The Motorcycle Airbag - Honda 2009 GL1800 GOLDWING Owner's Manual

This section of your owner's manual supplement describes the components of
your motorcycle airbag system and explains how the airbag is designed to work.
It also discusses how to care for a motorcycle equipped with an airbag, and
offers some important safety precautions.
The airbag system is an integral part of your motorcycle and is covered by your
new vehicle warranty.
The most important things you need to know about your airbag are:
The airbag has a limited but very important role.
severity of injuries and help save your life in certain severe frontal impacts. It
cannot prevent all injuries or deaths that can occur in a crash, and some
crashes are too severe for any safety feature or system to prevent death.
The airbag is designed to deploy in a severe head-on or nearly head-on
f rontal impact.
a concrete highway barrier. A severe frontal impact is one in which the rider
would be thrown forward off the front of the motorcycle.
The airbag might deploy in a severe angled f rontal collision, or in a
sideswipe, or if the motorcycle underrides the rear of another vehicle.
However, because there are many variables in a collision, the airbag might not
be able to reduce the severity of injuries to the rider.
The airbag might deploy if the f ront tire drops into a sharp depression,
such as a pothole, or strikes a hard raised object, such as a curb.
high rate of deceleration can cause the airbag to deploy, even though it would
not be needed.
The impact can be with another vehicle or an object, such as

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