Following that same logic (?), that means We would actually be safer if we
remove the seatbelts too, since 'if you have seat belts, that must mean you
are
going to need them', and they would make you crash ;-)
- Bryan
>Subject: Re: Rollbars
>To: gordon@burgessparker.freeserve.co.uk
>CC: spridgets@autox.team.net
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> My wife is a critical care paramedic who careens thru city streets, and
>country roads - the kind with 6' deep drainage ditches just outboard of the
>white shoulder lines when there are white lines. Unrestrained in the back
>the bus, while pulling sharps caps off with her teeth, and getting IVs on
>the first stick.
> The drivers are usually firemen filled with youthful exuberance, and a
>licenced urge to take turns on two wheels, while blazing thru crowded
>intersections, and streak to and from scenes a couple miles per hour faster
>than neurotransmitters can fire and respond.....All this in a design with a
>Cg about level with the driver's ears.... Every once in a while, they crash;
>usually minor, but sometimes with a real flair for the dramatic, turning the
>inside of the box into a scene from Twister.... Somehow, in 15 years she has
>never been injured, and the at-work invincibility gene has emerged
>dominant....
> I bought a Cobra kit from a frustrated builder. Came with a 3 point
>rollbar, 12" wide tires, 13" brake discs, and Simpson 4" wide belts. First
>time she saw it, she said it looked too low and awfully easy to flip over. I
>said it had a skidpad rating nearing 1g, and explained that the center of
>gravity was down close to the wheel centers, yadda yadda... that her
>ambulance was a perfect example of a pending inversion due to soft springs,
>high Cg, and active maniac at the wheel....
> She says "If it has a roll bar, it must be because SOMEONE thinks it
>might flip. And I don;t want to be in anything that requires seat belts that
>they can't cut thru with a belt cutter......" end of rational discussion.
>However, she will jump into the MGB and zoom off to work at 75 mph in bumper
>to bumper traffic, feeling safe and secure, hop out and jump into the back of
>an ambulance.... I was going to put an SCCA approved roll bar in her B, but
>somehow she has me thinking that if, God forbid it should ever flip over, it
>will be my fault for installing it and somehow making the car prone to
>flip........ Mark
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