Leg protection for riders of motorcycles.

Author(s)
Chinn, B.P. Hopes, P.D. & Macaulay
Year
Abstract

A major cause of serious injury in motorcycle accidents is the rider's leg being trapped between the motorcycle and a car. This paper gives results from a number of full- scale impact tests of motorcycles with and without leg- protection fairings. Three basic configurations were studied, motorcycles with no leg protection, with hard leg protection that absorbed negligible amounts of energy, and with soft leg protectors that absorbed 5 to 10 percent of the kinetic energy on impact.

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Publication

Library number
B 27384 (In: B 27275 [electronic version only]) /84 /91 / IRRD 801650
Source

In: 10th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles, Oxford, England, July 1-4, 1985, p. 1055-1058, 6 ref.

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