this year’s EICMA show by George Beghelli Bartoli, technical director of the Monza circuit.

The MRI ESH is able to report the exact location of the wearer and provides information regarding vital functions and sends off a signal of ‘man down’ in case of a serious accident.

Continue reading: MRI Electronic Safety Helmet (w/video)

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I have to admit that I admire the Australian government who seems to really care about their motorcyclists, because of the amount of money and effort they put into producing motorcycle safety videos.

This newest series called Rider Risk comes from the Motorcycle Council of New South Wales and is chock full of practical tips and advice without coming across as a boring lecture that usual turns people off.

You may be an experienced rider or a newbie to riding, but the Rider Risk series will help you improve your road sense, and become a better, safer, more comfortable rider.

Our tip? Check out the videos, so you can safely enjoy your motorcycle more.

Continue reading: Rider risk video series - a must see for any motorcycle rider

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Voztec is an Australian company who is developing this revolutionary idea for a full face motorcyle helmet that has a quick release feature that could save lives in case of head and suspected spinal injuries.

This particular helmet doesn’t slid down over your head, instead it opens up in the back to allow you easy access and removal, however it’s the emergency release pin feature located on the top of the hemet that could be extremely useful in the unfortunate case a motorcyclist is involved in an accident, as paramedics will be able to release the pin and completely lift off the front of the helmet (that doesn’t have a chin strap) without risk moving the head and neck of the rider unnecessarily.

Source | vozcorp.com via gizmag.com

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Inconsiderate car drivers that don’t care about others, especially motorcyclists on the road is a common factor in every country around the world. When it personally happens to us we end up swearing profusely inside our helmets, then fuming for awhile till we calm down and then finally letting it go, but not this particular French rider.

Check out the video till the very end to see his time lapsed reaction.

Source Motosblog.fr

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The Reevu MSX1 Rear View helmet is on sale after a long seven-year development period and a year of pre-production prototypes. The Rear View motorcycle helmet is as its name suggests - it features a small mirror mounted into the helmet lining above the rider’s eyes which gives additional rear vision capability.

The mirror part is adjustable so that any rider can get the best view, regardless of the size or shape of the head and helmet and a new visor has been developed to protect the mirror from dust and rain. The rest of the helmet includes an “APC” tri composite material shell, two internal liners of which the inner padding has different thicknesses.

Reevu helmets are EU homologated (ECE-ONU 22-05) and other homologation tests will be carried out when EU market demand has been satisfied. For more details on the helmet, see the Reevu helmets website, and order online. Watch the video above to see how the mirror in the new Rear View Reevu helmet works and what it might be like to wear one.

Source | LondonBikers

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Here in Europe we’re used to seeing that sex sells - and even if it doesn’t, you can plaster it where you please because it’s all part of our laissez faire approach to public nudity (apparently). Certainly not where I’m from, but in any case these Scorpion helmet ads have been designed specifically for the French motorcyclist and involve breasts (falsies?) and Scorpion Helmets Inflatable technology.

Hop on over to Motorbiker to check out Mike Werner’s translation of the slogans. Having a pair of those padded in your helmet would probably do nicely against brain injuries but then there is a saying about where some guys keep their brains and it’s certainly not in their head….

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The guys at Icon have decided to a motorcycle safety video, but with a twist. It involves a Porsche and a couple of Harleys and what would happen if motorcyclists decide to extract vengeance for all the stuff that we put up when riding on the road.

‘Nuff said, check out the video.

Source | hellforleather.com

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When you think about a Japanese helmet manufacturer that has been in the same family for three generations, that’s some pretty impressive history to take in. This video takes us through the history and production of Arai helmets. Luckily for us, the Arai founder was a passionate motorcyclist himself and so the helmets are still made today with the driving principle behind them being whether it’s something you’d be happy wearing to protect your head.

When you see the Arai in-house helmet safety standard tests, you’ll see that they’re serious about what they say. They also have an Arai inspirational centre for training and workshopping. And really, how do you put a price on your brain anyway? Watch the video for more.

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