Hi,
I'm not Irv and I don't play him on TV. And I don't eat worms either, but
that's another thread...
The roll bar adds danger because of the possibility of banging your head
or other body parts on it. So, you get in a "normal" fender bender and you
bang your head and you die with clear fluid draining from your ears.
I also wanted to point out an apparent error on one of the other postings
on this list about some of the less effective bars out there... if you
look for a bar and find one that has reasonable size feet (4 feet with a
min of about 9 square inches per foot) and the tubing is at least 1.5"
diameter and .095 walls and DOM construction - NO SEAMS - , it _should_
work in a rollover. As near as I can tell, pretty much anything from
Autopower will meet this min. spec.
The problem with the cheaper bars is that most of them have no diagonal
support, so if you were sliding sideway when you're upside down (don't
laugh, it happens!) the bar can fold sideways.
As far as your head contacting the bar, I used to have a video of a
vintage race where a guy in a Lotus 9 gets creamed from behind by an Alfa.
The race was at Palm Springs, CA in the mid-90's. At any rate, the driver
of the Lotus was belted on and all that. When the Alfa hit his car, the
Lotus driver's body deformed so much that his head (and helmet) hit the
_bootlid_! The car then proceded to spin backwards into a tire wall where
the driver hit his head again on the bootlid. If I'd net seen that video,
I'd have never thought that those parts of your body could strike things
that far from the normal seated position. Pretty amazing. But if the
driver didn't have a helmet, he'd have been dead at the initial impact,
for sure. If his head would have hit the roll bar, it would have been
fatal too. Something to think about.
rml
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