No to style bars!
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They both walked away according to the article. I still haven't read a report from someone injured by a style bar. They sit to low to hit you in the head and if it gets hit and bent forward, it was going to bend the seat ether way.
Unlike the guy that took his airbag out and had is jaw wired shut.
Unlike the guy that took his airbag out and had is jaw wired shut.
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Hard evidence is hard to muster, but anecdote is very much to the contrary. The most common collision isn't a spectacular pancake like what's featured in this thread; it's a humdrum rear-end bump...which sends one's head back, into... the style bar. This, one hears, is especially a problem with NA Miatas, and their comparatively short seat-backs. The result is a head-injury, where otherwise there would have been merely an irritated neck.
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A mouse trap situation is still going to bend the seat over or smash your head into whatever hit the style bar.
They're no replacement for a roll bar, but they're not the killers that some people think they are.
They're no replacement for a roll bar, but they're not the killers that some people think they are.
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This is a worst case scenario, but you can see how much crash test dummies & seats flex during collisions.
With a style bar you get all of the downsides and none of the upsides of an actual rollbar. Traumatic Brain Injury/10
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