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nick_h.
So what are the scenarios? Non-racing, street riding…
T-bone: you go headfirst, any speed.
T-bone: you’re hit from the side.
Lowside
Highside
After them I guess it’s someone clipped and launched you, buckaroo’d by street furniture, and the infamous “I didn’t have time to react, I just had to drop it”.
In all of them I can appreciate that electronic would initiate well before cord. Only the ones where cord wouldn’t initiate or would be too slow would concern me. But don’t mind me, I wear bits of foam under a dead cow.