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Attach this wiper to your motorcycle viper to have a safer ride in the rain

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I live in a city that has a steadily growing motorcycle population. We also get a lot of rainy seasons and storms visit our country on a regular basis. The combination of rain and driving a motorcycle is a pretty dangerous one. While there are water repellent sprays available but it won’t work when you’re driving at slower and regular speeds.

Designer: Boscard group

Bikerguard was invented by two Slovenian engineers and is something you can attack to motorcycle helmet visors to make sure you still have visibility even if it’s raining hard. It’s basically a detachable and remote-controlled wiper blade that will wipe off the rain water that can obstruct the view of the riders. It has a brushless motor that will reduce the need for manual wiping of your visor.

The bikerguard unit has a rugged and IPX-6 waterproof design and when fully charged, you get 5 to 15 hours of continuous use. You screw the mounting base through the top of your visor on first use but after that you can just attach and re-attach the wiper when you need it. The remote wireless controller can be attached to any motorcycle handlebar so you can easily turn the wiper on and off.

While of course you can just use the normal sprays and coatings that is readily available for most motorcycle riders, using “good old physics” or wipers are still the best way to go about riding in the rain. It costs around $330 and is available on the Bikerguard website.

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Designed to improve motorcycle rider’s safety, these jean snow come with built in airbags

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There are hundreds of thousands of injuries that occur from motorcycle accidents, a lot of them involving the lower extremities including broken legs and broken hips. There have been several products out there that aim to protect riders and passengers, including helmets (which are of course, required), motorcycle jeans with pads for the knees and hips, padded vests, etc. But what if you could also add airbags, which have protected car drivers and passengers for years, to your regular outfit?

Designer: Mo’cycle

They say that the Motorcycle Airbag Jeans is the first to have an airbag mechanism within its fabric, therefore helping reduce the risk of injury in case of a motorcycle crash or accident. If you want full body protection, including that of the spinal column, there’s also an Airbag Vest that become part of the whole Airbag Clothes system. How it works is that you have to connect the clothes to your motorcycle through a mechanical trigger belt. When it detects that you’ve flown off the bike, the airbag will deploy and automatically inflate, protecting you from serious injury to your legs, hips, and ribs (the latter if you’re also sporting the vest).

The Airbag Jeans has two basic parts: the “stretchy and ventilated” jeans that you can wear comfortably, and the airbag module itself. When not activated, the airbag is flat and invisible within the fabric of the jeans, so you will not feel bulky or anything when wearing them. After it is triggered and used, it will self-deflate and later on can be re-used by reloading a CO2 cartridge. The jeans themselves can be washed of course but you’ll have to zip out the airbag module before doing so. The fabric is made with Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, which is greater than steel when it comes to strength-to-weight ratio and is also ultra-abrasion resistant.

Don’t worry about automatically triggering it as they say that it needs a force of 88 lbs to be deployed and will only be activated when you’ve fallen off the bike, not when you’re just getting off of it. For the fashion-conscious, the Airbag Jeans will be available in blue and black colors. They crowdfunded it through Indiegogo and have reached more than 4 times their goal so expect it to be delivered in the next few months if you decided to support it.

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The Moto Gear Must-Have

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There’s no such thing as too much safety when it comes to motorcycling and riders will readily welcome any additional layer of protection, especially if it compliments their bada$$ biker look! The MEDA is an ingenious addition to any rider’s regular gear that gives them extra visibility to other drivers by using integrated lights that work in tandem with the motorcycle’s existing braking and turn signal system. The backpack is so lightweight and ergonomic that riders will even want to use it when they’re not carrying cargo. See it in action —->

Designer: Angela Wang

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Easy Moto Armour

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As someone who was recently in a motorcycle accident, I can testify that wearing gear is CRUCIAL to a rider’s safety. It’s easy to carelessly avoid gearing up because it’s difficult, time consuming, & just plain uncomfortable. The SP3 focuses on resolving these problems by making the back protector as easy to put on as wearing a backpack, & also incorporates a neck stabilizer directly onto the helmet. Better yet, the helmet hooks on to the back protector so you can remove your helmet, drop it & move about.

The principal function of the device is to protect three essential parts of the body; the head, the neck and the back.
The head and the neck of the motorcyclists are protected by the helmet itself as well as a device located at the bottom of the helmet that restricts movements in the event of an accident or when the head/neck makes an excessive movement. The back is protected by the back protector that covers the cervical and middle vertebrae. After riding, the motorcyclist can store the helmet in a specialized compartment located on the back portion of the system.

Designers: Franco Pessino & Damian Segura

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