Hump on my leather jacket
Discussion
Evening all
I bought a new Alpinestars leather jacket RC-1 the other day and today is the first opportunity I've had to try it on the bike. It has one of those 'aerodynamic' humps on the back, but I find my helmet hits it and I can't tilt my head fully up in the air when sitting on the bike. All the racers have them too, but their humps seem to have a slight dip at the top to accomodate the helmet. Mine doesn't.
Anyone else had this problem? I think I'll have to take it back.
This is it: (but in black)
I bought a new Alpinestars leather jacket RC-1 the other day and today is the first opportunity I've had to try it on the bike. It has one of those 'aerodynamic' humps on the back, but I find my helmet hits it and I can't tilt my head fully up in the air when sitting on the bike. All the racers have them too, but their humps seem to have a slight dip at the top to accomodate the helmet. Mine doesn't.
Anyone else had this problem? I think I'll have to take it back.
This is it: (but in black)
Edited by Aubrey on Sunday 20th July 23:02
C8PPO said:
I know it's stating the bleedin obvious, but you should never buy bike kit without having the rest of your stuff handy to put on at the same time.....
Don't be silly, that makes far too much sense 
When you're wearing the jacket and standing up normally it's fine, but I didn't realise how far back my head is actually tilted when I'm riding.
It's a lovely jacket apart from the hump, perhaps I'll just have to get used to it.
randlemarcus said:
I'd be very tempted to take it back. My romper suit has the indented hump,and it still catches from time to time,and narks me. Add to that the pain it is when trying to put waterproofs on, and when putting the rucksack on, and I think my next set will be humpless.
.I had this problem recently as well, i ended up buying a suit without the hump and just wear a back protector in addition.
I went to the shop with what i normally wear on the bike and found the hump a real PIA.
A great number of riders now wear suits with the hump. Whilst they are for aerodynamics, how many of the riders wearing these are going to see a noticable difference? Surely they wear them to emulate their 'heroes'.
Having been in a situation recently where a teammate had to be airlifted after a crash at Silverstone, one thing that slowed the whole emergency procedures down was the medics had to be very careful in handling my mate because of the hump. Immediately after the crash, he was left on his back with his head elevated and tilted back, chocking on his own blood. The medics had to carefully put him on his side (7 broken ribs) and cut the hump off his leathers so he could lie flat on the stretcher. This all took very valuable time,time they didn't really have as one of his lungs was puctured and filling with blood.
I for one shalln't be moving to leathers with humps
Having been in a situation recently where a teammate had to be airlifted after a crash at Silverstone, one thing that slowed the whole emergency procedures down was the medics had to be very careful in handling my mate because of the hump. Immediately after the crash, he was left on his back with his head elevated and tilted back, chocking on his own blood. The medics had to carefully put him on his side (7 broken ribs) and cut the hump off his leathers so he could lie flat on the stretcher. This all took very valuable time,time they didn't really have as one of his lungs was puctured and filling with blood.
I for one shalln't be moving to leathers with humps
trumpet600 said:
A great number of riders now wear suits with the hump. Whilst they are for aerodynamics, how many of the riders wearing these are going to see a noticable difference? Surely they wear them to emulate their 'heroes'.
Having been in a situation recently where a teammate had to be airlifted after a crash at Silverstone, one thing that slowed the whole emergency procedures down was the medics had to be very careful in handling my mate because of the hump. Immediately after the crash, he was left on his back with his head elevated and tilted back, chocking on his own blood. The medics had to carefully put him on his side (7 broken ribs) and cut the hump off his leathers so he could lie flat on the stretcher. This all took very valuable time,time they didn't really have as one of his lungs was puctured and filling with blood.
I for one shalln't be moving to leathers with humps
Interesting, I've thought before that lying down with 'humped' leathers would be uncomfortable and also that in a crash they 'might' have a tendency to turn a slide into a roll, I suppose in some situations the padding may be a benefit but a good back protector is surely better IMO.Having been in a situation recently where a teammate had to be airlifted after a crash at Silverstone, one thing that slowed the whole emergency procedures down was the medics had to be very careful in handling my mate because of the hump. Immediately after the crash, he was left on his back with his head elevated and tilted back, chocking on his own blood. The medics had to carefully put him on his side (7 broken ribs) and cut the hump off his leathers so he could lie flat on the stretcher. This all took very valuable time,time they didn't really have as one of his lungs was puctured and filling with blood.
I for one shalln't be moving to leathers with humps
But the aerodynamic benefits would only be noticeable at very high speeds, it's not often on the road that one would be trying to wring out that extra 0.5mph of top speed.....
trumpet600 said:
A great number of riders now wear suits with the hump. Whilst they are for aerodynamics, how many of the riders wearing these are going to see a noticable difference? Surely they wear them to emulate their 'heroes'.
Having been in a situation recently where a teammate had to be airlifted after a crash at Silverstone, one thing that slowed the whole emergency procedures down was the medics had to be very careful in handling my mate because of the hump. Immediately after the crash, he was left on his back with his head elevated and tilted back, chocking on his own blood. The medics had to carefully put him on his side (7 broken ribs) and cut the hump off his leathers so he could lie flat on the stretcher. This all took very valuable time,time they didn't really have as one of his lungs was puctured and filling with blood.
I for one shalln't be moving to leathers with humps
This is a very good point and one I had not considered. I did not buy the jacket for the hump at all. I liked the style of the jacket and it happened to have a hump, but I shall certainly be taking it back for a normal one.Having been in a situation recently where a teammate had to be airlifted after a crash at Silverstone, one thing that slowed the whole emergency procedures down was the medics had to be very careful in handling my mate because of the hump. Immediately after the crash, he was left on his back with his head elevated and tilted back, chocking on his own blood. The medics had to carefully put him on his side (7 broken ribs) and cut the hump off his leathers so he could lie flat on the stretcher. This all took very valuable time,time they didn't really have as one of his lungs was puctured and filling with blood.
I for one shalln't be moving to leathers with humps
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