Should I start wearing kevlar?

[HeatXfer]

Holy shit, I'm pretty sure my Aerostich wouldn't be able to stop a projectile like this! At that height, that's about mid-chest on my KTM.

Link to story

 

[gixxerjeff]

Flashback time for me.
A few years back our company had a shuttle driver nearly killed on 101. A scrap metal truck lost a leaf spring. It skipped off the ground once and shot like a harpoon through the windshield. it lodged itself between the 2 front seats. Only minor injuries....can't explain how.

 

[Caddywumpus]

Kevlar wouldnt save you.

 

[redtail]

Holy shit is right! I'm betting that scared eight years o' shit outta the driver of that car. :wow

Oh yeah, get the Kevlar, fer shure. :thumbup

 

[NSR500]

Kevlar would not help. You'd need to have been wearing AR500 plates and even then, be hit in a manner the deflection would not angle towards your vitals, or neck.

 

[two wheel tramp]

 

[Guoseph]

That’s some final destination shit right there...

 

[budgie45]

Almost got hit by a ladder once flew off the back of a truck

They didn't even stop to pick up their ladder

 

[motomania2007]

Many years ago I saw a lawnmower throw a broken mower blade through the side of a pickup truck that was driving by...

 

[sprorchid]

A door came off the back of a truck, flat, caught air and was windshield height for a sedan. I was in the next lane, 5 car lengths back. When it caught air, it lifted for a second, I didn't need to change lanes, but I did veer slightly away from that sucker.

 

[fast4d]

that seat made from the same cheap leather on low end alpine start and dianese suits.

 

[DigDoug]

Considering what’s been happening on bay area freeways these days, Kevlar not a bad idea. Maybe not for objects that big but for smaller projectiles being discharged from metallic cylindrical projectile discharging devices.

 

[berth]

Kevlar won't help much when it knocks you off your bike at speed and in to the next lane, where you get run over by a truck.

 

[dravnx]

I had to dodge a 3' pipe that fell out of the back of a service truck last Saturday on I-80 near Donner. I was in the #1 lane and he was ahead of me in the #2 lane. I left a nice octopus on my seat.

 

[jwb]

Par for the course on I-880. Once I was behind a mobile crane that lost some huge metal thing and I hit it, ruining all four wheels (and the tires, of course) on my Honda cage. Didn't get the name of the crane company and the CHP didn't give a shit.

 

[HeatXfer]

Considering what’s been happening on bay area freeways these days, Kevlar not a bad idea. Maybe not for objects that big but for smaller projectiles being discharged from metallic cylindrical projectile discharging devices.

Yeah, one of those areas is near my house. For a couple of weeks after the March shootings you could see people speeding-up through about a 2mile section just north of Carlson Blvd, then they would slow back down through El Cerrito.

 

[gixxerjeff]

Kevlar won't help much when it knocks you off your bike at speed and in to the next lane, where you get run over by a truck.

Perhaps, but it will spare the rest of us the agony of the subsequent voluminous atgatt thread that is spawned by your RIP thread going sideways because of the topic.