(08-04-2024 às 08:03)michelfpinto Escreveu: Eu vi o vídeo todo. Quando ele diz que deixou de usar proteções porque vai mais confortável e usa um casaco airbag, inevitavelmente não transmite uma visão positiva das protecções. Cada um é livre de ir como acredita ser o melhor, mas o impacto que pode ter nos outros é diferente. Por isso o vídeo "resposta" que coloquei acima, porque de forma genérica interpretaram o mesmo que eu. Existem vários níveis de proteção, e obviamente cada um compra/usa o que quer, mas mesmo que não protejam tanto quanto nos gostaria, sempre vão proteger mais que nada.
Citar:Hello, as a gear retailer this is going to sound like some April Fool's joke and it is, but not on you.
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See, I've been wearing body armor for 20 years because that's what motorcyclists wear. Like helmets are hard and headlights are bright, pads are safe. That's my instinct and it's wrong.
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Mostly, motorcycle gear comes with Motorcycle Body Armor. Shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and a back pad mostly. That's the clunkiest part about riding gear but I never questioned its usefulness and most I wondered whether wearing a C1 pad would be safe enough compared to the even more annoying C2’s.
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So, I did some surface level digging and pulled studies from the last 10 years. Reading the booklets you don't have to dig deep to see these things in a different color.
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So why is our motorcycle stuff two to four times weaker now?
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Paul Verns works in performance verification and accreditation. He tests this stuff and Paul says the standard for motorcyclist limb joint impact protectors set unadventurous requirements. But were what the industry supported.
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Remember that the explanation was that the standards requirements were minimum. Manufacturers were free to develop higher performing products.
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The actuality is that in the mass market, where price point is critical, there was and is little or no ambition or incentive to do better than the standard.
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The protective effect was mainly due to a reduction in abrasions and lacerations protective clothing did not reduce the risk of fracture dislocation or sprain
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In Meredith, in 2019, the relationship between impact protector performance in the European standard test method and injury protection remains unclear
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So why then are these things everywhere? I think it's not about protection so much as protectionism.
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See the European Standard stipulates that any Class A able a AAA rated garment must be sold with these impact pads.
That's something like a leather jacket or a thick denim pant it's actually illegal in a motorcycle shop in Europe to sell a class a garment without these.
What that means is that Revit, Alpine Stars, Dainese don't have to compete shelf to shelf with universal brands like Coach or Levis or Patagonia.
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Never mind that the pads do nothing to protect our bones, they're very effective at protecting a captive market for the motorcycle industry.
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Remember it was the gear manufacturers that lobbied for such a low performance threshold to begin with.
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There's actually a term for this, when a regulation meant for our Public Safety gets co-opted by an industry to become a convenient barrier to entry for its own competition. The term is regulatory capture.
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Now we have to be careful where we arrive with this because this stuff is life stuff.
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So, first there are standalone back pads that look like this. They go way beyond C standards. I wear this on race day it works. And there are airbags that go way beyond C standards. I wear this every day it works.
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But should we stop putting up with these tokens and I won't sit here and tell you to take the armor out of your jacket because it is somewhat protective. Of course it is!
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You can slide on this it might save you a bruise. Maybe in some statistical anomaly it'll save you a fracture. I can't tell you to take the armor out of your jacket. I can just tell you that I take the armor out of my jacket and I love it.
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Life is so beautiful our instinct is going to be to protect it but our imperative we have to remember is to appreciate it
Este quote é retirado da transcrição automática da Google. Que vale o que vale.
E "retocada" por mim. O que também vale o que vale...
Os sublinhados e negritos são inteiramente meus.
Tenho neste momento 4 blusões "motard". 3 de marcas correntes e um outro de "nicho".
Apenas o de "nicho" trazia proteções classe 2 nos ombros, cotovelos e costas e ainda mais uma, classe 1, no peito.
Nos outros 3, Alpinestars, Bering e Yes (antiga marca branca da Dainese se bem me recordo) as protecções são classe 1 e as das costas foram compradas em separado porque as "de fábrica" nem sequer "classe" tinham.
Ou seja e tal como entendo o dito neste clip são suficientes, com alguma sorte, para proteger um pouco da abrasão. Quanto a choques, nada ou lá perto.
E quando falo em "choque" repara que não me refiro a protecção contra uma parede, um autocarro ou "whatever". Já não há "milagres"!
Com um Alpinestars, entretanto já descartado, levei com um pardaleco "tresloucado" em pleno peito a cento e poucos km/h. Fiquei garantidamente uns 10 a 15 minutos a tentar retomar a respiração para um pouco mais além dos curtíssimos fôlegos que naquelas circunstâncias conseguia.
E tive a "sorte" de ter sido atingido na parte superior do peito, onde o externo garante a máxima resistência da caixa torácica, pois estou convencido que poucos centímetros mais abaixo, costelas flutuantes, tinha ficado com algumas partidas.
Portanto mantenho a minha convicção na realidade do que é dito neste clip. Mas no que
é realmente dito e não apenas no que o titulo transmite.
Titulo também ele extremamente eficaz, ou sensacionalista se achares melhor
, porque nos faz querer saber "mas que raio de conversa é aquela?". Ou pelo menos a mim fê-lo.
Buenas curvas amigo!